# Anyone know what "Milk flavored" candy is? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 9, 2012, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-what-milk-flavored-candy-is/618236 "2012-04-09T06:05:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-what-milk-flavored-candy-is/618236/21 "2012-04-09T16:41:01Z")
> [@Dr.Colossus](#): > > in the op’s defense, when i saw this item, i thought they omitted (by accident or mistranslation) the word “chocolate.” > i, like the op, am only used to seeing “milk” and “flavored” with “chocolate” in there someplace. My objection to the packaging is that it seems to suggest that it’s flavored with something called “hollow milk,” (as you note) given the positioning of the words. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-what-milk-flavored-candy-is/618236/22 "2012-04-09T17:36:26Z")
> [@Dr.Colossus](#): > > in the op’s defense, when i saw this item, i thought they omitted (by accident or mistranslation) the word “chocolate.” > i, like the op, am only used to seeing “milk” and “flavored” with “chocolate” in there someplace. > > i think a lot of americans are unfamiliar with “milk flavored.” i went 31 years without ever seeing it. ever. > what’s more is in this particular sense, i can only come up with two items that are labeled with “hollow milk flavored”–both are by the same company. one is the duck, one is a similar bunny. even the popular milk-flavored chinese candy says “creme” flavored. and this duck is listed as “vanilla” flavored. > > it’s just not common, is all. not enough for us to not have a knee-jerk “it’s missing a word” reaction. This. In 52 years on this planet I don’t think I’ve ever seen “milk flavored” candy. And I’ve been abroad. I kind of thought they forgot the milk chocolate or something. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Colossus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.colossus/32/9423_2.png) [@Dr.Colossus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Colossus)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-what-milk-flavored-candy-is/618236/23 "2012-04-09T17:56:37Z")
> [@alice\_in\_wonderland](#): > > [This link seems appropriate.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=173347&highlight=milk+flavored) alice in wonderland tried to eat the white rabbit and didn’t like how it tasted. this is _pure gold._ ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-what-milk-flavored-candy-is/618236/24 "2012-04-09T18:14:36Z")
> [@Dr.Colossus](#): > > i saw this very item and was just as perplexed. > > i’m 31yo in the heartland of america, and i’ve never before come across any candy called “milk” flavor. Well there is your problem, right there. Different sorts of candy (or sweets as we say here in the U.K.) are popular in different parts of the world. My mother used to be rather fond of milk gums – Well, at any rate she often bought them for herself. She actually had a policy of buying herself sweets she didn’t like very much, so she would not eat them. > [@jjimm](#): > > Well see to me, Milk Bottles were a whole nother thing than Milk Gums. Despite them both having the same shape and general look. Milk Bottles were made from the same substance as White Mice, which was some kind of nasty concoction designed to be slightly, but not entirely, unlike white chocolate. Which is probably the same substance the OP was talking about, which would explain his concern about the lack of cocoa solids: it is presented and behaves in a similar manner to chocolate. But tastes like baby vomit. I find the fact that you imply that you know what baby vomit tastes like deeply disturbing. ---
**Author:** ![Whammo72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/77aa72/32.png) [@Whammo72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo72)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-what-milk-flavored-candy-is/618236/25 "2012-04-09T22:45:03Z")
I didn’t even really recognize milk has a flavor of its own. Unless its spoiled. I guess I would assume anything “milk” flavored in candy to be more like that vanillin bark stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-what-milk-flavored-candy-is/618236/26 "2012-04-10T10:36:35Z")
We have both caramelos de leche (usually toffees, although I’ve also seen hard ones) and pastillas de café con leche (coffee-with-milk flavored toffees) in Spain; there’s also piñón-flavored varieties. The ones with coffee are the most popular ones. The three largest companies which make these toffees are close to my home town; one of these companies has been making coffee-and-milk toffees since 1866 (and it’s the only thing they make), another one is a family of candymakers which started making this particular product in 1830. What’s considered a delicacy changes from location to location, not just for main courses but also for “junk food”; it would never have occurred to me that someone could make cinnamon or watermelon bubble gum until I encountered them in the US (there’s watermelon gum in Spain now). ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-what-milk-flavored-candy-is/618236/27 "2012-04-10T17:44:26Z")
Sometimes “milk” means that it is sweetened with lactose, the sugar that is found in milk. [Milk stout](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_stout#Milk_stout) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-what-milk-flavored-candy-is/618236.md?page=1)