What was the original name of the Kit Kat chocolate bar when Rowntree’s launched it in 1935?

The Kit Kat chocolate bar was originally launched in 1935 as Rowntree’s Chocolate Crisp.

The Rowntree’s company introduced the bar in the United Kingdom as a four-finger wafer covered in chocolate. Its name changed to Kit Kat Chocolate Crisp in 1937, and the shorter Kit Kat name became standard later.

The name is sometimes connected with the Kit-Cat Club, an early-18th-century London political and literary society. However, the bar’s original commercial name was Chocolate Crisp, not Kit Kat.

Nestlé acquired Rowntree’s in 1988 and now markets Kit Kat globally, although Hershey holds the license to produce it in the United States. The bar’s basic wafer-and-chocolate design remains central to its identity.