Candy Confusion

This week my lovely Mother mailed me a care package and, amongst other things, it contained some of the leftover Halloween candy. Being the generous guy that I am, I decided to bring a lot of it in to share with my colleagues. They, of course, appreciated it greatly. However, an unexpected piece of British trivia came out of all this.

It turns out that in the UK there are a lot of the same chocolate bar names that we know, but what the bar actually contains is all switched around. We had a nice time picking through each type and figuring out what's what. Here's the list we've determined so far:

American --> British
Three Musketeers --> Milky Way
Milky Way --> Mars Bar
Mars Bar --> Topic
M&Ms --> Treets (now also M&Ms though)
Snickers --> Snickers (they aren't all different!)

There are also a few more generic terms which I thought were interesting:

candy --> sweets
chocolate chips --> chocolate drops
cotton candy --> candy floss

There are a load of other foods called different and amusing names that perhaps I'll go through some other time.

Cheers!
Dan