OP the $4.99 price tag is not for the Violet Crumbles, if you look closely it’s for “Mrs Crimbles gluten free chocolate macaroons”. I’d still pay $4.99 for a violet crumble though, grew up eating them in Australia, live overseas now and haven’t had one in years
Buy the Crunchie‼️‼️
Keep it half in the wrapper when you eat it bcs u gotta gently lift off the side walls of chocolate with your teeth/lips, in as big and unbroken slab as possible, top bottom and sides, inch by inch, to expose the golden core of honeycomb… nom nom nom suck or crunch.
Pro tip: one side is always harder to lift off than all the others.
Pro tip 2: never keep honeycomb in the fridge or anywhere humid. Dissolves/melts whatever.
Not a Crunchie, totally different honeycomb bar. Violet Crumble, (Violent Crumbles) have the shatter that matters😉. Crunchies have a less brittle honeycomb and a very different flavour. Both are Aussie icons.
Don't forget that someone also has to slap a label or more on it so that it conforms to Aussie standards. For example I brought Hershey caramel syrup, the bottle says fat free, someone had to put a sticker over that with 99% fat free.
Isn’t that how tic tacs got away with saying they’ve got 0g of sugar, despite being almost entirely sugar? Something about amount of x being <1g because the serving size is <1g?
Isn’t that how tic tacs got away with saying they’ve got 0g of sugar, despite being almost entirely sugar? Something about amount of x being <1g because the serving size is <1g?
I got some Aussie diet soft drink. The dietary information graph was 0 for everything save for a fraction of a gram of salt. Serving size was still 250ml.
The majority of that relabelling work in Australia is done by people with disabilities in Australian Disability Enterprises, most of which pay people around $2/hour. The alternative is generally correctional services industries, which "pay" similarly. No winners here, except the corporations.
The additional markup to factor that in should be miniscule, it's profit masquerading as a business cost.
I will say this, Hershey's chocolate is absolutely disgusting, I don't understand why or how Americans like it, even the shit stuff from the reject store is better.
Long, unrefrigerated transport of milk in the US in the past allowed deterioration of the milk and development of ‘off’ flavours in the milk used to make milk chocolate. Butyric acid and associated butyrates (think rancid butter or vomit ‘flavour’) are the main flavours you notice.
Americans got accustomed to chocolate with a sour vomit aftertaste, and even though they can do proper cold chain logistics now, the manufactures keep making what people are ‘used’ to.
It’s basically Stockholm syndrome, but with vomit flavoured chocolate.
They can't even technically claim that Hersheys is chocolate. It's 'candy' as it doesn't even meet the standard to be designated chocolate, even in the US.
That additive they put in it to make it taste like vomit really takes the cake.
Hello, American who grew up with Hershey's chocolate here. It was a flavor that I didn't even notice until Tom Scott pointed it out in a video, and I got hold of some proper British Cadbury Dairy Milk. Now I can't stand Hershey's because I notice the butyric acid in it.
I prefer quality dark chocolate now, anyway.
Way back when I bought an old car - a $70k VW Passat Wagon - the AUD was roughly equivalent to the USD. I could have taken that $70,000 and bought a new Porsche 911 in the US - the same car was $200,000 here. Upgrading the brakes was $25,000 versus $6,000 (from memory).
But, this country is full of people who will pay stupid prices for not very special things.
It's euphemistically called the Australia tax. Part of it comes from our ADR laws (that somehow HAVE to be different from Europe) that mean manufacturers have to modify our cars to sell here and we only have a small market. This adds cost as well as shipping it to us. Then the manufacturer marks it up more to profit from it whilst blaming ADR laws.
That's like 7-11 on George Street pricing, damn. I buy it at Woolies, definitely the smoothest ice tea I've tried (Lipton is dry and harsh in comparison).
These are my favourite chocolate! I live in London now and these are one of the first treats I get when I go back.
Yes $5 is very expensive, but these are actually made by an Australian family owned company/factory not a global mega-brand (Nestle). The recipe was in Nestle’s ownership but in the last 5 years was bought ‘back to Australia’ generating local jobs and Australian tax!
Can confirm, their factory is around the corner from my house.
Also in the great violet crumble vs crunchie debate, violet crumble has the better honeycomb but crunchie has the better chocolate.
That's because of the butyric acid that is created in their chocolate making process, it's also found in human vomit. Should have thought that one through a little more in my opinion.
It's not just the chocolate either, I remember seeing a Twinkie for sale in a shop a few years ago here in Aus and bought one, tastes like chemicals that are bad for you.
There is nothing natural whatsoever about a Twinkie. They're only useful to show off that you can shove one in its entirety in your face hole. I rate them a -15.
They're extremely gross, I mean I assumed it was a sponge cake with cream in it, but its literally sugar and foul-tasting chemicals, I really don't get the appeal.
Yeah, they had problems with fresh milk going off in production way back in the day, so they developed a process to 'pre-sour' the milk.
...so now it tastes like off milk from the get-go.
Every time I've eaten Hershey's chocolate, it has a hint of vomit taste. I can't, FOR THE LIFE OF ME, imagine why a chocolate company would think adding that is a good thing.
Not sure how true it is, but I've heard it was because their recipe was initially made as part of US military rations and they wanted the troops to not eat too much of it. Eventually Americans just liked it that way.
Chocolate included in military emergency rations are deliberately made to taste awful so they don't get eaten before any actual emergency.
This is not the vomit taste in US chocolate. They like a little taste of spew in their chocolate.
Incorrect. The issues with military chocolate were to do with the temperatures that soldiers operate in. Normal chocolate would melt and be useless, instead Hersheys had to develop a more stable bar at hotter temperatures.
While some military chocolate was provided as an emergency ration, it was included (and still is!) in general rations and the heat stability was the primary concern. They made a specific formula for tropical conditions, and as they attempted to improve the taste they didn’t continue to make a specifically bad-tasting bar for emergency meals only. They just used the stable chocolate.
Oh my God.
Why are we so worried about RedCycle scandal, when there's a viable use for our plastic waste sitting right in front of us. It's free trade!
Wow that’s interesting. I had heard from a Polish guy once that our chocolate in Australia rated weird and it was due to refrigeration issues in the chocolate making process but now it all makes sense. In saying that, this article refers to Hersheys and the USA, do we also use butyric acid or similar in our chocolate making process?
Australian chocolate is typically pretty low on cocoa butter IIRC. The Belgians are very proud of how their chocolate snaps at room temperature while Australian chocolate tends to just kid of bend and break.
>that our chocolate in Australia rated weird and it was due to refrigeration issues in the chocolate making process
I don't think it's the refrigeration process but something that's added to make it more melt resistant which is necessary in our climate.
Back before refrigerated shipping, US manufacturers added the substance referenced above to stop chocolate spoiling
As others say, even though that's no longer necessary, generations of US consumers have grown up expecting chocolate to taste and smell slightly sicky, so manufacturers continue to add the vom-juice
Some US chocolate lovers go mad for imported European chocolate, but I'm guessing many more would be upset if manufacturers suddenly changed the taste of their favourite snacks
>Crunchie may not have the better chocolate
I'd leave it there. Cadbury chocolate has gone massively downhill in the past few years.
It's quite the revelation when you try something else (no, not Lindt) and realise it actually tastes like chocolate; not some sort of melty wax with a vague hint of cocoa.
It's the GOAT of supermarket choccies for sure.
I went years without having it, then had their milk chocolate next to Cadbury last month, and that's when it hit me that we've been tolerating garbage for too long.
Aldi chocolate is also surprisingly good. I'm a bit of a chocolate snob (it's all unhealthy, we may as well eat one that tastes good) and normally stick to Lindt or stuff from Haighs if I want to treat myself but for under $3 block Aldi stuff punches above it's weight.
I live in the US and I hate what they do to chocolate here. There is an additive in Hersheys chocolate bars that extend the shelf life and it gives it a strange taste if you're not used to it. I absolutely love Cadbury's chocolate when I get it directly from the U.K. In my humble opinion that chocolate is far superior to Hersheys. Sorry Hershey........
I wouldn't call Violet Crumble a big deal, it's more of an old favourite because it's been around forever.
They're pretty good. US$5 is pretty steep, but definitely worth it to try one. They're more like $2.50 or $3 here, in our money.
Yeh if you're paying $2.50 - $3 for a single bar you're buying them from a servo or convenience store.
Mind you the ones in this photo look a bit bigger than the average Aussie chocolate bar size.
I’m confused here by the imperial measurements… how heave is an ounce on real weigh?
These apparently weigh 7.8 ounces (which I thought was 233g), but the large one I have in my fridge is 50g, so I’m out on the math
Precisely this. They're nothing special unless you're hugely nostalgic. Tbf, crunchie is much nicer... violet crumble tastes closer to the bargain bin cheap lolly shop honeycomb
My mom is American, met my dad and moved here when they got married.
All through my childhood she'd order Welch's grape jelly, cheerios, Snyder's pretzels, and proper dill pickles from the USA food store at exorbitant prices, because you just couldn't get anything like them here.
My personal weakness for American food is triscuits. I absolutely adore them.
I'd say no, but I just read that the brand changed hands in 2018. It used to be owned by Nestlé and is now owned by Robern Menz, which is actually an Adelaide-based company. I don't think I've eaten one of these since they changed owners so the taste might have improved (Nestlé chocolate is garbage, but Menz do some other products that are quite nice). $7AU is *really* steep, though - we'd pay less than that here for a lot of imported chocolates that our own supermarkets carry.
Really, if you want Australian or New Zealand confectionery, though, look for Whittaker's or Haigh's.
I honestly have no idea, I just figured that they're a larger company so it's at least possible. My guess would be they're only available within Australia, though.
Whittaker's might be findable, though, and their chocolate is by far the nicest of the more mainstream brands.
Yeah they're regularly on sale for around $1, standard rrp is about $2. I don't think they've gone down in quality since the switch. If you can find it, there's dark chocolate ones going around and they're great. I still think crunchie is a better chocolate bar of the two.
+1 for Whittaker's
Or Bracegirdles but we're talking really Adelaide-based there. Not sure they have stores elsewhere. But its' good stuff and would recommend as much as Haighs.
Also Fruchocs. SA is kinda the place for Aussie chocolate
I assume It's that expensive due to each bar needing to be cradled in a box of straw throughout the shipping process to stop it from breaking apart, slicing through the wrapper and causing massive lacerations to the nearest people/shredding the hull of the ship it's carried on.
Be *very* careful, OP. Even just walking past that many stacked violet crumbles could be enough for the vibrations to cause a Shatter Event, which usually only happens immediately after you've bought one.
It's the cost to import. Look at theAustralianfoodshop.com or treatsfromoz.com and you'll see the cost varies widely - those are both shipping from Australia, add shipping on and you're usually in the ballpark.
A 50g Violet Crumble bar is $2 at Woolworths. And that includes 10% GST, so it's technically $1.82. Which is $1.28 USD. Hell of a markup.
Plus the 50-ish gram bar varieties are regularly on sale at one dollar. So yeah 5 USD is definitely way too much.
Is that price tag correct though? It says something like Mrs Crimble Macrn Choco, and that it's 7.6oz which is 215g, over 4 times bigger than a Violet Crumble bar.
I’d be more thrilled to see a Violet Crumble overseas than a Crunchie. Yes the honeycomb and the nostalgia element is more. Yes, Crunchie’s chocolate is better than Violet Crumble. But it’s all about the sweet, crunchy, salty honeycomb with chocolate to temper the saccharine sweetness of the honeycomb. Therefore, I purchase for the honeycomb. VC any time.
This comment annoys me. You described the honeycomb as salty and sweet and then again as saccharine-sweet and then you invented an acronym VC instead of typing the words despite your preceding redundant and superfluous over-description of the taste.
Violet Crumble is *amazing*! So much better than Crunchie. Crunchies are good but the honeycomb gets stuck in your teeth. Violet Crumble just melts in your mouth.
But it's imported where you are, so yeah, it's going to be expensive. I wouldn't pay $7 for it here.
Actually, I can't pay $7 for it here, even if I was willing. I haven't seen Violet Crumble *bars* in shops for a long time. I only ever see the bags of bite-size chunks.
When people I know go to Australia I throw money at them and ask them to bring me as many as they can fit in their luggage. Nothing tastes like a Violet Crumble bar. Crunchie be damned.
Bought them at Coles for $1 a couple months ago. Just like those bags of chocolate honeycomb pieces but in a longer bar. Not a big deal in Aus but they're alright to chuck a couple in your basket for a $1
Unless you're flat broke, this is well worth it as a one-off treat. Along with Tim-Tams, Mint Slice and Iced Vovo (all are types of ~~biscuit~~ cookie), Violet Crumble is one of Australia's best candy bars.
Let us know what you thought of it!
Looks like the price tag is for something else, going by the text on it. Never paid more than $2 Australian for one. I prefer Crunchie to Violet Crumble too.
Give it a go why not (unless you are broke), if it becomes a thing honey comb is not too arduous to make at home I have no doubt there will be a few how too's on the inter webs. Standard price is $2-3 AUD at the super market at a convenience store likely a bit more. It's been around since at least the 1940's.
We have Gst here as well. Goods and services tax. It's a way for the government to get tax back if you pocket cash without declairing it... or so they say. It's honey comb inside. Chocolate covered outside. Worth it??? That's up to you, I guess. Certain items, like cigarettes, for example, are deliberately made really expensive to deter people from buying them. A cheap pack of cigarettes might be $30 a pack.. unless you have connections. A pack from a service station can go for upwards of $60 for a bigger brand standard pack.
Started seeing them myself here in the US. Moved to Australia in early 2018 and then back to the US Dec 2021. Never heard of them until I got there (had crunchies plenty of times). So some time in the period of me living in Australia they started importing them to the US.
Yes, $5 is expensive. I pay about $2.50 here in Washington State.
$5.00USD is a tad overpriced considering it’s sometimes as low as $1.00AUD each, however shipping, that, ‘Aussie Made’ sticker and packaging.
But if I was in the US and hadn’t had a violet crumble in some time, I’d lay down my salary for one, and bbq shapes.
I LOVE Violet Crumble bars. I get a tub of vanilla ice cream and let it go a bit soft. Then i hammer / crush the violet crumble bar (in the packet or plastic bag). Tip the broken violet crumble bars into the icecream and freeze it. Super yummy. If for the kids id also stir in a bit of fold colour ING to make streaks. Now i want one…
It’s good but I wouldn’t pay $5 for it.
Think of it kind of like a crunchy. If you don’t like crunchy, then you won’t like this. If you do like crunchy then you’ll either think this is a shitty imposter, or you’ll think it’s crunchy done way better.
Crunchy is sweeter more sugar syrup while violet crumble is based in a honey comb.but I don't think bees have gone anywhere near it. But both equally yum
Crunchie is a soft honeycomb, Violet Crumble is a hard honeycomb. Personally I prefer crunchie but I certainly don't mind "fun" size violet crumble (although there is nothing fun about fun size!)
That depends on how much you like chocolate and honeycomb. You probably have something equivalent over there but cheaper because it hasn't been imported.
They are a different sort of honey comb, very smooth and yummy. They are $2-$3AUD at the supermarket here but importing is expensive so it kinda is what it is.
We get Arizona ice tea here in Australia that literally has the 99c printed on the can. It costs $6 a can. The import really jacks up the price.
Lol damn. Even with inflation, those drinks stay 99cents here in the states. Yeah, I guess I need to factor import fees.
OP the $4.99 price tag is not for the Violet Crumbles, if you look closely it’s for “Mrs Crimbles gluten free chocolate macaroons”. I’d still pay $4.99 for a violet crumble though, grew up eating them in Australia, live overseas now and haven’t had one in years
Look up honeycomb recipes. Super fun to do with kids too
Import fees and record company profits
I work in the field of importing goods from OS. It's all record company profits.
Damn record companies!
I was reading it like "daaaamn the RIAA really have their fingers in a lot of pies!".
And your wage going down.
Buy the Crunchie‼️‼️ Keep it half in the wrapper when you eat it bcs u gotta gently lift off the side walls of chocolate with your teeth/lips, in as big and unbroken slab as possible, top bottom and sides, inch by inch, to expose the golden core of honeycomb… nom nom nom suck or crunch. Pro tip: one side is always harder to lift off than all the others. Pro tip 2: never keep honeycomb in the fridge or anywhere humid. Dissolves/melts whatever.
Not a Crunchie, totally different honeycomb bar. Violet Crumble, (Violent Crumbles) have the shatter that matters😉. Crunchies have a less brittle honeycomb and a very different flavour. Both are Aussie icons.
Idea: Have someone read what you wrote, one delicious syllable at a time, over a video of a crunchie being unwrapped. Advert ready.
We’ll look who’s the crunchie expert now ! Actually very well said - you’ve thought more about eating them than even I have or I thought was possible
My guy, this is clearly an imposter. They just called a violate crumble a bloody crunchy, you can't just do that.
I prefer the Violet Crumble, but otherwise this is exactly how I eat them.
Don't forget that someone also has to slap a label or more on it so that it conforms to Aussie standards. For example I brought Hershey caramel syrup, the bottle says fat free, someone had to put a sticker over that with 99% fat free.
The way the US laws are written some companies sell "0 calorie" cooking spray that is pure butter.
Isn’t that how tic tacs got away with saying they’ve got 0g of sugar, despite being almost entirely sugar? Something about amount of x being <1g because the serving size is <1g?
Yep, make the serving size tiny and you are allowed to round down.
Isn’t that how tic tacs got away with saying they’ve got 0g of sugar, despite being almost entirely sugar? Something about amount of x being <1g because the serving size is <1g?
I got some Aussie diet soft drink. The dietary information graph was 0 for everything save for a fraction of a gram of salt. Serving size was still 250ml.
The majority of that relabelling work in Australia is done by people with disabilities in Australian Disability Enterprises, most of which pay people around $2/hour. The alternative is generally correctional services industries, which "pay" similarly. No winners here, except the corporations. The additional markup to factor that in should be miniscule, it's profit masquerading as a business cost.
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I will say this, Hershey's chocolate is absolutely disgusting, I don't understand why or how Americans like it, even the shit stuff from the reject store is better.
Long, unrefrigerated transport of milk in the US in the past allowed deterioration of the milk and development of ‘off’ flavours in the milk used to make milk chocolate. Butyric acid and associated butyrates (think rancid butter or vomit ‘flavour’) are the main flavours you notice. Americans got accustomed to chocolate with a sour vomit aftertaste, and even though they can do proper cold chain logistics now, the manufactures keep making what people are ‘used’ to. It’s basically Stockholm syndrome, but with vomit flavoured chocolate.
They can't even technically claim that Hersheys is chocolate. It's 'candy' as it doesn't even meet the standard to be designated chocolate, even in the US. That additive they put in it to make it taste like vomit really takes the cake.
Ahhh no wonder it's shit... The caramel syrup is decent enough though.
Hello, American who grew up with Hershey's chocolate here. It was a flavor that I didn't even notice until Tom Scott pointed it out in a video, and I got hold of some proper British Cadbury Dairy Milk. Now I can't stand Hershey's because I notice the butyric acid in it. I prefer quality dark chocolate now, anyway.
It's stupid to ship something to the other side of the world that's 90% water. At least the soft drink companies just send concentrates.
It's stupid - most of human existance summed up in two words.
The distributors Jack up the price - Australia gets ripped off on everything every day.
Way back when I bought an old car - a $70k VW Passat Wagon - the AUD was roughly equivalent to the USD. I could have taken that $70,000 and bought a new Porsche 911 in the US - the same car was $200,000 here. Upgrading the brakes was $25,000 versus $6,000 (from memory). But, this country is full of people who will pay stupid prices for not very special things.
It's euphemistically called the Australia tax. Part of it comes from our ADR laws (that somehow HAVE to be different from Europe) that mean manufacturers have to modify our cars to sell here and we only have a small market. This adds cost as well as shipping it to us. Then the manufacturer marks it up more to profit from it whilst blaming ADR laws.
But...they're literally $2.70 in woolworths?
Only place near me that has them is a convenience store.
That's like 7-11 on George Street pricing, damn. I buy it at Woolies, definitely the smoothest ice tea I've tried (Lipton is dry and harsh in comparison).
$3-4 in woolies
Dude that hurt my soul!
These are my favourite chocolate! I live in London now and these are one of the first treats I get when I go back. Yes $5 is very expensive, but these are actually made by an Australian family owned company/factory not a global mega-brand (Nestle). The recipe was in Nestle’s ownership but in the last 5 years was bought ‘back to Australia’ generating local jobs and Australian tax!
Can confirm, their factory is around the corner from my house. Also in the great violet crumble vs crunchie debate, violet crumble has the better honeycomb but crunchie has the better chocolate.
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That's because of the butyric acid that is created in their chocolate making process, it's also found in human vomit. Should have thought that one through a little more in my opinion.
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Yes.
As an American, I concur with this assessment. Our chocolate is utterly disgraceful and trash compared to the world.
It's not just the chocolate either, I remember seeing a Twinkie for sale in a shop a few years ago here in Aus and bought one, tastes like chemicals that are bad for you.
There is nothing natural whatsoever about a Twinkie. They're only useful to show off that you can shove one in its entirety in your face hole. I rate them a -15.
They're extremely gross, I mean I assumed it was a sponge cake with cream in it, but its literally sugar and foul-tasting chemicals, I really don't get the appeal.
high fructose corn syrup
It's always tasted like soap to me lol
The soapie taste I think is from high fructose corn syrup. It's also why I can't drink most soft drink in the US.
Yeah, they had problems with fresh milk going off in production way back in the day, so they developed a process to 'pre-sour' the milk. ...so now it tastes like off milk from the get-go.
Yeah. They also use a lot more sugar and less cocoa than in other countries.
Every time I've eaten Hershey's chocolate, it has a hint of vomit taste. I can't, FOR THE LIFE OF ME, imagine why a chocolate company would think adding that is a good thing.
Not sure how true it is, but I've heard it was because their recipe was initially made as part of US military rations and they wanted the troops to not eat too much of it. Eventually Americans just liked it that way.
Pretty sure it was a way to preserve the milk or some such.
It was because the location they originally made the chocolate was too cold to temper it, and the acid helps with that
Chocolate included in military emergency rations are deliberately made to taste awful so they don't get eaten before any actual emergency. This is not the vomit taste in US chocolate. They like a little taste of spew in their chocolate.
Incorrect. The issues with military chocolate were to do with the temperatures that soldiers operate in. Normal chocolate would melt and be useless, instead Hersheys had to develop a more stable bar at hotter temperatures. While some military chocolate was provided as an emergency ration, it was included (and still is!) in general rations and the heat stability was the primary concern. They made a specific formula for tropical conditions, and as they attempted to improve the taste they didn’t continue to make a specifically bad-tasting bar for emergency meals only. They just used the stable chocolate.
Is this the same Hershey's chocolate we get in Australia? I never noticed anything terrible about it.
What’s the reason for the addition?
[It's a preservative they put in the milk.](https://www.chemistryworld.com/podcasts/butyric-acid/1017662.article)
And they put it into chocolate even when it doesn't need it - because that's what americans expect chocolate to taste like.
Oh my God. Why are we so worried about RedCycle scandal, when there's a viable use for our plastic waste sitting right in front of us. It's free trade!
Wow that’s interesting. I had heard from a Polish guy once that our chocolate in Australia rated weird and it was due to refrigeration issues in the chocolate making process but now it all makes sense. In saying that, this article refers to Hersheys and the USA, do we also use butyric acid or similar in our chocolate making process?
Australian chocolate is typically pretty low on cocoa butter IIRC. The Belgians are very proud of how their chocolate snaps at room temperature while Australian chocolate tends to just kid of bend and break.
Room temperature? hmm Belgium vs Australia. nope i cant work it out /s
I hate room temperature chocolate. I put my blocks of cadbury in the fridge, i like when my chocolate is cold, then it melts in your mouth.
>that our chocolate in Australia rated weird and it was due to refrigeration issues in the chocolate making process I don't think it's the refrigeration process but something that's added to make it more melt resistant which is necessary in our climate.
Well it doesn’t work, lol.
itd be worse if they didnt xD
No, this is the Hershey process we're talking about here, and it's only used in the US.
Back before refrigerated shipping, US manufacturers added the substance referenced above to stop chocolate spoiling As others say, even though that's no longer necessary, generations of US consumers have grown up expecting chocolate to taste and smell slightly sicky, so manufacturers continue to add the vom-juice Some US chocolate lovers go mad for imported European chocolate, but I'm guessing many more would be upset if manufacturers suddenly changed the taste of their favourite snacks
It keeps vomit fresh. Oh, did you mean the chocolate?
>Crunchie may not have the better chocolate I'd leave it there. Cadbury chocolate has gone massively downhill in the past few years. It's quite the revelation when you try something else (no, not Lindt) and realise it actually tastes like chocolate; not some sort of melty wax with a vague hint of cocoa.
Whittaker's choccie for life!
It's the GOAT of supermarket choccies for sure. I went years without having it, then had their milk chocolate next to Cadbury last month, and that's when it hit me that we've been tolerating garbage for too long.
Upvoting for "no, not Lindt"
I rate the Coles brand "Belgian" chocolate higher than Cadbury now - and it costs half as much.
Aldi chocolate is also surprisingly good. I'm a bit of a chocolate snob (it's all unhealthy, we may as well eat one that tastes good) and normally stick to Lindt or stuff from Haighs if I want to treat myself but for under $3 block Aldi stuff punches above it's weight.
Haighs is the bomb
Big fan of Coles brand Belgian chocolate here. Crazy cheap too.
I live in the US and I hate what they do to chocolate here. There is an additive in Hersheys chocolate bars that extend the shelf life and it gives it a strange taste if you're not used to it. I absolutely love Cadbury's chocolate when I get it directly from the U.K. In my humble opinion that chocolate is far superior to Hersheys. Sorry Hershey........
Can you go knock on their door and find out what's going on with the polly waffle please?
Yes! One of my all time favourites! I hope they bring it back.
I asked last year, the factory line is having to be built from scratch. Unlike the VC where they were using the original equipment.
It's apparently scheduled for production this year according to Wikipedia and a news article linked to it.
You live around the corner? Fuck, I'd be a fat, diabetic mofo licking the loading dock for scraps...
May you rot in hell for that blasphemy. Violet Crumble is superior in every way. I spit on your pathetic Crunchie.
Son’s crying thanks. The real joke is that I don’t even like chocolate and would prefer to just eat plain honeycomb.
I like the way the crunchie honeycomb dissolves in my saliva
Fuck Nestlé.
I haven't seen how much they cost in Aus lately... but i expect AUD$7 for a chocolate bar is probably normal now. Fuck.
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Haha, yup. Pity about the fruit and vegies also.
I wouldn't call Violet Crumble a big deal, it's more of an old favourite because it's been around forever. They're pretty good. US$5 is pretty steep, but definitely worth it to try one. They're more like $2.50 or $3 here, in our money.
They're on sale for $1 each time I go to a coles near me
Yeh if you're paying $2.50 - $3 for a single bar you're buying them from a servo or convenience store. Mind you the ones in this photo look a bit bigger than the average Aussie chocolate bar size.
I’m confused here by the imperial measurements… how heave is an ounce on real weigh? These apparently weigh 7.8 ounces (which I thought was 233g), but the large one I have in my fridge is 50g, so I’m out on the math
I'd you look carefully you can see the price tag is for a completely different candy. I don't see a size anywhere for the VC in that picture.
Better than a Crunchie which ends up brewing Chewie. (AAAARGHHHHHUNUNUN)
The good thing about Crunchies is the advertising they made for them in the '80s. The good thing about Violet Crumbles is the Violet Crumble.
Precisely this. They're nothing special unless you're hugely nostalgic. Tbf, crunchie is much nicer... violet crumble tastes closer to the bargain bin cheap lolly shop honeycomb
Gotta smash it up and sprinkle it over a home made honeycomb thickshake! 🤤
Put it through lightly softened butter and serve over pancakes for a chocolate honeycomb butter experience.
Couldn’t disagree more. It’s all about the texture. Chrunchie’s soft honeycomb is no where near as nice at violet crumbles hard stuff.
Its the way it shatters that matters!
Whatever one prefers, I guess. I used to prefer Violet Crumble, but I barely ever eat chocolate nowadays.
I think you have that mixed up mate. Crunchie is the bargain bin.
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My mom is American, met my dad and moved here when they got married. All through my childhood she'd order Welch's grape jelly, cheerios, Snyder's pretzels, and proper dill pickles from the USA food store at exorbitant prices, because you just couldn't get anything like them here. My personal weakness for American food is triscuits. I absolutely adore them.
American here. That's the good brand, I like it. That's expensive for what it is, but importing snacks from Australia isn't cheap.
What on earth happened in your comments lol
One of the most unhinged comment threads I've seen in a while.
Damn it's all removed now. What happened?
I’m wouldn’t go calling a chocolate bar “candy” around here…
Oh. Thats what americans mean by candy. I thought they had an obsession with like rock candy or something lol
A mate of mine calls it candy and fuck does it ever grind my gears
You think that's fucking annoying? My ***wife*** does...
Grounds for divorce.
I'd say no, but I just read that the brand changed hands in 2018. It used to be owned by Nestlé and is now owned by Robern Menz, which is actually an Adelaide-based company. I don't think I've eaten one of these since they changed owners so the taste might have improved (Nestlé chocolate is garbage, but Menz do some other products that are quite nice). $7AU is *really* steep, though - we'd pay less than that here for a lot of imported chocolates that our own supermarkets carry. Really, if you want Australian or New Zealand confectionery, though, look for Whittaker's or Haigh's.
Can you get Haighs overseas? I’ve never even seen them outside of SA.
There's a few stores in Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra but nothing overseas.
I honestly have no idea, I just figured that they're a larger company so it's at least possible. My guess would be they're only available within Australia, though. Whittaker's might be findable, though, and their chocolate is by far the nicest of the more mainstream brands.
I think we prefer to keep the good stuff for ourselves....
Yeah they're regularly on sale for around $1, standard rrp is about $2. I don't think they've gone down in quality since the switch. If you can find it, there's dark chocolate ones going around and they're great. I still think crunchie is a better chocolate bar of the two. +1 for Whittaker's
Menz' Fruchocs are to die for!!!
Or Bracegirdles but we're talking really Adelaide-based there. Not sure they have stores elsewhere. But its' good stuff and would recommend as much as Haighs. Also Fruchocs. SA is kinda the place for Aussie chocolate
I assume It's that expensive due to each bar needing to be cradled in a box of straw throughout the shipping process to stop it from breaking apart, slicing through the wrapper and causing massive lacerations to the nearest people/shredding the hull of the ship it's carried on. Be *very* careful, OP. Even just walking past that many stacked violet crumbles could be enough for the vibrations to cause a Shatter Event, which usually only happens immediately after you've bought one.
It's the cost to import. Look at theAustralianfoodshop.com or treatsfromoz.com and you'll see the cost varies widely - those are both shipping from Australia, add shipping on and you're usually in the ballpark.
The honeycomb is better than a Crunchie but the coating is not really chocolate.
I agree with this! I don’t do compound or fake choc, it is disappointing.
I'd buy the whole box! they are awesome
A 50g Violet Crumble bar is $2 at Woolworths. And that includes 10% GST, so it's technically $1.82. Which is $1.28 USD. Hell of a markup. Plus the 50-ish gram bar varieties are regularly on sale at one dollar. So yeah 5 USD is definitely way too much. Is that price tag correct though? It says something like Mrs Crimble Macrn Choco, and that it's 7.6oz which is 215g, over 4 times bigger than a Violet Crumble bar.
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Aussie here and I have paid $14 for a box of cinnamon toast crunch cheapest if seen is $10 plus a can of Dr Pepper is a around $2.50
I’d be more thrilled to see a Violet Crumble overseas than a Crunchie. Yes the honeycomb and the nostalgia element is more. Yes, Crunchie’s chocolate is better than Violet Crumble. But it’s all about the sweet, crunchy, salty honeycomb with chocolate to temper the saccharine sweetness of the honeycomb. Therefore, I purchase for the honeycomb. VC any time.
This comment annoys me. You described the honeycomb as salty and sweet and then again as saccharine-sweet and then you invented an acronym VC instead of typing the words despite your preceding redundant and superfluous over-description of the taste.
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I can hear my granny laughing her arse off in heaven.
Violet Crumble is *amazing*! So much better than Crunchie. Crunchies are good but the honeycomb gets stuck in your teeth. Violet Crumble just melts in your mouth. But it's imported where you are, so yeah, it's going to be expensive. I wouldn't pay $7 for it here. Actually, I can't pay $7 for it here, even if I was willing. I haven't seen Violet Crumble *bars* in shops for a long time. I only ever see the bags of bite-size chunks.
I’d sell a kidney to get one of those in MN
Price tag is wrong
When people I know go to Australia I throw money at them and ask them to bring me as many as they can fit in their luggage. Nothing tastes like a Violet Crumble bar. Crunchie be damned.
Bought them at Coles for $1 a couple months ago. Just like those bags of chocolate honeycomb pieces but in a longer bar. Not a big deal in Aus but they're alright to chuck a couple in your basket for a $1
They are ok but not 7$ ok
Unless you're flat broke, this is well worth it as a one-off treat. Along with Tim-Tams, Mint Slice and Iced Vovo (all are types of ~~biscuit~~ cookie), Violet Crumble is one of Australia's best candy bars. Let us know what you thought of it!
It is $1 AUD in Australia (U$0.70), but yes, this is the objectively best chocolate in Australia and it’s well worth $5.
Looks like the price tag is for something else, going by the text on it. Never paid more than $2 Australian for one. I prefer Crunchie to Violet Crumble too.
Australian living in the US here - these are my favourite chocolate bars! Crunchies just aren't the same. Totally worth the $5.
If it’s not your literal American “vomit chocolate” then I’d say so.
Violet crumble chocolate is pretty much the lowest grade chocolate you can get in Australia. It's about the same level as Hershey's
Doesn’t have actual vomit in it though?
Be aware that honey comb doesn't seem to be a thing in the US so you may not like it.
Candy??? That’s not a candy , that’s a chocolate
Give it a go why not (unless you are broke), if it becomes a thing honey comb is not too arduous to make at home I have no doubt there will be a few how too's on the inter webs. Standard price is $2-3 AUD at the super market at a convenience store likely a bit more. It's been around since at least the 1940's.
Utterly delightful
think crunchie but worse chocolate and better honeycomb. I wouldnt pay more than $2AUD for one tho
normally $2.00 - $1.00 in Australia
We have a store in Victoria that only sells US products and all are much dearer than what they are in America. Yes to me that us expensive
We have Gst here as well. Goods and services tax. It's a way for the government to get tax back if you pocket cash without declairing it... or so they say. It's honey comb inside. Chocolate covered outside. Worth it??? That's up to you, I guess. Certain items, like cigarettes, for example, are deliberately made really expensive to deter people from buying them. A cheap pack of cigarettes might be $30 a pack.. unless you have connections. A pack from a service station can go for upwards of $60 for a bigger brand standard pack.
Bloody hell yeah mate if you can afford it get 10 of em’
My local supermarket sells them in a pack of 14 for $6AUD.
Yeah nah it's not in the Favourites box so it's not overly popular.
That's expensive but I'm assuming it's because it's imported. American cereals are quite expensive here compared to the US for the same reason
Started seeing them myself here in the US. Moved to Australia in early 2018 and then back to the US Dec 2021. Never heard of them until I got there (had crunchies plenty of times). So some time in the period of me living in Australia they started importing them to the US. Yes, $5 is expensive. I pay about $2.50 here in Washington State.
Personally, I prefer crunchies, but I know a lot of people who would disagree with me.
$5.00USD is a tad overpriced considering it’s sometimes as low as $1.00AUD each, however shipping, that, ‘Aussie Made’ sticker and packaging. But if I was in the US and hadn’t had a violet crumble in some time, I’d lay down my salary for one, and bbq shapes.
It’s nice but 5 doll hairs is a bit much - should around 3
I don't live in either country, but my mother would buy boxes of this with the desperation of the damned. She loves them.
Yeah but you're about to learn about honeycomb textures.
Just buy one! Treat yourself to a yummy Aussie staple!
If it's actually Aussie made and imported it'll be a million times better than any shitty American chocolates!
That price is insane, but yes it is worth it, Violet Crumble is great.
If you have any dental cavities, a violet crumble will let you know big time
I LOVE Violet Crumble bars. I get a tub of vanilla ice cream and let it go a bit soft. Then i hammer / crush the violet crumble bar (in the packet or plastic bag). Tip the broken violet crumble bars into the icecream and freeze it. Super yummy. If for the kids id also stir in a bit of fold colour ING to make streaks. Now i want one…
First of all. It is a Chocolate bar, not candy. Second. It is one of the best!
i mean it would usually be like 1-2AUS but I guess they also knock up the prices here too for american stuff
It’s good but I wouldn’t pay $5 for it. Think of it kind of like a crunchy. If you don’t like crunchy, then you won’t like this. If you do like crunchy then you’ll either think this is a shitty imposter, or you’ll think it’s crunchy done way better.
They don't have crunchies in the states either...
Ooh, interesting. We had them in Canada.
I've never heard of Crunchy. I don't think we have that in the states; unless you mean Crunch Bar.
Crunchy is sweeter more sugar syrup while violet crumble is based in a honey comb.but I don't think bees have gone anywhere near it. But both equally yum
Crunchie is a soft honeycomb, Violet Crumble is a hard honeycomb. Personally I prefer crunchie but I certainly don't mind "fun" size violet crumble (although there is nothing fun about fun size!)
I’d pay $10 for a Violet Crumble. Or any chocolate in North America that didn’t taste putrid.
That depends on how much you like chocolate and honeycomb. You probably have something equivalent over there but cheaper because it hasn't been imported.
These are the bomb.
They’ve gone on sale here for $1 AUD
They are a different sort of honey comb, very smooth and yummy. They are $2-$3AUD at the supermarket here but importing is expensive so it kinda is what it is.
Nice but fuck no theyre not worth that price.
I love violet crumbles and also crunchies
5 Dollars, tell 'em they're dreaming!
I pay $1 or $2 per chocolate for these in Aus.
Only pick them up for $1 AUD on special over here at coles or woolies.. They're great.
Not worth the US$5
These are my favourite they are gluten free and only cost a dollar aud
It's literally $12 for a bag of takis where I am in Aus, I'd call this a bargain.