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Friday, November 5, 2010
Nestle Tex
It’s odd then to ponder that there is a mash-up bar of the two that’s found in South Africa. The Nestle Tex was launched around 1956 and combines the aerated chocolate of the Aero bar and the crispy filled wafers of the KitKat. I don’t know how the bar got the name Tex.
It’s a big chunky looking bar. It’s over 5.5 inches long and a little under one inch square. The wrapping isn’t fancy, just the name of the bar and a satisfyingly accurate cross section of the bar that shows the bubbly chocolate center with a layer of wafers above and below.
The bar smells more like sweetened cereal than a decadent chocolate bar. It’s quite light for its size, only 40 grams (1.41 ounces) when you think that a 3 Musketeers bar is 60 grams and has similar volume. The bar is a little messy to eat. The wafers are crispy but also darn flaky. The chocolate flavors are disappointing. There’s little cocoa flavor or chocolate texture in there. It’s not grainy or waxy, but certainly doesn’t have a silky smooth melt. The wafers are fun and distinctive, though not quite KitKat-like since they’re wider and have a more distinctive cream filling. The Aero layer is lost in the mix, it’s light on the chocolate but I didn’t really get the same airy melt and bubbly texture because of the fact that I felt obligated to chew the wafers. Mostly I’m disappointed in the poor quality of the chocolate (it might be mockolate, it’s hard to tell which ingredients are the chocolate coating and which are the cream filling in the wafer part). I know Nestle is capable of making better chocolate, and since I bought this as an import, it was $2.00. I could buy some really good chocolate for that. I could see this bar benefiting from other versions, like dark chocolate and flavors like coffee or orange. As it is, I see it as a middle of the road offering. Certainly unique but not better than the sum of its progenitors. (I found one note in a book about Rowntree that said that the Tex bar was first introduced in Canada in 1955 around the same time as Coffee Crisp but was a flop.) Related Candies
POSTED BY Cybele AT 2:56 pm
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Commenting is not available in this channel entry.Looks like a great idea for a candy bar. It’s too bad they didn’t follow through with great chocolate. I think that’s Nestle’s downfall with a lot of their products.
I am looking for an australian bar from the 50s called the Tex bar. It had 2 layers-soft caramel and soft mousse-like whip, chocolate coated. It had a browny plaid ‘western’type wrapper.Probably made by Rowntrees, but it wasn’t like the one you have pictured. It had a flavour that no other chocolate bar has been able to match. Any information on the Australian version?
jayjaypenny, I too found this to be the best chocolate bard that I can remember. Not as rich as a Mars Bar, I managed to find an old picture of a tex bar on google searching on images Hoadley’s Chocolates but not same packaging I remember. I recall it being white with the TEX writing and then the other end had bands of colour, brown, not sure about the others.
I grew up in South Africa and left there over 30 years ago. After all this time whenever somebody is coming here from South Africa I always ask them to bring me some Tex Bars. I like to put them in the freezer and eat them when they are icy cold. They are still my favourite chocolate of all time!!!
As far as I know, it was called the Tex bar because of it’s BIG taste
All the adverts for Tex featured texan style cowboys driving jeeps around on BIG adventures.
I think there is a certain way to eat the tex bar as we did when we were kids, you need to use your teeth to “peel off” the chocolate layer around the chocolate and then eat layer for layer with a strong cup of coffee of course
mmmm… that sounds good. I’ll have to try it! Still love my Nestle Tex!
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