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Oct 21, 2017 4:03 PM
ForgetAboutMe
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anitabieror6
yeah we've had malted milk balls for years too so calm down about the fuckin malteasers already
MooseFoxx
Yeah but does anyone remember mini polos and also when they just sold the middle of the mint?
Greenrangerguy
You know what is not special and no one would ever claim it to be... Sugar free Polos, just no those things are hell.
GadenKerensky
Australia just has Life Savers, but I've never seen a Life Saver packet with chewy stuff.
turk187
Ask them about Smarties.
MatHeadGetz
In Australia lifesavers come in Musk flavour!
markbuttfalo
Anybody know where I can get original lifesavers with the lime flavor?
Ilovebooksandrain
But do you have SURGE? We norwegians do.
kgbofficer
The drink?
? Of course we do
MarcUK
You can't copyright sweets and biscuits so the popular ones tend to get copied by supermarkets under their own brand and other companies.
Shchenya
Considering the fact that the US tried to claim the sausage roll and gave it a shitty name...
ThePirateCatsRule
Polos are so much better than that foreign muck. Brexit means polos.
DanniTinkerTits
Gods sake America, stop renaming shit to sound special
CitrusSharp
But why no mention of the friggin best polos ever???
LoopStricken
Spearmint?
CitrusSharp
Citrus sharp polos!
Drek258
Does anyone else remember Polo Gummies?
ILoveToLaughHaHaHaHa
American here: English candies and chocolates win every comparison-based competition.
mavi222
the Three Musketeers are Milky Way here in EU, also Mars here in EU is the same as Milky way in the US .... what a weird world we live in.
phantomgallery
do you have any questions about the US i may be able to answer
GrandmasterSmeg
Hurr hurr bad teefs
skooksies
Member when you were a kid and the mint ones would spark when you bit into them and it was the fucking coolest?
Molvanian
We have an entire vaccine to not get... wait no, that's polio. Sorry.
polio69
Did somebody call me ?
Drennen
And they have human testing for the HIV vaccine soon. for reals.
Molvanian
Sweet.
DooksandPooks
Fruit ROLOS and Caramel ROLOS
LoopStricken
... FRUIT Rolos?
ChefMIKErowave
"Fruit ROLOS" uhhh EXCCCUUUUSEEEEE MEEEEEEE?
TheCrazyKoopaTroopa31
How many holes are in a polo?
LoopStricken
Four.
Cats2cats
Are Polo made by Mars Company?
0x5F3759DF
Nestle actually, Lifesavers are by Wrigley.
Cats2cats
Which tracks back to Hershey which tracks back to Mars or in US ; M&M.
0x5F3759DF
I can't find any link to Hershey, but yes, Wrigley is under the Mars banner.
Cats2cats
I may have messed up I think Mars owned Cadbury then sold it to Hershey in the US.
cattriona
Do you know if you chew wintergreen Lifesavers in the dark, you'll see sparks? Try it in front of a mirror.
trumpypumpyinyourrumpy
I haven't seen any life savers in years. They dont sell them here anymore
removekarling
polos are best
FortressCraft
Ugh, every time this hits the front page : Spearmint is NOT the same as pressed mint.
0x5F3759DF
Ugh, every time someone comments this : lifesavers come in three mint flavors and no one said those were identical items.
FortressCraft
Given that one of those is 'orange mint', we can safely discount Americans from having any input into sweets.
0x5F3759DF
Correction, 4 mint flavors. Also don't knock it till you've tried it.
FortressCraft
Really? I checked, the website only listed 3. What's the 4th? (And I jest, Orange Mine actually sounds grand)
FortressCraft
...mint.
0x5F3759DF
http://www.wrigley.com/global/brands/life-savers.aspx#panel-2 -- "Pep o mint" "Spear o mint" "Wint o green" (is a mint) "orange mint"
gotchasucka
I guess at least Britain can spell.
nolittleplans
Please you can't even speak your own language correctly. This is bait if you can tell, as British sounding English only originated 300y ago
TheGhostofElizabethShue
As a Briton, no, we fuckin' can't.
TheManInTheWall
RisingPhoenix92
Its tumblr keep the expectation you are talking to a 13 year old girl and you wont be overly dissappointed.
ThePirateCatsRule
And go to the doctor without paying.
GiantDad420
I can get treatment in America without paying. I just need a hot iron rod, a pair of tweezers, and gauze.
Youragent
You're not special! I can die of preventable illnesses for free thank you very much.
Rkfinecake
That's the price we pay for not having to fork over a tremendous amount of taxes to the government each year.
0x5F3759DF
Though, to be fair, I can manage to see a doctor when I want...
ColonelCouch
Same here
Ambeam
Brits see doctors when they want AND without paying. (Also to a statistically better standard but who's counting? Oh yeah your poor have to)
JockstrapJones
>mfw Americans call whimsy flimsy write and scribblys "pens"
NatsukiIsMyWaifu
>mfw Brits call pens "whimsy flimsy write and scribblys".
ButIAmTheManager
>mfw Americans call twisting plankhandles "doorknobs"
MinnesotaTom
At least America didn't add random "u's" to words to make the words look more Latin. That's right, I went there. Fuck yo tea
deliriousstormdrain
Like your Spanish words you mean, eg,favour, you spell it as favor as is in por favor,fuck your doughnuts bitch,not literally, cheerio
SpaceXilonen
How did Spanish even get dragged into this?
deliriousstormdrain
He/she said our words (English) was Latin, I gave an example that American English has Spanish words in them, that's how, pay attention dud.
deliriousstormdrain
Dude
MuddyMax
I don't really know what's going on but the English didn't get favour from Latin directly and Americans didn't get favor from Spanish
ThatKidWhoYoyos
Lifesavers are called that because the lady who invented them kid died choking on candy. So if you choke, you can still breathe
FirstThingThatCameToMind
I choked on a lemon head yesterday
Syphryn
I'll take "shit gradeschoolers made up" for 500, Alex
FromDenmarkWithHate
No? If one gets lodged in your throat you can still breathe. You cannot breathe of you're choking.
pandro
my toddler would choke on cheerios. I literally had to break them up every day for his daycare snack. :rollseyes:
quizquare
I used to take Lifesaver Holes and cram them into the holes of Lifesavers.
ThePerfectGif
I miss those baby lifesaver balls.
anitabieror6
"The candy's name is derived from its similarity to the shape of life preservers used for saving people who have fallen from boats." -wiki
JonSnowNotedWindmillExpert
thankyou.gif
ThePerfectGif
And also have super minty-fresh breath. ????
ilovecake
I choked on a Skittle once as an adult, and I was home alone. Thought it was the end for me. Clearly it wasn’t.
MaTuRE7o7
You're in a coma, wake up
ilovecake
Fuck, if everything that’s happened since then was just a coma dream...I’d wake up not in a happy place.
ikillcats
I chocked on your comment
grammarfairy
Nothing to do with the fact that they look like Livesavers?
infaredbeam
bigredfiretruk
yeah.. im gonna guess theyre named after the floating lifesaver floatie theyre designed like
g3istbot
Nah, those came afterwards.
bpetersen
Ironically, the son of the lifesaver inventor drowned
grammarfairy
Did he make it after he drowned? Because that wouldn't be ironic.
WTBGold
They also look like donuts, rings, tires, and buttholes. #MarketingWinsAgain
GdSvThQn
That is why, @thatkidwhoyoyos story is just an old wives tale.
CirclejerqueDuSoleil
Technically, if you can breathe, you're not choking
morecheeseplease
I think it was a man named Clarence Crane if I remember correctly, I did a report on him as a kid
causality
No. https://www.snopes.com/business/names/lifesavers.asp
Loompafoo
Thank you. I hate this myth. I had a friend that swore this was the reason and he knew someone involved in the naming and everything.......
GreenFox
I was thinking "You made that up", but no, he's not creative enough to make that up. But he is gullible enough to believe it.
causality
I am always suspicious of clever little stories.
Calcifiera
See, now no one believes me when I say they were named because they look like the floatation device because everyone believes the throat one
Loompafoo
I believe you.
samtherat6
What? That's not how they were made. Short story is that they're shaped like that because they were first made in a broken pill machine. 1/?
samtherat6
Long story is that this guy wanted to make a candy marketable for summer bc chocolates would constantly melt. So he made these hard mints2/?
samtherat6
He bought this pill machine to shape them, but it was broken so they kept getting holes in them. Some other guy found them and thought 3/?
samtherat6
They were amazing, so asked how much he could buy the business off of him. The maker didnt really want to sell them, so he gave him a 4/?
samtherat6
Ridiculously high price of something around $5000 (keep in mind this was early 1900s so it was a lot) The buyer really wanted them so 5/?
JockstrapJones
I choked on a lifesaver when I was a kid no joke. My sister had to do the Heimlich to save me
lexxyc
This thread's theme song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i73k9qJ40R8
AvadaKedavraBitches
Me too! Minus the sister. It was my mom.
nameisunavailable
I choked on a lifesaver when I was about 6, 29 now and haven't had a non gummy one since...
JockstrapJones
SAME. That shit was terrifying.
vh12372
do you just try to fuckin' swallow 'em? how do you manage to choke on them?
JockstrapJones
Probably had something to do with me being a child...
here4doggomemes
You could definitely still choke on gummy ones
Steelhart
They’re called “abdominal thrusts” now. Heimlich family wanted money, so the Red Cross changed it.
Anotherunsuspectingvictim
Hawt
JockstrapJones
That is some old bullshit
ExplainThisJoke
"My name going down in history as a life saving maneuver? Screw that! I want petty cash!"
RowRowFightThePowa
The Onion made a post saying that. Apparently it was because he didn't like the backslaps Red cross added to it and wanted his name removed.
CptBeardBeard
Oh, I've got an abdominal thrust for ya!
Cereaza
0_0... I call bullshit?
FuckYeahImAwesome
I was told this at my first aid course so I think it’s true
Cereaza
But... I mean... The Red Cross doesn't own the Heimlich, nor does Heimlich, nor does anyone. It's a term. There's no business or revenue!
jeips
wat? is that real?
AmericasRealBaldEagleCaaaw
Maybe
jmuije
ask again later
underageotters
No
TheGhostOfBobDole
Indubitably
biggreencow
very.
HermanManly
I dont know
underageotters
No he asked them to change it after they refused to chair their recommendations on life saving techniques for choking. They still recommend
underageotters
5 backslaps coupled with 5 abdominal thrusts despite the fact that there is no research supporting back slaps as a life saving technique and
underageotters
He said there is evidence that back slaps can't actually make a lodged item go further into the windpipe.
sprayingmantis
I've used the Heimlich. It works better than stupid back slaps. Can't believe they teach that..
RobertLSU
Who did they want money from?
JustADumbRename
From whom did they want money?
FuckYeahImAwesome
Those who teach the manoeuvre at first aid courses, etc
tacodefender
The heimlich dr. was insane. He thought it was a cure for aids and a few other diseases.
underageotters
No he thought people who had aids could be cured by infecting them with malaria to raise their temperature to evoke an immune response 1/
underageotters
It's how to use to treat syphilis or something like that. They stopped doing it when (much) safer methods became available.
TheyCallMeMrPigeonCuzImJustSoCoo
Nah, he wasn't that crazy! He didn't think the maneuver was the cure! Just... malaria. He thought malaria cured AIDS. Fuck.
TheStargateIsReal
I mean if you die from Malaria before Aids, you technically didn’t die of AIDS, so...sorta?
ausernamebyanyother
I'd been told it was to stop the Heimlich family being sued by people who were injured as a result of someone saving their life w/ the move.
TheGreyKnightsBANNED
Why would you sue them......
ausernamebyanyother
Broken ribs? Internal injury? No idea, just what my first aid instructor told me.
StarryPlough
But then there's American 'chocolate' ....
justkidneying
Excuse me, but we have other American chocolate makers that do not make crap chocolate. Hershey
justkidneying
Hershey's is trash.
manslut
Dark Chocolate for me please.
SpiceSlag
Milka bars from Switzerland are amazing. I hope they get them in the states.
SpiceSlag
Oh I don't live there, I just hoped that American folk could eat some decent chocolate rather then utter trash that is Hersheys.
asanimgurianiliealot
People don't seem to realize that there are varying quality of foods in America. Yeah Hershey's isn't great but we have good stuff too.
StarryPlough
But in general your food is very poor. Doesn't mean there isn't anything nice but the overall average is extremely low
StarryPlough
This is evident in your prevalence of chain restaurants, eating habits, food regulations and even your recipes
Bstone1
Well... Britain had to invade an entire continent for spices to make their food less shit.
StarryPlough
Yeah I never said British food was great and I'm all too aware of their war crimes
asanimgurianiliealot
You get what you pay for here is the thing. We have tons of cheap crap but if you spend the money you get good stuff.
StarryPlough
I moved from Europe to Canada and have spent time in the US. Your premium foods are regular, accessible fare in the EU
JaceArveduin
Which bits of the US? Some places just can't cook. I've been in Ohio for awhile and there's no good fried chicken here, for example.
0x5F3759DF
Is this really a british person suggesting that some other country has bad food?
Molvanian
I've had good chocolate. Hershey isn't bad. It's not going to stand up to high quality stuff, but you know what? For a poor kid it's a treat
Schex44
Hershey's is gross but I'm glad they do well. Milton Hershey bequeathed the majority of shares to his non profit foundation.
an0therthr0waway
Hershey is the Budweiser of chocolate - it's OK. Want GREAT Chocolate, try something by Ghirardelli. Want AWESOME chocolate, look for See's.
Molvanian
Ghirardelli is over-rated. I've heard See's is amazing.
WeakReference
IDK man, we have Milka, which is mass-produced as fuck and costs about $1 here (as opposed to Hershey's $2-$3) and is much better 1/2
WeakReference
than the hershey i had 2/2
CheddarFiend
Hershey tastes literally like vomit. Unforgivable chocolate imposter. Try real Belgian stuff - there's no going back.
Molvanian
Oh you snob. I bet you couldn't tell the difference without a label.
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Molvanian
Of the people I know who have come to this country, and have tried Hershey's chocolate (about a handful), I've never heard that.
CheddarFiend
https://www.elitedaily.com/news/hersheys-chocolate-chemical-in-vomit/1765784
crashmat
I'm sorry Hershey chocolate sucks and doesn't ever compare to Cadbury or Galaxy made in the UK.
0x5F3759DF
You mean Kraft and Dove?
Molvanian
I will take that fight any day of the week. I've had plenty of Cadbury chocolate. It's good, no doubt, but it doesn't bury Hershey.
Zarkai
If you're American then there's actually US made Cadburys which isn't the same as the UK ones. Herschey actually got non-US Cadburys banned
crashmat
And yes the USA version really isn't like the UK one. Licensed but not the same process.
Ulthirm
cadbury is disgusting...
DC1888
Cadbury's is still better though.
Ulthirm
Hershey is immensely better than Cadbury's
LoopStricken
https://imgur.com/K2vJfGi
StarryPlough
Hersheys tastes like vomit to anyone who grew up with actual chocolate
BugcatcherJay
So probably not the aforementioned "poor kids"
mthrndr01
Let us never forget that there's always time in the day to refute people trying to be reasonable by acting like an asshole.
StarryPlough
Nothing at all reasonable about pretending Hersheys is anything other than terrible
AccountCreatedToUpdogVotes
Let's try this a little differently. Many people may have found your mother's choice not to abort to be a terrible decision, but I'm sure