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teo_zero 8 hours ago [-]
I can't help wondering how the 413,793 bars were stacked.
413,793 is 3×3×23×1999.
jsnell 1 hours ago [-]
It wasn't actually that exact amount. It was "about 12 tons", and somebody did the 12000 kg / 29g calculation and used the answer with way too many significant digits. Probably the reporter trying to make the 12 ton number relatable.
(You might object that KitKats usually weigh 40g. So these were probably the new KitKat Icon F1 chocolates, which weigh exactly 29g.)
misterspaceman 6 hours ago [-]
My brain went here too. I'm guessing that one box missed the truck (either it was damaged during loading or had a manufacturing defect), so a full shipment is 3 x 3 x 23 x 2000. So my SWAG:
1 box = 3 x 3 x 23 bars
1 pallet = 10 x 10 boxes
1 truck = 20 pallets
mytailorisrich 4 hours ago [-]
How did they come up with an odd number when individual packs are an even number of bars? (And, I imagine, cartons are a multiple of dozens of packs.)
zeristor 9 hours ago [-]
Is this set up for a remake of the Italian job?
Were electric minis used in this heist? Was the Turin traffic system hacked?
Were only the doors blown off (come on baby light my fire)?
infomaniac 9 hours ago [-]
Let's hope the investors have a break (through)
freedomben 4 hours ago [-]
Agreed, give em a break, give em a break
zeristor 9 hours ago [-]
Don’t KitKats have AoP status and can only authentically be made in York?
The craze for Japanese KitKats being an exception.
Having bought a triple pack of 7 double finger KitKats in the nineties and eating them all in 20 minutes I can’t even look at a pack anymore.
Ekaros 6 hours ago [-]
Anyone else find the exact number somewhat weird. Like one would expect it to end in 0 or 2 or 5...
fastasucan 4 hours ago [-]
The total weight probably ends in a 0 or a 5.
BrandoElFollito 5 hours ago [-]
I just realized that I've not seen them in a supermarket like for ages (in France). Together with Bounty, Mars,Snickers,.. the stuff of my youth
“We’ve always encouraged people to have a break with KITKAT — but it seems thieves have taken the message too literally and made a break with more than 12 tonnes of our chocolate,” a KitKat spokesperson said in a statement. “Whilst we appreciate the criminals’ exceptional taste, the fact remains that cargo theft is an escalating issue for businesses of all sizes. With more sophisticated schemes being deployed on a regular basis, we have chosen to go public with our own experience in the hope that it raises awareness of an increasingly common criminal trend.”
10729287 9 hours ago [-]
The irony of Nestle asking to alert and help them finding the criminals.
hulitu 6 hours ago [-]
Well, there are good criminals, who are democraticaly elected and share the profit, and bad criminals, who keep the profit for themselves.
sebazzz 7 hours ago [-]
They are quite expensive and there is not something similar on the market (even not from house brands of Aldi, Lidl, etc).
nly 6 hours ago [-]
Cadbury have TimeOut but it's not quite the same. (It's lighter, less chocolate and less dense)
Clearly intended to be the direct competitor though, since "Have a break, have a KitKat" is the KitKat slogan, and timeout is also a break.
Can't help but think of George Clooney orchestrating the heist from his villa in Lago di Como (with a perfect alibi somehow). Maybe Brad Pitt was hungry.
brikym 8 hours ago [-]
The sad thing is KitKat isn't even very good.
nly 5 hours ago [-]
Not in the US they aren't, since they're made by Hershey and not Nestle and so are a completely different product.
arvid-lind 4 hours ago [-]
I had a coworker who would fly to SE Asia a few times a year, he'd always bring back a small suitcase of insane KitKat flavors from Tokyo airport (or nearby). One time he had a bunch of varieties of green tea KitKats, never seen anything close to that in the US.
qwertytyyuu 8 hours ago [-]
Food heist!
hkt 9 hours ago [-]
That was me, sorry, I just love KitKats.
(So as to avoid being like the Robin Hood Airport guy, I'd like to say the above was a joke)
burnt-resistor 8 hours ago [-]
I'd wager the entire load collectively contained only 90 kg of cocoa and 10 tons of so-called "certified responsibly sourced" palm kernel oil.
nly 5 hours ago [-]
The product is a minimum of 25% cocoa solids and the oils are listed after that on the ingredients list, which means by weight they are more cocoa than oil.
nxobject 6 hours ago [-]
Any alternate source of fuel in a petrol crisis, really. If someone figures out how to run car on Kit Kats I’m sure there’ll be a market.
hulitu 6 hours ago [-]
You forgot the ... white death: sugar.
wolvoleo 9 hours ago [-]
Food for comedians for the next few months lol
RicoElectrico 9 hours ago [-]
The question is why would they produce them in Italy. Most of the food on Polish shelves that can be produced in Poland, is.
Freak_NL 9 hours ago [-]
Why not? It doesn't make much sense for Nestlé to have plants in every EU country.
rjsw 9 hours ago [-]
The wikipedia page doesn't list Italy as one of the countries where they are produced.
defrost 8 hours ago [-]
Whereas the article and Nestlé themselves state there is a production site in Italy:
Swiss food giant Nestlé says about 12 tons, or 413,793 candy bars, of its KitKat chocolate brand were stolen after leaving its production site in Italy earlier this week for Poland.
413,793 is 3×3×23×1999.
(You might object that KitKats usually weigh 40g. So these were probably the new KitKat Icon F1 chocolates, which weigh exactly 29g.)
1 box = 3 x 3 x 23 bars
1 pallet = 10 x 10 boxes
1 truck = 20 pallets
Were electric minis used in this heist? Was the Turin traffic system hacked?
Were only the doors blown off (come on baby light my fire)?
The craze for Japanese KitKats being an exception.
Having bought a triple pack of 7 double finger KitKats in the nineties and eating them all in 20 minutes I can’t even look at a pack anymore.
“We’ve always encouraged people to have a break with KITKAT — but it seems thieves have taken the message too literally and made a break with more than 12 tonnes of our chocolate,” a KitKat spokesperson said in a statement. “Whilst we appreciate the criminals’ exceptional taste, the fact remains that cargo theft is an escalating issue for businesses of all sizes. With more sophisticated schemes being deployed on a regular basis, we have chosen to go public with our own experience in the hope that it raises awareness of an increasingly common criminal trend.”
Clearly intended to be the direct competitor though, since "Have a break, have a KitKat" is the KitKat slogan, and timeout is also a break.
https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/316651552
(So as to avoid being like the Robin Hood Airport guy, I'd like to say the above was a joke)