... There’s not much point trying to build suspense, I assume you’ve all guessed from the category that it’s Cadbury’s Crunchie. I rarely buy any sweets or chocolate myself (crisps being my real downfall), but it just so happens I have a bar left from Christmas. You think that sounds virtuous? ... Read review
Advantages: Yummy honeycomb centre, sexual innuendo Disadvantages: Very unhealthy, TV advert
For once, Deano’s actually had a good idea. I’m not the world’s biggest chocoholic, and have no plans for a sex change in the near future either ;) but I knew straightaway what my favourite chocolate bar for his monster challenge was. There’s not much point trying to build suspense, I assume you’ve all guessed from the category that it’s Cadbury’s Crunchie. I rarely buy any sweets or chocolate myself (crisps being my real downfall), but it just so ... ...that sounds virtuous? Let me tell you all I’ve eaten so far today is a Cadbury’s fudge bar and a packet of crisps, so much for a healthy lunch now…
The Packaging
Crunchie comes in a distinctive golden wrapper, with the word Crunchie written on in big red letters, that look like they’re bouncing around a bit. It’s not overly fancy, but easy to spot on a shelf. It’s normally quite easy to open, which is good cos otherwise ... more
For once, Deano’s actually had a good idea. I’m not the world’s biggest chocoholic, and have no plans for a sex change in the near future either ;) but I knew straightaway what my favourite chocolate bar for his monster challenge was. There’s not much point trying to build suspense, I assume you’ve all guessed from the category that it’s Cadbury’s Crunchie. I rarely buy any sweets or chocolate myself (crisps being my real downfall), but it just so happens I have a bar left from Christmas. You think that sounds virtuous? Let me tell you all I’ve eaten so far today is a Cadbury’s fudge bar and a packet of crisps, so much for a healthy lunch now…
The Packaging
Crunchie comes in a distinctive golden wrapper, with the word Crunchie written on in big red letters, that look like they’re bouncing around a bit. It’s not overly fancy, but easy to spot on a shelf. It’s normally quite easy to open, which is good cos otherwise your chocolate would melt. Sod it, who cares about the wrapper…
The Chocolate
The standard bar itself (the type I have before me) is about 6” long. I can’t see a weight on the packet, but calculating on the basis of nutritional information, it’s about 42g. No doubt there are other sizes, such as a smaller ‘fun size’ version, though girls may not believe that… ;) Cadbury’s also do things like Miniature Heroes and Crunchie Nuggets, but I find those far too small and unsatisfying. Not that size matters of course. The Crunchie brand has also been spread to dessert pots, cake bars and other products, but here I’m just concentrating on the basic chocolate bar.
Ripping open the wrapper, I find it does have a fairly distinctive chocolate and honey kind of smell. One which is difficult to describe, but recognisably Crunchie. I don’t normally stop to sniff my chocolate though, so let’s skip the foreplay, because I know you’re dying to get your mouth round my nice 6” bar.
It’s described as “Milk chocolate with a golden honeycombed centre”. There’s not much more I can add to that really, you’ve surely all tried one (I hope). Here, let me bite the end off and show you… (Wonders if doing it ‘sensually’ with innuendo will lead to more reads or just look gay…)
Inside is a yellow sugary honeycomb, which for some reason always has quite large bubbles in the middle, but which is finer on the sides. This is coated in a thin layer of chocolate – perhaps, like I said, this is why I like the bar, not too chocolatey and sickly. That said, I was surprised to learn from the ingredients that the centre is only 37%, so there must be more of that Cadbury’s milk chocolate than I thought…
There’s so many ways you can eat it if you enjoy playing with your food. Trying to bite all the chocolate off the outside, leaving just the honeycomb for example. Or slowly sucking it off, which always looks messy but gives a wonderful sugary, chocolately mouthful. Perhaps I’d better leave this kind of description to Brian (kalamazoo), otherwise I’m sure perhaps the ladies will find this more suggestive. Or perhaps cos it’s chocolate you’ll just wolf it down anyway ;)
Not wanting to descend into smut, there’s not too much more to say about this bar. I’m forbidden from listing ingredients, but I should say it contains E442 and E476, it may contain traces of nuts and the milk chocolate is minimum 14% milk solids. I’m afraid it doesn’t say it’s suitable for vegetarians either, but personally I don’t care cos I can’t see/taste any meat in it! Also on the nutritional front, the bar contains 7.6g of fat and a wopping 30.2g of sugary carbohydrate, so it’s certainly not good for you. On the other hand, I suppose you need all that energy when you get down the gym to burn it off…
Tesco.com sell 4 packs of Crunchies for 94p. You can also get 200g bars for £1.15, but I think I would find so much rather sickly.
The only other thing is those annoying ‘Friday feeling’ adverts. I find them really irritating, particularly because I think I should be able to eat the bars on Monday (as I just have!). And now I have to end with a one line insult about Deano. Hmmm so much to say, and just one line… Deano, after this challenge, it’ll be your fault when we’re all as fat as you!
Advantages: Cadbury's chocolate, pleasant taste Disadvantages: Can stick in teeth, usual allergy warnings, not for dieters
As a child, I wasn't all that keen on Crunchie bars. So for years I didn't eat them - there are, after all, many other good types of chocolate available. Then I learned that they're one of my husband's favourite bars, and I also discovered that it's possible to buy them in bags of mini-bars as well as the more usual full-length Crunchie bar. So I bought a bag of the small Crunchie bars.
I tried one, thinking that if I still didn't like it, I could ... ...surprise, it was delicious! Since then, Crunchie bars have been a regular feature of our chocolate collection. • General appearance •
The ordinary Crunchie bars are packaged in golden coloured wrappings, and are about 15cm long. The mini-bars are about half that size, wrapped the same way, and then packed in orange bags which have only a purple stripe and a small logo to inform customers that they're made by Cadbury's. Probably they're familiar ...
Kukana 24.11.2003
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Advantages: It's chocolate Disadvantages: I want to eat it
...it as a threat. Cadbury is written on the label as the Crunchie is a part of Cadbury, and we are to.
Once we gain access to the inside of the wrapper what do we find, we find chocolate, and why do we find it, because this is a chocolate bar. It is, however, misleading as it’s only a thin layer of chocolate and just below the surface the true nature of the beast is revealed to be a golden honeycomb centre, a centre which is found at the middle of ... ...inspection, and if we are not allowed further inspections we shall shout louder until we get them, I have found that it fits right inside my mouth (sideways). I would assume that this is so I can take a bite, just one bite; I have no wish to occupy the Crunchie. Hmmm the chocolate melts in my mouth, and then I can taste the honeycomb sweetness, if the French had a word for delicious it would be chuncie. If I wanted to, and in the past I have and ...
Dardalius 18.01.2003
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Advantages: Yummy Disadvantages: They don't have aeroplanes any more
...In 1824 John Cadbury opened a small shop in Birmingham selling mainly tea. He also sold cocoa and drinking chocolate which he prepared himself with a mortar and pestle. Cocoa and drinking chocolate were introduced to England in the 1650’s when they were seen as luxury items. By 1842 John Cadbury had experimented with the cocoa and drinking chocolate and was selling 16 sorts of drinking chocolate and eleven cocoas. In 1866 a new process was introduced ... ...chocolate’. Today Cadbury Limited is the UK’s market leader for selling confectionery. Each week the UK’s 60 acre Bourneville site produces in excess of 1800 tonnes of chocolate: 1.6 million bars of chocolate of varied sizes. Every day of the week it produces 50 million individual chocolates such as Hazelnut Whirls and Almond Clusters and over 1 million Cadbury Creme Eggs!
About Crunchies
Everyone should know about Cadbury’s Crunchie bars as they ...
matties_bitch 27.02.2004
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Advantages: Cadbury redeem themselves after wannabe chocolate break instant crap Disadvantages: very sweet may be too sweet for some
Okay after that terrible Cadbury’s Instant Break Chocolate I had to get that nasty taste out of my mouth so it was time for Cadbury’s to redeem them selves and aid me in this task by way of their Crunchie bar which brings me to the sixth of my ten choccy ops.
Now I have not had one of these in years so I had forgotten how nice they actually are so this was a good start by all means as it was like trying something for the first time as it had literally ... ...these. For the life of me I don’t know why I have not picked one of these up in the last 15 years or thereabouts but as fate would have it I did indeed buy one when I purchased the other nine bars which I bought last Saturday in my local Spar shop for the price of 36 pence.
=[ Like I have stated before, it’s all in the name of good research !! ]=
=[ Note to self … Gabe, I don’t think they are buying it !! ]=
Anyway this particular bar weighs in ...
gabrielangeles 11.12.2002
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Advantages: Lovely combination of chocolate and honeycomb, Avaliable in different sizes Disadvantages: High in fat, can be sickly
...coated in a layer of Cadbury milk chocolate. Crunchie was first launched by J.S Fry and Sons in 1929 then later on became a Cadburys product. Crunchie is available to buy in three different sizes including a snack size, the standard size and a king size as well. All Crunchie bars are packaged in a plastic foil wrapper which is gold in colour and also has a hint of the Cadbury purple colour on the front of packaging. Each standard sized crunchie bar ... ...• Salt – 0.28g
***PRICE/AVALIABILITY***
Cadbury Crunchie bars are available to buy at all supermarkets and local shops for about 44p, how-ever prices can vary. You can buy a 5 pack of these from your supermarket for about £1.51 as well as snack size treats, ice creams and 100g bar of crunchie chocolate. ***APPEARANCE/SMELL***
When taking this out of the plastic foil wrapper you are greeted by a lovely smell of Cadbury milk chocolate and a sweet ...
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Advantages: Delicious taste, great pack size Disadvantages: A little costly.
I purchased this product from my local Tesco for around £1.40 for a 200g bag.
I am such a fan of Cadbury's chocolate & the Crunchie bar that I just had to give these a try!
The bag is purple at the top and has a hang tab which means that these are often hanging up with M&M's etc in my local garage and very convenient to grab them as I walk past to pay for my goods! (SO tempting for a chocaholic like me!!!)
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Advantages: Tongue Heaven. Disadvantages: You might get fat and rot your teeth.
;★★★★★★★★★
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