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A Sugar Daddy is a lollipop. Note the paper stick on which the toffee is mounted
Yet it is shaped like a candy bar. And though caramel is pretty much pure sugar, it’s not sugar in the form most lollipops take. So is the stick the only thing that would define it as a lollipop?
I’m gonna have to say no, lest some smartass accuse me of thinking that a corndog is a lollipop.
And I feel a Sugar Daddy is too darn THIN to be considered truly “bar”-shaped. As is an Abba-Zabba, and a Big Hunk, both of which I think of as “strips.”
What the hell else is it? A health food?
Well, a Reese’s is made of candy, as is a lollipop, but a corn dog isn’t. To me, the only sticking point is whether or not it can be called a “bar.”
Are those the ones where it shows how they supposedly came up with the idea? When one guy accidentally stuck his chocolate bar inside another’s jar of peanute butter?
Of course Reese’s is a candy bar. What sort of morn thinks otherwise?
Just under the wire I wanted to repost this important question for Halloween.
Has it occurred to anyone that the key requirement of the ‘bar’ shape is for packaging and not eating? Candy bars are confectionaries sold in rectangular packages of a certain size, designed to fit into vending machines, display counters, etc. From a manufacturing/shipping/retail standpoint, a ‘candy bar’ is anything that will fit within certain standard dimensions. You expect to find ‘candy bars’ near the checkout in grocery stores, or in candy bar vending machines.
By that definition, the ‘bar’ can be anything from a single bar of chocolate to a bar-shaped box of individual candies, to a rectangular package of peanut butter cups. They are ALL ‘candy bars’ as far as the retail side of the industry is concerned.
And I think people pick up on that. As others have said, no one would bat an eye if they asked for a candy bar and were handed a package of peanut butter cups. And no one would be surprised to be see a box of smarties or M&M’s in a ‘candy bar’ vending machine.
The idea that the only reason for the ‘bar’ shape is to be able to hold it while eating it sounds like a rationalization for an arbitrary classification.
So… Candy Bar == a confection in single serving size, typically in a package of rectangular dimension of a roughly standard size that can fit in the typical type of display for a candy bar, that can be found in the same location as other candy bars, and usually for the same price as other candy bars. Within that framework, there is a wide variety of confections from licorice to chocolate that can qualify. But if it looks like a candy bar, and it’s found with candy bars, and it costs the same as candy bars - it’s a candy bar.
As for being able to hoid it and eat it at the same time… First, that seems arbitrary, and second it doesn’t hold for lots of things we woud consider ‘candy bars’. For example, I don’t think many people eat Caramilk ‘bars’ like a bar. Rather, they break off the little chocolate pouches of caramel and eat them separately. Lots of ‘bars’ are eaten that way. If Caramilk bars came with the little pouches fully separated instead of having a thin link of chocolate between them, but were still packaged the same way, would they stop being candy bars, despite being identical in content?
what abut the forthcoming “thin” reeses ?
I disagree. Just because they fit into a vending machine doesn’t make them a candy bar. Vending machines selling candy bars also sell bags of chips, gum packages, and donut type products (donuts, honeybuns), even cookies.
Plus, candy bars have now been max-sixed to be larger than a vending machine can sell.
In short, vending machines are irrelevant to the classification. Retail placement near store registers in display racks is irrelevant.
I think a box of junior mints, for instance, is not a candy bar. Reese’s peanut butter cups are a gray area borderline case, but Reese’s Pieces are not a candy bar, unless they’re the newfangled pieces inside cups, which once again is that borderline case.
Nah. I’d suspect that if you think that’s a “candy bar” you’d probably think York Peppermint Patties are a “candy bar”. The shape is wrong, and the structure is really not strong and dense enough for me to consider it a “bar.” I think the shape is important, but not as important as the density. Like, a round shaped butterfinger would be closer to a “candy bar” than a peanut butter cup.
I hadn’t seen this topic before today. People think Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups are a candy bar?
Weird.
If someone says “Let’s stop here, I want to get a candy bar” and walks out with Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, would you say “Hey, what happened to going to get a candy bar?”
You might say that if they came out with a box of Good N Plenty, or Twizzlers, but with RPBC? I think not.
Aaaaaaaannnnnnnnd, I think we are done here.
If it’s not at my local Piggly Wiggly*, it’s not a legitimate candy bar.
In the hierarchy of confections, can I convince you to at least give RPBC a dotted line to ‘candy bar’?
*I’ve never been in a Piggly Wiggly, but I like the name.
Suck it, Winn Dixie!
If I do that, it will result in two people agreeing to something on the Internet, possibly causing a rip in space-time.
So no! I reject your dotted-line compromise!!!
It’s candy, but not a bar. So no.
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