How they got the name Kit Kat?

You're touching on closely guarded trademark and image issues...do you feel up for a bit of corporate espionage?

*joke* What's the difference between your mum and a kit kat? you can only get four fingers in a kit kat. That's it from me folks! i'm here all week!

from the kit kat website (www.kitkat.co.uk)
Let me tell you everything there is to know about the UK's favourite chocolate bar, Kit Kat.

History
You know Kit Kat was never originally called Kit Kat. The chocolate crisp bar was made and originally launched in London and the South East of England in September 1935, and was called Rowntree's Chocolate Crisp. It only became 'Kit Kat' in 1937, two years before the Second World War.

The name
Kit Kat was supposedly named after the Kit Kat club, an 18th Century Whig literary club. As the building had very low ceilings, it could only accommodate paintings, which were wide and not very high. In the art world, these paintings were known as 'kats'. It’s believed that Kit Kat derived its name from paintings, which had to be snapped off to fit into the rooms with the low ceilings. Sounds a bit bizarre to me!

ever since i started my kit kat thread all these googlers have been inspired to start their own!

it's weird

If you type in 'hair dye Kit Kat advice'...

pimp my kit kat

I think it's WWII German Wermacht code for TakTik.

The Kit-Cat Club was one of the more lavish and exclusive of the clubs that sprang up in London’s West End after the First World War. These clubs were established to evade the licensing laws and allowed dancers to carry on into the night when the hotels and restaurants had all closed. It was owned by Mrs Kate Meyrick, who was in 1926 imprisoned for bribing a police officer. The decor of the club was lavish and according to the mood of the tune, the lighting in the club would change colour to lull or stimulate.
George Fisher (Fishberg) was an American pianist, who had recruited some of the top British dance band musicians of the day to play at the club. In just under a year, nearly 70 sides were recorded under different names for different labels. Until now, only a few of these sides have ever been re-issued.
George Fisher’s Kit-Cat band was not called the Rhythm Band for nothing. Whilst the band’s propulsive rhythm section provided a great beat for dancing, the advanced arrangements explored the possibilities of brass and reeds. It is likely that the band on the records made for HMV was essentially a studio group. The personnel on the other recordings may be more variable than the Rust/Forbes discography suggests, probably reflecting the composition of the band working in the club.
Although Rickety-Rackety Shack is a stock arrangement, most of the HMV recordings seem to be original arrangements written for this band.  Irving Brodsky of the California Ramblers supplied one arrangement, though a good proportion of the tunes are of British origin and many of arrangements are probably by the young Peter Yorke and at least one is by Lew Stone. For their day, they were both sophisticated and inventive and whilst they left little space for improvisation, the ensemble playing of this band was spectacular. Most of jazz on these sides is from Freddy Pit on trumpet, Les Norman and a teenage Harry Hines on reeds.

George Fisher’s Kit-Cat band was not called the Rhythm Band for nothing.
No really, the band was not called the Rhythm Band.

blame the web site it came from.

And Whigs in Wigs at the National Portrait Gallery. I wonder if those are the paintings (Kat) that gave the Kit their Kat.

(In another minute, I'm going to be blaming 18th Century Freemasons for putting the Bomp In The Bomp-A-Bomp-A-Bomp so I better stop now.)

And what about me?
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er, that last part is: bomp DE bomp bomp

/ psych pedant

The name kit kat has come to us, strange as it may seem from the brainstorming of one Rowntree chocolateer whose surname was Eames. I don't know the first name but this bloke was shipped to Australia by the English company to head the chocolate making department of their Australian subsidiary. This bozo it seems had a neice named Katie Eames who married and became Katie Wilmor. Mrs Wilmor passed away in April 2006. As a child she was known as Kat or more often affectionately as Kitty. Her uncle (the Rowntree bloke) referred to her as Kit Kat as a play on the name of the London club of the time. Katie Eames herself migrated to Australia shortly before World War II. She spent some time during the war as a nurse in New Guinea and afterwards married. As a very private person she did not capitalise on her connection to the chocolate-wafer bar known as Kit Kat.

Bullshit idiot. does it fuckin matter how the name came up. I suggest you go get yourself a kit kat, the single bar type and stick deep up your arse.