Cadbury Snack

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Cadbury Snack
Candy bar in purple-and-black wrapper
Snack Sandwich

A Cadbury Snack is a shortcake biscuit square or two biscuits with chocolate filling, covered with milk chocolate.

History[]

Three versions of Cadbury Snack are available in the United Kingdom and Ireland: Snack Shortcake (chocolate-coated shortbread in a yellow wrapper),[1] Snack Wafer (chocolate-covered wafer fingers in a pink wrapper)[2][failed verification] and Snack Sandwich, an individual chocolate-and-biscuit bar[3] similar to the original Jacob's Club biscuit. In February 2015, Cadbury announced that it was ceasing production of the Snack Wafer due to declining sales.[4]

During the 1970s there was a (chocolate-covered fingers in a blue wrapper) see Cadbury Fingers & in the 2000s there were limited editions of other versions of Snack.

Advertising[]

During the 1950s and 1960s there were black-and-white television adverts for the Snack product. Colour ads appeared in the 1970s. In 1986 the television advert used the phrase . There were cartoon adverts in the 1990s.

Australian version[]

In Australia, the Cadbury Dairy Milk Snack block is a six-piece bar of milk chocolate filled with six different flavours (strawberry, pineapple, orange, coconut ice, Turkish delight and caramel), with each square piece having a different shape corresponding to its flavour, and available in 135-gram (4.8 oz) and 200-gram (7.1 oz) sizes.[5] It began production in 1974; before then, the chocolate was created by MacRobertson's. In June 2009, Cadbury reduced the size of the bars.[6]

References[]

  1. ^ "Cadbury Snack Shortcake", Cadbury, retrieved 13 December 2015
  2. ^ Cadbury, retrieved 13 December 2015
  3. ^ "Cadbury Snack Sandwich", Cadbury, retrieved 13 December 2015
  4. ^ "160 jobs lost as Cadbury scraps the Pink Snack bar". thejournal.ie. 2015-02-26. Retrieved 2015-02-26.
  5. ^ "Cadbury Snack Block", Cadbury Australia, archived from the original on 22 December 2015, retrieved 13 December 2015
  6. ^ Labi, Sharon (2009-08-16). "Mars bar maker says looking after our health". The Sunday Telegraph. Archived from the original on 2012-09-05.
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