Hanuta is mine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanuta

Oonah used to eat these so much, they're called Knoppers over here.

Thats not the same Julie.
Knoppers is german made by Storck whilst Hanuta is from Ferrero which is an italian company.

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With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.

I really hate this American word "candy" which seems to describe all sorts of sweets, chocolates, other foodstuffs, and god knows what else. It's almost as bad as "Cookies" which means small cakes.

In the UK we have "candy floss" which is a spun sugar confection, although of course the Yanks call it Cotton candy and the Aussies call it Fairy Floss. The correct term for things like Mars bars etc is chocolate bars, and generically, confectionery. Things like Bulls eyes or Cough Candy sold loose, are sweets.

We used to have a chocolate bar of nougat topped with caramel and peanuts, called Marathon. In 1990 they renamed it Snickers, which engendered that absolutely terrible TV advert saying

"Have you got the Snickers?"
"No, it's just the way I walk...."

Candy and cookies should stay across the pond.

Hrrrumpff

:-)))))))

Hey chris ,we have chocolate bars and the ones you call sweets we call lollies. When was young you could buy bags of mixed lollies at the corner milk bar. Now they mostly come in 200 gram bags at the supermarket. My favourite lollies were milk bottles until they mysteriously vanished from the shelves. Then came the bannanas and whitchety grubs. The term candy really annoys me too. :-)

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Hanuta is mine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanuta

Oonah used to eat these so much, they're called Knoppers over here.

Thats not the same Julie.
Knoppers is german made by Storck whilst Hanuta is from Ferrero which is an italian company.

Oh, we buy them at the Aldi over here, well, not anymore...

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Here in Canada we also call all of that, SUGAR!

I still must admit to a fondness for chocolate though.

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In the UK we have "candy floss" which is a spun sugar confection, although of course the Yanks call it Cotton candy and the Aussies call it Fairy Floss.

The restaurant at the hotel where I work uses cotton candy as a palate cleanser in between courses.

We used to have a chocolate bar of nougat topped with caramel and peanuts, called Marathon.

This is the Marathon bar I remember, and actually ours had a wrapper that had a ruler on it.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

Way back, lollies used to mean the different kinds of ice lollies, things like Mivvies etc..

Those appear to be ice cream bars. If they don't have any actual ice cream, they're Popsicles (brand names be damned, just like Kleenex).

These days it seems to mean any kind of a sweet on a stick, hard boiled or otherwise.

Those are lollipops or suckers. The same thing without the stick is hard candy. Hard candy that's especially hard to bite through is a jaw breaker. Jelly Babies are an example of soft or jelly candy.

I was never fond enough of those to remember now what they were called.

You used to know where you were with sherbet fountains, blackjacks, and licorice bootlaces, these days I just give up .....

Bullseyes, Twizzlers...

Candy is a generic term for anything with a lot of sugar and little if any redeeming dietary value, whether or not it's chocolate, but not ice cream (although there are candy flavors of ice cream).

(And we won't confuse the issue with Lolly Lolly Lolly.)

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Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

I was never fond enough of those to remember now what they were called.

They look like white chocolate shaped bottles. I love white chocolate. There's not a whole lot of candy bars out there with white chocolate, except maybe the Zero bar...

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

My personal favorite is the Payday. Not available in Canada, so I look forward to my visits to the US. Yanks, don't let anybody tell you that the US never contributed anything worthwhile to global culture.

I have been meaning to respond to this for a couple of days.

Mr. Walker, clearly you do not understand the American psyche. Even if some silly foreigner were to be foolish enough to tell us that we had never contributed anything worthwhile to global culture, not an American soul would, for even a fraction of a second, believe it. That is part of our charm, you see...

Now then, Payday bars are not difficult to recreate in the kitchen. All you need are caramels and salted peanuts.

1. Unwrap a bunch of caramels
2. Melt them down in a double boiler
3. Put salted peanuts on a plate
4. Drizzle a thick stripe of caramel onto the plate of peanuts
5. Using clean spoons or a small spatula, roll the hot caramel stripe in the peanuts until it is covered with peanuts on all sides
6. Remove to a different plate to cool
7. Repeat until all caramel and peanuts are used, all while singing a rousing version of God Bless America
8. Enjoy







Oh, you're welcome, Canada.

Yanks, don't let anybody tell you that the US never contributed anything worthwhile to global culture.

Of course they did - Lays crisps :-))

Known over here as Chips.

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S I G H ......

For about the 151st time .....

CHIPS




FRENCH FRIES




CRISPS



You can call them what you like over the pond, THAT is what they are, whether you like it or not. Comprende Amigos?


mutter mutter - damn Colonials - mutter mumble ...

Clearly your education has been lacking ...

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I'm wondering if this thread shouldn't be renamed -

Two Countries separated by a common language!!!

Mind you I do have to side with Chris

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Happy Crunching,

Graham

Even if some silly foreigner were to be foolish enough to tell us that we had never contributed anything worthwhile to global culture, not an American soul would, for even a fraction of a second, believe it.

Does this mean you people have muktuk?

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You can call them what you like over the pond, THAT is what they are, whether you like it or not. Comprende Amigos?

What you call chips i call fries.

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With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.

All right then Chris, what do you call this?

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Celttooth, the poor Yanks don't have any kind of decent uqhuq (outside of Alaska). Even though its health benefits have been scientifically proven, over and over. Tough, eh?

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Angela, "charm" is one word for it.

Your recipe reminded me of my grandfather's recipe for blending corn syrup and peanut butter. You start with some of each on the plate, mix it to the perfect consistency, then add more syrup, or more p.b., as required to use up the left overs. You continue this until my grandmother tells you to get the hell out of her kitchen.

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Hi:
I know what I call that stuff, but
I hesitate to talk about it as I
fear they may steal it away from us
like they did with zippers and basketball....

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Hi:
I know what I call that stuff, but
I hesitate to talk about it as I
fear they may steal it away from us
like they did with zippers and basketball....

... and Justin Beiber.

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Yes in deed, not to forget the famous
Cape Breton inventor Johanne Smiddley McLean
creator of the single entendre......

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Hi:
I know what I call that stuff, but
I hesitate to talk about it as I
fear they may steal it away from us
like they did with zippers and basketball....

... and Justin Beiber.

You can have Him back, anytime you want...

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