The Long Fight For Coffee Crisp Freedom is over . . . .

[The Goon]

Very cool-I sent this to a friend in Ohio obsessed with Coffee Crisp and I made her day.

[Maritime Q-Scout]

and who says that Fox News reporting is anti-Canadian, and they don't report anything important

[Frank the Tank]

Originally Posted by MarchHare

Blue (and Molson Canadian) are both going through declining sales nationwide. Labatt has all but abandoned marketing Blue, and is instead focusing most of their advertising campaigns on Budweiser (which is brewed under license by InBev, the Belgian company that owns Labatt, Kokanee, Alexander Keiths and many other international beers). Bud and Coors Lite are the fastest growing brands in the country.

I weep for Canadian beer drinkers -- we brew some of the finest beers in the world, and we choose to drink American swill water instead.

The Canadian market share has taken a hit due to all of the importss now available, but it is turning back in the other direction slowly.

Not sure where you're getting we have all but abondoned Blue marketing. My job list definitely indicates the opposite. There is less Blue on TV and more of it in other places.....

[Bobblehead]

Originally Posted by Frank the Tank

There is less Blue on TV and more of it in other places.....

I recall being in university residence; the Molson or Labatt beer rep would drop by and leave piles of beer posters. I think 90% of male rooms in the dorms were covered by beer posters. I'm not sure, but I may still have a pile of them rolled up in my basement somewhere.

[Thunderball]

Originally Posted by MarchHare

I weep for Canadian beer drinkers -- we brew some of the finest beers in the world, and we choose to drink American swill water instead.

I don't know how you can weep for Canadian beer drinkers when Molson Canadian consumption is going down... that stuff is positively disgusting. It will be a great day when people stop linking Canadian patriotism to that sewer water. Labatt Blue is alright though.

As well, MGD, Coors and Bud (at least the stuff we drink) is brewed here, and is essentially Canadian beer anyway. None of it is imported from the States. Correct me if I am wrong, but of big US brands, only Michelob, maybe Busch and Sam Adams are brewed in the States and shipped up.

Regardless, for a truly good beer, we have to look to smaller breweries anyway, and they still have a strong niche and excellent product.

[CaramonLS]

I love coffee crisp, but hate coffee and or any coffee products apart from this candy.

Go figure.

[Hemi-Cuda]

Originally Posted by CaramonLS

I love coffee crisp, but hate coffee and or any coffee products apart from this candy.

Go figure.

same. my favorite candy bar ever since i was a kid, though i never drink coffee or other coffee flavored products. yet i really love the smell of coffee. weird how that works

[Shazam]

I loved it when I was in University. I'd have it with... Coffee!!

Yum yum.

[MarchHare]

As well, MGD, Coors and Bud (at least the stuff we drink) is brewed here, and is essentially Canadian beer anyway.

Sure, but they're still all foreign-owned. For anyone who wishes to support a Canadian-owned brewery, their options have become quite limited, even moreso if the purchase of Sleeman by Sapporo goes through (which it probably will).

Incidentally, many of the "import" brands (Guinness being one such example), are brewed in Canada under license rather than being actually imported.

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda

same. my favorite candy bar ever since i was a kid, though i never drink coffee or other coffee flavored products. yet i really love the smell of coffee. weird how that works

Maybe that's why you guys like Coffee Crisp because it has barely any smell in it. That's why I never liked this bar as a kid. It seemed like false advertising to me since I could never detect even the slightest hint of coffee.

New York - Homeless man Anthony Imperiale may not be familiar with the wine list at Manhattan's exclusive 21 club, but he critiques his free Coffee Crisp as though it were one of their rare vintages of Cabernet Sauvignon.

The Canadian chocolate bar is more crisp than coffee, he explained, while panhandling on the street outside New York's Madison Square Garden, In fact, Mr. Imperiale said he could hardly detect the subtle coffee taste. It's almost twice as thick as a Kit Kat, he noted, offering more chocolate bar for the money. And, finally, the chocolate layer that coats the tiny sample bar wasn't thick enough for his liking.

I hate to agree with a homeless man's taste but I agree! There's no Coffee in Coffee Crisp! I was always confused about that as a kid and I too assumed it was just a stupid name for a bar you're supposed to eat with or dip in coffee. Only now after decades of this feeling I look at the ingredient list and see coffee in it. Wow, I sure can't detect it.

[FlamesKickAss]

one chocolate bar that i know my dad would love to have in the states is eatmore. he loves them so every time i go down to visit i make a trip to costco to pick up a box of them. And on the coffee crisp note, I never liked it when I was younger but have aqcuired (sp?) a taste for the "nice lite snack"

[Shazam]

My fathers loves Oh Henrys. They sell like crap down there and are hard to find, so whenever he finds them he buys all of them.

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by FlamesKickAss

one chocolate bar that i know my dad would love to have in the states is eatmore. he loves them so every time i go down to visit i make a trip to costco to pick up a box of them. And on the coffee crisp note, I never liked it when I was younger but have aqcuired (sp?) a taste for the "nice lite snack"

Eat-More is heaven. I would only buy these when I went camping.

[Shazam]

My very first Eat-more was hard as a rock (it was old), so I didn't realize that it was supposed to be soft. I avoided them like the plague until I saw someone else eating one and noticed that it was soft. Went throught a lot of those in University.

Damn, I ate a lot of chocolate bars in University.

[JiriHrdina]

What ever happened to that chocolate bar that was dark chocolate and wafers. Two bars in one package ala Twix. Choclairs?

Those were tasty.

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by JiriHrdina

What ever happened to that chocolate bar that was dark chocolate and wafers. Two bars in one package ala Twix. Choclairs?

Those were tasty.

Or that Break Time! thingy.

[I-Hate-Hulse]

Originally Posted by JiriHrdina

What ever happened to that chocolate bar that was dark chocolate and wafers. Two bars in one package ala Twix. Choclairs?

Those were tasty.

Actually I believe they were "sinfully delicious".

[Resolute 14]

Originally Posted by CaramonLS

I love coffee crisp, but hate coffee and or any coffee products apart from this candy.

Go figure.

I'll one-up you: I hate hot coffee and drink only cold or frozen variants; love Coffee Crisp, but hate anything else that is solid and coffee flavoured.

Also, going off on a tangent, the problem with Coca Cola Blak is not the coffee, but the Coca Cola. Make it Pepsi, and that drink would rock.

[JimmytheT]

Originally Posted by MarchHare

Blue (and Molson Canadian) are both going through declining sales nationwide. Labatt has all but abandoned marketing Blue, and is instead focusing most of their advertising campaigns on Budweiser (which is brewed under license by InBev, the Belgian company that owns Labatt, Kokanee, Alexander Keiths and many other international beers). Bud and Coors Lite are the fastest growing brands in the country.

I weep for Canadian beer drinkers -- we brew some of the finest beers in the world, and we choose to drink American swill water instead.

The biggest lie we Canadian's perpetrate against ourselves is the bolded one. Most of the bigtime Canadian beers are just as swill watery as any major American brand.

[Nuje]

This is true. I'll drink the odd Canadian beer if I'm short on cash. Basically, Rickard's red, Sleeman original, or Sleeman Silver Creek (although it does have a hint of skunkishness a'la Heineken). Good beers?

Harp: An excellent one from Ireland
Newcastle: More UK goodness
Becks: From the land of the Deutsche
Zywiec: The beer of my heritage (Polish)
and the best of all of them?
Budweiser. Yes. Budweiser. The REAL Budweiser, not the urine the Americans sell. Sold in North America as Czechvar. Try this beer. It is bar none THE best beer I've ever had. Excellent pilsner goodness for which the recipe dates back to the 1300s or earlier. Made of real hops, not rice like the American stuff.