Marathon \ Snickers

[winjim]

Along with all the others...

I always thoughts Snickers was a really weird name. First off, it's plural - the bar is singular. But also, it sounds completely wrong - the word suggests little hard-coated sweets, like Smarties, rattling against each other. Perhaps the oddest-named of all confectioneries.

It's named after a horse, apparently. Not as weird as this, I'm not sure if it's to be said in a tone of surprise, anticipation or disappointment. The owner of my LBS is named Henry, I should ask him.

 

[Milkfloat]

I assume post brexit we will be going back to Marathon with a 10% uplift in price.

 

[si_c]

I assume post brexit we will be going back to Marathon with a 10% uplift in price.

If we bring back Opal Fruits, I can get behind brexit.

 

[Threevok]

If you want peanut overload - try Buckeyes

Basically peanut butter filled chocolate conkers

That is if you can get hold of them - they are officially licenced to Ohio State University

I have a mate who sends me over a box, now and then

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

If you want peanut overload - try Buckeyes

Basically peanut butter filled chocolate conkers

Who needs the chocolate?

 

[Globalti]

Snickers will have been chosen as a pan-European name that can be said by anybody in any language, enabling them to make it in one massive central factory and wrap it in a multi-lingual flow wrapper. We need Greg Wallace to go there and tell us how many tons of peanuts are consumed in a day. "You're 'avin' a larf! 'Ar many of these do you make in a day?"

 

[DaveReading]

Did you know it has now been called snickers longer than it was called marathon - amazing eh ?

It's been called Snickers for the last 90 years, other than in the UK&I where the name only goes back 30 years.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Um. Why?

Because the original arrived on these shores around the same time and was much of a muchness with Topic.

 

[Chris S]

I always thoughts Snickers was a really weird name.

It sounds like 'knickers' to me. I don't know why they didn't rename it 'Panties' and have done with it.

 

[Threevok]

I assume post brexit we will be going back to Marathon with a 10% uplift in price.

There is going to be a special edition Twix called Twixit

One stick will be the same as a normal Twix, but the second will choose to remain in the packet, no matter how hard you try to get it out

 

[LCpl Boiled Egg]

I heard there was going to be a special version if the SNP get a second referendum...

 

[Beebo]

It sounds like 'knickers' to me. I don't know why they didn't rename it 'Panties' and have done with it.

This is the reason why it was called Marathon in the UK for so long.
the marketing people thought snickers was a bit too much like knickers.

 

[steverob]

There is going to be a special edition Twix called Twixit

One stick will be the same as a normal Twix, but the second will choose to remain in the packet, no matter how hard you try to get it out

Actually Twix has already had a re-name, although in Europe and not here. Over there it was originally called Raider, but they had to change it in the 90's to Twix like we had to change Marathon to Snickers so that everyone had the same names.

 

[Slick]

I was more a Cabana man.

 

[Nigeyy]

Oh dear, I was unaware of this cultural loss!

If we bring back Opal Fruits, I can get behind brexit.