{"id":1762,"date":"2009-07-02T11:09:50","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T10:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/blog\/?p=1762"},"modified":"2015-03-28T16:03:26","modified_gmt":"2015-03-28T16:03:26","slug":"in-praise-of-coffee-crisp-the-great-canadian-candy-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=1762","title":{"rendered":"In praise of Coffee Crisp, the great Canadian candy bar"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe best candy bar in the world is (tragically) very hard to find in the U.K.<\/em><\/p>\n

Whenever I am in Canada, the one thing I always make sure to bring back to the U.K. is a bunch of candy bars called Coffee Crisp, which is not available here. It’s no surprise that I am not alone in this.<\/p>\n

The brilliant humorist Bruce McCall, brother of my long-ago Windsor Star colleague Walt McCall, is one of several Canadian ex-patriots asked by the New York\u00a0Times\u00a0to describe what they miss most about their homeland. With typical wit, McCall gets it exactly right. This is how his piece begins:<\/p>\n

The gourmets say there isn\u2019t a native Canadian food worth remembering after you\u2019ve left the country. The gourmets have never bitten into a Coffee Crisp.<\/em><\/p>\n

A Coffee Crisp tastes like Canada to anybody who grew up gnawing on that confection, a memorably crisp blend of coffee cream, cookie wafers and milk chocolate as wholesome and satisfying as the Canadian national anthem.<\/em><\/p>\n

It was a square-edged rectangle, like a brick, wrapped in a yellow-going-to-gold paper that seemed to elevate its value above all rival confections. It was unlike other chocolate bars.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

McCall’s comments are quite a way down in the story in The New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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