User talk:Waverly Grayson

User talk:Waverly Grayson
Just want to get something straight. The Mars bar as it existed in the United States during the latter half of the 20th Century could not be confused with a Snickers, a Milky Way or a Three Musketeers. Anyone who ate as many of each of these as I did would know that..

I have seen statements here and elsewhere that at various times the Mars bar was labeled something else or altered slightly and labeled a special version of one of the other candies. That may have been done, You can call anything whatever you want, but if you alter the basic essence of something all you are doing is just playing with words or, as may be the case here, creating a marketing ploy and hoping no one remembers what the genuine article was like.

Example: You can call a yellow-flesh watermelon a cantaloupe, but no one will confuse it with a cantaloupe. Except for the somewhat novel color, the yellow-flesh watermelon is still in every important way a watermelon; to me it doesn't even taste different from a red-flesh watermelon.

To alter the Mars bar in some minor way and then slapping a Milky Way label on it doesn't make it a Milky Way. Mars and Milky Way are just too different; you can't convert one into the other by a little tinkering. By combining major features of both you've created a new candy. Something analogous would be trying to turn a donkey into a horse or vice-versa. Can't be done. But by mating them you can produce a mule, a new creature that is neither horse nor donkey and that combines features of both but with its own unique characteristics. Mars and Milky way are both candy bars in the same sense that horse and donkey are both equines. (I have to confess that I have wondered if a Snickers is just a Milky Way with peanuts.)

Now, it is said that at various times in various countries Mars bars didn't have almonds. However, I would venture that if you had a Mars bar in the United States at any time during the latter half of the 20th Century, barring a manufacturing defect, it had almonds on top. To virtually any American alive today the almonds were part of the essence of the Mars bar without which it is not a real Mars bar.

Waverly Grayson (talk) 08:08, 21 April 2021 (UTC)