Coworker: Can you bring some American or at least English music to play in class?
Me: sweating nervously Uhh, yeah. I can... uh totally do that!
checks music library Anime, game ost, anime, anime, game, game, J-pop, J-rock, German punk, anime, game, game, game, game, game, game, game, anime, J-rock.............. System of a Down! Yes, that's from the US! What do I have? "Violent Pornography" ................................................... The hell was wrong with me in high school? resumes searching anime, game, anime, game, MASSIVE WALL OF CLASSICAL WITH NO LYRICS, game, game, SECOND MASSIVE WALL OF CLASSIC-ROCK HYBRID WITH NO LYRICS, Game, anime, game, anime, J-pop......
Welp, time to Google! Has no idea who any of these bands are.
Uhhh What did I listen too as a little kid?
Ah, the Dark Lord of the Sith, evil master of all things! Oh lord Mickey! Please save me! Aha! The Mistress of Evil! Talyor, surely you can help!
Me to my students: Yes, Disney and Taylor Swift are the only two American music sources. Stop asking please!
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@bimmy-lee Haha, yeah, that's exactly what I use the Snickers bar for as well: quick breaks, on travels and sometimes, just because they're so good...
Funny you'd mention Three Musketeers. We used to have those as well, back in the day when I was just a teeny-tiny little Thanos:
Personally, I always enjoyed them, but it was such a long time ago, that my taste may have changed, so if they were still here now, they'd possibly be a bit too sweet or sticky for my taste.
While digging into Google to find this picture, I came across some info that mentions that apparently, Mars came up with this Three Musketeers candy bar in 1971, as a response to the Curly Wurly Bar that was popular in the UK at the time. Didn't really work all that well in the end, seeing as the Three Musketeers bar already disappeared before the mid-80's over here, and Curly Wurly bars are still available to this day, even over here...
@Octane High end phone without having to pay for a label, huh? Well, at least they've got a pretty decent marketing formula going, if people actually fell for that...
@ThanosReXXX I think that Three Musketeers has caramel based on the photo. That would be much better than the US one that has a bland nougat filling. These intercontinental differences with candy bars is complicated stuff.
I’m not sure if they are as common in Holland, but I really the marzipan chocolates that friends from France and Germany have introduced to me. It’s really sweet but it has has a really pleasing almond flavor that I like a lot. Not as common to find those in the states.
@NotTelevision Yup, that is indeed caramel/taffee. It's semi-hard, so that it only melts when you eat it.
As for the marzipan chocolates: we do have similar kinds of candy over here, but what you mentioned is indeed more typically found in Germany or France. Each country basically has its own kind of candy. Like how in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany all kinds of licorice are really popular, and in the countries in between and/or surrounding them, it's more chocolate, nougat, marzipan and hard candy.
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This may be controversial but I've never personally had anything more foul tasting than American chocolate. I remember my mother bringing home Hershey's chocolate for us to try and it was all promptly binned. I find the marked difference in chocolate production between Europe and the US to be fascinating. The methods of production and the ingredient makeup is so different.
I'd be interested to hear how any Americans here found tasting European chocolate in comparison.
Edit - Probably worthwhile for me to clarify that I'm Irish so mostly had Irish, UK and Belgian chocolate available to us.
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@klingki - No oats Snickers, or seasonal gingerbread Kit Kats that I’m aware of here in the US, but they both sound interesting. An oats Snickers would be even more hearty than a regular Snickers, making it an even more reliable lunch substitute in a pinch. Those gingerbread Kit Kats sound delightful!
@NotTelevision - A chocolate covered marshmallow is a good way to describe a Three Musketeers bar. Just not worth the calories in my opinion. I also enjoyed a Milky Way when I was younger more than I do now. It’s just a little too sweet for my adult taste buds without the necessary salty crunch to ground the experience. Snickers has always been my favorite though. Here’s a good question though, does a Kit Kat count as a candy bar? I say no, it’s a chocolate covered wafer cookie, but I’m open to other opinions.
@ThanosReXXX - The differences between candy bars that we’re discovering here is really interesting. The Three Musketeers bar of your youth actually looks really good. I feel like it would be one of the top candy bars on US shelves today if it had always come with pretzel and caramel. It would have been the first candy bar to feature pretzels here in that case. I’m desperate for a Curly Wurly bar now just for the name. Did you see the Snickers with oats mentioned above? Talk about a pick me up/lunch substitute, that’s basically the greatest granola bar ever made.
@bimmy-lee You’re right. They are just chocolate covered wafers. I guess what constitutes a candy bar can be debated, but it gets a bit too liberal when you are just putting chocolate on cookies/crackers. I wouldn’t consider it a candy bar in the same way the others being mentioned.
@ThanosReXXX Yeah that Three Musketeers sounds quite nice. I’ve never heard of a Curly Wurly. At first I thought that was a chocolate covered pretzel but it’s actually kind of a latticed toffee with chocolate. I like the sound of that.
@alpacatears A Hershey’s chocolate bar is just a standard cheap bar of chocolate in the US. It doesn’t say the percentage of cocoa powder used in production on the packaging, but I would assume it is very low. I guess most of it is just a dairy fat or shortening that they heavily process.
If I’m just eating pure chocolate than I’ll go for something higher quality. A Hershey’s chocolate bar is just the common one. There are better brands of chocolate in the US for sure.
@bimmy-lee There were no pretzels in the Dutch Three Musketeers bar, just caramel/taffee. But there's more differences in candy bars, or actually in snacks in general. Not only ingredients, but also names. Back in the day, we in Europe were apparently not allowed to use several brand names that were used in the US, so instead of Twix we had Raider, instead of M&Ms we had Treets (the peanut version, and it only came in brown color) and we didn't have the regular M&Ms either, those were called Bonitos, and instead of the M&Ms logo, they had smiley faces on them.
And far as an example of snacks are concerned, we weren't allowed to use the name Lays for potato chips, so over here, the brand was called "Smiths".
@NotTelevision Three Musketeers was also latticed taffee/caramel dipped in chocolate. It was always one of my favorite candy bars when I was little, along with Caramac, but I don't know if that was known in that many countries outside of the Netherlands, let alone in the Americas.
So.... this just happened:
Had to do multiple page refreshes before I got rid of it. No idea why I got to see this, but luckily it was only a temporary hiccup, apparently.
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@ThanosReXXX - Ah, I thought the braided caramel in the old Three Musketeers ad was pretzel. All clear now. The naming issue is interesting. I could have guessed what was in each bag, it’s pretty funny. I think I’d prefer Treets. Brown seems less toxic than whatever they have to put in the candy shell to make them the other colors of the rainbow.
@HobbitGamer - This hasn’t really been an inclusive conversation. I have room in my life for lots of different candy. I almost put licorice in a class by itself because it’s unique and has its own flavor. It’s a funny word too.
Licorice is one of the sweet foods I can easily ignore; I don't particularly care for it, especially that foul black licorice stuff. Try biting into one of those flavored jelly beans that you think is actually a grape one....Yuck. :nauseated_face:
Some sweet things are easily ignored in this corner, but I absolutely love most chocolate (except that shellac stuff on ice cream like at Dairy Queen), most cakes, many types of cookies, most pies, and pretty much all cheesecake. I'm not into a lot of the Little Debbie type snacks these days though; most of those are WAY too sweet and fake-tasting.
@Heavyarms55 I dunno, some of those vague musical descriptions sound pretty good. Granted, I don't listen to a lot of "typical" American/English music lol. Mostly out of the rock and metal genres. Though I'll listen to just about anything if I'm in the right mood as long as it isn't country and straight opera. Then there are video game OSTs, Disney metal covers, some Lindsey Stirling, early 2000s pop....
...Oh wait. For a classroom.
Disney music should be fine I'm sure. Taylor Swift...eh....
Maybe some Weird Al?
@alpacatears We have better chocolate than that, though one of my favorites is actually a German brand. I'm assuming the difference is that our food is much, MUCH sweeter on average (going off of online feedback I've found)? One doesn't notice it here until they cut a ton of sugar out of their diet. A lot of our packaged stuff unfortunately has a lot of artificial sweeteners, syrups, and cheap sugar subs to lower production costs. Corn syrups in particular are pretty common since corn is a highly subsidized product here.
@NintendoByNature Thanks for the heads up! Though I think I'll be passing on this game.
Yeah the most common version is the bandera de coco. I believe they're called "cocadas", in general.
It's like soft and chewy, the coconut usually very fine, though it varies. Kinda like a rice crispy treat, but with soft coconut shreds instead of crunchy rice.
I do like them quite a bit. Though it's kinda uncommon to just buy one for the sake of it, it's more like, party candy.
Might get one next time I see them.
Another interesting candy bar that seems to be from Mexico (though more modern) is the Bubu Lubu. It's a weirdly shaped bar, where the lower half is a denser marshmallow, the upper half is a soft strawberry gummy-thingy, and the whole thing is completely covered in a thin layer of chocolate. I used to love these as a kid.
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