Re: Regular coffee

In article <5na57fFham2jU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Default User <defaultuserbr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Leslie Danks wrote:
In the UK, Milky Way is the girl's version of the Mars Bar.

It's close to what a 3-Musketeers is in the US, as I recall. There was
a Mars Bar here for a time, but it was nothing like the UK one.

Which is really odd, considering that Mars was and is an American
company (owned by the very secretive Mars family).

-GAWollman
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