Give me a break: Thieves make off with tons of KitKats

April 2, 2026 by
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This story seemed appropriate for me to discover on April Fool’s Day because it sounds made up. Food conglomerate Nestlé confirmed a report that thieves pilfered a truck carrying over 400,000 specially crafted KitKat candy bars. The candy bars were part of a special production to celebrate KitKat becoming the official candy bar of Formula One racing, and were molded into the shape of a race car.

Kit Kat cheesecake from Recipe Girl by Lori Lange

The truck, which was carrying about 24,000 pounds of candy, left the factory in Italy on March 26. Somewhere in its European journey thieves stole the truck and its whereabouts are currently unknown. “We’ve always encouraged people to have a break with KitKat,” Nestlé said in a statement. “But it seems thieves have taken the message too literally and made a break with more than 12 tons of our chocolate.”

This theft is part of the growing trend of food heists that we have written about before, although those thefts usually target high-end, expensive items, not supermarket candy. It’s not clear what market the robbers had in mind for selling the goods, but they might want to think twice about selling the candy: codes on the candy bars can trace the individual bars back to the batch, which could help track down the criminals.

Category: Antipasto

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  • Indio32  on  April 2, 2026

    Its interesting that you refer to it as candy and Nestle as chocolate….. I know which I’d use!

  • Fyretigger  on  April 2, 2026

    An episode of either “The Food That Built America” or “How It’s Made” covered Kit-Kat bars and one of the interesting things shown was that the filling is partially recycled Kit-Kat bars. Breakage during manufacture is put back into the filling, so there is very little ingredient wastage.

  • goodfruit  on  April 4, 2026

    Hahahahaha! Best Heist Ever.

  • reader1trees  on  April 11, 2026

    I’m surprised that the thieves targeted this particular lorry load and wondered whether they were intending to ransom the bars rather than try to sell them on because they’re so identifiable and were intended for a particular event. I haven’t seen any subsequent reports so don’t know what happened in the end.

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