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A Choo Choo Bar

A Choo Choo Bar is a brittle toffee liquorice-flavoured confectionery bar popular[1] in Australia.

Available in a Шаблон:Cvt bar, packaged in a blue wrapper depicting an old steam train, ("The Choo Choo Funtime Express"), Choo Choo Bars were originally a Plaistowe product, acquired by Nestlé. They are now made by Lagoon.[2][3][4]

There is also a raspberry-flavoured Choo Choo Bar.[5]

Cultural context

The Choo Choo Bar is considered iconic.[4]

Choo Choo Bars are considered to be part of the Australian folklife.[6] Academic work refers to Choo Choo Bars in this manner[7] referring to prior Federal Governmental inquiry outcomes:[8]

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They are considered to have an elevated status within Australian folklife,[6] and are used when setting historical context.[9]

Choo Choo Bars are used as a specific reference to make a point about Australian food, culture, or lifestyle.[10]

History

Plaistowe released the original Choo Choo Bar in Western Australia, in the mid 1950s.[11] In the 1980s, Choo Choo Bars became unavailable. Lagoon Confectionery, a family business from Williamstown, bought the original Choo Choo Bar recipe and reissued it. In the 1960s, the wrapper featured a little red steam train, the Choo Choo Express, being driven by a golliwog. Lagoon replaced the golliwog with a monkey.[4]

Choo Choo Bars are considered to be perennial favourites by particular generations of Australians.[12] The Australian Broadcasting Corporation used Choo Choo Bars as one of several key nostalgic items to promote the television programme The Baby Boomers Picture Show.[13]

In literature

Choo Choo Bars are referred to in Australian literature, typically when profiling a character. For example:

  • If so... this is the answer[14]
  • Pangea Volume One (Creative) Pangea and Almost Back[15]
  • The Tin Moon[16]

References

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Further reading


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