[summer]

 

I used to love these, but something about it turns me off now.

6/10

[Rupert 'Stiles' Stilinski]

It also used to be my favorite on Halloween. Now I need the nuts of a snickers bar. The thought of this on a hot summer day makes me sick.

5/10

[jennthebenn]

A poor man's Snickers. 5/10

[EVOLghost]

There's only one candy bar I like....Snickers.

[stu666]

In the uk this is a mars bar and i rate it 7/10.
A milky way here is like this but has no caramel.

[Rupert 'Stiles' Stilinski]

This sounds like a Johnny Carson joke. "In the UK they call a Milky Way a Mars bar. And a Milky Way over there has no caramel, so it is what we call a Three Musketeers... I did not know that."

[pokkeherrie]

Gumby Institute of Candy Controversies
Milky Way® = Mars® Bar?
("Mars® Bar" is a registered trademark of the Mars, Inc.)

 

Fig. 2: U.S. Milky Way Bar Wrapper

 

Fig. 1: Canadian Mars Bar Wrapper
Abstract: The apparent similarity between the Canadian Mars Bar and the United States Milky Way was theorized after examination between the two Countries' Mars Bars reveiled that both were of a different species. The U.S. Milky Way Bar does indeed display an amazing similarity to the Northern Mars Bar. And like the Canadian bars, the Milky Way Bars also include the warning: "May Contain Peanuts." Why the big "cover-up" is anyone's guess.

 

Fig. 3: Sample MW1010US

 

Fig. 4: Sample MB1010CA

The samples analylized here, (Figures 3 & 4 above), are of the small "Halloween Handout" varieties, available in both countries around the time of the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain. However, unlike the Mars Bars, the "Fun Size" Milky Ways have been observed on store shelves during the Celtic festivals of Oester and Yule as well. The size of the Milky Way, like the U.S. Mars Bar, dwarfs its Canadian counterpart. The ingredients, while not identical, are indeed of a similar make-up, (see table below).

Country: Weight: Ingredients: United States 20 grams
.8 ounce Milk Chocolate, (Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Chocolate, Lactose, Skim Milk, Milkfat, Soy Lechithin, Artificial Flavor), Corn Syrup, Sugar, Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Skim Milk, Less than 2% - Milkfat, Cocoa Powder Processed with Alkali, Lactose, Malted Barley, Wheat Flour, Salt, Egg-Whites, Artifical Flavor, Soy Protein Canada 17 grams
.5 ounce Sugar, Corn Syrup. Milk Ingredients: Hydrogenated Soybean & Palm Oil, Cocoa Butter, Cocoa Mass. Modified Milk Ingredients: Malted Milk Powder, Malted Barley Wheat Flour, Sodium Bicarbonate. Cocoa, Soy Lechithin, Salt, Dried Egg-White, Hydrolyzed Soy Protein, Artifical Flavour

The initial conclusion is that the Milky Way Bar sold in the United States is indeed of the same species as the Canadian Mars Bar. The differences being a slightly lighter color of the Milky Way, no doubt fostered to keep with the implied "lightness" of the name.

http://www.oregonl5.org/mist/mwaybar.html

[pokkeherrie]

For "Canadian" you can read "European" too.

Also, European Milky Ways come in blue wrappers

 

and if you break them open they look like this

 

The American Milky Ways are sold as Mars here, like Stu said.

[pokkeherrie]

(European) Milky Way - 5/10
Mars - 7/10

I prefer hazelnut chocolate bars

[Antagon]

Never really liked Milky Way (And yeah it is marketed as "Mars" in Europe)

My favourite is probably Lion. Very popular in Europe

 

8/10

[EVOLghost]

^^ looks like a twix

[joe11121]

Mars = 7
Milky Way = 5

[Antagon]

Yeah it indeed looks a bit like Twix but the taste is different. But well, the crunchy feeling when you bite in it is quite similar.

[pbradley]

Candy bars are ≤6 out of 10.

Other words, I hate candy bars unless we include stuff like Abba-Zaba.

[_slavo_]

My favourite is this one without any doubt:

 

[pokkeherrie]

Kit Kat 6.5/10
Lion 7/10
Twix 8/10
Snickers 9/10

[pbradley]

Frozen Snickers are also another notable exception.

[Sonic Youth 37]

 

[looking glass spectacle]

Originally Posted by summer

 

1/10

 

9/10

[pokkeherrie]

Originally Posted by pbradley

Candy bars are ≥6 out of 10.

Other words, I hate candy bars unless we include stuff like Abba-Zaba.

It's good that you edited that second line in, because I was about to believe you rated all candy bars 6 or higher...unless the American ≥ means ≤ in Europe/Canada.