Nestlé Tex
Here we have another South African offering. According to the wrapper, it’s “Rich creamy Nestlé milk chocolate with Aero® centre and filled biscuit wafers.”
That’s a fairly lengthy description for a simple bar of chocolate, but once you bite into it, it becomes quite clear what this really is – an outright copy of Cadbury Time Out. Only the chocolate has been changed to protect the innocent.
This Nestlé bar shares most of the features of the bar it’s (apparently) copying. It’s quite light, quite crispy, reasonably chocolatey, and a little… boring. But having said that, this is the nicest of the South African chocolates I’ve tried so far – and also the first time I’ve seen Nestlé do anything interesting with Aero.
The chocolate in this particular bar did taste as though it was on the verge of going a little stale, but that’s not entirely surprising given it was manufactured over 10 months ago and has travelled half way around the world. It was still quiet edible, and quite satisfying with a nice cup of tea.
Posted by Dom on 13 May 2008 at 10:05 AM
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Filed in Reviews under aero, milk, neslte, south africa, wafer
November 14, 2008 : 9:06am
I cannot find exact dates, but Tex bar has been around for at least 40 years. Does anyone know how long Cadburys Time Out has existed ?
March 10, 2009 : 10:45am
What every happened to Tex Bar chocolate. It had caramel inside and the chocolate was beautiful. I think it was made in Qld. It would be over 30 years since I have since this chocolate bar around.
April 24, 2009 : 4:00pm
I am now 40 years old and a South African expat living in the UK and remember Tex and other “Nestle” products all available as a child. Tex was originally a Wilson-Rowntree countline along with the likes of Bar One, Caravan, Chocolate Log & Peppermint Crisp all of which totally outsold and outranked anything produced by Cadbury’s or Nestle’ at the time including Time Out which was not availalable in South Africa. In fact Wilson-Rowntree locked out the top 10 countlines in South Africa prior to the Nestle’ take over of Rowntree’s a decade or so ago now. Lest anyone forgets, even Kit Kat was a Rowntree product originally!!
May 30, 2009 : 9:33am
IS it unhealthy to eat more than 5 Tex bars a day
February 16, 2010 : 2:38pm
Timeout was released in 1992. Tex has been in SA for at least 40 years. They are a great snack chocolate, light and enjoyable. As said Tex, Aero, Kit-Kat, Chocolate Log and Bar-one by Rowntree and then Nestle were the best selling counter line chocolates. I am amazed that Nestle have not tested them out elsewhere, it would be a relatively cheap as the product is developed and if nothing else the around 1 million South Africans in UK will buy them.