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@caos @vesi *waving from mastodon*

@Aux @neo2478 KitKat was also British (Rowntrees) but it’s now Nestle except the US where it’s Reese’s (Hershey’s)

@Aux @neo2478 it might have started in the UK but it’s owned by Mars and I’m pretty sure they sell a US one

@half_fiction @TTH4P the theory is it’s butyric acid (in the UK everyone thinks Hershey’s tastes like vomit too and lots of our milk chocolate is quite low cocoa content) https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hersheys-chocolate-tastes-like-vomit/_l/_60479e5fc5b6af8f98bec0cd

@catloaf @thebeardedpotato I go one further and subscribe to feeds in mastodon (feel a bit like an impostor though 👀

@Blaze this is probably down to a technical difference in how we’re reading “tempted to”!

@Blaze @vesi the last convo on buyfromeu that I saw said that it was explicitly for EU companies (as the name suggests). So that does mark out buyeuropean as different.

@FireRetardant @grue in the UK we’re not even allowed billboards on motorways as they would be a distraction. Ads *in the car* sounds insane.

@dkc @telegrammarian it’s owned by Elliott Management https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/96873-five-years-in-at-barnes-noble-james-daunt-says-he-s-not-done-yet.html

@JacksonLamb @SPRUNT ‘American cheese’ is a specific type of cheese. I think the closest thing we have in the UK, we’d call ‘plastic cheese’ but even Kraft cheese slices/Kraft singles aren’t ‘American cheese’ as they have extra milk in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American/_cheese

@Zacryon @a887dcd7a if you think that’s bad: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/companies-control-everything-you-buy-kelloggs-nestle-unilever-a7666731.html

@OutlierBlue @TeamAssimilation but it will next year, right? Let’s just ignore all those times it’s veered into the wrong lane or onto train tracks or whatever, it’s fine. Next year, next year, next year.

And Mars in a decade.