A Taste of Halloween

[ravenloft]

can anyone confirm a southeast Milkduds belt?
I mean, I will eat 'em but I am very surprised to see it as top of the state candy. if they went by candy quantity  sold,  it makes more sense they are cheap.
I would have thought snickers would reign supreme.

Me, I like three musketeers, rolos, m&ms, crunch, dots, peppermint patties, junior mints, bit o honey, herseys bars, nerds, and those gummy fruit rings

[Hepcat]

Great stuff! Interesting regional variations. And some surprising one-offs - Hershey's in Delaware, Jolly Rancher in Illinois, Swedish Fish in Kentucky, Red Hots in Tennesee, Air Heads in Louisiana, Gummy Worms in South Dakota, Sweet Tarts in Wyoming and Nerds in Colorado. And I'm surprised that Hot Tamales are so popular down the center of the States.

[Monsters For Sale]

I'm surprised about Mars.  When was the last time America made Mars Bars?  They were discontinued when Snickers Almond came out.  (Similar, but NOT the same.)

I ,miss Mars Bars - my personal favorite.

[Hepcat]

I've seen the above map previously a number of years ago.

The American version was discontinued in 2002, and then revived the following year under the name "Snickers Almond".

Hmmmmm. All I can tell you is that Mars bars have continued to be sold in Ontario although I've seen Snickers Almond as well. And both Mars and Snickers bars are sold in Lithuania.

[marsattacks666]

Personally and being from Las Vegas, NV. I do not like M&Ms. I don't recall a huge demand for that particular candy. Snickers, Twix and Reeces were the favorite candies among my Friends and I.🎃

[Monsters For Sale]

I've seen the above map previously a number of years ago.

Hmmmmm. All I can tell you is that Mars bars have continued to be sold in Ontario although I've seen Snickers Almond as well. And both Mars and Snickers bars are sold in Lithuania.

Really?  The American version - not the British Mars Bar?

[Hepcat]

Don't know. I didn't sample any Mars bars there. I didn't travel all the way to Lithuania to buy stuff I could get here. I sampled chocolate bars that were made by Kraft Jacobs Suchard in Lithuania instead:





Both very similar to Snickers bars. The one with the green wrapper is with hazelnuts; the yellow wrapper is with peanuts.

[Monsters For Sale]

One of my favorites was the Rally candy bar.  Built along the lines of a Baby Ruth bar, but with better chocolate and caramel.  I hated it when they stopped making them.

[Hepcat]

What you need then is a Canadian Oh Henry bar:

Hershey sells Oh Henry! bars made in Canada on a very limited basis in the United States as Rally bars, using the trademark of a Hershey product introduced in the 1970s and later discontinued.

I think I'll have one right now in fact!

[Monsters For Sale]

What you need then is a Canadian Oh Henry bar:...    

Hey, that doesn't look like an American Oh Henry! bar.

[Mike Scott]

Stop! These are getting too scary!!

[Hepcat]

Hey, that doesn't look like an American Oh Henry! bar.

That's because American and Canadian Oh Henry! bars are different. The American bar is the one with the flatter less bumpy surface to your left in this picture:

The bars are different in appearance: the Canadian version is one bar with the fudge in the center, the fudge surrounded with a thin layer of caramel, and the nuts surrounding that layer before it is surrounded in the (chocolate) coating.

Oh Henry chocolate bars were produced in Canada since around 1930 by the Walter M. Lowney Company which had moved from Boston to Canada in 1903. (I can't find a good comprehensive history of Lowney's right now though.) Sadly Lowney's was acquired by American chocolate giant Hershey's in 1987 and yet another icon of Canada's cultural identity disappeared.

Know your candy!

[Mike Scott]

The American bar is the flatter one to your left in this picture:

The one on the right looks flatter, to me.

[Hepcat]

Perhaps a better way to differentiate them then would be to say that the American bar has the less bumpy surface.

[Hepcat]

The American version (of the Mars bar) was discontinued in 2002, and then revived the following year under the name "Snickers Almond".

Hmmmmm. All I can tell you is that Mars bars have continued to be sold in Ontario although I've seen Snickers Almond as well.

So evidently the Mars bar sold in Canada is the British version. Unlike the version that was sold in the States, it has no almonds. For a number of years though the American variant of the Mars bar with the almonds was also sold in a white wrapper here in Canada:

Canadian Mars Bars Commercial

I used to buy the almond version fairly often but it's no longer available.

Snickers bars in an almond as well as the regular peanut variant are available in Canada though. So are a bunch of other gimmicky Snickers bars to which I pay no attention. Nonetheless I rarely buy Snickers bars of any kind. I much prefer the Mars bar with the almonds.