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The bar was marketed under the name "Marathon" in the UK and Ireland until 1990, when Mars decided to align the UK product with the global Snickers name (Mars had marketed and discontinued an unrelated bar named Marathon in the United States during the 1970s which was similar to the UK's Curly Wurly).
This is a list of chocolate bar brands, in alphabetical order, including discontinued brands.A chocolate bar, also known as a candy bar in American English, is a confection in an oblong or rectangular form containing chocolate, dark chocolate, or white chocolate, which may also contain layerings or mixtures that include nuts, fruit, caramel, nougat, and wafers.
Mars, commonly known as Mars bar, is the name of two varieties of chocolate bar produced by Mars Inc. It was first manufactured in 1932 in Slough , England, by Forrest Mars Sr. [ 2 ] The bar consists of caramel and nougat coated with milk chocolate .
On June 26, 1974, a Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio installed the first bar code scanning equipment. The first product to be scanned using a Universal Product Code (UPC) bar code was a 10-pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit gum. [18] (This pack of gum is now on display at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.)
Average sales were 23 bars per week, although 10 shops reported selling 50—200 per week. The mean price was £0.60 (range £0.30 to £1.50). 76% were sold to children. 15 shops reported health concerns with the food. Many of the shops which did not sell the product refused to do so as it turns the frying oil black. [6] [7]
The bar was introduced in 1970 as the Snickers Munch Peanut Brittle Bar [1] and was later relabeled "Munch". It is made of only seven ingredients: peanuts , sugar , butter , corn syrup , palm oil , salt and soy lecithin .
Cadbury's Dairy Milk is a chocolate bar that claims to have a glass and a half of milk in every bar. This chocolate treat was created in 1904 and became an instant hit following its initial sales in 1905. [10] Argentina: TopLine gum: 124: TopLine gum is manufactured by a company by the name of Arcor, which was started in 1951. [22] Chile ...
On January 31, 2020, the Hershey Company beat the Guinness World Record for largest chocolate nut bar [76] surpassing Mars Inc.'s Gigantic Snickers bar with a gigantic Reese's Take 5 Bar measuring 9 by 5.5 by 2 feet and weighing 5,943 lbs. [77] The Take 5 chocolate bar gets its name from the 5 ingredients it contains: Reese's peanut butter ...