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Cherry Ripe is a brand of
chocolate bar
A chocolate bar (Commonwealth English) or candy bar (some dialects of American English) is a confection containing chocolate, which may also contain layerings or mixtures that include nuts, fruit, caramel, nougat, and wafers. A flat, easily brea ...
manufactured by
Cadbury Australia. Introduced by the Australian confectioner
MacRobertson's
MacRobertson's, officially the MacRobertson's Steam Confectionery Works, was an Australian company that produced chocolates and various other confectionery. The company was founded in 1880 by Sir Macpherson Robertson and takes its name from a ...
in 1924, it is now one of Australia's oldest chocolate bars and is one of the top chocolate bar brands sold in the country.
It consists of
cherries
A cherry is the fruit of many plants of the genus ''Prunus'', and is a fleshy drupe (stone fruit).
Commercial cherries are obtained from cultivars of several species, such as the sweet ''Prunus avium'' and the sour ''Prunus cerasus''. The nam ...
and
coconut
The coconut tree (''Cocos nucifera'') is a member of the palm tree family ( Arecaceae) and the only living species of the genus ''Cocos''. The term "coconut" (or the archaic "cocoanut") can refer to the whole coconut palm, the seed, or the ...
coated with
dark chocolate.
History
After Cadbury acquired Australian confectioner MacRobertson's in 1967 it continued to manufacture Cherry Ripe, along with
Freddo
Freddo (originally Freddy the Frog in the 1970s) is a chocolate bar brand shaped like an anthropomorphic cartoon frog. It was originally manufactured by the now defunct company MacRobertson's, an Australian confectionery company, but is now prod ...
, Old Gold and
Snack
A snack is a small portion of food generally eaten between meals. Snacks come in a variety of forms including packaged snack foods and other processed foods, as well as items made from fresh ingredients at home.
Traditionally, snacks are p ...
.
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Cherry Ripe wrappers continued to display the former company's distinctive logo until 2002.
See also
*
List of cherry dishes
This is a list of notable cherry dishes and foods that are prepared using cherries as a primary ingredient.
Cherry dishes and foods
* Black Forest gateau – a chocolate sponge cake with a rich cherry filling based on the German dessert '' ...
*
List of confectionery brands
This is a list of brand name confectionery products. Sugar confectionery includes candies (''sweets'' in British English), candied nuts, chocolates, chewing gum, bubble gum, pastillage, and other confections that are made primarily of sugar. In so ...
References
External links
Cadbury Australia - Cherry RipeCandyblog's ''Cherry Ripe'' review
Chocolate bars
Cadbury brands
Australian confectionery
Mondelez International brands
Cherry dishes
Products introduced in 1924
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