History of Mars

No not the planet but the chocolate bar. Chocolate has become the favorite food for all, no matter if you are old or young, people though out the ages has enjoyed a chocolate bar. People use chocolate for different feelings; some use it to say sorry, others to say I love you. The most common and probably most recognized bar of chocolate in the last 50 years is the Mars bar.

The Mars chocolate bar was first manufactured in 1932 in a place called Slough in the United Kingdom. It was originally launched as the sweeter version of the then Milky Way bar which was sold in America. The Europeans has there own version the Milky Way but it was made by others and therefore was quite different than the others. The Milky Way from Europe was made of the following ingredients of milk chocolate, caramel, plain nougat and almonds.

The Mars bar from England weighs about fifty eight grams and has around 259 calories which works out to be over 10 perfect of our calories per day.

As mentioned earlier the mars bar originated in 1932 by the son of Frank Mars called Forrest Mars, be began with a small operation of around ten people in Slough and the chocolate bar created was like nothing seen in the area before. Typical chocolate from those days consisted of solid chocolate bars and never multiply ingredients. It was designed around the American Milky Way but was sold under the name Mars.

So both the Milky Way and the Mars Bar were the same but packaged under different names. Over time some changes were made by using ideas from the Double Decker, etc. Later on again the packaging were altered to suit the American market and to stand out.

Way back in 1966 the famous quote "A mars a day will help you work, rest and play" which was written by William Dagnall. William worked to break ties with other chocolate bars and them. Recently it was changed to "pleasure that is immeasurable" which was a youth attraction slogan. After the huge success of the Mars they came out with different sizes to suit the market demands, like King Size and the Mini Mars Bar to name a couple. The Chocolate bar called Mars has really become a true icon in chocolate bars and there can not be many people who have not tired one or fell in love.

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