Nestle - Violet Crumble

Nestle - Violet Crumble Review



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2009 VIP
Meri
Upstate, NY

Make Australia's favorite candy bar your favorite candy bar!

5 star rating

into trying new things
Pros

    nice change of pace, made by Nestle

Cons
    hard to find

AUG
21
2009

Nestle - Violet Crumble — 

Years ago my husband brought back a few Violet Crumble candy bars from Australia.  I fell in love with them.  We lived in Connecticut at the time and a little store carried them.  I would buy them out whenever they would get them in.  Then, we moved.

Enough time has gone by that I had almost forgotten about them until my brother moved to Australia.  One night we were talking and I mentioned the candy.  He said he loved them as well and would send me some.  Sometime went by and the candy had not arrived.  His wife spilled the beans and said that they had bought a case but that my brother had eaten them all.  She let me know that a new batch was on the way.  I couldn't wait.

I left for a two week vacation in Utah before they arrived.  Several times I thought of the package and wondered if it had arrived.  I picked up the mail this morning and "Ta-da"!  the bars were there.  As soon as I got home I opened the box and sank my teeth into a Violet Crumble.  Yum!  It is as good as I remembered it being.

The bars are made by Nestle.  They are a kind of unique freeze dried ice cream candy  covered in chocolate.  I can't even begin to explain what they taste like. Just know that it is good.  The inside crumbles as you bite into the bar which makes the motto on the bar understandable: "It's the way it shatters that matters"!

Violet Crumble can be purchased in the states but it may take a little hunting to find some.

Bottomline:

They are super sweet. One bar goes a long way but the experience of trying one is worth the effort.

Last edited on Oct 18, 2009



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Meri wrote on Nov 12, 2009 at 10:31PM

In response to pitcherday's comment from Oct 27, 2009 at 8:57PM:

I don't know why they are called "Violet" Crumble- no violets are hurt in the making of this bar!
I have had violet mints from England and I agree that they have the taste of perfume... ick.

pitcherday wrote on Oct 27, 2009 at 8:57PM

oooooh, I am not too into sweets. I was hoping it wasn't tasting like violets! A customer of mine once brought in hard candy from NY that she loved called Stork's Violets. They tasted like perfume. This sounds better.

Lovethecondoman wrote on Sep 11, 2009 at 8:35AM

Violet Crumble Rocks!

Lovethecondoman wrote on Sep 11, 2009 at 8:35AM

Violet crumble is awesome!

Fardreamer wrote on Aug 26, 2009 at 10:02PM

Yum! Great review!

JazzSinger wrote on Aug 22, 2009 at 8:37PM

I'm intrigued. I found a source for these things online (about-australia-shop.com). It's a company out of San Antonio. I can't vouch for the site at all, but they do offer Violet Crumble and many other Australian items.

PattyTherre wrote on Aug 22, 2009 at 1:56AM

Oh this is space ice cream? I read a review about that the other day here. Interesting.

Meri wrote on Aug 21, 2009 at 5:48PM

In response to dmlichnerowicz's comment from Aug 21, 2009 at 4:36PM:

No, it is sometimes called Astronaut Ice Cream or Space Ice Cream-

dmlichnerowicz wrote on Aug 21, 2009 at 4:36PM

Huh, interesting! Is the freeze-fried ice cream kind of like the freeze dried strawberries in Special K with berries?