Damn you all!!! Now I'm so craving a milky way....or a snickers....
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meara - Apr 03, 2003 10:32:26 pm PST #3121 of 9843
evil jimi - Apr 03, 2003 10:32:38 pm PST #3122 of 9843
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
I hear that in Australia, Mars Bars are known as "Cloud 9." That's my unamerican factoid for the day.
Never heard of, or seen, a "Cloud 9" but I do know USian chocolate is not well regarded in Oz. Hershey have tried to get a foot-hold over here but have never done much. To bitter for the majority of Aussie palates.
Trudy Booth - Apr 03, 2003 10:36:35 pm PST #3123 of 9843
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Someone should figure out how to deep fry a smore.
brenda m - Apr 03, 2003 10:37:08 pm PST #3124 of 9843
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
and (US) Milky Way bars don't.
Yes they do. It's Three Musketeers that don't have the caramel.
(x-post, obviously.)
The dark chocolate Milky Ways are really quite good. The nougat is different than the regular MW.
evil jimi - Apr 03, 2003 10:43:29 pm PST #3125 of 9843
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
FTR ... standard Aussie Mars Bars are caramel and nougat surrounded by milk chocolate and there is also an almond version.
Hil R. - Apr 03, 2003 11:00:48 pm PST #3126 of 9843
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
OK, just so I've got this straight:
nougat surrounded by milk chocolate = US Three Musketeers
nougat and caramel surrounded by milk chocolate = US Milky Way = UK (etc.) Mars Bar
nougat and caramel and peanuts surrounded by milk chocolate = US Snickers
nougat and caramel and almonds surrounded by milk chocolate = US Snickers With Almonds = UK (etc.) Mars Bar With Almonds
I think we've also got a dark chocolate Milky Way.
Angus G - Apr 03, 2003 11:11:00 pm PST #3127 of 9843
Roguish Laird
We also have a Snickers which is the same as the US Snickers from the sound of it.
And we have a Milky Way which sounds the same as the US Three Musketeers.
I think Australian chocolate bars are generally identical to UK ones, except that the UK ones are much, much nicer. The chocolate is creamier for a start. If anyone I know is going to the UK I always ask them to bring back Mars bars and Cadbury Dairy Milk.
Nou, it sounds as though you're the victim of a campaign to spread misinformation about Australia!
Elena - Apr 03, 2003 11:12:06 pm PST #3128 of 9843
Thanks for all the fish.
Saddam International. I'm beginning to really think that its namesake is chatting with Stalin in Hell right now.
I think we all know that if Saddam is in Hell he won't be wasting time chatting with Stalin, he'll be getting busy with Satan.
Angus G - Apr 03, 2003 11:23:26 pm PST #3129 of 9843
Roguish Laird
Oh, also: the Bali bombers certainly knew they were killing Australians (among others). I don't quite agree that the Australian victims were "collateral damage"; in fact I'm not even sure that phrase makes any sense in the context of mass terrorism. I agree of course that the bombers weren't only targetting Australians, but Australia's slavish support for GWB wouldn't have escaped their notice, and in fact Australia gets a good deal of negative press in Indonesia (over East Timor as well, of course). So Islamic fundamentalists in that particular part of the world hate us as well as America (although probably not as much), for what it's worth.
Where I completely agree with jimi is that our government has tried to manipulate Bali to garner support for invading Iraq, just as the US govt has manipulated 9/11, and equally speciously.
billytea - Apr 03, 2003 11:38:16 pm PST #3130 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I think Australian chocolate bars are generally identical to UK ones, except that the UK ones are much, much nicer. The chocolate is creamier for a start. If anyone I know is going to the UK I always ask them to bring back Mars bars and Cadbury Dairy Milk.
Angus. You have Haigh's in the same city. What motivates this turning to the chocolates of Old Blighty?