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Wednesday, May. 19, 2021

Did Kit Kat release a diagonally cut, ‘not straight’ candy bar to celebrate LGBTQ Pride Month?

Christiana Dillard, Lead Stories
no

The manufacturers of Kit Kat candy bars (the Hershey Company in the U.S. and Nestlé around the world) told Lead Stories they have no record of such a product.

A social media post that appeared in 2020 and reappeared in May 2021 with a photo showing diagonal lines on a chocolate bar carried text saying the candy was produced for Pride Month with "no straight lines."

A spokesperson for Hershey said, "This product is not something that we launched or is available in the U.S." A spokesperson for Nestlé S.A. said he could find no record of such a product on his company's site.

The post also claimed Hershey invented chocolate. Chocolate has been consumed for thousands of years. Creation of the first mass-produced chocolate bar is attributed to Joseph Fry, in 1847.

And diagonal lines are in fact straight lines.

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