You may not realize this, but you couldn’t buy Crunch for a little while; in 2018, Nestle sold Crunch to Ferrero, who pulled it off the shelves so that they could “reformulate” it.
Well, it’s back, and either I’m remembering Crunch being better than it was, or it’s gone down in quality. Which is weird; you’d think the jump from Nestle to Ferrero (the makers of Nutella, Ferrero Rocher, and many other delicious things) would be a clear upgrade. Alas.
Still, it’s not bad. It’s also not “good” per se; the chocolate is fairly bottom-of-the-barrel, with a generic sweetness and not a whole lot going on in the flavour department, and even the crispy rice is a bit more anemic than you’d expect (it’s mildly crispy, but the texture isn’t quite there).
Also, this is purely psychological, but I miss the old design of the bar, with the big embossed “Crunch” lettering. The new segmented bar is boring in comparison.
And yet… I mostly enjoyed it. The chocolate has a nice creaminess, and while the rice doesn’t bring the assertive crunch you’re looking for in a bar called Crunch, it still has enough of that creamy/crispy contrast to be satisfying. If I didn’t have nostalgia for the old Crunch bar my opinion on this would probably be a bit lower, but I do, so here we are. I didn’t particularly like it at first, but it (mostly) grew on me.
Manufactured by: Ferrero
Nutritional info (1 bar, 43.9 grams): 230 calories, 12 grams of fat (8 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat), 5 mg of cholesterol, 60 mg of sodium, 29 grams of carbohydrates, 1 gram of fibre, 24 grams of sugar, 2 grams of protein.
Ingredients: milk chocolate (sugar, chocolate, cocoa butter, nonfat milk, milkfat, lactose, soy lecithin, natural flavour), crisped rice (rice flour, sugar, barley malt, salt).
Nestle Crunch was my favorite candy bar for years. When Nestle sold it years back it tastes completely different. The chocolate tastes cheap, such a disappointment.
I think those and 100 grand taste much improved. I love the new versions. Old ones were gross.
Oh my God. My wife bought.me a crunch and I loved them but wow what a gross taste. We were simply totally disappointed and will not be buying these ever again. Tasted like they put something g weird in them like burnt honey but my description of taste may not be right but the taste of this bar is not good at all.
It’s bad. I bought one out of the blue today, I used to love them as a kid in the 90s. And I thought it was rancid. My vote go back to the original
Ferrero ruined the Nestle Crunch bar as well as Butterfinger. Butterfinger was my fav for over 50 years. Many people complained and I believe they secretly changed it back so it was not quite as bad of a change. It is still not that great. Ferrero is probably trying to save money on the process or ingredients.