Maltesers
Name origin: A portmanteau of the words "malt" (one of the main ingredients) and "teasers."
Year made: 1936
Creator: Forrest Mars
Appearence: Light malted-milk ball covered with chocolate
Slogan: The lighter way to enjoy chocolate
History: After his huge success in his Mars bar, Mars continued to make chocolate. This time he had came up with Maltesers. Not much information is given about this bar.
The exact manufacturing process is a trade secret, but a lot of people say they know the basic process, each saying different ways.
Types: Milk chocolate, white chocolate, dark chocolate, ice cream
Website: www.mars.com
Mars bar
Name origin: Named after Forrest Mars
Year Made: 1932
Creator: Forrest Mars (Well why did you think that it's named after him?)
Appearence: Chocolate filled with caramel and nougat
Slogan: A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play/Pleasure you can't measure
History: Knowing that the British have an extremely sweet tooth when he moved to England, Forrest Mars improved his father's Milky Way with sweeter caramel and more sugar! The British loved it and now they are eating 2.7 million bars daily! (Not each, mind you)
Deep-fried Mars bars are also popular in the UK. It has been coated with batter and deep-fried in oil or beef fat. It is a Scottish invention (first reports of battered Mars bars being sold date back to 1995, although an ice-cream vendor in Manchester claims inventing it in the early 1990s) and is available from fish-and-chip shops in Scotland and throughout England. They are also available across Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Canada from small fish and chip shops.
Types: Various
Website: www.mars.com
M&M's
Name origin: Named after Forrest Mars and his partner, Bruce Murrie
Year made: 1940
Creator: Forrest Mars
Appearence: Candy-coated chocolate with a 'M' printed on them
Slogan: The chocolate that melts in your mouth -- not in your hand
History: The idea of candy-coated chocolate came to Forrest Mars when he saw soldiers eating chocolate pellets coated in sugar so that it won't stick to their hands in the Spanish Civil War. The problem is that they had to come up with a name. UK has already had a similar candy, named Smarties. (It was not sold in America, though, because there's already another bar named Smarties in the US) They had tocome up of a name that has completely no relationship with Smarties. So they put Mars' and Murrie's initials together to get M&M's. Although M&M's was made in 1940, it was only sold in America in 1941.
Types: Milk chocolate, white chocolate(with and without peanuts), peanut, mint chocolate(available primarily during the Christmas season), dulce de leche, toffee, crispy, almond, peanut butter, dark chocolate(with and without peanuts), mini size(M&M minis), chocolate bar with crispy mini size M&M's, razzberry (limited).
Website: www.m-ms.com
Smarties (Nestlé)
Name origin: Unknown
Year made: 1937
Creator: Henry Issac Rowntree
Appearence: Candy-coated chocolate, just like M&M's but without the 'm' printed on it
Slogan: Only Smarties have the answer
History: Smarties was sold 4 years before M&M's, and that's enough time for the British to love it. Smarties in the UK were originally sold in cardboard tubes, capped with a colourful lid usually having a letter of the alphabet on it. The purpose of this, according to a Rowntrees' spokesperson in the 1980s, was for them to be useful as a teaching aid to encourage young children to recognise the letters (Maybe they were awarded a Smartie if they get it right). Over the last 25 years, Nestlé has manufactured five billion Smarties lids. Some lids are very rare and are now regarded as collectors' items.
Types: Milk chocolate centre, plain chocolate centre (Found in dark-brown Smarties (No longer sold)), coffee flavoured centre (Found in light-brown Smarties (No longer sold)), orange flavour chocolate (Found in orange Smarties), larger size (Giant Smarties), fruit-chews centre (Fruity Smarties), Smarties McFlurry (Found in McDonalds).
Website: www.smarties.co.uk
