Well, we certainly love our chocolate! Further to my original post on Smarties, here are some more fun facts about Smarties (from Nestlé)
- Nearly 17,000 Smarties are eaten every minute in the UK.
- Nestlé Rowntree has produced 5,000 million Smarties caps over the last 25 years.
- When production of Smarties resumed after the Second World War, Smarties were made with plain chocolate because of the shortage of milk.
- If the Smarties eaten in one year were laid end to end it would equal almost 102,000 km and if they were put in tubes and these put end to end it would equal almost 29,000 km.
And here I always thought that Smarties could only be found in Canada! You learn something new everyday.
I also love their KitKat bar. There's something about the combination of chocolate and crispy wafer that always satisfies my sweet tooth. I love the fact that Nestlé came out with their KitKat Chunky MAX bar. You get a lot of chocolate in this bar.
Now that I'm exploring the Nestlé site, I had no idea that they made a lot of my favourite chocolate bars, including: Coffee Crisp, Kit Kat, Mackintosh's Toffee, Mirage, Quality Street, Smarties and Turtles (they make other chocolates, too).
Speaking of Mackintosh's Toffee, I have vivid memories of sharing the toffee with my father when I was a child. It was his favourite candy. Because he's passed on now, I really appreciate things that remind me of the good times with him and of my childhood. It's funny how certain things will touch off your memory, toffee and chocolate, hmmm.
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