8. Food Is Spookily Close But Not Quite The Same
flickrMarathon became Snickers, we all know that and many of us remember it happening. I believe Oil of Ulay is now Olay to match the US counterpart and indeed Hershey Chocolate owns the American arm of Cadbury. Walmart owns Asda too, but Walmart itself needs a dedicated section - which it shall have in due course. While some treats are named the same as in the UK they can be quite different - Mars bars have almonds in them, Milky Ways have caramel, effectively making them Mars bars. What a world! And you can't buy cheese and onion crisps anywhere but sour cream and onion are rife. One of the more popular flavors here is Mesquite crisps. Can you get that in the UK? I wonder if it's actually made of Mosquitos. Plus, there are similar or even indentical products but have different names - Maltesers are called Whoppers and Galaxy Bites are known by the very unappealing name Milk Duds. The ultimate difference though is taste - UK choccy is made with cane sugar, milk, vegetable oil and so on, but US chocolate is made with fluff, sawdust and wax. It's hideous dog chocolate of the lowest grade and it's just so vastly inferior to UK chocolate that it breaks my little heart. I import British chocolate bars in bulk because American 'candy' is for the most part inedible. I pity the kids here on Halloween. As a footnote, one time I asked my American mrs to order some of my favorite stuff from the UK. She was placing the order until we got to 'Digestives' where she laughed and asked what they were. When I told her what this traditional staple of British fare is she continued laughing, because to her the name was so literal. I really didn't get the joke until I separated the brand from the word itself. It's named after a bodily function, and in fact was done so deliberately to highlight how easy they are to digest. But it's so graphic when you think about it... Why didn't they just call them Poohies? She asked. Nice.