FTR ... standard Aussie Mars Bars are caramel and nougat surrounded by milk chocolate and there is also an almond version.
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evil jimi - Apr 03, 2003 10:43:29 pm PST #3125 of 9843
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
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?
Angus G - Apr 03, 2003 11:40:09 pm PST #3131 of 9843
Roguish Laird
Well, true, Haigh's is the best, props to Adelaide etc. etc., but there's something particularly invigorating about something that looks like a Mars bar but tastes really good, trust me.
t edit G'day bt! Haven't seen you around for a while.
billytea - Apr 03, 2003 11:50:42 pm PST #3132 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.
G'day bt! Haven't seen you around for a while.
G'day yourself. Or howdy, to use a traditional Philadelphia greeting. Yeah, I shouldn't be here now either. I've gone (mostly) dark while preparing for an exam. However, today has been unpleasant for reasons not immediately apparent (except for the extraordinary levels of lethargy). I think homesickness may be involved, images of Canberra and Melbourne life keep popping up unbidden (granted, as long as the alternative is memorising a list of the many varieties of swap contracts, this is probably to be expected). I should probably also find a way to blame the war, I'm sure otherwise the terrorists have already won. So I thought I'd pop in and look for a mood-lightener. Haigh's (and, for that matter, Aussie Milky Ways) could be it. If they were over here, that is...
Incidentally, friends of ours just sent word that they're exploring a move to Cooma, and asking if we'd heard of it. Given I grew up in Canberra and Bec in Bega, that would be an affirmative. I've been dreaming up some bitter mockery of their worry that it might get a bit chilly there.
Angus G - Apr 04, 2003 12:00:21 am PST #3133 of 9843
Roguish Laird
Ha!
Oh well, nice to see you even if you are wagging. Why not blame the war? Everyone else is doing it!
Noumenon - Apr 04, 2003 12:02:13 am PST #3134 of 9843
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
Yay billytea! I hope John H will be showing up this weekend for Australian talk.
Nou, it sounds as though you're the victim of a campaign to spread misinformation about Australia!
I just learned the Cloud 9 thing in a blog today. And that other Australian also told me a story about a woman having a heart attack on his plane over the ocean and the stewardesses couldn't resuscitate her. "Taking the piss" is telling the gullible American stories about dropbears -- this guy was just lying to pass the time. What a booger.