Shipment of KitKat bars stolen en route from Italy to Poland

https://apnews.com/article/nestle-switzerland-candy-bar-stolen-kitkat-51073cce27a0e193651aa7f31aaa506e

Comments

zeristorMar 29, 2026, 7:43 AM
Is 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)?

EkarosMar 29, 2026, 10:41 AM
Anyone else find the exact number somewhat weird. Like one would expect it to end in 0 or 2 or 5...
teo_zeroMar 29, 2026, 8:45 AM
I can't help wondering how the 413,793 bars were stacked.

413,793 is 3×3×23×1999.

misterspacemanMar 29, 2026, 10:52 AM
My 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

infomaniacMar 29, 2026, 7:39 AM
Let's hope the investors have a break (through)
sebazzzMar 29, 2026, 9:34 AM
They are quite expensive and there is not something similar on the market (even not from house brands of Aldi, Lidl, etc).
nlyMar 29, 2026, 10:52 AM
Cadbury 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

fittingoppositeMar 29, 2026, 8:11 AM
Reads like a PR stunt to me
zeristorMar 29, 2026, 7:40 AM
Don’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.

10729287Mar 29, 2026, 7:27 AM
The irony of Nestle asking to alert and help them finding the criminals.
hulituMar 29, 2026, 10:32 AM
Well, there are good criminals, who are democraticaly elected and share the profit, and bad criminals, who keep the profit for themselves.
burnt-resistorMar 29, 2026, 8:27 AM
I'd wager the entire load collectively contained only 90 kg of cocoa and 10 tons of so-called "certified responsibly sourced" palm kernel oil.
nlyMar 29, 2026, 11:08 AM
The 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.
nxobjectMar 29, 2026, 10:47 AM
Any 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.
hulituMar 29, 2026, 10:32 AM
You forgot the ... white death: sugar.
ggambettaMar 29, 2026, 7:56 AM
Can'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.
brikymMar 29, 2026, 8:11 AM
The sad thing is KitKat isn't even very good.
nlyMar 29, 2026, 10:59 AM
Not in the US they aren't, since they're made by Hershey and not Nestle and so are a completely different product.
qwertytyyuuMar 29, 2026, 8:43 AM
Food heist!
hktMar 29, 2026, 7:53 AM
That 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)

wolvoleoMar 29, 2026, 7:20 AM
Food for comedians for the next few months lol
RicoElectricoMar 29, 2026, 7:14 AM
The question is why would they produce them in Italy. Most of the food on Polish shelves that can be produced in Poland, is.
Freak_NLMar 29, 2026, 7:37 AM
Why not? It doesn't make much sense for Nestlé to have plants in every EU country.
rjswMar 29, 2026, 7:23 AM
The wikipedia page doesn't list Italy as one of the countries where they are produced.
defrostMar 29, 2026, 8:16 AM
Whereas 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
hackable_sandMar 29, 2026, 7:12 AM
good
stu2421Mar 29, 2026, 8:07 AM
i agree