Toblerone

Archaeologists continue to quarrel over the construction of the pyramids, and the distinctive shape of the Matterhorn has taken a million years to complete. But what conceit of engineering, or what tectonic shift, has robbed us of our humble Toblerone, bars of nougaty chocolate in triangular peaks? In fact neither the Alps nor the Egyptians dictated the shape of the Toblerone, the bar’s…