Date:  Thu, 28 Sep 1995 08:48:04 -0500

From:  "Dennis R. Preston" <preston[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]PILOT.MSU.EDU>

Subject: Re: Going Decimal



AHA! Is a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup (not roundish even; flat out round) a

candy bar?

Trying to stretch the prototype.

Dennis Preston (who confesses to liking these awful things in spite of all

the crappy things he said earlier)

<preston[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]pilot.msu.edu>



>>     As for "Candy Bars", I think it's just another American Slang catch

>> all term for anything sweet to eat that's not a cookie or cake.In Great

>

>No. Yesterday, for example, I went down to the vending machine to get

>a candy bar (I was planning on getting a Milky Way), but I changed my

>mind at the last minute and got a bag of M&Ms instead. M&Ms are not a

>candy bar; a Milky Way is a candy bar. A candy bar has to be a bar --

>a loosely defined bar in that it's possible to have a square candy bar

>or possibly even a roundish one, although I can't think of any examples

>of that. A bag of small items like M&Ms can't be a candy bar.

>  --Natalie (maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ra.msstate.edu)