Work-Rest-Play with Mars (Mars Bar)

Member Name: kittybuttons

Product:	Mars Bar
Date:	12/05/09 (38 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Tasty chocolate treat

Disadvantages: A bit too heavy & rich

Mars Bar - one of the defining chocolate bars of our generation? Maybe....alone with such classics as Kit Kat, Malteasers and Snickers. It was first created by a young American Forrest Mars, son of a candy maker, in a factory in Slough (of all the places!) in 1932 and soon went on to be one of the best selling chocolate bars in the UK and made a name for itself the world over.

The Mars Bar comes in many, MANY, different varieties as I have discovered but the classic original format is a thick layer of soft, chewy, pale brown nougat, topped with a layer of gooey caramel and covered in rippled milk chocolate (mmm, sounds good doesn't it!) Other varieties include Mars Funsize (my favourite as I found a whole Mars Bar too rich), Mars Almond, Mars Dark & Light, Mars Lava (an orange flavoured Mars from Oz, I WANT it), Mars Rocks and Mars Red.

The packaging for Mars is a black plastic wrapper with the Mars logo in flowing, slanted red letters with a gold outline. The normal Mars Bar is 58g and contains 259 calories which is a whopping 13% of an averages aduts daily recommended intake. And that's before you deep fry it in batter which I though they only did in Scotland but no, apparantly it's reached as far a field as Oz and the USA!

Regional Differences:

Now anybody could be forgiven for getting rather confused like I did when I vistied the USA a few years back as they have a whole name swap thing going on when it comes to Mars. The actual Mars chocolate bar is called Milky Way out there, not too be confused with what we call a Milky Way, the white nougat bar, they call that a 3 Musketkeer. And why don't they just call it a Mars? That's because that name it already being used - that's what they call a Snickers! Now I'm really confused!

Summary: Work-Rest-Play with Mars