NESTLÉ
Enjoy Nestlé’s very best chocolate bars – Kit Kat, Coffee Crisp, Aero and Smarties – and rest assured that your snack choice has been produced in a peanut and nut free facility!
Anyone who knows someone with peanut or nut allergies understands the concern and difficulty many families face in dealing with these situations.
Nestlé recognizes these concerns and their Peanut Free Promise ensures that some of your children’s favourite snacks, including Smarties, Aero, Kit Kat & Coffee Crisp, are produced in a peanut and nut free facility.
Many school boards across Canada recognize the seriousness of this issue and have guidelines in place to deal with the challenges of peanut and nut allergies.
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KIT KAT
Kit Kat, a chocolate covered wafer biscuit, was first developed in England after a Rowntree factory worker suggested they needed a snack that “a man could have in his lunch box for work". It was launched by Rowntree England in September 1935 under the name Rowntree’s Chocolate Crisp and renamed Kit Kat two years later.
A traditional Kit Kat bar has four fingers, which measure approximately 1cm X 12cm each. The Kit Kat Chunky, introduced in 1999, has one large finger that is approximately 2.5cm wide.
SMARTIES
Rowntree of England had been making “chocolate beans” since 1882. The product was renamed Smarties Chocolate Beans in 1937, and in 1977, the words “chocolate beans” were dropped, as the company felt it was misleading. In 1993, the product was renamed Nestlé Smarties five years after Rowntree was acquired by Nestlé.
Smarties are oblate spheroids, and come in eight colours: red, orange, yellow, blue, green, mauve, pink and brown. At one point there was a light-brown version, which was replaced in 1988 by the blue Smartie.
Outside of Europe, Nestlé’s largest production facility for Smarties is in Canada.
COFFEE CRISP
The popular Coffee Crisp, coffee-flavoured chocolate bar was created in Canada and first sold by Rowntree’s Canadian operation in 1938. Up until 2006, Coffee Crisp was only available in Canada, but in September 2006 Nestlé USA began distributing Coffee Crisp into the US market. Coffee Crisp is also available in Australia, at specialized candy stores.
Coffee Crisp, a combination of coffee cream, cookie wafers and milk chocolate coating, contains only a small amount of coffee, with most of its coffee taste coming from flavouring.
Many will recognize the popular advertising campaign “Coffee Crisp Makes a Nice Light Snack”, and the 1980s TV ads which asked the question: “How do you like your coffee”, with the answer being “Crisp”.
AERO
Originally introduced by the Rowntree Company of England in 1935, Aero is now primarily sold in Ireland, the UK, Canada and Australia by the Nestlé Company, who acquired the brand in 1988.
Aero bars are milk chocolate bars filled with bubbles of air. The exact procedure for making the bubbles, and how they are so evenly distributed, is a closely guarded secret. It is speculated that they are formed by using chocolate in a liquid state (just on the verge of solidifying), with air being injected into the chocolate as it cools, resulting in the formation of the small bubbles.
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