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One of my favorite photos:

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/375619/The-day-Britain-got-its-sweets-back

We forget how important candy and toys are to children…and Stoaty. 🙂

So the Oz version is a Baby Ruth?

Silly Limeys. Everyone knows that Marathon bars were those chocolate covered caramel bars, with a woven pattern…have not seen one in years.

I love putting Snicker bars in the freezer. 🙂

Marathons? I haven’t forgiven you lot for changing the beloved Opal Fruits to Starburst, yet!

And yes, Picnics are my fave, too… much in demand in the Mustelid household, they are.

Oh, and don’t anyone mention Kraft and Cadbury. Kraft’s treatment of Cadbury since it bought the company has done more damage to Anglo-American relations than anything since that incident with the tea….

Oh, how I love marshmallow! And if I could get a picnic bar sans dried grapes, I’d probably like it.

I do, however, have some Snickers in the freezer, I might need to indulge with one tonight.

Raisins are the devil’s fruit!

I like raisins. As long as they never come into contact with anything else edible.

Snickers bars are ok. I’m a butterfingers girl. And I’ll kill the first bastard that does anything to change those!

Does no one like Heath toffee bars?

Oh! Do they ever have Sky Bars in Merry Old?
The bar consists of four milk chocolate sections each with an interior of caramel, vanilla, peanut or fudge.

Dame Stoaty, being a real “yankee” (New England standards where it’s not a curseword) have you ever had one?

I love Heath toffee bars!

But, I’m old. Give me a KitKat with a cup of coffee and I’m in heaven.

Ohhhhhh…Butterfingers…!

Never heard of a Sky Bar.

I thought maybe they might have been in stores in Rhode Island back in the day since they’re made up the road in Masswahtuchetts 😉 .
Oddly enough you can get them nation wide in Cracker Barrel restaurants, but I guess they are (were) like Major Mudd and the Nervous 1, a New England weirdness (IBBY). They’re made, still, by NECCO, for those who are familiar with Necco Wafers.
I guess there aren’t enough NEW Englanders in Old England to warrant importing them across the pond.

Never have cared for raisins. They look like . . . well, in deference to our esteemed hostess, I won’t say. But I don’t like ’em. (“I’ll think of the reason later –“)

When I was a kid I preferred Zero bars, the white (or white-ish) chocolate over nougat with almonds, or maybe it was peanuts. Nowadays my chocolate intake is a small square of very dark chocolate, say 70% cacao, after I have my chili-powdered and picante-sauced eggs with pepper. The sweet stuff kills the burning. Though these are very mild spices. Some chile from New Mexico, now, that’d really send the hot meter shooting up.

They stopped using the Marathon name 27 years ago, and you’re getting shit for it *now*?

Snickers.

Too close to the term “knickers”?

Everyone I know is terribly, terrible old, jic.

Imagine we’re younger then 🙂

Or
A bunch of Tolkien Elves who found your site and enjoy your humor.

Okay, on the Weasel’s recommendation I just ordered 2 packages (12 bars) of Picnic. On Amazon! Reasonably priced at less than $1 per bar. And this time of year they should arrive intact. (I’d NOT order chocolate from 5000 miles away in the summer!)

When I was a kid, an OCCASIONAL treat was the little Callard & Bowser’s “toffee fingers” from the UK. They came in a package of a dozen or so, individually wrapped, maybe 3/4 inches wide and 2 inches long. SO TASTY! And in numerous flavors – my favorite were a butter-toffee thing, I believe with pecans, and licorice. I believe they went out of business.

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