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Pookah posted:I got into an argument with a drunk guy from Glasgow at about 2 in the morning in a chipper on this very topic. I think it's generally credited as a glaswegian thing but it wouldn't surprise me if there was a lot of parallel evolution around the world. I was getting deep fried ice cream and deep fried Mars bars from our rural NZ chippy in the 90s too.
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koshmar posted:Snickers Almond are what US Mars Bar became. I can't believe I'm looking up Mars Bars on Wikipedia today. Nice! Treasured memories of my past aren't a complete fabrication! I thought the British were bonkers for Mars Bars because they were like our Almond Snickers. The fact that their Mars Bar is similar to our Milky Way is... weird. It's not horrible, but it's nothing special. Saying it's your favorite candy bar like saying your favorite drink is water with four ice cubes.
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Coffee Sludge posted:Smarties are a gateway to harder candies. Children end up crushing them up and snorting them just to chase that ever illusive sugar high they remember from their first time. Eventually it all stops working as all taste erodes away from sandblasting their nasal passages and taste buds completely clean off and all they have left is bittersweet memories of something they can never achieve again. It escalates quickly 
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Oct 11, 2022 19:33
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I'm pretty sure I had a deep fried Snicker bar and a deep fried Twinkie at a state fair in the US in the mid-90's, so it had to have been a thing before then at the very least. That was also the fair that I ate a scorpion in a sucker! Think it was probably around 1994 or 95.
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Oct 11, 2022 19:35
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Riven posted:They were ALL Twix! It was a setup! 
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Riven posted:They were ALL Twix! It was a setup! IT'S THE ONLY ONE WITH THE COOKIE CRUNCH!
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Oct 11, 2022 19:47
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Publix has an import isle. They had Mars bars. It's like someone stole half the caramel out of a tiny milky way and made the chocolate harder. An altogether inferior candy bar.
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Oct 11, 2022 19:57
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Guyver posted:Publix has an import isle. They had Mars bars. Fun fact: the lower gravity and atmospheric density on Mars actually makes Mars bars soft enough to enjoy as intended (hence the name).
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Oct 11, 2022 20:15
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Seaniqua posted:I'm pretty sure he explained it like this: there was some kid talking poo poo in the crowd. After he won, he meant to say, "Who do you think I am?" As in, "your poo poo talking was never going to work, because I am a bitchin' bowler." Then he sorta had a brain fart and he accidentally said, "Who do you think you are?" When he follows up with, "I am!" it's because he's correcting himself, but it sounds like he answered his own question. I like the triumphant "get it right!" after he says it though.
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Oct 11, 2022 20:17
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I know there were deep fried Snickers bars at the annual fair in my hometown in 1990 because a guy we knew died of a heart attack after going to the fair and eating one so everyone joked that the candy bar killed him. It’s what he would have wanted people to say They also had some kind of thing like a nacho Crunchwrap that was fried and fried steak pieces.
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Oct 11, 2022 20:50
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Guyver posted:Publix has an import isle. They had Mars bars.
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Oct 11, 2022 20:54
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 including wine
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Oct 11, 2022 21:21
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Why not wine? If anything could use a touch of class it's a piss-catcher.
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Oct 11, 2022 21:39
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honestly I am puzzled. it's at a bookstore, but that just raises additional questions.
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Oct 11, 2022 21:55
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Empty Sandwich posted:honestly I am puzzled. it's at a bookstore, but that just raises additional questions. One does not simply shop for books sober, surely.
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Oct 11, 2022 22:02
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Empty Sandwich posted:
Uwinal is really fun to say
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Tree Bucket posted:Uwinal is really fun to say There I ruined it.
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Oct 11, 2022 22:36
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BattyKiara posted:This is going to be the start of the Great Goon Candy Bar Exchange! isn't it? It could be a front page article! https://www.somethingawful.com/news/canadian-candy-challenge-3/ Oh my, that did not age well.
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Oct 11, 2022 22:44
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Pookah posted:I got into an argument with a drunk guy from Glasgow at about 2 in the morning in a chipper on this very topic. Get an Australian and New Zealander together and ask them who invented the Flat White or the Pavlova.
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Oct 11, 2022 22:51
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I love those Yellowtail flavors
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Tree Bucket posted:Uwinal is really fun to say depends on how you pronounce "urinal"
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Oct 11, 2022 22:57
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Only thing I can think of is red wine leaving an alarming-looking stain? And the store may do events with free cheap wine like my favorite place back home used to.
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Oct 11, 2022 23:05
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Either this is a  situation or I can't read, because I think the handwriting says "urine", not "wine".Which still makes the sign amusing in a self-contradictory way.
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Oct 11, 2022 23:12
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Either this is a Good post/username combo
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World War Mammories posted:depends on how you pronounce "urinal" well, not this way at least Splicer posted:Uwinal what's this?
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Lobok posted:I love Whatchamacallit but it's rare to see here in my city and nobody ever remembers the commercials when I mention them. I think my wife thought I was delusional until I finally did find it in a candy shop. The Whatchamacallit commercial is one I have never forgotten for some reason. "Whatcha eatin? "Whatchamacallit" "whatchamacallit?" "That's right." "What's right?" "The name." "What name?" "Whatchamacallit" "You forgot the name?!" That's from 1981 apparently 
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There was also one with a song and an animated chocolate roller coaster and yep ok I get why people thought I was delusional.
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Bookish posted:The Whatchamacallit commercial is one I have never forgotten for some reason. The animated one was a banger. I introduced my son to these recently and he loves them. I was shocked they still make them. https://youtu.be/Md_uz1dKMTM
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TK-42-1 posted:The animated one was a banger. I introduced my son to these recently and he loves them. I was shocked they still make them. Holy poo poo yeah. That's some stylish art. Been 30 years and I remember that ad frame for frame
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Wow that's almost Nagel levels of eighties style. You know it's a good ad because it almost made me want a Whatchamacallit which is a trash bar for idiots
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lmfao that’s incredible
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ultrafilter posted:Do you actually want to know? This may be the greatest avatar/post combo I've ever seen.
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Lobok posted:There was also one with a song and an animated chocolate roller coaster and yep ok I get why people thought I was delusional. I remember seeing it on Saturday morning cartoons. Occasionally, I also get the chorus of the PB Crisps commercial stuck in my head. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTam9BJJq9w
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Goddammit thread now i want a Milky Way.
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SuddenCactus posted:Goddammit thread now i want a Milky Way. Same, but one of these 
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Guyver posted:Publix has an import isle. They had Mars bars. Sounds like you got an old one. This also happens to Boyer's Mallo-Cups. Mallo-Cups are made of win and god when they are fresh. Goldenberg's Peanut Chews has all of you beat on both sides of the Atlantic.
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The first thing my new work printer ever printed out: I feel like this printer already understands. Bonus, the fine print on the bathroom at work:  Oh, and Violet Crumbles are the superior candy bars, just in case anyone was wondering. Y'all can go to hell with your Mars Bars.
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Pookah posted:Butterfingers are great, I always ask people bring me back a stash of them. Splicer posted:I worry sometimes that your posts are me blacking out and logging into an alt. Kheldarn posted:They used to be. Then Nestlé changed the recipe, and filled them with poo poo. You all need to try 5th avenue bars. They're the exact same concept as butterfingers but executed way better
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Empty Sandwich posted:honestly I am puzzled. it's at a bookstore, but that just raises additional questions. I’m sorry sir, you can’t return that book. It’s been flagged. It’s been in the bathroom.
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