Put my hard brown bar in your mouth

Crunchie is a chocolate made by Cadbury's in Great Britain and is widely available through out the commonwealth countries such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand and India, and can also be imported in to the US and the Phillipines. The Crunchie was first created in 1929 by J.S. Fry and Sons before Cadbury merged with them and took up the rights. 

The bar is a simple 7 inch long by one 1 inch across and about ¾ of an inch thick bar, though smaller versions can be bought such as the snack sized 4 inch ones, which are suitable for children's lunch boxes and just general party snacks. Though the fact this review is for the full sized ones which usually retail for around 40p a bar (though budget store B&M Stores are currently selling a pack of 7 for £1.49 which is fantastic value for money, almost 50% off the RRP). The bar is simple in concept, it's crisp cinder toffee covered in smooth Cadbury's chocolate to give off a sharp cracking sound when you bite through and snap the honey comb toffee (American name for Cinder toffee). 

The bar comes in a shiny golden wrapper bearing the name in giant red letters across the centre and the Cadbury logo on the top corner with the details of where it was made and the such on the back of the bar. Pretty standard sort of a design with a golden paint job. 

The taste is a familiar one, that's of soft toffee over powering a rather undetectable chocolate at first, but if you suck it you can taste the recognisable Cadbury trademark taste with it all resulting in a sweet after taste that's got a more-ish quality to it. The fresh texture feels like it'll never get old in your mouth, which for the Cinder Toffee fans out there is rather original, as if you go to your local sweet shop, you'll get the cinder toffee that goes sticky and soft in a day or two (which some may like), the air tight wrapper keeps this dry and hard. 
For the Australians reading this, theirs a similar rival bar that doesn't appear to be anywhere nearly as widely available (sadly) called Violet crumble, which despite being slightly different has the same concept to it, and is manufactured by Nestle after being created in 1913. The violet crumble is sold on the "shattering" taste whilst Crunchies are much more well known for the fact you crunch them when you bite into them. However as I'm yet to try the Australian bar I wont comment too much on that. 
The bar is rather oddly created from giant slabs of toffee cut with oil (to prevent breakages from any cutting blades, whilst the use of water would dissolve the toffee), before being covered in chocolate to keep the toffee taste so sharp and lively. 

Nutritional Values 
Per 100g Per Bar 40g 
Energy (kJ) 1940 775 
Energy (kCal) 465 185 
Protein 4.0g 1.6g 
Carbohydrate 69.5g 27.8g 
Fat 18.9g 7.6g 

With a bar such as Crunchie don't forget it will go to your hips after it goes through your lips, so if your a keen dieter the 185 calories a bar may not make this the chocolate of choice for you, however for most others you will enjoy it. The almost unique taste among the mainstream chocolate bar which seem to be heading towards soft toffee/caramel (Dairy Milk Caramel, Mars, Galaxy Caramel, Twix), Fillings (Kinder Bueno, Kit Kat, Penguin) and plain chocolate (Dairy Milk Bar, Aero, Galaxy, Flake, Whispa). Sadly for us chocolate fans the only other hard toffee based bar would be Dime's (I'll never call it a Daime), which despite their highly delightful taste aren't quite filling enough. 

Aside from old lady's who remember being able to get Cinder toffee from the nice man at the sweet shop when they were young for a few old penny's most of you may not have heard the term. Cinder toffee, or sponge toffee, or honeycomb, as you may have heard it called is an easy enough to make substance for home made baking, though sadly when it's home made it (as mentioned earlier) often results in a substance that swiftly becomes sticky and softens quickly due to contact with the air (which is why the production process is actually incredibly swift when making Crunchies). To make it at home you need Vinegar, Baking soda, Brown Sugar and Corn sugar and could be a good way to get kids into cooking as it's sweet and easy. However the professionals do it the best, it's not impossible to make your own crunchie replica if you can cover it with chocolate before the air gets to the sweet candy rocks. 

Overall the bars are nice, and at 21p a bar they are a bargain (get yourself to B+M) delightful chocolate that's almost unrivalled in it's own unchallengeable position with it's niche, that some may not like, though I'm sure most will.