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.
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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 ?
When last did you hear about a caravan,it was als a chocolate upon a tyime and seem as if the new “PS chocolate”as far as I can remember replaced the old lad “caravan”!!!I think it changed around 94 when apartheid ended and so they’ve also killed poor caravan and as name changes went into action this old granny became “PS” lmfao
Hi Chris,
I remember the Caravan chocolate bar very well as it was a favourite of mine when younger. It was originally manufactured by Rowntree’s which was then of course taken over by Nestle’. The PS Bar is made by Cadbury’s and is nothing at all like the old Caravan from what I remember as far as the taste and textures are concerned and was as far as I’m concerned oh so much more delicious! The bar was not very thick either but had alternating layers of chocolate, wafer and caramel and seemed to be a lot more chewy than a PS Bar however you can’t discount the effect a little nostalgia may have in enhancing the overall memories either.
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.
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!!
IS it unhealthy to eat more than 5 Tex bars a day
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.
Tex Bar is not a copy of Time Out. Tex Bar is a good chocolate that’s been around for decades (formerly Rowntree when it tasted better) and tastes and looks a whole helluva lot better than the crappy Time Out.
It here anywhere in the UK where one can buy Tex Bar chocolate. I normally get mine from SA.
Could you tell me a bit more information about subscriptions?
hi
can u please tell me what happen to caravan bar.
it was the best chocoalte eva
did they stop making it
please let me know
tex………….. still mmy favourite
For the answer on the Tex chocolate bar I brought two at the Matilda service station Mango Hill Queensland on the 27/10/11 and really enjoyed them.They were the time I brought them like a big size time-out.Someone should contact Nestle`s and find out.