Coffee Crisp
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Coffee Crisp is a popular chocolate bar created in Canada
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Canada. The bar is a combination of coffee
cream, cookie
wafers and milk chocolate coating. It does contain a small amount of coffee, although much of its coffee taste comes from flavouring.
" was launched in the autumn that same year. A limited edition maple
flavored bar was available from April to September 2005.
For much of the 2000s, Coffee Crisp was available in "French Vanilla
" and "Triple Mocha
" flavours. 2005 also saw the introduction of the coffee bean shaped "Coffee Crisp Beans". The most recent bar form was Coffee Crisp Yogurt.
In January 2007, all then-existing variations of Coffee Crisp bars besides the original were discontinued.
2009 saw the introduction of the Coffee Crisp 70% dark chocolate.
A Coffee Crisp-flavoured ice cream bar
and ice cream flavour are also available.
s have long lamented the bar's relative unavailability outside of Canada. Coffee Crisp is available in Australia at some specialised sweet shops, and unofficial exports of Coffee Crisp treats (originally labelled for the Canadian market) to the USA have also occurred, especially in shops close to the Canadian border.
There was a petition at coffeecrisp.org asking Nestlé to market the Coffee Crisp in all US cities. According to the site, the petition succeeded, and Nestlé began marketing the Coffee Crisp nationwide in late July 2006.
As of April 2009, the marketing of the Coffee Crisp bar into the USA was discontinued by Nestle Canada. As of May 2009, Coffee Crisp was being imported into the US market by British Wholesale Imports (BWI).
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
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History
The origins of the bar are in the UK in the 1930s with a chocolate bar named Rowntree's Wafer Crisp. This was later renamed to Chocolate Crisp. The bar was later introduced to Canadians as Biscrisp. In 1938, a coffee variation (Coffee Crisp) was added to the line of flavoured Biscrisps (which included fruit flavours). It is presently marketed by NestléNestlé
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...
Canada. The bar is a combination of coffee
Coffee
Coffee is a brewed beverage with a dark,init brooo acidic flavor prepared from the roasted seeds of the coffee plant, colloquially called coffee beans. The beans are found in coffee cherries, which grow on trees cultivated in over 70 countries, primarily in equatorial Latin America, Southeast Asia,...
cream, cookie
Cookie
In the United States and Canada, a cookie is a small, flat, baked treat, usually containing fat, flour, eggs and sugar. In most English-speaking countries outside North America, the most common word for this is biscuit; in many regions both terms are used, while in others the two words have...
wafers and milk chocolate coating. It does contain a small amount of coffee, although much of its coffee taste comes from flavouring.
Other versions of the confection
In 2001, the first variation of the Coffee Crisp brand was introduced, a limited edition "Coffee Crisp Orange" flavour. A limited amount of the orange flavour was reissued in 2002. 2002 also saw the release of a limited edition "Coffee Crisp Raspberry" flavour. "Coffee Crisp Café Caramel" was sold in the summer of 2004 and once again in the summer of 2006 and a limited edition "Coffee Crisp WhiteWhite chocolate
White chocolate is a confectionery derivative of chocolate. It commonly consists of cocoa butter, sugar, milk solids and salt, and is characterized by a pale yellow or ivory appearance...
" was launched in the autumn that same year. A limited edition maple
Sugar Maple
Acer saccharum is a species of maple native to the hardwood forests of northeastern North America, from Nova Scotia west to southern Ontario, and south to Georgia and Texas...
flavored bar was available from April to September 2005.
For much of the 2000s, Coffee Crisp was available in "French Vanilla
Vanilla
Vanilla is a flavoring derived from orchids of the genus Vanilla, primarily from the Mexican species, Flat-leaved Vanilla . The word vanilla derives from the Spanish word "", little pod...
" and "Triple Mocha
Cafe Mocha
A caffè mocha or café mochaAs elsewhere in coffee naming, the Italian caffè and French café are commonly found, as are the hyperforeignisms caffé and cafè, which confuse the accents. Also, in Italian, the correct spelling is Moka, used both for the city and the Moka pot. "Mocha", by contrast, is...
" flavours. 2005 also saw the introduction of the coffee bean shaped "Coffee Crisp Beans". The most recent bar form was Coffee Crisp Yogurt.
In January 2007, all then-existing variations of Coffee Crisp bars besides the original were discontinued.
2009 saw the introduction of the Coffee Crisp 70% dark chocolate.
A Coffee Crisp-flavoured ice cream bar
Ice cream bar
An ice cream bar is a frozen dessert on a stick or a candy bar that has ice cream in it. The coating is usually a thin layer of chocolate used to prevent the melting and dripping of ice cream.-History:...
and ice cream flavour are also available.
Availability outside of Canada
Canadian expatriateExpatriate
An expatriate is a person temporarily or permanently residing in a country and culture other than that of the person's upbringing...
s have long lamented the bar's relative unavailability outside of Canada. Coffee Crisp is available in Australia at some specialised sweet shops, and unofficial exports of Coffee Crisp treats (originally labelled for the Canadian market) to the USA have also occurred, especially in shops close to the Canadian border.
There was a petition at coffeecrisp.org asking Nestlé to market the Coffee Crisp in all US cities. According to the site, the petition succeeded, and Nestlé began marketing the Coffee Crisp nationwide in late July 2006.
As of April 2009, the marketing of the Coffee Crisp bar into the USA was discontinued by Nestle Canada. As of May 2009, Coffee Crisp was being imported into the US market by British Wholesale Imports (BWI).