Toffee Crisp
Template:Short description Template:Nutritional valueScript error: No such module "Distinguish". The Toffee Crisp is a British candy bar and former chocolate bar created in 1963. Currently manufactured in Poland, the brand has been advertised using the slogan "somebody somewhere is having a Toffee Crisp" and has spawned multiple derivatives and tie-ins.
History
The Toffee Crisp was invented by John Henderson, the great-nephew of John Mackintosh.[1] Inspired by a cake his wife made for their children, early versions featured puffed rice and chocolate cake; subsequent versions comprised caramel, crisped cereal, and chocolate.[2] First made at a factory in Halifax,[2] the brand had moved to Castleford in West Yorkshire by 2010[3] before moving to Fawdon[4] and then to Poland in the early 2020s.[4] In 2025, following a round of skimpflation caused by poor cocoa harvests,[5] Nestlé replaced some of the bar's cocoa solids and milk solids with vegetable fat, which meant neither met the 20% figure required to call itself chocolate under UK law.[6]
The brand launched clusters and biscuit versions in 1999,[7][8] ice cream bars in 2004,[9] cereal in 2014,[10] and limited edition coconut, honeycomb, and orange flavour derivatives in 2001, 2015, and 2021.[7][11][12] The brand has also been used as a Burger King ice cream Fusion in 2015[13] and in Krispy Kreme doughnuts in 2021.[14] McDonald's brought out lines of McFlurries featuring the brand in 2017,[15][16] 2025,[17] and again in 2025 as an emergency replacement following quality control failures with the Caramel Loaded McFlurry.[18]
Early advertising used the line "somebody somewhere is having a Toffee Crisp";[2][19] Richard Osman investigated the claim for his 2017 book ''The World Cup of Everything'' and found himself willing to accept it.[19] A 1995 advert featuring the product being transformed into several cartoon-style objects including a pistol and a noose spawned thirty complaints to the Independent Television Commission, who declined to investigate.[20] The brand subsequently made adverts involving a spoof of the Japanese game show Endurance[21] and adverts comprising angry people being placated by eating a Toffee Crisp;[8][22] its coconut derivative was advertised using a combover in the shape of a coconut husk.[7]
In 2011, the South African newspaper Pretoria News reported that the candy bars could be found on local supermarket shelves despite not being intended for that market.[23] Two years later, Jim'll Paint It featured a three legged Toffee Crisp holding a mushroom and half a wasp[24][25] and Nestlé's Fawdon factory celebrated the brand's 50th birthday by manufacturing a 10 kilogram version.[26] Since 2024, bars can also be bought as part of a Big Biscuit Box.[27]
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