Craving a chocolate bar they don't sell anymore? Make it yourself!

Image | Rum & Butter bars

Caption: Rum & Butter bars, complete with 70s-era graphic design, are now for sale in a 2020s-era Calgary grocery store. (Anis Heydari/CBC)

Audio | Cost of Living : Craving a chocolate bar they don't sell anymore? Make it yourself!

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Have you ever really, truly wanted the taste of a discontinued treat? A food that's gone forever?
Crystal Westergard wanted to buy her husband's favourite old chocolate bar for him. The problem was nobody made the Rum and Butter candy bar anymore.
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So she took on the challenge to recreate it and got a hit product out of the challenge.
Senior producer Jennifer Keene talks to the team behind the new version of a 70s chocolate classic.

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