Has any new chocolate bar come out in the past 20 years?

Blisterman

Can anyone help settle a debate? Has any completely new chocolate bar come out in the past 20 years and stayed on the market for longer than a year or two?

By completely new, I mean not just a variation of an existing one, such as Peanut Lion bars.

Frynge

I think the Cadbury picnic came out bout 95-96

Then there was that flyte bar that was low fat or some other nonsense

frozenfrozen

I can't think of any. Wispa came after I don't know how long, if that counts.

Owryan

Nestle Dream ??
Mars Delight ??

OakeyDokey

Kit Kat Peanut :P

im invisible

Kit-kat chunky, its a completly different bar

coup1917

Drifter...?

steve22

Owryan wrote: »

Nestle Dream ??
Mars Delight ??

Did Cadbury not make the Dream? Thats definitely within the last 20 years anyway!

Owryan

steve22 wrote: »

Did Cadbury not make the Dream? Thats definitely within the last 20 years anyway!

your right... my bad, was thinking of nestle crunch

LCD

I am guessing here but;Time OutMoroDime BarsDouble Deckers

rubadub

I linked to a site with the histories before, but it is no longer working. Some bars were very old, a lot mentioned here are quite old
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fry%27s_Chocolate_Cream

Fry's Chocolate Cream was one of the first chocolate bars ever produced, launched in 1866

wiki has a few mentioned

Drifter was launched by Rowntree's in 1980, consisting of a biscuit wafer with caramel layered on top.

Many seem to get rereleased which might confuse younger people. I remember the wispa Griff Rhys Jones adverts in the 80's. I thought drifter was later than 1980, the ad was a pimp character.

Double Decker is a brand of chocolate bar currently manufactured by Cadbury. First introduced in 1976, its name derives from the double-decker bus.

The Cadbury Picnic bar was first released in the UK in 1958.

Fuse bars were out for 10 years from 1996
http://www.cadbury.co.uk/ourproducts/yesterday/Pages/Yesterday.aspx

DundalkDuffman

There was a Cadbury's Truffle which lasted only about a year or so in the early 90s and their Top Deck one was on the go for ages. Milk and white chocolate combined, think yoiu could only get it in the big size.
How long is the Moro in existance? Seems like it migt fall into your category OP.

rubadub

moros are older
http://www.cadbury.ie/cadburyandchocolate/ourstory/pages/cadburyirelandhistory.aspx

By the early 1980's the "era of new product development" was in full swing. This led to the introduction of new products such as Twirl, Moro, Chomp and Eclairs

BunShopVoyeur

Kinder Bueno?

emeraldstar

LCD wrote: »

I am guessing here but;Time OutMoroDime BarsDouble Deckers

Hmm, yeah, I can definitely recall Time Outs coming out when I was quite young. Pretty sure they were brand new and not just a relaunched item. My mom went mad for them and it was practically the only bar she would buy. Heaps of multipacks of the yokes :rolleyes:

Those others are definitely a lot older.

rubadub

Time Out is a brand of chocolate bar currently manufactured by Cadbury. It was introduced in the United Kingdom and Ireland in 1992

So ~20 years old, dunno how they lasted so long, I hate them, we have a charity bar basket in work and they are always the last ones left, have heard people calling them 'duds' looking at them in disgust!

Buenos were out in 91, but not here

Kinder Bueno was first marketed in Germany in 1991. It became available in Latin America (Brazil, Argentina, Colombia and Mexico), Malaysia, The Netherlands, Portugal, Singapore, Israel and Greece in the mid-1990s, in Spain, Gibraltar, Italy and France starting in 1999, and has been common in Bulgaria, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom since 2004.

Mellor

Dream, Galaxy Caramel, Galaxy Ripple, Boost, Top Deck

Pretty sure they were all in the last 20 years. I was also going to say Bueno. '99 in UK and Ireland, '91 in germany. I think we can count that

emeraldstar

Mellor wrote: »

Dream, Galaxy Caramel, Galaxy Ripple, Boost, Top Deck

Not sure if that would qualify under the "not just a variation of an existing one" condition though? If that were the case you could also say Galaxy Cookie Crumble, Galaxy Hazelnut (?), etc.

And Boost was just a temporarily renamed Moro?

rubadub

emeraldstar wrote: »

Not sure if that would qualify under the "not just a variation of an existing one" condition though? If that were the case you could also say Galaxy Cookie Crumble, Galaxy Hazelnut (?),

Nowadays they seem to keep familiar names in the title for marketing reasons. 'Galaxy' is really advertising the type of chocolate used, like you might see 'dairy milk' listed on a top deck bar, its more like a brand name. Mars are the company but if you heard "mars hazelnut" I would expect a mars bar with nuts in it.

I would see peanut butter kitkat chunkies as being quite different from regular kitkats, they could have called them something completely different and I would never have thought 'hey this is really like a kit kat'

Diamond_Ninja

Ehh..



.. Theyre actually yummy, popping candy FTW

Mellor

emeraldstar wrote: »

Not sure if that would qualify under the "not just a variation of an existing one" condition though? If that were the case you could also say Galaxy Cookie Crumble, Galaxy Hazelnut (?), etc.

And Boost was just a temporarily renamed Moro?

It's nothing like a regular galaxy. It's the type of chocolate as Rubadub said. That's why I only listed caramel and ripple. The others are arguably variations on the original.

Boost is the original name.Moro is the rename in Ireland only, no idea why. But It's actually from '85. I was thinking of the boost guarana (sp?) from a few years ago.

emeraldstar

Mellor wrote: »

Boost is the original name.Moro is the rename in Ireland only, no idea why.

I know, but they tried to rebrand it as Boost in Ireland several years ago. It mustn't have caught on though, as they reverted.

Mellor wrote: »

I was thinking of the boost guarana (sp?) from a few years ago.

That was so vile. No wonder it didn't last long.

Faith

That Cadbury Marble bar was out for a good while, wasn't it?

Bring that back actually, it was great!

im invisible

How about that 'Secret' bar, came out about 20 years ago, only lasted a few years

Diamond_Ninja

Time outs are my favourite bar ever!!

The Hill Billy

Frynge wrote: »

I think the Cadbury picnic came out bout 95-96

Then there was that flyte bar that was low fat or some other nonsense

I can remember Picnic bars back in the 70's.

emeraldstar

Faith wrote: »

That Cadbury Marble bar was out for a good while, wasn't it?

Bring that back actually, it was great!

Agree with this! Got a Marble Easter Egg once or twice during the time they were available. Yum!

juan.kerr

Diamond_Ninja wrote: »

Ehh..



.. Theyre actually yummy, popping candy FTW

I thought these made you gay though?

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Diamond_Ninja

juan.kerr wrote: »

I thought these made you gay though?

Well then slap my arse and call me gay cos I love 'em!

rubadub

Diamond_Ninja wrote: »

Well then slap my arse and call me gay cos I love 'em!

Yeah, but do you think the bars nice?

:pac: