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What is
chocolate
wrapper and what not?
My definition
is any wrapper covering chocolate bar, tablet, slab, napolitain, egg or
chocolate candy bar (where chocolate creates important part of product
- at least 30% - for example Kit Kat or Mars bar) which contains any
information
about product and producer made of any material. It can be from
chocolate
of ANY WEIGHT. The exception can be some napolitain wrappers where
isn´t
often clear who and where it was made. I don´t collect inner metal or
plastic
wrappers protecting chocolate.
I don´t mind
if the wrapper is from "real" chocolate ( with cocoa butter and without
added vegetable fat ) or from the "chocolate like" product without
cocoa
butter.
What is not
a chocolate wrapper for me:
Thick chocolate
( or fat couverture) coated candy like waffers, müsli bars where the
couverture
created only small part of the candy. I don´t collect also
wrappers
from M & M´s, Smarties ( except Smarties in chocolate
bars ),
Lentilky and similar candy and chocolate boxes ( assortments). |
Types of
chocolate wrappers
From
early times of manufacturing chocolate bars paper became most popular
material
for chocolate wrappers. under outer paper wrapper is always inner
wrapper
(foil) usually made of aluminium or plastic ( this I don´t collect)
.There
are 3 main types of paper chocolate wrapper.
First type
is strip of paper wrapped over the chocolate bar so it is usually easy
to take off the wrapper from chocolate.This wrapping method was more
frequent
in the past. It is used mostly in Usa, England, the Netherlands,
Estonia
or in many asian countries now.
Second type
covers complete chocolate bar like a envelope. This envelope style of
paper
wrapper is widely spread in most countries. It is
sometimes
necessary to open these wrappers carefully and try not to
tear them.
For some
chocolates
is often used as a wrapping material cardboard paper. Typical is for
some
filled chocolates especially those with liquid filling like spirits,
for
chocolates with whole hazelnuts, for higher weights chocolates,
portioned
chocolates like Schogetten, for luxury chocolates or for chocolate bars
with
unusual shape. Also worldwide known chocolate bar Toblerone is covered
by cardboard wrapper.
Except most
frequented paper other wrapping materials like cellophane , metalized
foils
or plastic foils became more and more popular from economic reasons.
These
wrappers are often hard to open without damage that´s why some
collectors
don´t collect them. Typical use is for square chocolates, some cheaper
chocolates or for chocolate candy bars like Mars.
German
manufacturer
of square chocolates Ritter used cellophane as a wrapping material till
1978, then paper wrapper combined with aluminium and since 1991 plastic
foil wrapper which is easy to open without damage what I can´t say
about
some similar wrappers from other countries ( Garoto´s Talento bars from
Brazil or czech Studentská Peče by Orion ).
Among european
makers of chocolate bars is more and more common to wrap the chocolates
in plastic foils. Almost all small bars and candy bars are now packed
in
plastic foil and also some cheaper chocolates like 100g bars
of Trumpf
or Waldbaur in Germany or Lola chocolates by swiss Halba.
Large
chocolate
manufacturers started to pack their chocolate bars and slabs into
plastic foils instead of classic paper wrappers in last ten years (
Cadbury since about 2002, Kraft Foods (chocolates Milka, Alpen Gold,
Karuna, Figaro, Marabou since 2004-2007) and also czech chocolate
factory Nestlé (local chocolate brand Orion) since autumn 2008.
Specific type
of wrappers use some scandinavian companies - they combine paper with
inner
metalized foil in one wrapper. This method is often used for packing
chocolate
pieces in rolls. Some companies like italian Delicia also use
combination
of plastic wrapper with inner metalized foil. |
paper wrapper
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envelope
paper wrapper
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cardboard
wrapper
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Toblerone
wrapper
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metalized
foil wrapper
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cellophane
wrapper
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plastic
wrapper
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paper +
inner metalized foil wrapper
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plastic
and inner metalized foil wrapper
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plastic
chocolate candy bar wrapper |
transparent
foil wrapper with sticked paper |
metal wrapper
was used by few companies in Austria, Soviet union or Scotland |
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Motives on
chocolate
wrappers
Most frequented
motives are connected with chocolate and its composition: chocolate,
milk,
cows in alps, cocoa pods, cocoa seeds, nuts etc.
There are
also special wrappers made for some occasions, childern chocolates with
motives like flowers, cars, planes, animals, cartoons .
You can find
almost everything especially on private labels wrappers.
Some companies
use own traditional colour of wrappers ( Milka, Cadbury, Orion ) but
most
of them use different colours of wrappers for each taste. |
swiss chocolate wrapper
with cocoa pod
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chocolate wrapper with cow by company Hellas from
Finland
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Information
on wrappers
In
the past common information on wrappers consisted of manufacturer, kind
of product and sometimes weight. Since 1960´s infos on wrappers have
became
more informative. It began appear date of manufacture, composition of
chocolate,
address of manufacturer or distributor, storing conditions. In last
years
producers also have had to inform about nutrition content, cocoa
solids,
allergy information.
What I miss
on many wrappers is land of origin, then is hard to catalogize wrapper
in collection. Especially in EU there are more often "infos"
like
made in Eu and manufacturing private labels for other countries is
there
widely spread. |
Maestrani
chocolate wrapper issued to 100th anniversary of company in 1952 |
Halba
chocolate wrapper from 2008 |
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Chocolate
wrappers shown here are
scans of real chocolate wrappers from still growing collection of
Martin
Mihál.
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