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| Type | Caramel candy |
|---|---|
| Place of origin | France |
| Region or state | Hauts-de-France |
Carambar is a brand of chewy caramel candy from France, owned by Eurazeo.
History
[edit]In 1954, Mr. Fauchille, director of the Delespaul-Hazard company, and Mr. Gallois, an employee, had a surplus of cocoa and decided to create a new, original recipe to use it up. The legend says that one of the machines in the factory was malfunctioning, making the long bars that still exists today. This sweet, in the form of a bar was named Caram'bar.
Each of the original Caram'bars were a regulated size and weight. The statistics are as follows:
- Length: 7 cm
- Weight: 10 g
- Recommended retail price: 5 centimes
- Wrapper: Yellow, with red striped twisted ends
Inside of the wrappers, there were "Carambar points" which could be redeemed for various Carambar-related products until 1961, when points were replaced by jokes. Carambar is famous for the poor quality of these jokes, and the expression blague Carambar (French: Carambar joke) refers to a bad or childish joke.
In 1972, the name changed to "Super Caram'bar". In 1977, the name lost its apostrophe.[1]
In 1998, Carambar came under the ownership of the British company Cadbury.[2]
On 20 January 2010, the American company Kraft Foods acquired Cadbury for €13 billion.[3]
Flavours
[edit]Currently, there are many different flavours all available in multipacks:
- Natural Flavours (Arômes Naturels)
- Drinks
- Cola / Coca
- Grenadine
- Oasis Peach Tea/Thé à la pêche
- Orangina yellow / jaune
- Other flavours
- Cherry / Cerise
- Candy floss / Cotton Candy / Barbe à papa
- Caramel
- Caranougat
- Orangina red / rouge
- Lime / Citron vert
- Bigoouu / Pomme Cassis / Double Flavor
- Passion fruit / Fruit de la passion
There are now various other flavours available which include the Carambar Atomic, which has sherbet inside. These have strange names like Green Cactus. There are Titeuf ones which have pictures of the Swiss comic strip star Titeuf and his friends. The Titeuf Carambars are blue on the outside and yellow inside or vice versa.
References
[edit]- ^ "Histoire : le Carambar, une friandise sexagénaire". Le Républicain Lorrain (in French). April 16, 2019.
- ^ "Les bonbons « Very bad Kids » de Carambar". LSA (in French). October 20, 2015. Retrieved August 16, 2025.
- ^ "Cadbury. Kraft Foods s'empare de Carambar". Le Télégramme (in French). January 20, 2010. Retrieved August 16, 2025.
External links
[edit]- Carambar.fr — Official Carambar website (in French)
- Le dossier de marque (PDF) — Listing of the history and development of the Carambar (in French)
- Carambar : De l'or en barre - Historia's article (in French)
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