Americans Steal the Curly Wurly

Cyberwulf wrote:

No. A Curly-Wurly is like several strips of toffee, flattened out and crossing over each other at intervals, and then covered in chocolate.

So it's basically a Heath bar, then?

Freezer wrote:

Cyberwulf wrote:

Mafiosa wrote:

No. A Curly-Wurly is like several strips of toffee, flattened out and crossing over each other at intervals, and then covered in chocolate.

So it's basically a Heath bar, then?

Heath is toffee. It's more like a long twisty Rolo.

Freezer wrote:

I'm still pissed Maruchan stopped selling my two fave flavors: Tomato and Picante Chicken.

Try your local Schnuck's. I've bought some Picante Chicken ramen from there not too long ago.

Yes, I brought ramen back into the topic.

Mafiosa wrote:

Lapin wrote:

GODIVA AND SEE"S CANDY! ALL OF YOUR OPINIONS ARE BAD AND YOU SHOULD FEEL BAD

(Except for Green & Blacks, stuff is badass)

Lindt sucks.

And Ghirardehlli.

See's is tasty and manned by the most polite old ladies you'll ever meet.

om nom nom free samples

See's Candy-eaters unite! May those little old ladies take over the world!

I LOVE CADBURY EGGS.

So there.

Had I know these qualified as shitty news, I would've posted when the fucking Chinese tried to copyright aguapanela.

SERIOUSLY CHINA? I AM PISSED

It wouldn't be so bad if not for the bit where a takeover likely to cost large numbers of British jobs is being financed by the, largely government owned, Royal Bank of Scotland.

So first they destroy the economy, now they destroy yet more thousands of jobs and take away the one thing that could have given us a little comfort in our hour of need.

I say we drown them all in cheese. Anyone?

Chicago Brown wrote:

So first they destroy the economy, now they destroy yet more thousands of jobs and take away the one thing that could have given us a little comfort in our hour of need.

I say we drown them all in cheese. Anyone?

I like cheese so no, Mayonnaise, that's a much better idea, I bloody hate Mayonnaise.

Somath Cegem wrote:

Chicago Brown wrote:

So first they destroy the economy, now they destroy yet more thousands of jobs and take away the one thing that could have given us a little comfort in our hour of need.

I say we drown them all in cheese. Anyone?

I like cheese so no, Mayonnaise, that's a much better idea, I bloody hate Mayonnaise.

Seconding this motion.

ZoZo wrote:

Somath Cegem wrote:

Chicago Brown wrote:

So first they destroy the economy, now they destroy yet more thousands of jobs and take away the one thing that could have given us a little comfort in our hour of need.

I say we drown them all in cheese. Anyone?

I like cheese so no, Mayonnaise, that's a much better idea, I bloody hate Mayonnaise.

Seconding this motion.

Thirded. But leave the mayonnaise sitting out for a couple of days first.

A damn waste of good mayonnaise that could go on a bunch of potatoes if you ask me (but don't you put vinegar on your chips over there?).

Anyway... I just eat Kinder. >_>;
Not exquisite chocolate, but FFFFFFFFF I LOVE KINDER SURPRISES. Though the toys are a disappointment these days. Over half of them are already built or only consist of one piece.

Verandering wrote:

A damn waste of good mayonnaise that could go on a bunch of potatoes if you ask me (but don't you put vinegar on your chips over there?).

Anyway... I just eat Kinder. >_>;
Not exquisite chocolate, but FFFFFFFFF I LOVE KINDER SURPRISES. Though the toys are a disappointment these days. Over half of them are already built or only consist of one piece.

Two things, sir:
1. Yes. Vinegar is infinitely superior to Satan's spunk.
2. INORITE? The last few Kinders I've had have been crap. It's a sorry state of affairs when the best one I've had in recent years was one which came in two pieces and required a sticker to go on one bit

There is no such thing as 'good' mayonaise, it's fucking horrible.

Don't make a trip out to the Netherlands, CB.

ZoZo wrote:

2. INORITE? The last few Kinders I've had have been crap. It's a sorry state of affairs when the best one I've had in recent years was one which came in two pieces and required a sticker to go on one bit

That and they're total nonsense. Maybe I've lost the childhood imagination ability or something, but I can barely make out what they're trying to be as well. I got two almost identicle pieces of plastic that slide into each other and two rolls of paper with some space pattern on them. What on earth it was supposed to be still remains a mystery.
WHY I REMEMBER WHEN THERE WERE BUILDABLE WEIGHT CARS AND WOODEN TRAINS AND METAL WARRIORS hidden inside my little egg.

Verandering wrote:

ZoZo wrote:

2. INORITE? The last few Kinders I've had have been crap. It's a sorry state of affairs when the best one I've had in recent years was one which came in two pieces and required a sticker to go on one bit

That and they're total nonsense. Maybe I've lost the childhood imagination ability or something, but I can barely make out what they're trying to be as well. I got two almost identicle pieces of plastic that slide into each other and two rolls of paper with some space pattern on them. What on earth it was supposed to be still remains a mystery.
WHY I REMEMBER WHEN THERE WERE BUILDABLE WEIGHT CARS AND WOODEN TRAINS AND METAL WARRIORS hidden inside my little egg.

My last one contained an Asterix. It filled me with glee.
I always loved the little statuettes they had in there. Y'know, the cool Crocodiles and the dancing Hippos and the oriental Sharks, all with the semi-glossy paint? Those were awesome.

Also, mayonaise is trés bien. Ragetty agrees.

Mafiosa wrote:

Cyberwulf wrote:

Mafiosa wrote:

EileenK98 wrote:

SOMEBODY PLEASE TELL ME WHAT THE HELL IS A CURLY WURLY! [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

A Marathon Bar to us yanks.

No. A Curly-Wurly is like several strips of toffee, flattened out and crossing over each other at intervals, and then covered in chocolate. A Marathon, assuming you mean the bar with nougat, caramel and peanuts, is called a Snickers here, and is currently being advertised by Mr. T under the borderline sexist slogan, "GET SOME NUTS!"

Google lied to me!

But we call Snickers Snickers here too.

No, they call Snickers "Marathon bars."

Penguin wrote:

Mafiosa wrote:

Cyberwulf wrote:

Mafiosa wrote:

EileenK98 wrote:

SOMEBODY PLEASE TELL ME WHAT THE HELL IS A CURLY WURLY! [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

A Marathon Bar to us yanks.

No. A Curly-Wurly is like several strips of toffee, flattened out and crossing over each other at intervals, and then covered in chocolate. A Marathon, assuming you mean the bar with nougat, caramel and peanuts, is called a Snickers here, and is currently being advertised by Mr. T under the borderline sexist slogan, "GET SOME NUTS!"

Google lied to me!

But we call Snickers Snickers here too.

No, they call Snickers "Marathon bars."

Who does? I don't know about the Americans but over here they're definatley Snickers.

Chicago Brown wrote:

Penguin wrote:

Mafiosa wrote:

Cyberwulf wrote:

Mafiosa wrote:

EileenK98 wrote:

SOMEBODY PLEASE TELL ME WHAT THE HELL IS A CURLY WURLY! [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

A Marathon Bar to us yanks.

No. A Curly-Wurly is like several strips of toffee, flattened out and crossing over each other at intervals, and then covered in chocolate. A Marathon, assuming you mean the bar with nougat, caramel and peanuts, is called a Snickers here, and is currently being advertised by Mr. T under the borderline sexist slogan, "GET SOME NUTS!"

Google lied to me!

But we call Snickers Snickers here too.

No, they call Snickers "Marathon bars."

Who does? I don't know about the Americans but over here they're definatley Snickers.

I thought "Mars Bars" were Snickers. Or is that Milky Ways that are Mars Bars?

Quote pyramid FTW!

Re: the Marathon confusion. Snickers bars used to be called Marathons, but we had to change it because the Americans didn't know what a Marathon was. Or something like that. Anyway, we had to change to the American name.

American Milky Ways=Mars bars.

A Snickers (it's been years since I ate one, I always end up being sick) is a Mars bar with peanuts.

I think.

ZoZo wrote:

Re: the Marathon confusion. Snickers bars used to be called Marathons, but we had to change it because the Americans didn't know what a Marathon was. Or something like that. Anyway, we had to change to the American name.

I sort of doubt that, as they've always been called Snickers here, and Mars is an American company. What I gleaned from Wikipedia is that Mars was unifying the names of its international brands, and implied that it was a marketing bid -- which proved successful, as after the name change it jumped from the 9th most popular candy bar to the 3rd most popular.

ZoZo wrote:

American Milky Ways=Mars bars.

A Snickers (it's been years since I ate one, I always end up being sick) is a Mars bar with peanuts.

I think.

Pretty much. But -- according to Wikipedia again -- Mars Bars are slightly different from Milky Ways, in that they're sweeter. I'm just guessing, but it probably has to do with America's weird sugar importation laws, which means they could probably up the real sugar percentage in the UK. And there is a candy bar called Milky Way in the UK, but it doesn't have caramel in it, making it basically a 3 Musketeers.

And suddenly I understand that M&M probably stands for Mars & Mars, as it was developed by the company's founder and his son together.

...I want chocolate now.

ZoZo wrote:

Re: the Marathon confusion. Snickers bars used to be called Marathons, but we had to change it because the Americans didn't know what a Marathon was. Or something like that. Anyway, we had to change to the American name.

American Milky Ways=Mars bars.

A Snickers (it's been years since I ate one, I always end up being sick) is a Mars bar with peanuts.

I think.

I remember Mars bars. Haven't seen one in over twenty years. Milky Way was around before, during, and after that.

saeku wrote:

Godiva > British Cadbury's > Hershey's > Feces > American Cadbury's

Respectfully have to disagree with you there. For my money, Hershey's leaves all other chocolates-- with the possible exception of Nestle --in the dust.

Miss Prince wrote:

And suddenly I understand that M&M probably stands for Mars & Mars, as it was developed by the company's founder and his son together.

...I want chocolate now. [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

Mars and Murrie, actually. Murrie is for Bruce Murrie who was the son of William F.R. Murrie, a president of Hershey's for a while. Mars and Hershey's hate each other rather passionately now, but they started out as terribly friendly with one another. I don't remember the whole story but there was candy empires and family backstabbityness and corporate maneuvering. It was actually pretty interesting when I saw it.