When you’re as old and decrepit as Under The Counter, there aren’t too many reasons to be cheerful. That’s why the Auld Boy is always on the lookout for something new to celebrate.
So he was thrilled to discover that 3 July is National Chocolate Wafer Day.
Under The Counter was apprised of this information by leading curator of the world’s more niche celebrations, daysoftheyear.com.
Controversially – in UTC’s opinion, at any rate – the aforementioned website proposes that the Kit Kat is the world’s foremost example of a chocolate wafer biscuit.
Now, any true Scot with full-fat Irn Bru dribbling through their sclerotic veins can see where this is going: straight to Uddingston, home of the Tunnock’s Caramel Wafer.
Much copied but never bettered, Tunnock’s makes more than six million caramel wafers every week, with roughly half of these purchased by UTC and his SLR colleagues. And the Auld Boy disnae care how many Kit Kats are kicking about; he sticks two chocolate-coated fingers up to Nestlé’s bifurcated biscuit.
Anyway, according to daysoftheyear.com, celebrating National Chocolate Wafer Day is both easy and delicious: “You just have to consume your favourite treat that has chocolate wafers in it!”
That’s a no-brainer for UTC. His favourite treat that has chocolate wafers in it is a Tunnock’s shelf-ready outer of 48. And he looks forward to consuming an entire one come 3 July.
