Coffee Crisp coming to the US!

[bjarvis]

About frackin' time, At long last, Coffee Crisp chocolate bars will be made available by Nestle in the US!

What's a coffee crisp? Heathen! By a wide margin, it's the greatest chocolate bar ever! I usually buy lots when I'm in Canada --they're available at any convenience store there-- but the only place I've found them in the US is at the World Market stores, sold as exotic international fare. Go figure.

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[brunorepublic.livejournal.com]

Well crap!! How am I supposed to bribe Americans when I visit the USA now?

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Let me think...

Sweet Marie. Caramilk. Aero (all varieties). Laura Secord. Peameal bacon. Ice wine. Black market OHIP cards. Gay marriage. Real beer. Mounties.

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

dont forget smarties. and do you eat the red ones last?

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

I eat them fast enough that they're simply a multi-coloured blur. :-)

[trawnapanda.livejournal.com]

blue Smarties(tm) are still ODD to me, but then I've been eating them since they were a Rowntree product, in England, and they came in cardboard tubes with a pop-out coloured plastic end/lid (with a letter on the underside! collect all 26!).

And Brian was about eight years yet unborn (sigh)

our second year chemistry students do chromatography on the food colouring in Smarties(tm) [and M&Ms (tm)]; they can tell which different food colours are used in each, and it's different between the two brands.

Penny, my officemate, teaches analytical chemistry and has just these past weeks been preparing samples for students to analyse -- one of each colour of M&Ms(tm) and the similar colours of Smarties(tm). However, the faggot-pink and homo-lavender coloured Smarties(tm) have no parallel colour among M&Ms(tm), so there are lots of excess Smarties(tm) that don't get distributed. We keep them in the office for Emergencies, when a hit of chocolate is the only thing that will save the day.

Personally, I think M&Ms(tm) are Satan's spawn, the downfall of Western Civilisation, and shouldn't be given room in the office. But I hold my tongue, becoz that way I get to share in the excess pink'n'lilac coloured Smarties(tm) which are nectar of the gods. I'm diabetic and shouldn't eat them. much. but three or four can't hurt, right?

[allanh.livejournal.com]

"Big Turk" bars are a good start. Also the Canadian version of "Kit-Kat", which tastes more like the (heavenly!) British version than the pale American imitation.

[book-of-daniel.livejournal.com]

I think I just sprung wood....

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

...lumber products...

[capitalcor.livejournal.com]

Remind the boys up here to take you to the Hershey factory for an afternoon. Your fix will be in for sure.

[brunorepublic.livejournal.com]

Dan's an Atkin's devotee and will kill anyone who tempts him to the dark side. Besides, almost all Canadian Hershey product is available in the US anyway.

Now if was a Cadbury or Nestle factory...

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

well great - there went my hope to lose weight.

COFFEE CRISP IS CRACK!

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

to explain - I grew up near the Canadian border and would make a point everytime we hit a canadian mall or trip - to stock up. and whorde my coffee crisps.

I know you understand.

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Whenever I'm about to depart Canada, I buy one of every chocolate bar I like (not fond of coconut) which isn't available in the US. I usually blow about $75 but it's worth every penny.

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

But Coffee Crisp is a healthy part of every meal! It says so right here in the Nestle Nutrition Guide & Shareholders Report!

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

and it makes a handy between meal snack :)

[trawnapanda.livejournal.com]

or, for that matter, a handy between-snack snack.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

What, you don't have them already? They're my favourite.

For that matter, I can't imagine growing up without Shreddies.

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

or Wheatabix.... Americans are heathens!

[trawnapanda.livejournal.com]

I have a friend in Cleveland who is addicted to Shreddies, so it's very easy to know what to take Rich as a hostess prezzie when I go to visit -- a couple of humongo-size boxes of Shreddies.

[beartalon.livejournal.com]

When Jason came here to visit me the first time, he was awed in a British food shop to find Cadbury's Crunchie bars. He bought two or three when I wasn't paying attention. When I asked later how much he paid, he was quite surprised when I told him that he probably bought the real English version, but these bars are sold everywhere in Canada.

My four favourite chocolate bars (I notice you said chocolate bar too - that's a Canadianism, I think. The Americans say "candy bar" if it has non-chocolate fillings in it) are Crispy Crunch, Wunderbar, Big Turk and Crunchie. Coffee Crisp follows those but that one depends on the flavour. I liked the original, the orange and the fudge, but some of the others aren't so great.

[qnetter]

Different squids for different ids, I guess. I hit the wrong button and bought one by accident last winter I was in Ottawa; after one broken-off bit, I left it back in the machine drawer. Nestle makes the waxiest, worst chocolate this side of three-for-a-dollar Easter bunnies...

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Nestle products tend not to have great shelf life... perhaps you got an old one?

Of course, it could be that you're among the six or seven people of the planet who can't bear Coffee Crisp. :-)

[trawnapanda.livejournal.com]

Nestle products aren't as good as Cadbury, I find.

I wonder how much of this is conditioning when we're very young (and hoovering down candy as fast as we can) -- I don't find Hershey chocolate nearly as appetising as UK/Canajun brands, but that's what I grew up with

Now I'm doomed

[pavlenyi.livejournal.com]

I would munch through two King Sized Coffee Crisps whenever I visit my parents north of Montreal. And how could y'all forget Aero Bars (and not the new mint ones, either...I'm talking the original I-wanna-pay-more-for-the-air-bubbles-because-it-makes-the-chocolate-taste-that-much-better bars).

Oh! And the delightfully messy Cherry Blossoms! Oh! And..And...

(great, I'm fucked...)

Re: Now I'm doomed

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

I like both the classic and mint Aero bars, although I'm not fond off the newer, wierder varieties. And Crunchie. Mmm...

[pectopah.livejournal.com]

I had my first Coffee Crisp about 2 weeks ago. Although I am more of a Cadbury's Dairy Milk kind of guy, I must say I will have another. As the package and the inane commercial that is on now say, "It makes a nice, light snack."

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Welcome to the dark side! :-)

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

yes (mr. burns from the simpsons voice) excellent!

[trawnapanda.livejournal.com]

that "nice light snack" commercial (or a variant thereof) is on in Canada now too. Dad is repeating this to his children. children don't understand, but the point is the slogan has been around since dad was the age of the children.

and so has the production of coffee crisp(tm) of course

mmmm

[pectopah.livejournal.com]

I don't know if it's on in the US. I live in Montreal. There is a French version of it, too. I don't really understand it, but the message comes through.

As a friend pointed out, "It says 'It Makes A Nice, Light Snack' right on the package! Can't those children read?"

Regardless, mmmmmmm

Chocolate affects us all!

[trawnapanda.livejournal.com]

I find it interesting that Brian posted about chocolate bars at 23:30 one evening, and by 10:00 the next day (ie 10.5h later, much of which is the wee-hours-of-the-morning in north america) there are 28 comments.

clearly, this is a subject that is very important for many people!