Crunchie is made by Cadbury UK and is a chocolate candy bar with a honeycombed sugar center. It was originally launched in 1929 by J.S. Fry and Sons. Fry merged with Cadbury in 1919 and Crunchie later came to be under the Cadbury name. Nestle makes a competing candy bar in Australia called the Violet Crumble. Crunchie bars are available in the UK, Ireland, Australia, India, Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa. The U.S., Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Hong Kong, Malta, Cyprus, Saudi Arabia, Panama, Tahiti, and Sri Lanka import the candy bar, too.
Crunchie is manufactured in the UK in a dedicated plant at Rockwell Automation distributed control system. During manufacturing of the Crunchie bar, the honeycomb toffee is produced in large slabs. It is cut up using a high focused jet of oil. The oil keeps the honeycomb from fragmenting or dissolving off. The honeycomb toffee is then covered in chocolate, cooled, then packaged.