Sunday, December 12, 2010

Sweet tooth

On the way back from church today, for whatever reason, we were discussing British sweets and chocolates.  Not being a regular candy-bar-eating type, I haven't really tried anything they have over here.  My friends were dumbfounded.  So, naturally, we had to go to Tesco to begin my chocolate bar education.  Result:






SO MUCH CHOCOLATE.  So now I have before me the daunting task of consuming these candy bars.  Given the amount of time I have left, that is more than one a day.  I'm definitely going to call my flatmates in to help me on this one.

My first go was the Mars bar.  It gets a lot of hype around here (particularly with the Edinburgh delicacy, fried Mars bars...whether or not I try that before leaving remains to be determined...), so I thought I'd start with that.  It's basically our Milky Way (hence the presence of a Milky Way bar as well - it's something different here), only with British chocolate.  (Which is only slightly different.)  So, it's got chocolate nougat covered in caramel surrounded by chocolate.  It's ridiculously sweet and tastes a little bit malty.  Not quite my thing.  But now I've had it.

Woah.  I've just started looking up candy bar definitions on Wikipedia and now know more than I needed to about the origins, compositions, and similarities of numerous different US and UK chocolate bars.  This must stop.  I might fill you in later.  But being now totally sugar-hyped, I must go finish my essays.    O_O

Love,
Melody

2 comments:

  1. I'm pretty sure we have Mars here as well. PS, fried candy bars are only the beginning in TX (think twinkies, oreos, even coke lol).

    And don't worry, if you have extras you can always share the foreign chocolate with your friends at home :)

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