stevez wrote:

leek wrote:As far as I could tell, until recently (2005?) in the US, the Mars bar had almonds and a harder nougat than the Milky Way. Now they have been reformulated, and are soft, and flaccid and I do not like them any more.

The former U.S. Mars Bar has been resized (it used to be flatter and wider) and is now called Snickers Almond. It contains nougat, caramel and almonds. European Mars bars are more or less the same as U.S. Milky Way bars. I don't think there is such a thing as a Mars Bar in the U.S. any more (unless imported from the EU).

FYI, you can find Mars bars --aka the best candy bar ever!--at the following location:
Kurowski's Sausage Shop
2976-78 North Milwaukee Avenue
Chicago
773-645-1692

Try them frozen!

The deep-fried Twinkie is jumping from the state fair to the home freezer. Hostess Brands, the maker of lunchbox treats like Ho Hos, is launching packaged "Deep Fried Twinkies" starting Friday that mark its first foray into frozen foods.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ ... story.html