Snickers is getting rebranded as Marathon!

[batman]

It's a limited time only thing, though.

https://www.theguardian.com/business...-bar-nostalgia

[Cartimand]

Best news I've heard for ages!
Hope they make it permanent!

[80sChav]

Great news indeed - I love the idea!

I am really pleased that Company's still on occasion see sense and pay homeage to brands at times

[batman]

Is the recipe just the same?

What is the point if it's not?

[Cartimand]

Is the recipe just the same?

What is the point if it's not?

The point is that most of us here are fond of reminiscing about the good old days - which included Marathons!

[Moonraker]

I still call it Marathon. My children are bemused.

[HG]

Hope they're as big as the old marathons

[Cartimand]

Hope they're as big as the old marathons

Like back when Wagon Wheels were this size?

[George 1978]

At least Walkers Crisps have never been known as "Lays" in the UK.

Funnily enough, the difference between the words marathon and snickers made me think of this: when I watched the London Marathon earlier on this year, they make referece to the "Women's Marathon" - if we changed the word marathon to snickers, we sould get "Women's Snickers" which sounds so much in a Two Ronnies "Fork-Handles" way like saying "women's knickers"!

I often joke that if I am looking for Wagon Wheels these days, I always try and bring a microscope with me, whereas back in the day, I used to stand well back to view them. I blame metrification and shrinkage, circa around 1988 myself.

[darren]

I never really knew why marathon became snickers.

Or opal fruits to starburst.

Is it some sort of american thing.

[batman]

I wish I knew.

Galaxy is also known as Dove.

[George 1978]

I wouldn't like eating Dove in the UK as it would taste rather horrible - it is a bit soapy - and not as in soap in the Family Fortunes sense either! Les Dennis asked a contestant to name a soap (opera) and came up with Dove! At least Coronation Street was sponsored by Cadbury's for a few years.

I think that Marathon has been Snickers in borh America and Europe for donkey's years.

Jif was a bathroom cream cleaner in the UK, but a brand of peanut butter in the USA - probably the reason why it changed to Cif over here.