And......Does anybody call em snickers? Even if you do i bet you still think Marathon
2006-09-04 03:30:27 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
The ad men. trying to justify their existence
2006-09-04 10:49:06 · answer #1 · answered by bo nidle 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Another example of American arrogance. Marathon was invented in England. The marketing in the Eighties was superb - eat a Marathon and run a marathon! Snickers doesn't quite do it somehow...
2006-09-04 11:55:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a marathon bar is one of the most sought after retro candy bars in the states...from the seventies, about a foot long and just chocolate and caramel that looked like a braid
this is nothing like a snickers
2006-09-04 10:56:05 · answer #3 · answered by ktelon93 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think its got something to do with globalising brand names ie making us more like the Americans! I still think of Marathon and Opal Fruits. And didn't Oil of Olay used to be different?
2006-09-04 10:37:32 · answer #4 · answered by sammi 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm American (usa) and we have always called them snickers. I heard it's because the guy who invented them "snickered" all the way ro the bank. Weren't they invented here in the good ole usa?
2006-09-04 10:45:32 · answer #5 · answered by benna d 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Marathon bars and Opal fruits all the way.
Oh, btw, it's Jif cleaning products, not Cif.
2006-09-04 10:37:10 · answer #6 · answered by genghis41f 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I still call them marathon. Snickers is ****
2006-09-04 10:35:10 · answer #7 · answered by bad-dreemz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's what we call them here in the U.S. And M&M's have never been called Treats over here. Sorry to say this, but I think your candy names are the latest victim of the American Revolution.
Just teasing!
2006-09-04 10:39:19 · answer #8 · answered by Wolfeblayde 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they changed it because most of the rest of the world called them snickers..
2006-09-04 10:36:07 · answer #9 · answered by hondanut 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How many of you call a Twix bar a 'Raider' bar though?
2006-09-04 10:46:02 · answer #10 · answered by 'Dr Greene' 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋