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Shipment of KitKat bars stolen en route from Italy to Poland
- hkt 7mo agoThat 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)
- teo_zero 7mo agoI can't help wondering how the 413,793 bars were stacked. 413,793 is 3×3×23×1999.
- misterspaceman 7mo agoMy 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 7mo agoHow 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.)
- jsnell 7mo agoIt 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.)
- hackable_sand 7mo agogood
- stu2421 7mo agoi agree
- RicoElectrico 7mo agoThe question is why would they produce them in Italy. Most of the food on Polish shelves that can be produced in Poland, is.
- rjsw 7mo agoThe wikipedia page doesn't list Italy as one of the countries where they are produced.
- defrost 7mo agoWhereas 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. ~ submission linked article
- tempaccount420 7mo agoYou overestimate Wikipedia.
- Freak_NL 7mo agoWhy not? It doesn't make much sense for Nestlé to have plants in every EU country.
- wolvoleo 7mo agoFood for comedians for the next few months lol
- 10729287 7mo agoThe irony of Nestle asking to alert and help them finding the criminals.
- hulitu 7mo agoWell, there are good criminals, who are democraticaly elected and share the profit, and bad criminals, who keep the profit for themselves.
- infomaniac 7mo agoLet's hope the investors have a break (through)
- freedomben 7mo agoAgreed, give em a break, give em a break
- zeristor 7mo agoDon’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.
- zeristor 7mo agoIs 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)?
- ggambetta 7mo agoCan'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.
- fittingopposite 7mo agoReads like a PR stunt to me
- arvid-lind 7mo agoSpot on! I've never thought about the Associated Press as a launderer of PR stunts, but here we are: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7154143/2026/03/28/f1-kitkat-bars-stolen-europe/ https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7154143/2026/03/28/f1-kitka... “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.”
- brikym 7mo agoThe sad thing is KitKat isn't even very good.
- nly 7mo agoNot in the US they aren't, since they're made by Hershey and not Nestle and so are a completely different product.
- arvid-lind 7mo agoI 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.
- burnt-resistor 7mo agoI'd wager the entire load collectively contained only 90 kg of cocoa and 10 tons of so-called "certified responsibly sourced" palm kernel oil.
- hulitu 7mo agoYou forgot the ... white death: sugar.
- nxobject 7mo agoAny 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.
- nly 7mo agoThe 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.
- burnt-resistor 7mo agoSarcasm woosh.
- qwertytyyuu 7mo agoFood heist!
- sebazzz 7mo agoThey are quite expensive and there is not something similar on the market (even not from house brands of Aldi, Lidl, etc).
- nly 7mo agoCadbury 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. https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/316651552 https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/316651552
- Ekaros 7mo agoAnyone else find the exact number somewhat weird. Like one would expect it to end in 0 or 2 or 5...
- fastasucan 7mo agoThe total weight probably ends in a 0 or a 5.
- BrandoElFollito 7mo agoI 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
- jethronethro 7mo agoFor resale or personal use, I wonder ...
- edanm 7mo agoInteresting story. Dan Wells and Brandon Sanderson will be very happy. :)