MINI: Mars Bar vs Milkway

Over the weekend Christian watched a tradie chomp down a mars bar in three bites.. as the saying goes "a mars bar a day keeps the doctor away" aka the Mars Bar slogan in the UK in the 80s

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Did you see the moon last night? Please tell me
you saw it?

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I did.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
I did this morning, So like some kind of eclipse.
It's a little slither beautiful blood moon, very rare.

Speaker 4 (00:37):
Nightmare though powerful, crazy crazy bright night couldn't slope properly
last monthing.

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Yeah, it's this strange atmosphere.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
The weather was square, yes, wizard of in the morning,
then clearing yesterday afternoon, suthing, then bizarrely mild ye, like
when you're in a tropical country or something. Before there's
a made of thunderstorm and the atmosphere is heavy with irons.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
Okay, a lot of irons.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Feel there was iron netic crackling, static static. If I
was an evil baddie, I'm not, but if I was,
I'd be harnessing this right now in a strange laboratory.
But again, just for the record, I'm not so relaxed, everybody.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
I was at the servo station the.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Other day filling out with fuel and by the way,
why can't that be easy getting out of the car
with that clanky hand putting it back in.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Anybody, No, exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
Why can't you get with the vacuum where you press
the button and just retracts its own lead to that?

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Come on, that scientist do that.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Anyway, as I was going into pay, there was a
guy leaving who'd ordered a mass bar and I don't
mean the fun size, a proper fist full of Mars.
And he's trady and he was chomping it down, crack crack,
three bites gone.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
Wow, I know it's like legend. That's like, wow, it's
too much for me, one of those big ones.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
Yeah, those days are long behind me as a teenager. Sure,
crazy young kid, but yes, you can be doing that.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
In the eighties in the UK, Mars Bars had a
big national TV campaign. The slogan was a Mars Bar
a day keeps the doctor away.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
So I always thought, alrighty, I'm not stupid. I have
these to keep that doctor away.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
And my parents double down, and my mum was a nurse,
she should have met her.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
Why would the mask operation?

Speaker 2 (02:35):
You would never get away with that. Now, a Mars
Bar day keeps the doctor away. I was like, thank
you Mars Bar.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
A first defense against illness and viruses.

Speaker 4 (02:46):
I remember that though. I remember the ad a Mars Day,
and I forget the other people.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
No, no, it was work, rest and play, work, question
and play.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Yeah, we've got some of the old adverts here and
here's the Mars Bar.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
One have listened to this.

Speaker 5 (03:02):
Mars is now ten, still only forty cents recommended retail.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
Banger. However, I'm more of a Milky Way guy.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
Really, yeah, I love that lighter, softer, more digestible.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
Yes, it's more digestible.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
I think as you age, I'm finding myself moving into
the Milky Way territory more. It's not as sweet, it's
not too sweet. It's softer, yeah, es yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
And a beautiful appetizer served on the plate to impress
the neighbors.

Speaker 4 (03:46):
No, I think it's the insipid chocolate bar.

Speaker 5 (03:51):
I find the mass bar too thick, dense, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
keep going with the caramel chopping and coat.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
Thick.

Speaker 4 (04:08):
Can you do with a milky bar Mars bar? You
can make Mars Bar slice, true deconstructed. I used to
it school.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
Jones. The microwave and ice cream.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
Yes, actually, Mars Bar ice cream is really nice in
the microwave.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
So it's all like a ice cream soupy owey.

Speaker 4 (04:29):
Yeah, no milky bars, just like in your mouth's perfect.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
I mean digesting it for a year, A tiny Yeah,
I've got more room for leafy greens.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
Exactly. I took my eighteen year old.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
We went and had dinner last night, right, just me
and her, and we were ordering food and we had
the menus with Muma's here. She insist that we ordered
some greens Father's Day. About that stuff. I saw the
waitress looking at me like Judge went, I'm joking.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
Of course happened. I was just a lesson. I was
testing her. We'll have that side those greens.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
Anyway, we eat all the food, the greens haven't been touched,
and then I have to do this performance. So it's
responsible to the Can I have those to go? She goes,
you want me to box these? They're in the fridge
at work. You know what, I've never touching. I'm going
to lead them in there. My food is always getting stolen.
It's an experiment this week. See if anyone tucks into

(05:33):
those leafy greens. So you two males bark fans. Way,
I have, but it's too small. It's too muchy not.

Speaker 4 (05:42):
Nothing, alex is it.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
I wouldn't expect that's what it is. Yeah, it is
thinking men's mask.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
No, you're right, it's it's the air of nobility, about nobility.

Speaker 1 (05:56):
It's for everybody.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
Really, it's not we need foot soldiers real they're with
their chunky, thick now gart based and there's more.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
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