Carambar

Carambar is a chewy caramel bonbon from France.

History

In 1954, Mr. Galois, the director of the Delespaul-Havez company, and Mr Fachille, director of the factory, 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 de-regulated, giving birth to the sweet that still exists today. It is a sweet, in the form of a bar and was called Caram'bar.

Each of the original Caram'bars were a regulated size and weight. The statistics are as follows:
*Length: 7 cm
*Weight: 10g
*Recommended retail price: 5 cents
*Wrapper: Yellow, with red striped twisted ends

Inside of the wrappers, there are "Carambar points" which can be redeemed for various Carambar-related products.

In 1972, the name changed to "Super Caram'bar". In 1977, the name lost its apostrophe.

Flavours

Currently, there are many different flavours all available in multipacks:
* Natural Flavours (Arômes Naturels)
** Lemon / Citron
** Strawberry / Fraise
** Orange
** Raspberry / Framboise
* Drinks
** Cola
** Grenadine
** Oasis Peach Tea/Thé à la pêche
** Absinthe
** Miruvor
* Other flavours
** Cherry / Cerise
** Candy floss / Cotton Candy / Barbe à papa
** Caramel
** Caranougat
** Orangina yellow / jaune
** Orangina red / rouge
** Lime / Citron vert
** Cactus

There are now various other flavours available which include the Carambar Atomic. These have strange names like Green Cactus. There are Titeuf ones which have pictures of the French comic strip star Titeuf and his friends. The Titeuf Carambars are blue on the outside and yellow inside or vice versa.

External links

* [http://www.carambar.fr/ Carambar.fr] — Official Carambar website fr icon
* [http://www.carambar.fr/contact/Dossier_de_marque_Carambar.pdf Le dossier de marque (PDF)] — Listing of the history and development of the Carambar fr icon