The Toffee Crisp bar is a well known chocolate bar which is produced by Nestlé

Nestlé

Nestlé S.A. is the world's largest food and nutrition company. Founded and headquartered in Vevey, Switzerland, Nestlé originated in a 1905 merger of the Anglo-Swiss Milk Company, established in 1867 by brothers George Page and Charles Page, and Farine Lactée Henri Nestlé, founded in 1866 by Henri...

 in the United Kingdom. It consists of puffed rice

Rice

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 embedded in soft toffee

Toffee

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 and shaped into a rectangular

Rectangle

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 cuboid

Cuboid

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, the whole bar being covered by milk chocolate

Chocolate

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History

Toffee Crisp chocolate bars were first produced in the United Kingdom in 1963. The bars were originally made by Mackintosh's

Mackintosh's

Mackintosh's is a confectionery firm that was principally known for Mackintosh's Toffee and for brands such as Quality Street and Rolo.- Origins, Edwardian expansion and War-time contraction :...

  at their Halifax factory but in recent years are now made in a factory in Castleford in West Yorkshire. Toffee Crisp was due to move to Rowntree's Fawdon factory in Newcastle. However, because of a fire at the Fawdon factory (the week before the final production run at Halifax), this did not happen. The staff at Castleford hurriedly reformulated the bar (unofficially because it wasn't intending to make the bar on the extruded plant in Castleford) and the old-style bar which was made in metal moulds, changed into an extruded bar which allowed it to be made without the investment in a moulding plant. Toffee Crisp displaced Texan and Cabana confectionery bars. This factory first opened in 1970 supported by George Philips.

Information

The bars are sold in a bright orange wrapper with the words "Toffee Crisp" written with rounded lettering, bright yellow in colour with brown shadowing taking up most of the front. The texture of the bar is varied with the chocolate coating and the filling. A typical Toffee Crisp bar contains 13.5 g of fat, 9.5 g of which is saturated and 228 calories (11% of an adult's Recommended Daily Amount).
Prices can range from 45p-65p.

The bar will shortly be moved to the Fawdon factory where it came from as the Castleford factory will shortly be shutting (due December 2012>), the last toffee crisp to be made in Castleford will be on Thursday 15 December 2011, and from that day the toffee crisp equipment will be sent over to Fawdon where it will continue to be produced.

In popular culture

The Toffee Crisp is best known for a series of British television advertisements in the 1980s/1990s - each ending with the strap-line "Somebody, somewhere is eating a Toffee Crisp".

The Toffee Crisp (shown as the Toffee Crispy, though it was the same product with the same labelling style and font) also appeared in a Red Dwarf

Red Dwarf

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episode entitled "Bodyswap

Bodyswap

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". The Toffee Crispy was dispensed from a talking food dispenser machine instead of the ship exploding due to a wiring fault.