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Edinburgh Live
11-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Edinburgh Live
KitKat excites foodies as it teams up with other Nestle favourite for new flavour
Our community members are treated to special offers, promotions and adverts from us and our partners. You can check out at any time. More info Brits have had a love affair with KitKats since the delicious chocolate-covered wafer bars first emerged from Rowntree's in the late 1930s. Today, under the Nestle brand, having been taken over in 1988, these iconic bars come in a variety of designs and flavours. Beyond the beloved four-fingered classic, the KitKat Chunky arrived with a bang in 1999, with its line-up expanding through limited edition runs over the past few decades. The latest of those taste sensations has been revealed on Facebook by food connoisseurs at NewFoodsUK. Alongside a snap of the new bar, they excitedly exclaimed: "These Rolo KitKats are amazing!" The journey of Rolo mirrors KitKat's path of Rowntree's to Nestle, a treat best known for its tube-shaped package stuffed with round caramel-filled chocolate delights. The post left hungry Facebook users desperate to try the Canadian-originated snack. One chocoholic responded: "Need to find them!" Another quipped: "I swear I'm flying to the UK solely for your snacks." A third fan admitted their weakness: "Oh don't! I'm far too obsessed with chunky KitKats for my own good! It's like the universe doesn't want me to be thin." Whilst a fourth person simply shared their excitement for the chocolaty innovation: "Another amazing KitKat Chunky." World Snacks UK, who are retailing the 48g bars for £2.75 each, state online: "This is just the 'break' you deserve! The Kit Kat Chunky Rolo is filled with rich and delectable chocolate, along with silky golden caramel!" The tantalising product description goes on to say: "It's a match made in heaven! This Kit Kat Chunky offers a hefty size; you'll have to open extra wide for a bite! Discover an indulgent layer of milk chocolate, crispy wafers and a filling of the famous Rolo caramel! "Featuring the perfect balance of deeply delicious flavours, you won't want to miss this Kit Kat bar! Ideal for lovers of caramel, this chocolate bar just might make the cut into your regular chocolate rotation!" The website also offers a variety of other unique KitKats for sale, meanwhile, including KitKat pink lemonade flavour, KitKat Neapolitan, KitKat Lemon Crisp and KitKat Birthday Cake. Earlier this year in January, three more KitKats were introduced to UK supermarket shelves. The XL bars, priced at £1.50 for a 99g bar are as follows: KitKat Double Chocolate: A cocoa-flavoured filling covered with thick milk and dark chocolate marble swirls. KitKat Salted Caramel: A salted caramel-flavoured filling in a thick milk chocolate coating with marbled caramel swirls. KitKat Hazelnut: A hazelnut-flavoured filling, coated with a rich mix of milk and dark chocolate marble swirls.
Business Mayor
11-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Business Mayor
New KitKat flavour sends chocolate lovers into meltdown as they race to buy it
KitKat has joined forces with another Nestle chocolate for it's latest Chunky range offering (stock) Brits have been enjoying the taste of KitKats ever since the chocolate-covered wafer bars were introduced by confectioners, Rowntree's way back in the late 1930s. Now a product of Nestle, who acquired Rowntree's in 1988, the bars come in a whole host of design and flavours. In addition to the traditional four-fingered bars we all love, KitKat Chunky hit the market in 1999 and has seen a number of variations – often limited edition flavours – go on sale over the years. The latest of those is now available in the UK, having been detailed on Facebook by dedicated foodies, NewFoodsUK. Sharing a snap of the treat, they wrote: 'These Rolo KitKats are amazing!' Rolo also followed the same path of Rowntree's to Nestle, coming in tube-shaped packs made of round, caramel-filled chocolate. READ MORE: 'I spent £600 on National Lottery Scratchcards and was gobsmacked by what I won' Excited to get their hands on the new offering, which originated in Canada, one Facebook user penned in response: 'Need to find them!' Another person commented: 'I swear I'm flying to the UK solely for your snacks.' A third confessed: 'Oh don't! I'm far too obsessed with chunky KitKats for my own good! It's like the universe doesn't want me to be thin.' Whilst a fourth said: 'Another amazing KitKat Chunky.' World Snacks UK, who are selling the 48g bars at a price of £2.75 each, state: 'This is just the 'break' you deserve! The Kit Kat Chunky Rolo is filled with rich and delectable chocolate, along with silky golden caramel!''The mouth-watering production description continues: 'It's a match made in heaven! This Kit Kat Chunky offers a hefty size; you'll have to open extra wide for a bite! Discover an indulgent layer of milk chocolate, crispy wafers and a filling of the famous Rolo caramel! 'Featuring the perfect balance of deeply delicious flavours, you won't want to miss this Kit Kat bar! Ideal for lovers of caramel, this chocolate bar just might make the cut into your regular chocolate rotation!' The website has a variety of other unusual KitKats on sale, meanwhile, including KitKat pink lemonade flavour, KitKat Neapolitan, KitKat Lemon Crisp and KitKat Birthday Cake. Back in January, meanwhile, three more KitKats made their debut on UK supermarket shelves. The XL bars, at £1.50 for a 99g bar are as follows: KitKat Double Chocolate: A cocoa-flavoured filling covered with thick milk and dark chocolate marble swirls. KitKat Salted Caramel: A salted caramel-flavoured filling in a thick milk chocolate coating with marbled caramel swirls. KitKat Hazelnut: A hazelnut-flavoured filling, coated with a rich mix of milk and dark chocolate marble swirls. With the new XL bar, the pieces can now be easily broken off, so there's no excuse not to share and enjoy equal bites with friends and loved ones.
Daily Mirror
11-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
New KitKat flavour sends chocolate lovers into meltdown as they race to buy it
Chocolate lovers can't wait to get their hands on the latest KitKat Chunky release, which sees the iconic bar collaborate with another hugely popular Nestle treat Brits have been enjoying the taste of KitKats ever since the chocolate -covered wafer bars were introduced by confectioners, Rowntree's way back in the late 1930s. Now a product of Nestle, who acquired Rowntree's in 1988, the bars come in a whole host of design and flavours. In addition to the traditional four-fingered bars we all love, KitKat Chunky hit the market in 1999 and has seen a number of variations - often limited edition flavours - go on sale over the years. The latest of those is now available in the UK, having been detailed on Facebook by dedicated foodies, NewFoodsUK. Sharing a snap of the treat, they wrote: "These Rolo KitKats are amazing!" Rolo also followed the same path of Rowntree's to Nestle, coming in tube-shaped packs made of round, caramel-filled chocolate. Excited to get their hands on the new offering, which originated in Canada, one Facebook user penned in response: "Need to find them!" Another person commented: "I swear I'm flying to the UK solely for your snacks." A third confessed: "Oh don't! I'm far too obsessed with chunky KitKats for my own good! It's like the universe doesn't want me to be thin." Whilst a fourth said: "Another amazing KitKat Chunky." World Snacks UK, who are selling the 48g bars at a price of £2.75 each, state: "This is just the 'break' you deserve! The Kit Kat Chunky Rolo is filled with rich and delectable chocolate, along with silky golden caramel!""The mouth-watering production description continues: "It's a match made in heaven! This Kit Kat Chunky offers a hefty size; you'll have to open extra wide for a bite! Discover an indulgent layer of milk chocolate, crispy wafers and a filling of the famous Rolo caramel! "Featuring the perfect balance of deeply delicious flavours, you won't want to miss this Kit Kat bar! Ideal for lovers of caramel, this chocolate bar just might make the cut into your regular chocolate rotation!" The website has a variety of other unusual KitKats on sale, meanwhile, including KitKat pink lemonade flavour, KitKat Neapolitan, KitKat Lemon Crisp and KitKat Birthday Cake. Back in January, meanwhile, three more KitKats made their debut on UK supermarket shelves. The XL bars, at £1.50 for a 99g bar are as follows: KitKat Double Chocolate: A cocoa-flavoured filling covered with thick milk and dark chocolate marble swirls. KitKat Salted Caramel: A salted caramel-flavoured filling in a thick milk chocolate coating with marbled caramel swirls. KitKat Hazelnut: A hazelnut-flavoured filling, coated with a rich mix of milk and dark chocolate marble swirls. With the new XL bar, the pieces can now be easily broken off, so there's no excuse not to share and enjoy equal bites with friends and loved ones.
Yahoo
03-04-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Forgotten York: remember the old railway halt on the edge of Rowntree's factory?
WHO remembers when the railway stopped at Rowntree's? As our archive photo shows, the Rowntree factory at Haxby Road, once had it's own stop. The image - from The Press' own photo archive - shows the former Rowntree Halt station, which would have been familiar to generations of Rowntree workers. Rowntree Halt was a minor unmanned railway stop on the Foss Islands branch line in York. Located on the southern edge of the Rowntree's chocolate factory, the station was opened in 1927 by the London and North Eastern Railway to provide a low-volume, not publicly advertised passenger service to the Rowntree factory for workers commuting from areas south of York such as Selby and Doncaster. The halt itself was little more than a single short platform located a few yards west of a signal-protected siding that allowed freight directly into the factory complex. Passenger services ceased in 1988, and the station was officially closed on 8 July 1989. The line was dismantled and turned into a cycle track. Do you remember the Rowntree Halt? Send your memories to: IF you love delving into York's past and seeing photos and reading stories from yesteryear then make sure you check The Press every day for its regular nostalgia stories. And don't miss our eight-page nostalgia supplement every Wednesday in the paper. We also have more than 3,000 members in our online nostalgia group on Facebook, Why We Love York - Memories. It is free to join and you will find us at It would be great to see your old photos of York - and they don't have to be from centuries ago. We all love seeing old photos from our recent past, and some of our more popular stories with readers date from the 70s, 80s and 90s.
Yahoo
05-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
'A hard worker with good sense of humour ' - revealing the real Joseph Rowntree
'He was a hard worker with a good sense of humour and a political radical' - David Wilson asks what was Joseph Rowntree really like? GENERATIONS of British children have grown up enjoying Smarties and Polo mints (the mint with the hole in the middle), and many of us are partial to Kit Kat and Black Magic. Since the late 1980s these well-loved sweets and chocolates have been Nestlé products, but historically they were all Rowntree's. Smarties had been manufactured by Rowntree & Co. Ltd since 1937. Polo mints were first produced at the Rowntree factory in York in 1948. Kit Kat was first launched in September 1935 under the name Rowntree's Chocolate Crisp. Two years later, it was renamed Kit Kat Chocolate Crisp and at the end of the Second World war it became simply Kit Kat. Black Magic chocolates were created by Rowntree's in 1933. Fruit Pastilles and Jelly Tots are, of course, still sold under the Rowntree brand name. For decades the name dominated the city of York. As Nick Smith, executive director of The Rowntree Society told me: 'It's very hard to go anywhere in York without coming across a Rowntree connection.' What do we know about Joseph Rowntree? In his book Joseph Rowntree, author Chris Titley relates the events of Joseph's childhood and early manhood. He was born in 1836 and spent his early years living above his father's grocery shop in Pavement (the building that now houses Pizza Hut). After a seven-year apprenticeship in his father's shop, Joseph went to London to gain more experience of the retail business. While in London, Joseph was reunited with Julia Seebohm who he had first met when she was a student at The Friends School in Castlegate and frequent visitor to the Rowntree family in York. They were married and returned to live in the Top House in Bootham, but Julia subsequently died (possibly of meningitis) shortly after giving birth to their daughter Lilley. Joseph re-married in 1866, this time to Julia's cousin Emma Antoinette Seebohm. And in 1869 tragedy struck again when Lilley died of scarlet fever. As Joseph and Antoinette's family grew, the Rowntrees moved across the road to rent no.19 (now no.49) Bootham. Recommended reading: Rowntree's of York: 11 photos at Haxby Road factory York to celebrate centenary of Joseph Rowntree's death Rowntree Park at 100: your memories and photos In 1869, Joseph took money out of the Pavement business and invested it in the riverside chocolate works at Tanner's Moat, owned and managed by his brother Henry Isaac. Throughout the 1870s, however, the company struggled. What rescued the business came in the form of a French confectioner, Claude Gaget, who visited Henry and Joseph in 1879 with samples of pastilles and fruit gums. According to Nick Smith, "it was fruit pastilles that really made the business take off". From 1883, Joseph took over the running of the Rowntree business on the untimely death of his brother Henry Isaac. In 1892, Joseph bought 29 acres of land off Haxby Road and a new factory was built. By 1898 all production was at the Haxby Road site where the offices were the first area of the new plant to be lit by electricity. What sort of a man was Joseph Rowntree? Well, he was a hard worker and continued to have an office at the Haxby Road plant until shortly before he died. He had remarkable energy and was enterprising in obtaining information from various quarters to help develop his business. He had a good sense of humour, people liked him and he was able to move easily in different social circles. He could reach out to people with differing views and was a natural conciliator. As a child he'd been visibly shocked by witnessing first-hand the ravages of the Irish Potato Famine which he saw when he accompanied his father on a business trip to Ireland. Joseph was genuinely interested in the welfare of his employees and was concerned to rectify what he called the 'social ills' of poverty. He lived a modest lifestyle in accordance with his Quaker faith and he was a regular member of the York Meeting. He was a political radical and founded the Liberal Association in York but never engaged in national politics. Above all, he was concerned for the welfare of his employees and in this he was ahead of his time. He set up a library for company workers. He opened two savings banks for them and in 1904, two years before the state pension was introduced, Joseph set about launching a company pension scheme. He also introduced out-of-hours social activities for his employees such as singing classes, angling societies, football teams and book appreciation circles. Apart from the Rowntree Park and the Yearsley Swimming Baths, Joseph Rowntree inspired the building of the Rowntree Theatre and in 1901 purchased a 150,000-acre estate at Earswick. Here he presided over the Village Trust (1901) to oversee development of New Earswick which was to include a community centre – the Folk Hall – and a primary school. Joseph Rowntree also set up three trusts in 1904 which are still active today. And a further trust was formed in 1968 to address housing issues. This year is the centenary of Joseph Rowntree's death, and to commemorate this anniversary the executive director of The Rowntree Society, Nick Smith, is inviting York residents and any others who may be interested, to arrange events in order to commemorate and make known the legacy of Joseph Rowntree to a wider public. Further details can be found on the website at David Wilson is a Community Writer with The Press
