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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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>>>>>The U.S. Mars bar is not the same as the UK Mars bar. Not sure which one the Canadian version is like -- sounds like the U.S. one. 3 Musketeers bars do not have nuts. They are fairly light and porous.
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>>>>Yeah, it's been a long time since I stuffed one of them into my face.
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>>>They're only edible after they've been in the fridge and are nice and hard, preferably cut into slices and eaten slowly, slice by slice. A sloppy, half-melted Mars Bar is just cagg in the mouth to me. Perhaps that's why I like the Mars Bar Ice cream (do you lot get that over there?)
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>>Yes, we do. Although, I have to admit to never having eaten it. About the only ice creams I eat are (are you sitting down?) McDonalds (yes, that McDonalds)
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>BOOOOOOO!

Yeah, yeah, I know.

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>>, Dairy Queen, and a Loblaws "President's Choice" product called 'Chocolate Fudge Crackle'.
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>Jeez do they make everything? A bit like a Canuck nestle: coffee, ice cream. ....
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>>Both McDonalds (ice cream is their only edible product, by the way) and Dairy Queen actually make ice milk, not ice cream,
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>Well, if it's owt like their shakes it won't be ice cream (well not that the EU would qulify) more like congealed animal molecules.

Like I said, this is their only edible product. I don't like anything else they make, including shakes. And of course, you have to get it on the right day. When it's right, the ice milk is firm and cold, but sometimes, it's way too soft and flabs over the cone. I think ice milk needs to be colder than ice cream in order to be firm. I've never had the problem with Dairy Queen, although a Dairy Queen cone's cost is almost double that of a McDonalds cone.

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>>and I prefer it. As for Chocolate Fudge Crackle, well, you'd have to eat it to know, but it's vanilla ice cream with strips of real chocolate in it. When you push the spoon, or ice cream scoop through it, you break up the chocolate and it crackles. Unlike all other chocolate I've ever eaten in ice cream, this chocolate tastes like actual chocolate.
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>Sounds good. I like Dairy Queen. Mars ice cream has real Mars Bar chocolate coating, with inner soft caramel and some ice creamy version of the MB filling. At first they made it with this horrible wrapper that used to impart a synthetic plasticy taste/odour to the product, that put me off, but now they've changed that.
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>Nestle ice cream sucks BTW - too rich and sickly tasting.

I don't care for most other ice creams. I'm a vanilla fan. I always get dissed when we go into a Baskin Robbins with their 37 flavours and I order vanilla.

>BTW, found this citation that mentions the 3 Muskateer, Milky Way and Mars Bar histories, esp. re: Canada:

>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Bar

Interesting.

Anyway, as far as Nestlé is concerned, when it comes to halloween, it's about the only choice. I won't buy products that I don't know are peanut free, so I pretty much have to go with Nestlé.