80’s advert for the TEXAN chocolate bar.

Texan Bar also known as Texan was a nougat/toffee bar covered with chocolate, manufactured during the 1970s and 1980s. It was withdrawn from sale in the 1980s but was briefly re-launched by Nestle in 2005 during a wave of sweet-related nostalgia.

The advertisements for the Texan which showed a cartoon cowboy, who was captured and tied to a stake. When asked if he had a Last request he was given a Texan Bar which took him a long time to eat, meanwhile the Bandits fell asleep ensuring his escape. The Cowboys catchphrase was “A Man’s gotta chew what a Man’s gotta chew”, also “Sure is a mighty chew!”.