Whilst looking in the lolly (sweet) shop yesterday, on our Neighbours Tour, I realised that such a shop can now only be a disappointment. Sure, in the past one might have been excited to enter, thinking that perhaps one might find a sweet (lolly) more tasty than one had already tasted.
Not now though. Not since the invention of The Chunky Kit Kat - surely the final culmination of years and years of chocolate advances. Perfection has been found - where can the chocolate and sweet industry go from here? Nowhere. They can't advance any further.
Perhaps Rowntree should try their hand at other industries. Car making, or curing diseases? Their track record in sweets has shown them to be the best. The thickness of the chocolate surrounding the wafer on the "Chunky" is just ideal, and cannot be bettered.
Note that we're not including the Toblerone in this comparison. They're not everyday sweets. They're airport-gift food. You'd no more go into a shop to buy a Toblerone to eat than you would an Easter Egg.
What's quite sad is that, having "won" the chocolate wars, Rowntree are floundering. They've brought out the White Chocolate Chunky Kit Kat (at least in Oz) and one with caramel in it. NO! STOP! You can go no further, haven't you been reading what I've written??
Whoever decided to ruin a perfectly good Kit Kat with caramel should be shot, or at least given a stern dressing down.
We're leaving Melbourne (where we have limited free internet access) today, so my posts may become more economical and relevant from now on. You hope.