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Air conditioning is standard depending on where you live. For instance here in Kansas it's pretty damn standard, but then again it gets pretty warm here in the summer. You don't want to live somewhere where the high temperatures top 105 F (40 C) for weeks at a time without an air conditioner. You will die (and people do when their air conditioners break).

 

Most girls are skanks that don't know how to dress appropriately for their size.

Yeah, that's definitely a problem here too.

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Diet Pepsi and Pepsi Max don't use sugar as they are zero calorie drinks so it would be different sweeteners that account for the difference. Most of our regular fizzy pops use sugar rather than fructose syrup though as they do in the USA.

 

Yeah, there is a shift back towards sugar vs HFCS due to consumer complaints. I think Pepsi were caught off guard at how successful their Pepsi Throwback (the sugar version of Pepsi) would be as it was supposed to be for a limited time and now it appears to be a regular product offering.

 

Most girls are skanks that don't know how to dress appropriately for their size. Going from the Ricki Lake show, this is a problem in the US too though. Short shorts and opaque tights (not stockings - stocking over here are the ones that use suspenders) are very popular at the moment. Kids these days really aren't keeping their kidneys warm any more.

 

The last thing I expected to see on my honeymoon was a high school girl flashing her panties on the subway. I wanted to yell "Put some damn pants on girl!"

 

It never occurred to me that proper butter would be different! I personally like slightly salted butter which is about 1.5% salt particularly lurpak. mmm.

 

I never bake with salted butter. In fact, I no longer buy salted butter at all. Salted butter can throw off recipes in baking.

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So ..the Milky Way bar.

 

In UK it's a chocolate coated soft nougat.

In US it's a fucking Mars Bar.

 

(a US Mars Bar is more like an Almond Snickers)

 

Oh and Smarties are fizzers.

 

And now for the 1980s edition:

Also Opal Fruits are called Starburst and Marathon bars are called Snickers!

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Oh, forgot to ask this.

 

If I were to say 'suss out', would that make sense to an American?

It would to me, but only because I've spent so much time on the forum with you limeys. I don't think most Americans would have any idea what you meant.

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Oh, forgot to ask this.

 

If I were to say 'suss out', would that make sense to an American?

It would to me, but only because I've spent so much time on the forum with you limeys. I don't think most Americans would have any idea what you meant.

I can confirm this... I have no idea what "suss" is.

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So ..the Milky Way bar.

 

In UK it's a chocolate coated soft nougat.

In US it's a fucking Mars Bar.

 

(a US Mars Bar is more like an Almond Snickers)

 

To throw in more confusion with Canada... An almond Snickers? That sounds awesome, but I've never seen one. Our Mars bars look exactly like a Milky Way though - nougat, caramel and sweetened milk chocolate; no nuts.

 

I've heard some parts of the world mainly have dark chocolate bars... that would be awesome, though for more cash, bigger places like grocery stores have a selection of those here - largely Lindt. (Though we do have dark chocolate Kit-Kats. Not sure how prevalent those are since that bar has all sorts of regional mutations like the Japanese versions. It was a test run here, and went well so they kept it and started doing trials of other dark chocolate versions of bars.)

 

Also, sussed is interesting. For all the BBC shows I've watched, I had no idea before today what that would mean.

 

[edit: Careless bracket usage can change the meaning of what I'm saying...]

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The US Milky Way is what we would call a Mars Bar. Nougat n Caramel in thick layer of chocolate.

Mars-bar-thanks-to-bronen-bjorn-hansen-on-Flickr.jpg

 

What we call a Milky Way, so just nougat in chocolate, is what in US is called a Three Mustaketeers.

milkyway2.jpg

 

And what you guys call a Mars Bar is a bit like an almond Snickers (as opposed to Peanuts)

800px-US-Mars-Bar-Split.jpg

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No, I get the first two parts about the Mars Bar, I've lived in India for, like, half my life, it's just that we don't call anything a 'Mars Bar'. EDIT: "We" being Americans, not Indians.

 

Or.... wait.

 

Okay, I live in Seattle, and there isn't a Wal-Mart anywhere near me. US Mars Bars only got picked up recently, last year, I think, and they're a Wal-Mart exclusive product. I was unaware they sold "Mars bars" in the US. I get it, now.

But just so you know, if you ask people in the US what a Mars bar is, they'll say,

"Oh, that thing that's like a Milky Way, but you don't get in Canada."

My point is, Mars bars are not very popular here and are only sold in one chain. I haven't encountered them ever because I live in a city where there are no Wal-Marts.

 

Glad we cleared this up.

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The Wikipedia article on Mars bars says they were discontinued in the USA betwen 2002 and 2010, so that may explain why they seem rare?

 

I think this is pretty interesting. I knew special versions of bars were offered in different regions, but I didn't know that the basic versions were different in some places.

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