Canada <> US

The wine candles sound a lot like “dots”

I’ve seen similar candies here in shapes more like the wine gums.

I’ve never had caramilk, but as a kid i liked caramello, which i think is available here.

The cheezis sound good. Next time I’m in Canada i will try them. I’ve had aero, and i don’t care for it. I like chocolate in my chocolate.

The article says that Butterfinger is similar. It’s a little sweet for my adult palate, but i sometimes enjoy one.

I was most amazed that Cadbury Caramilk bars are unavailable in the US as they are superb. There were very few days in my four years of university when I did not have a Caramilk bar. (Not surprisingly my weight peaked in those years).

Cadbury had an effective marketing campaign around the mystery of getting the liquid caramel inside the chocolate enclosure. However it was their unique taste that sold me on them. Cheezies and Caramilk bars shouldn’t be consumed together though: better to savour them separately.

Wait, so you, like, don’t eat them one whole square at a time?

For our American audience, there are iirc 15 small squares together in the bar, each with a bit of caramel inside. I pop them in one at a time and have never had a mess, but SpaceLobster appears to just bite into it all willy nilly. I dare not ask your approach to kit Kat…

https://mobile.twitter.com/KitKat_US/status/824366134615011330/photo/1

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Changing time zones / moving time zone boundaries requires approval from the US Department of Transportation.

Adoption of DST in Indiana several years ago was delayed a couple of years because a few counties wanted to change time zones, and it took that long for DOT bureaucracy to work.

That’s because Cadbury in the US isn’t really Cadbury.

Hershey owns the rights to “Cadbury” in the US, and Americans suffer for it.

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Speaking of Cadbury, my local middle eastern grocer has a four pack of Cadbury flake for $2.50. Don’t recall ever seeing it in US before.

Caramello is similar. And i liked to nibble away a corner of a piece and let the caramel ooze into my mouth.

Hershey used to have a large chocolate factory in Eastern Ontario that was very popular with school groups and tourists. Hershey closed it some years ago but it reopened after marijuana was legalized in Canada. The Tweed brand of cannabis-infused chocolate is now made there so it is again operating as a chocolate factory.

https://ontarioeast.ca/success-stories/continued-growth-and-innovation-horizon-tweed

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Utah, like a couple other states has passed legislation choosing year round DST. The contingencies are that the federal government allows it, and a certain number of bordering states also switch. So the legislators can tell those who want the change that they voted for it and they can tell those that don’t want it that it won’t happen anytime soon, if ever.

According to the interwebs

Crispy Crunch is a hard chocolate bar with a crispy peanut butter flake inside

And according to pictures and also the interwebs

It’s a lot like a Butterfinger

I dunno what a butterfinger is. I guess like a crispy crunch?

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Sounds like we need to organize a GoA mail swap!

Butterfingers are a candy bar I could pass on. Bart Simpson has nothing to worry about when it comes to me.

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I enjoy them. They were my go-to Blizzard flavor when I was a kid. If I ever went to Dairy Queen anymore they probably still would be.

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I could pass on butterfingers. but they had a butterfinger cup, which was shaped like a reese’s but inside the chocolate exterior the filling was butterfinger crunch. it was like crack cocaine to me. discontinued i think, but on the bright side I still have most of my original teeth.

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The BBs were okay too, but didn’t catch on apparently.

I’m in. Happy to buy some butterfingers to ship to my friends in the north.

I’d be happy to ship all Butterfingers away.

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Canada finally ends ban on blood donations from gay men. US was ahead of us in this regard but still have some discriminatory provisions on accepting such donations from gay men.

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6434078

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