t eyes Super Porny Pants appreciatively
t wonders what 'Apple Jacks' are
Sometimes I miss having powers... Oh. Oh! I know what this is! This is peer pressure! Any second now you're gonna make me smoke tobacco and--and have drugs!
Anya ,'Showtime'
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Am-Chau Yarkona - Apr 04, 2003 1:21:03 am PST #3160 of 9843
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
Trudy Booth - Apr 04, 2003 1:22:26 am PST #3161 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
Apple Jacks are a cereal that don't taste like apples or, presumably, that Kennedy boy who was president.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Apr 04, 2003 1:24:42 am PST #3162 of 9843
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
Apple Jacks are a cereal that don't taste like apples or, presumably, that Kennedy boy who was president.
For some reason, I find this answer disappointing. It could just be that I'm still short of caffeine.
Fiona - Apr 04, 2003 1:28:13 am PST #3163 of 9843
For any NYCers who are curious about deep fried Mars Bar: you can get them at A Salt and Battery, the British Fish & Chip place down on Greenwich Avenue, and I see they've opened a second place in the East Village. We didn't actually try the d.f.M.B. (though while we were there some disbelieving New Yorkers came by to do just that), but the fish & chips were very good, almost up to Brit quality.
Crunchies were always a bit too sticky for my liking, but that never really stopped me eating 'em.
Jim - Apr 04, 2003 1:54:28 am PST #3164 of 9843
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
nougat and caramel and almonds surrounded by milk chocolate = US Snickers With Almonds = UK (etc.) Mars Bar With Almonds
Never seen that in the UK. Sounds vaguely like the Snickers Crunch, which appeared for a while last year. All your UK confectionary questions are answered here: [link]
Caroma - Apr 04, 2003 5:20:37 am PST #3165 of 9843
Hello! I must be going.
Hey, I walked by A Salt and Battery the other day. I'll have to try it!
I think that the country is so damn big and populated that they just can't maintain the freshness thing as easily. Things have to sit in warehouses for a while. And FWIW, there's plenty of imported UK and Irish candy sold in my neighborhood--Aeros, Canadian Smarties, all kinds of Cadbury stuff, etc.--and it's not that great or flavorful. To be fair, maybe it's been sitting around for a while.
Local American candy-makers can be fantastic if you buy it at the source. Wilbur's, mmmmm.
DXMachina - Apr 04, 2003 5:40:41 am PST #3166 of 9843
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
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 the US version of the Mars Bar was just the nougat, caramel, and peanuts, i.e. a Snickers without the chocolate.
I think we've also got a dark chocolate Milky Way.
They used to call these Forever Yours bars.
Ms. Havisham - Apr 04, 2003 7:28:33 am PST #3167 of 9843
And we will call it... "This Land."
nougat surrounded by milk chocolate = US Three Musketeers
Nougat? I thought that was a moussy sort of chocolate thing. You know, like that other thing, the one with the stuff.
Going to work now. I'm obviously in the right frame of mind.
Angus G - Apr 04, 2003 7:32:28 am PST #3168 of 9843
Roguish Laird
It's what's called "nougat" in the strange idiom of chocolate bars, which as we know only vaguely resembles real-world nougat. (Similarly "honeycomb".)
Zoe Ann - Apr 04, 2003 7:33:42 am PST #3169 of 9843
Mathair & Athair beo.
'Nooo-gaa' or 'Nugget'?