The Swiss Chocolate Mountains

By: Jack Castillo

I LOVE the Toblerone candy bar. The little triangles made of chocolate with the nougats inside. They are delicious. But when was this awesome released on to this earth? I will now tell you the history of the Toblerone (as said from their website and a few other sources)!

To start off Jean Tobeler owned a confectionary shop in Bern, Switzerland. He produced Chocolate from other companies in the 1800’s. In 1899 Jean Tobler opened his own chocolate factory. Working with his sons, Tobler established Fabrique de Chocolat Berne, Tobler & Cie. However in 1900 Tobler handed the family business down to his son Theodore.

In 1908 Theodor and his cousin Emil Baumann invented the chocolatty perfection the toblerone. The chocolate triangles with honey and almond nougat was their genius creation. They called it Toblerone as wordplay (“Tobler” and “Torrone” (meaning Honey and Almond Nougat)).

In 1969 they launched the dark chocolate Toblerone. Finally the toblerone could be enjoyed by the dark chocolate eating community. In 1973 they launched the white chocolate Toblerone. They make many variations of the original Toblerone.

In 2007 they launched their first new creation in 34 years. The Toblerone Fruit & Nut was made from the classic swiss milk, honey, almond and nougat recipe with the new addition of californian raisins.

In 2008 the Toblerone celebrated it’s 100th birthday.

Now the Toblerone is made in many flavors including Milk chocolate with white chocolate filling, and salty almond. They make it in many sizes like three normal sized pieces to a full 15 piece giant bar (to show how big, the normal size serving has 1/6 bar, and the giant one is 1/10 size). The future of Toblerone is bright with new flavors sure to come. The Toblerones life is sweet.

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