Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 08:37:58 -0400
From: "M. Lynne Murphy" <104LYN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MUSE.ARTS.WITS.AC.ZA>
Subject: Re: Switched Candy Names
> I hope this switch hasn't already been mentioned.
> I've heard that the Snickers and Milky Way bar are reversed in
> England (and probably the rest of GB). In the US, the Snickers is
> the one with nuts.
in south africa, there is no milky way, but the mars bar doesn't have
its almonds. snickers is as in u.s. when i said something to a
class about the almondlessness of mars, one student (who had been to
u.s.) said "the americans ruin everything with nuts." (pleasantly
ambiguous statement on its own.)
lynne
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