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What are the chances of getting a Kit Kat with no wafer? ›

Just got a kit kat that was missing the wafer... That's got to be a bad omen... "[A] Kit Kat finger without wafer does leave our factory from time to time but is extremely rare and we have checks in place to try to prevent it happening as far as possible," a spokesperson for Nestle UK told NBC News.

Occasionally, our manufacturing equipment will experience a momentary malfunction that results in some KIT KAT bars to make their way through without a wafer.

Other Kit Kat fans speculate that the name is an acronym for “Keep In Touch, Kappa Alpha Theta.” The wife of Kit Kat inventor Joseph Rowntree was a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, according to Mental Floss.

Whenever a Kit Kat bar is somehow made imperfect during production like air bubbles or some other issue, the chocolate bar isn't thrown out. Instead, they ground up into a fine paste and turned into a filling that's then incorporated back into the production process to create new Kit Kat bars..

Both flavours are 93 calories per bar or 4.5 syns.

Hershey's Kit Kat Crisp Wafers in Chocolate contain sugar, wheat flour, cocoa butter, nonfat milk, chocolate, refined palm kernel oil, lactose (milk), milk fat, contains 2% or less of: soy lecithin, PGPR (emulsifier), yeast, artificial flavor, salt, and sodium bicarbonate.

Yep, that's right, when you take a big bite of that crisp, wafer-layered goodness, you're actually consuming broken KitKats, that were once KitKats, filled with broken KitKats, that were also once KitKats.

"To clarify, the 'chocolayer' — the filling between the wafer of a Kit Kat — is made from cocoa liquor, sugar and a small amount of re-worked Kit Kat," a Nestlé U.K. spokesperson confirmed, adding, "Please note, re-worked Kit Kat is product which cannot be sold."

Nestlé attributes the success of the flavor varieties to the tradition of omiyage, in which regional specialties are brought back for family and co-workers from trips away.

[rhy. sl.; kit-kat = prat n. 1 (5)] a fool, a general term of abuse.

What does Kit Kat mean in Japanese? ›

This name closely resembles the phrase kitto katsutoo (きっと勝つとぉ), meaning 'you shall surely win'. In Japanese, kitto mean 'surely' or 'certainly' and katsu means 'to win'. For this reason, Kit-Kats are given to students not just as treats, but as good luck charms before important exams.

This Greek girl's name, a shortened form of Katherine and Catherine, means "pure." It comes from the Greek term katharos, which means "clean," "pure," or "clear," and can serve as a reminder of baby's innocence.

see, some Kit Kats get broken while they're being made, and instead of throwing them out, the company crushes them up and adds sugar. and that's what's on the inside of a Kit Kat bar, it's literally crushed up.

At a basic level, foil or plastic are necessary to stop greasy cocoa butter from migrating from the inside of the package to the outside. Two-piece foil-and-paper combinations, used on the Kit-Kat bars of our youth, come in a few styles.

Yep, that's right, when you take a big bite of that crisp, wafer-layered goodness, you're actually consuming broken KitKats, that were once KitKats, filled with broken KitKats, that were also once KitKats.

The "Your Break. Your Rules" campaign from Courage invites people to show the unique way they eat a KitKat, for a chance to have it showcased on outdoor posters.

The fastest time to eat a KitKat with no hands is 22.52 seconds and was achieved by Daniel Dickinson (UK) at Lakeland Lesiure Park, Haven Holidays, Cumbria, UK, on 31 August 2016.

"To clarify, the 'chocolayer' — the filling between the wafer of a Kit Kat — is made from cocoa liquor, sugar and a small amount of re-worked Kit Kat," a Nestlé U.K. spokesperson confirmed, adding, "Please note, re-worked Kit Kat is product which cannot be sold."