{"title":"Nestlé","description":"\u003ch2 aria-level=\"5\"\u003eWhy most of these never reach an American shelf\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNestlé's British range barely overlaps with what the company sells in America. Aero, Lion, Milkybar and Smarties are made for British shelves, and most of them have never had an American edition at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSmarties are the ones that catch people out. In the United States that name belongs to a different company entirely, and it means small tart sugar tablets. The British Smarties are milk chocolate in crisp colored shells, sold in a hexagonal tube. Same word, nothing else in common.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNestlé stopped making chocolate in America in 2018, when it sold that side of the business to Ferrero. The bars in this collection come from the other side of that line, and always did.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEverything here comes from the UK, in date, packed by hand, and sent anywhere in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"aero","title":"Aero","description":"\u003cp\u003eSmooth milk chocolate filled with thousands of tiny bubbles that melt away on your tongue. Light, creamy and unlike an ordinary solid chocolate bar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRowntree's of York patented the process in 1935 and sold it as \"the new chocolate\", first in the North of England and then everywhere once it was clear people liked it. Nestle have owned it since taking over Rowntree's in 1988, but the trick is unchanged: chocolate whipped full of air before it sets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBest eaten in squares, slowly, so the bubbles get a chance to do what they were put there for.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nestle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52742142361883,"sku":null,"price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1042\/8108\/0091\/files\/Aero.jpg?v=1787964198"},{"product_id":"lion-bar","title":"Lion Bar","description":"\u003cp\u003eCrisp wafer, chewy caramel and puffed rice, all under milk chocolate. Big, crunchy, and decidedly not a delicate little chocolate bar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRowntree's launched it in 1976 with the line \"Crunch it, chew it\", which is unusually honest for advertising. Both verbs are required. There is no way to eat a Lion quietly and no way to eat one tidily, and anyone who has attempted it in an open-plan office knows exactly how far the sound carries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is the bar you reach for when a biscuit will not do. Substantial in a way that feels faintly unreasonable, which is most of the appeal.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nestle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52742155272475,"sku":null,"price":3.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1042\/8108\/0091\/files\/Lion_Bar.jpg?v=1787964066"},{"product_id":"aero-mint","title":"Aero Mint","description":"\u003cp\u003eSmooth milk chocolate surrounding a bubbly peppermint-flavored center. Cool, creamy and wonderfully light as those little bubbles melt away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe same aerated chocolate Rowntree's of York patented in 1935, with a peppermint center that turns the whole thing a startling green. It divides a room rather more than the plain one does, and nobody who likes it has ever been talked out of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe after-dinner member of the family, and the one that tastes colder than it has any right to.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nestle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52742175523099,"sku":null,"price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1042\/8108\/0091\/files\/Aero_Mint.jpg?v=1787962587"},{"product_id":"smarties","title":"Smarties","description":"\u003cp\u003eLittle sugar-shelled chocolates in a cardboard tube, first made in York in 1937 by Rowntree's and now by Nestlé. They were sold as Chocolate Beans before anyone thought of calling them Smarties.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe shells are the point: thin, crisp, and in colors that all taste the same except the orange one, which tastes of orange.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you grew up in America, the Smarties you know are the chalky tablets in a twist of cellophane. Those are a different sweet entirely, made by a different company. These are the chocolate ones.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nestle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54278153371931,"sku":null,"price":3.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1042\/8108\/0091\/files\/Nestle_Smarties.jpg?v=1792248477"},{"product_id":"milky-bar","title":"Milkybar","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhite chocolate, which is to say cocoa butter, milk and sugar with no cocoa solids in it at all. Nestlé launched it in 1936, and it is generally reckoned to be the first white chocolate bar anyone sold.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat makes it Milkybar rather than simply white chocolate is the Milkybar Kid, who has been on British television since 1961 and whose jingle is lodged permanently in the head of everyone who grew up with it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSweet, soft, and gone in about four bites.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nestle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54278188007707,"sku":null,"price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1042\/8108\/0091\/files\/Nestle_Milky_Bar.jpg?v=1792249279"}],"url":"https:\/\/farthingandco.com\/collections\/nestle.oembed","provider":"Farthing \u0026 Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}