If you eat and buy chocolate bars, do you buy Mars Bars?

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Lighthearted because anyone gets too tied up in knots and asks me for peer-reviewed evidence.

I was raiding sorting through the trick or treat bowl earlier and nabbed a Mars Bar, for quality control purposes. It dawned on me that despite a lifelong love of chocolate, and regularly buying bars, I’ve never actually purchased a Mars Bar.

Then I was thinking about my family and how I’ve never seen any of them eat a Mars.

I used to work in a corner shop during uni and we sold Mars but they were never a good seller- Twix, Dairy Milk, Snickers yeah, but not Mars Bars. Seemed to be more popular with 20-something male construction workers grabbing a meal deal, IIRC.

Anyway, like I said, lighthearted but for the chocolate bar buyers out there, any diehard Mars Bar fans?

I loved Mars bars when I was a kid (so talking forty years ago) they were massive. I don’t buy them because their size is disappointing. I love an Asda’s fake Twix, a scrumptious bite in every mouthful and about 80p for four or maybe 5.

No, I'm a sugar addict but those large bars of chewy chocolate taste awful to me now.

If I had to I'd have a Marathon 😁

I like more crunch with my chocolate, chocolate biscuits every time.

Mars of a Twix are my two go tos

No, and my celebrations leftovers are always Mars.

I do like the Mars ice cream bar though.

I've never bought one & they are always the last things left in a box of celebrations in our house!
My grandad used to love the, they where is absolute favourite & my mum would always buy him the biggest multi pack for his birthday and Christmas

I like Mars bars for dipping in tea

I do if I need a full on chocolate sugary fix

I haven’t had one for years and I think I would find them gross now.

I love the fact that people are saying Marathon instead of Snickers. I still say Marathon. Not had a Mars bar for years. Do like them frozen though.

I love a mars bar. Prefer the size in the 80s/90s rather than the poky little thing you can buy in shops today. As a child, me and my brothers worshipped mars bars.

Love them out of a celebrations tin, so bought a full sized one a couple of years back. My god it made me feel sick - so much sugar!

Same for the frozen ones - so yummy, but my goodness I can't cope with a whole one!

And I say that as someone that is carrying probably about 5 stone too much weight!

Not for years because they taste disgusting.
Since all the big companies changed their recipes into chemical stews made of who knows what I don't think anything Mars or their parent company make counts as chocolate.

So, I only get the expensive stuff, where I don't need a specialist dictionary to translate the ingredients list.
It tastes amazing & costs so much you'd need to take out a personal loan to overeat it, so it remains an actual treat.

No, and I do like them! In my mind they're just too fatty and greedy, same a Snickers. Which is stupid logic as all chocolate bars are bad and god knows I don't deny myself!

Mars Bars are heavy duty chocolate bars so I would rarely buy a full-size one but I love the mini ones and Celebration-size. I go for a Star Bar or, since Cadbury went to rack and ruin, a Galaxy.

Never buy a mars but am quite partial to a celebration mini one

Hate them. 🙄

This! It’s the only way to eat them. My favourite treat 😁

I don't buy them a lot, but there are times when I want a Mars Bar and nothing else will do. I had one last week - it was yummy!

Not if there’s a red Bounty on the shelf next to it.

All of the Mars/Cadburys sr

Oh, please give us an edit button!

All of the Mars/Cadburys stuff is way too sweet for me now, but I used to love Mars Bars and deconstruct them.

A favourite memory is the time I was bought a kingsize one on a holiday and I made it last a fortnight by licking at it and then wrapping it up again. Mostly to drive my younger brother mad as he had inhaled his at first sight.

Yes but it’s very heavy, a bit like snickers. I prefer a twirl or a flake.

I live Mars bars and I will never forgive Mars for discontinuing Topic bars. Mars Easter eggs are my number one.

Love I think I'd be a bit unhealthy if I lived Mars.

Glad to find others who think Mars bars need to be cold from the fridge or frozen. I used to eat them that way but actually I haven't bought or eaten one for years now.