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>>>>>>>>>>>Yes, I've noticed that. Places we'd call a village in England are towns in the USA. I guess it's all part of the supersize me culture. In UK we used to buy things (like drinks in a cinema) that were small, medium or large. Now, since US influence, they're regular, large and extra large.
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>>>>>>>>>But this has been a particular effect marketing tool when applied to other products as well.
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>>>>>>>>But it stems from America no doubt.
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>>>>>>>>>Condoms, for example. <s>
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>>>>>>>>>( there was, in fact, once a psy-ops proposal to package up a lot of extra large condoms, label them "Small" and let them fall into the hands of the enemy )
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>>>>>>>>But not when the enemy is run by a "dick 'tater" :-)
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>>>>>>>>>I also admired whoever it was in marketing at Mars candy that when they reduced the size of a 3 musketeers Bar by at least one Muskateer splashed a banner across the label that said "NEW SIZE !!"
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>>>>>>>>Considering Mars is a UK co. (or was originally) I've never heard of that confection.
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>>>>>>>The product names differ. I think the candy bar sold as a Mars bar in the UK is about the same as a 3 Musketeers bar in the U.S.
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>>>>>>I don't think so. Here in Canada, we have both. I haven't eaten either in decades, so I don't remember them very well, but since we have both, I assume they aren't the same thing. I seem to recall a Mars bar as being sort of creamier. And doesn't a 3 Musketeers bar have nuts or something?
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>>>>>Reverse that and you have it correct. 3 Musketeers ads show the bar floating up out of reach, because it is so light.
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>>>>Could that be what we call a "Milky Way"? Just a creamy fondant whipped centre: "The sweet you *can* eat between meals without ruining your appetite"
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>>>We also have that one, so again, I assume that because we have all three for sale, that they are all different in some characteristic. Of course, it might just be a marketing trick in the same way as book publishers will sometimes bring out a book with 2 or 3 different covers for those people who care more about the cover than the content.
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>>My conclusion then: we don't have a chocky bar that you guys call 3 musketeers.
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>>BTW, did you used to have the Nestles (as it was called back in the day) Milky Bar, with the ads with the Milky Bar Kid?
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>Sorry, if we did, I don't remember it. We had the 'Milky Way' bar, but I don't remember any Milky Bar Kid. Was he like the Cisco Kid, only with a chocolate bar as his sidekick?

He was a young kid, with steel-rimmed round specs (obviously there were many of them over the years), dressed in white cowboy gear. He's ride into a town, peopled only by kids, where some adult baddy was trying to do them out of their goodies. He's usually rope the baddy up or some such, then shout "The milky bars are on me!", when all the kids would cheer, surround him and congrat him, then we'd have the theme tune.

The evil Nestlé org tried to revive the ad a few years ago, but it didn't sound so good when the "cowboy chorus", instead of singing "Nestle's [nessles] Milky Bar" sang "Nestlé Milky Bar".

They suck. I can't let my kids have Kit-kat, Smarties, Milky Bar, all the chocky products that used to be owned by a British company: Rowntree, Shreddies (brekky cereal), et al, et al, cos Nestlé own it all - half the world it seems.