# Snack foods and candies only in Canada **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 10, 2005, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-foods-and-candies-only-in-canada/293900 "2005-03-10T21:19:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-foods-and-candies-only-in-canada/293900/21 "2005-03-11T15:09:35Z")
Ah, remembered what my pen pal described as closest to what he called a “Mars Bar”. Is [this](http://www.3musketeers.com/index.shtml) what you meant **Horrifying Howler Monkey**? If so, they are pretty common in this part of the U.S. I’m not sure about the whole of it though. It’s one of my more favorites for a candy bar, though I loved the [Cadbury flake](http://www.cadbury.co.uk/EN/CTB2003/about_chocolate/brand_stories/flake.htm) my pen pal sent me too. I’ve also tried [Guylian chocolate praline shells](http://guylian-choc.com/eng/prd1.htm), which one of my older brothers got us for Christmas one year. Good chocolate is hard to find in the U.S. without going online or spending a fortune or both. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-foods-and-candies-only-in-canada/293900/22 "2005-03-11T16:07:22Z")
> [@Zabali\_Clawbane](#): > > **rjk** what you described sounds similar to one kind of Cheetos snacks, but I don’t know if they’d taste as good to you. Trust me. Hawkins Cheezies are nothing like anything you can get here. ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-foods-and-candies-only-in-canada/293900/23 "2005-03-11T16:26:19Z")
**Z\_C** , I’ll remember to look for Cheetos. Thanks. Meanwhile, [this page](http://www.candyshoppe.ca/shop/Canadian_Candies.htm) reminded me of **Bounty** bars (coconut in milk chocolate, two pieces in the package), **Pep** (peppermint patty in chocolate), **Big Turk** (Turkish delight in chocolate), and **Bridge Mixture** (various things in chocolate, but no Crunchy Frog flavour, sorry), as well as a few bagged candies I haven’t seen here. Note that the store’s [home page](http://www.candyshoppe.ca/) mentions that they’re right next to Tim Horton’s. How Canadian can you get? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Aguecheek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Aguecheek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aguecheek)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-foods-and-candies-only-in-canada/293900/24 "2005-03-11T16:34:05Z")
> [@Anastasaeon](#): > > Aero > Cherry Blossom > Any Ganong product (Hey, I’m from near St. Stephen, and I desperately miss my holiday Chicken Bones!!) > > I miss everything that everyone else has mentioned so far, especially the Cadbury products. Easter isn’t Easter without a Cadbury Great Bunny… _sniffle_. > > Zero bars were to die for. All flavours, milk chocolate was the best, but dark chocolate and white chocolate were awesome, too. Sometimes we’d find them 3 for a dollar at a dollar store, buy 'em up, and put some in the freezer. Mmmmmmmmmmmm… > > ~homesick~ ☹ K, that’s it. You’re Canadian _and_ you live in Seattle!? You’d best come to trivia night soon, I need someone who _understands_ what it’s like! ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-foods-and-candies-only-in-canada/293900/25 "2005-03-11T19:36:11Z")
Pssst, CAN-AM Exchange participants, you should email your partners to find out exactly what they can and can’t get where they are! Oh! Henry bars can be had in the US. Bounty too. I don’t think Canadians get our “special edition” candies, like the white chocolate Reeses, or the new triple chocolate KitKat or what have you. ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-foods-and-candies-only-in-canada/293900/26 "2005-03-11T19:39:56Z")
PS Canadian/British Mars = US Snickers (most popular candy bar in America, by the way) Canadian/British Milky Way = US 3 Musketeers American Mars Bar = renamed Snickers Almond This is all because of some family business with the Mars family, one of the sons was sent to England to make his own way in the choco biz, and used some of the brand names for different products. Extensively chronicled in the book “The Emperors of Chocolat.” Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-foods-and-candies-only-in-canada/293900/27 "2005-03-11T19:48:27Z")
> [@Hello Again](#): > > I don’t think Canadians get our “special edition” candies, like the white chocolate Reeses Do they still make them? They did have them up here but I haven’t seen them in awhile. Not like I’ve looked, I never liked them much. My former roomie though, he’d buy them up buy the caseload; I’d come home from work to find a box or two in the fridge and wrappers scattered _everywhere_. ---
**Author:** ![Phelan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Phelan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phelan)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-foods-and-candies-only-in-canada/293900/28 "2005-03-11T19:58:42Z")
> [@Hello Again](#): > > I don’t think Canadians get our “special edition” candies, like the white chocolate Reeses, or the new triple chocolate KitKat or what have you. We get the white chocolate Reeses, and they’re good. Also the white chocolate Kit Kat I think, and the peanut butter and caramel Kit Kats as well. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-foods-and-candies-only-in-canada/293900/29 "2005-03-11T20:01:24Z")
> [@Hello Again](#): > > I don’t think Canadians get our “special edition” candies, like the white chocolate Reeses, or the new triple chocolate KitKat or what have you. Yes, indeed, they do. My psycho ex-friend from NB is madly in love with white chocolate Reese’s, and I liked the triple KitKat and white chocolate KitKat, as well. **Aguecheek** - I’m building up my courage. Slowly. One of these days I’ll show up. You’ll know me when you hear people teasing the girl in the corner, saying “She says ‘aboot’!” And she vehemently protests: “I don’t say ‘aboot’! ‘_Aboat_’, maybe, but not ‘aboot’!” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2005, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-foods-and-candies-only-in-canada/293900/30 "2005-03-12T01:02:14Z")
And what do we get hear that you all don’t get up in Canada? ---
**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2005, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-foods-and-candies-only-in-canada/293900/31 "2005-03-12T01:04:37Z")
Here. HERE. Here! [sub]You didn’t see the first spelling.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Horrifying\_Howler\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Horrifying\_Howler\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horrifying_Howler_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2005, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-foods-and-candies-only-in-canada/293900/32 "2005-03-12T03:24:50Z")
> [@Zabali\_Clawbane](#): > > Is [this](http://www.3musketeers.com/index.shtml) what you meant **Horrifying Howler Monkey**? Same idea, but not the same exactly, we have those here too and they are a little different from mars bars (not as thick I think). A mars bar is like a snickers bar, but with no nuts. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2005, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-foods-and-candies-only-in-canada/293900/33 "2005-03-12T03:59:50Z")
> [@Hello Again](#): > > PS > Canadian/British Mars = US Snickers (most popular candy bar in America, by the way) Say what? There are no nuts in a Canadian Mars bar. Snickers have peanuts. ---
**Author:** ![Phelan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Phelan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phelan)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2005, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-foods-and-candies-only-in-canada/293900/34 "2005-03-12T13:52:27Z")
Snickers has peanut butter too!! Or whatever that stuff is. Mmmmm… ---
**Author:** ![DrMemory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DrMemory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrMemory)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2005, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-foods-and-candies-only-in-canada/293900/35 "2005-03-12T14:16:24Z")
It has been mentioned in the other candy thread, and I don’t meen to rain on anyone’s parade, but check with the post office before trying to send packaged food items. This past Christmas I tried to send a couple of choclate “letters” to my folks and was told it couldn’t be shipped. U.S customs will not allow packaged food to pass. Oddly, if it’s home made, it CAN go through. I found this odd, because it seemed much more likely that one could “doctor” a home made item with preatty much any form of nast they wanted to, but a sealed package would be tougher. U.S. Custom’s wizdom at it’s finest :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![DrMemory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DrMemory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrMemory)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2005, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-foods-and-candies-only-in-canada/293900/36 "2005-03-12T14:22:12Z")
P.S Hawkin’s Cheezies are NASTY. I do enjoy a nice Cheeto, and this abomination is a foul substitute. Not terribly fond of Smarties either. Please give me M+M’s instead, thank you. And, why do Canadians get all “Cocky” about the strength of their beer? Budwiser is Budwiser. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2005, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-foods-and-candies-only-in-canada/293900/37 "2005-03-12T14:27:55Z")
> [@DrMemory](#): > > And, why do Canadians get all “Cocky” about the strength of their beer? > Budwiser is Budwiser. From the Chelsea vs. Celtic game here last summer: “In America, they call water ‘Budweiser’…” ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2005, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-foods-and-candies-only-in-canada/293900/38 "2005-03-12T15:46:25Z")
> [@monica](#): > > And what do we get hear that you all don’t get up in Canada? Moutain Dew pop that has caffeine in it. Canadian Mountain Dew has no caffeine (apparently there’s some regulation that only cola-type soft drinks can contain caffeine). ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2005, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-foods-and-candies-only-in-canada/293900/39 "2005-03-12T16:40:51Z")
> [@DrMemory](#): > > P.S Hawkin’s Cheezies are NASTY. I do enjoy a nice Cheeto, and this abomination is a foul substitute. > > Not terribly fond of Smarties either. Please give me M+M’s instead, thank you. > > And, why do Canadians get all “Cocky” about the strength of their beer? > Budwiser is Budwiser. > > Carry on. Ugh! No self respecting Canadian drinks that swill. ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2005, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-foods-and-candies-only-in-canada/293900/40 "2005-03-12T17:51:48Z")
> [@Horrifying Howler Monkey](#): > > Same idea, but not the same exactly, we have those here too and they are a little different from mars bars (not as thick I think). A mars bar is like a snickers bar, but with no nuts. Ok, that would be a Milky Way here in the U.S. then, [cite](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way_candy_bar). Cool. **Hello Again** according to that Wikipedia article, you’ve got some of the various incarnations mixed up. **Phelan** Snickers has milk chocolate, nougat, caramel, and peanuts. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-foods-and-candies-only-in-canada/293900.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snack-foods-and-candies-only-in-canada/293900.md?page=3)