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.
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.
alice in wonderland tried to eat the white rabbit and didn’t like how it tasted.
this is pure gold.
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.
I find the fact that you imply that you know what baby vomit tastes like deeply disturbing.
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.
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).
Sometimes “milk” means that it is sweetened with lactose, the sugar that is found in milk.