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(Oh, incidentally, for readers in the USA - the UK Mars Bar is equivalent to your Milky Way. The UK's Milky Way is the USA's 3 Musketeers.)

• Mountain_Skies 6y ago
  Does the UK have anything that's similar to the US version of the Mars Bar?
  • dazc 6y ago
    I think the nearest thing would be a Mars Bar?
    • jagged-chisel 6y ago
      I can't seem to find a reference for it, but my memory says that a US Mars Bar had almonds in it. The Wikipedia page[1] seems to indicate as much since it mentions "the American version was discontinued in 2002[10] and was replaced with the slightly different Snickers Almond [...]" Although it lists the contents of the Snickers bar, it doesn't say how it was 'slightly different.' 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_(chocolate_bar)#United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_(chocolate_bar)#United_St...
  • krueger71 6y ago
    I remember hearing about this guy a few years back. Apparently he found them :) https://www.oneindia.com/2008/06/02/lived-17-years-mars-chocolate-bars-1212404760.html https://www.oneindia.com/2008/06/02/lived-17-years-mars-choc...
• barrenko 6y ago
  Don't we all have Mars bars AND Milky Ways :) ?
• cupofjoakim 6y ago
  Oh, I need more information about this. We have mars bars and milky ways in sweden, I wonder if ours are the UK or the US variant.
  • Cederfjard 6y ago
    The UK ones!
  • Hamuko 6y ago
    The dividing line is pretty much US/not US when it comes to these.
• endemic 6y ago
  I had learned this from The Old Web: http://totl.net/VisibleMars/ http://totl.net/VisibleMars/
• MiguelVieira 6y ago
  But the best selling candy bar in the US is Snickers. So that would be your biggest competitor.
  • WWWWH 6y ago
    A streaming marathon vs an actual marathon...
• crispyambulance 6y ago
  It's so sad that in the USA candy is dominated by handful of brands that produce more or less the same limited range of cloyingly sweet and uninteresting confections of nougat, caramel, cheap chocolate, nuts, and a few other things. I find it impossible to believe that this "sameness" is what people really want. I suspect candy vendors have specifically conditioned the candy market in much the same way as the film industry has conditioned audiences into go to see mass-market films-- endless re-hashes of the same stuff, endless sequels, formulaic plots, god forbid an edgy wildly different film gets out every once in a while. Things are different in most European and Asian countries where you can easily find a mind-blowing variety of candies that are truly distinct from each other. That reminds me, there's a fun book of essays, Candy Freak (https://www.amazon.com/Candyfreak-Journey-through-Chocolate-Underbelly/dp/0156032937 https://www.amazon.com/Candyfreak-Journey-through-Chocolate-...) which is all about the vanishing fringe candy makers in the USA.
  • JoeAltmaier 6y ago
    The awful chocolate! Oh the humanity. Its like a brown candle - mostly wax, flavorless. Done that way so it won't melt on the way to the store in an un-refrigerated truck. Once you try proper chocolate (I recommend Winans', http://www.winanscoralville.com/ http://www.winanscoralville.com/), a grocery-store candy bar becomes inedible. I don't want them in my mouth. Its that different.
  • gwbas1c 6y ago
    > Things are different in most European and Asian countries where you can easily find a mind-blowing variety of candies that are truly distinct from each other. Uhm, in the US it's pretty easy to find boutique candy stores with a very wide variety. Even in grocery stores, the candy isle has quite a bit to choose from. Don't conflate what's presented in the checkout rack, for impulse purchases, with the wider variety of what's available.
  • nicbou 6y ago
    That doesn't ring true for me. Germany has Haribo and paprika-flavoured stuff. Everything else is a side show. Central Asia has pretty much only Mars products.
• yissp 6y ago
  Interesting, in Canada we have Mars Bars and 3 Musketeers. I don't think I've ever seen a Milky Way.