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Milky Way is a brand of chocolate-covered confectionery bar manufactured and marketed by Mars Inc..There are two varieties: the U.S. Milky Way bar, which is sold as the Mars bar worldwide, including Canada; and the global Milky Way bar, which is sold as the 3 Musketeers in the U.S. and Canada (neither bar is sold as Milky Way in Canada).
Mars, commonly known as Mars bar, is the name of two varieties of chocolate bar produced by Mars Inc. It was first manufactured in 1932 in Slough , England by Forrest Mars Sr. [ 2 ] The bar consists of caramel and nougat coated with milk chocolate .
Over the years, the bar weight has decreased: Before 2009, in the UK a single Snickers bar had a weight of 62.5 g (2.20 oz). This weight was subsequently reduced to 58 g (2.0 oz) in 2009, [25] and to 48 g (1.7 oz) in 2013. [26] In the United States the listed weight in 2018 was 52.7 g.
Galaxy is a chocolate bar, made and marketed by Mars Inc., and first manufactured in the United Kingdom in 1960. [1] Galaxy is sold in the United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, the Middle East, Morocco, India, Pakistan, Australia, Malta, [2] and is also sold in the United States, Canada, Mexico and various Continental European countries as Dove.
The bars are individually wrapped, and are sold individually or (in some the case of some varieties) can be bought in multi-pack grocery boxes. [ 5 ] As of 2002, Mars' Tracker brand reportedly had an 11% market of the UK cereal bar market, behind Kellogg's Nutri-Grain and Special K products.
The World War II K ration issued in temperate climates sometimes included a bar of Hershey's commercial-formula sweet chocolate. But instead of being the typical flat thin bar, the K ration chocolate was a thick rectangular bar that was square at each end. (In tropical regions, the K ration used Hershey's Tropical Bar formula.)
In 2006, the company discontinued all but the Crunchy Singles variety of the candy bar, and now has a "Now with better taste" sticker on it. Mars, Incorporated stated that they planned to rebrand the bar in 2008, but this did not happen. [1] In 2013, M-Azing was relaunched under the name M&M'S Chocolate Bar, which was discontinued in 2015. [2]
A deep-fried Mars bar (also known as a battered Mars bar) is a Mars-brand chocolate bar covered in batter then deep fried in oil. The dish originated at a chip shop in Scotland as a novelty item. Since various mass media began reporting on the practice in the mid-1990s – often as a critical commentary on how unhealthy the Scottish diet was ...