Someone's put a black streak on Mars.

[dang65]

Did you know... Mars bars are called that because they were invented and made by the Mars family? Nothing to do with the planet. As David Mitchell pointed out on the radio the other day..

[Platypus]

Did you know... Mars bars are called that because they were invented and made by the Mars family? Nothing to do with the planet. As David Mitchell pointed out on the radio the other day..

Yeah, right, and I suppose that the 'Milky Way' was invented and made by the 'Milkyway' family was it?

[Churchill]

Did you know... Mars bars are called that because they were invented and made by the Mars family? Nothing to do with the planet. As David Mitchell pointed out on the wireless the other day..

FTFY

Slough!!!

In 1932, Forrest Mars, assumed estranged son of American candy maker Frank C. Mars, rented a factory in Slough and with a staff of twelve people began manufacturing a kind of chocolate bar that had not been seen before in the UK. At that time most chocolate was simply a solid block, whereas the Mars bar consisted of nougat and caramel covered in milk chocolate. It was modelled after his father's Milky Way bar, which was already popular in the US.[3] Today the basic recipe is unaltered but the size of the bar and the proportions of the main components have changed over the years.

There ya go my duck-faced friend!

[Sysman]

Don't buy these whatever you do:




Be alert because they appear at random intervals instead of the proper ones. I've been had twice now.

Any idea which country they are manufactured in? We had a look at a wrapper yesterday and although it gave the adresses of Mars in various countries, it didn't say which country they are made in.

[administrator]

http://www.windows2universe.org/mars/images/mars1.gif

Come on, own up, which of you was it?

We're waiting.

Shadow of the Imperial Star Destroyer?

[Addanc]

Sorry, ran out of bog paper

[Board Game Geek]

Shadow of the Imperial Star Destroyer?

That's what I saw as well.

[MarillionFan]

Nope. Looks like a giant dragon to me. Beady eye looking up at you and wings curled to the left.

[wobbegong]

http://www.windows2universe.org/mars/images/mars1.gif

Come on, own up, which of you was it?

We're waiting.

Alright, alright, I'm sorry. I had a bad vindaloo. I'll clear it up in the morning though. Honest.

[Sysman]

FTFY

Slough!!!

In 1932, Forrest Mars, assumed estranged son of American candy maker Frank C. Mars, rented a factory in Slough and with a staff of twelve people began manufacturing a kind of chocolate bar that had not been seen before in the UK. At that time most chocolate was simply a solid block, whereas the Mars bar consisted of nougat and caramel covered in milk chocolate. It was modelled after his father's Milky Way bar, which was already popular in the US.[3] Today the basic recipe is unaltered but the size of the bar and the proportions of the main components have changed over the years.

As a nipper I thought that Milky Way must be the only food product that was marketed as having no food value - "The sweet you can eat between meals without ruining your appetite". Those ads put me off buying Milky Way in my hiking days; Mars and Topic bars were what I took with me instead.