"milky way" news and stories

An East Texas woman got a surprise when she bit into a Milky Way candy bar on a recent road trip, KLTV 7 news reported.

While driving from her home in Brownsboro, Texas, to Dallas on New Year's Day, Sue Calhoun brought her usual road-trip snack: a candy bar and a Coke.

"I took one bite and it was fine, then I took another bite and bit down on something and thought, 'Well, it may be a peanut,'" Calhoun told KLTV 7.

But it wasn't a peanut. Calhoun said she instead found a tooth with a silver filling in her Milky Way.

I've always been intrigued by regional differences in seemingly standard food. The trans-Atlantic variations in Mars bars was not something I'd pondered, however. Until now. According to the folks at U.K.-based Temple of thee Lemur, the Mars bars we have here in the States pale in comparison to the British ones. TotL's The VISIBLE MARS BAR Project aims to educate readers on the differences between American and British Mars bars, with a tasting of Milky Way bars thrown in for good measure. A series of cross-sections of each bar is about as scientific as the analysis gets. One can clearly see that the American version has almonds and the British version does not. Fascinating. TotL's one-man tasting panel rates the British Mars above the American ones, but our Milky Way bars appear to best the U.K. version.