The Kit Kat is a perfect sweet for adults.

The Kit Kat is a perfect sweet for adults. It separates easily into four equal chocolate sticks, so you can appear in control of the process of eating it, with a certain restraint. 

Turns out it’s the perfect gift for the infirm and elderly, who require a very simple snack. So they can munch each baton, in pretty much the same way a rabbit would eat a small carrot. We all desire a state of ecstasy that appears to be merely a state of mild gratification.

The other thing we find out, upon inspection, is that there’s a stunning secret ingredient in the humble Kit Kat: another Kit Kat.

The so-called crème between the wafers is actually other pulverised Kit Kats that have been fluffed up. No kidding. 

Generally, regular people would pass this detail by, but when I found it out I was stumped. I imagined the recipe developer as a lazy shirker who said, let’s just stuff the one Kit Kat with another, and get the hell outa here by 5pm. The kids won’t give a damn.

If I was a piece of candy I think I’d be hard and sweet, like a sugar rock. Just the kind of thing I hate having in my mouth. Yet we all strive to have the outside reflect the inside, and vice versa.