\nFrom today’s NY Times:\n<\/p>\n
\nThe World\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Best Candy Bars? English, of Course – New York Times<\/a>: It wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t until he moved to the United States as an adult that he realized just how vast that divide is.<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You get in these religious arguments with people,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t met a Canadian who likes a Hershey bar, but Americans think you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re crazy when you say that, because they think everyone loves a Hershey bar.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/span>\n<\/p>\n \n<\/em>Needless to say, while we were in Canada last week we brought back a few Coffee Crisps and an Aero bar or two. I completely agree with what this article says too about Dairy Milk bars (my fave is the Fruit and Nut one). There’s no comparison. I should also point out that in Canada (and maybe the UK?) we call candy bars “chocolate bars.” Ask someone for a candy bar and they may not know what you’re talking about.\n<\/p>\n \nI should point out to all you chocolate lovers out there that there are a few companies<\/a> that<\/a> export<\/a> Canadian chocolate bars to people in the US. Were we not so close to the border, I expect we’d be using them on a regular basis!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From today’s NY Times: The World\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Best Candy Bars? English, of Course – New York Times: Bryn Dyment, a Web developer in the Bay Area who grew up in Canada, said he was shocked when his parents took him to a candy counter in the United States. He found out that not every child in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,22,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada-eh","category-food","category-us-of-eh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Bryn Dyment, a Web developer in the Bay Area who grew up in Canada, said he was shocked when his parents took him to a candy counter in the United States. He found out that not every child in the world was eating the same chocolate bars he was.<\/p>\n