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Anonymous said...

Ferraro Roche, if its the same company....makes really decent chocolate. Surprised to hear they ruined Baby Ruth......

September 5, 2020 at 11:58 AM 

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Kit Kat said...

The only thing I can suggest is that “you get over it”!

September 5, 2020 at 1:20 PM 

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rcg said...

Did you get an export version? Confectioners often make different versions of the same thing for different market countries. Coca-Cola is an example. The New Coke reminded me of coke I experienced in other countries.

September 5, 2020 at 5:28 PM 

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Anonymous said...

Quite a few south of the border Coca-Colas are more as old Coca-Cola and made with sugar instead of corn syrup as the current/post-NEW Coke in the USA.

As for changes in the candies, such classics such as Boston Baked Beans, Red Hots, cinnamon discs, etc seem sourced from Mexico.

Changes are mostly driven by sourcing/shipping durability/shelf life, where makers have discovered butyl rubber makes excellent candy if you add enough artificial flavors, and hey, this is for human consumption and lab rats growing fingernails out of noses is a rat thing having nothing to do with humans.

Plus, folk can now put their favorite candies in Centennial and Bicentennial time capsules, and those people of the future will be able to taste and see exactly what favorite treats we enjoyed, AND be able to use it as a night light.

September 5, 2020 at 11:17 PM 

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 Anonymous said...

Kit Kat Kavanaugh, man, you just have to snark. Give it a rest

September 6, 2020 at 12:18 PM 

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Anonymous said...

There he goes again, as beloved President Reagan said. Seeing Kavanaughs under every bed when the humor or point is beyond him.

Why do you approve these vacuous and utterly offbase paranoid misidentifications, Father?

It really detracts from your comment section unless you prefer such posts to dominate the place by driving off others. The changes in candy are driven by economics (such as shelf life and shipping durability) as mach as taste tests, today, which was the point of my entire post, and only reply, AGAIN, is to be accused of being Kavanaugh, and that reply was approved by you. Apparently any attempt at humor here is automatically judged "snark", and by Kavanaugh, no less, which means he must be the only one who posts here who has a sense of humor?

September 6, 2020 at 3:24 PM 

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John Nolan said...

In Britain the price of a Mars Bar is sometimes used as an index of inflation. In the mid-1960s it cost sixpence in old money; today it is the equivalent of twelve shillings, which would indicate an inflation rate of X24.

However, the size has decreased over the last fifty years. In this century alone it has gone from 60.5g to 51g.

What's the difference between a Baby Ruth and a Snickers?

September 7, 2020 at 7:41 AM 

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Fr. Allan J. McDonald said...

Yes, John, the same here in terms of cost rising and the bar shrinking. The single bar I spent only 5 cents for in the early 60’s was humongous and in fact, you can’t get a bar that size anymore, no matter how much it would cost. Even at Halloween, people would pass out this huge bars to kids as we went door to door. Today, people by bags of micro bars to pass out. What a cheat!

I am not sure how English money compares to American change.

Believe it or not, M & M Mars does not sell Mars bars anymore in the USA—absolutely stunning. Thus I can’t really remember the difference between a mars bar and a snickers. Perhaps not too much and that’s why it was eliminated from our market?

In terms of the snickers bar and Baby Ruth, prior to the change in Baby Ruth, it would have had a totally different texture and taste. The new recipe though, and oddly enough since you ask the question, makes it taste more like a snickers, although I think the Baby Ruth has more peanuts and is more crunchy. One of the changes is the peanuts now are dry roasted instead of oil boiled. This affects the taste and I think the nougat tastes more chocolatety to me than previous, thus sweeter. I am not a big fan of snickers and never was but i loved Baby Ruths but now it taste more like a snickers, i don’t like it. Interesting you mentioned snickers.

September 7, 2020 at 7:53 AM 

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Fr. Allan J. McDonald said...

Now that I think about it, when we had Mars bars, the same company made Snickers and Three Musketeers. I think the Three Musketeers and Mars bars were more similar. I find it peculiar, though, that the Mars bar was eliminated from the American market, give our fascination with space and the planet Mars. Go figure.

September 7, 2020 at 8:33 AM 

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John Nolan said...

The Mars bar is an American concept, first manufactured in Slough, England in 1932 by Forrest Mars, son of the US candy maker Frank C Mars. It consists of nougat and caramel enclosed in thick milk chocolate.

When I was a boy there was a bar called Milky Way which was smaller and without the caramel. It was advertised as 'the sweet you can eat between meals without spoiling your appetite.' It retailed at threepence.

The Mars bar had the slogan 'A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play.' In those days you could get a substantial portion of fish-and-chips for one-and-nine (1/9d) and a three course lunch at the local Chinese restaurant was five bob (5/-). That's a quarter of a pound sterling.

Decimal currency came in February 1971 and rampant inflation only a few years later. I now pay £4 for a pint of beer. Oh, the humanity!

September 7, 2020 at 11:16 AM