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Luckily Mars bars always did make me feel sick so I never ate them....heres another reason

I used to work close to a Mars factory. The whole industrial estate smells like Mars bars...
 
Anything with nuts and chocolate for me. So I make a small trail mix for dessert. One or two pecan and macadamia and 4 dark choco baking chips. Hits the spot.
 
Ah the legendary Mars bar. Not had a Mars bar for a long time, but good or bad, I have to say that a Mars bar saved me many many times whilst in the depths of a hypo.
Hilarious how the word ....protein... is the new go to advertising slogan.
 
therower said:
Ah the legendary Mars bar. Not had a Mars bar for a long time, but good or bad, I have to say that a Mars bar saved me many many times whilst in the depths of a hypo.
Hilarious how the word ....protein... is the new go to advertising slogan.
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I used Mars Bars as well but quite like a bit of Bounty. It appears to work just as fast as Jellybabies
 
Diakat said:
I used to work close to a Mars factory. The whole industrial estate smells like Mars bars...
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I used to work for Mars as a contractor. One of the best ways of giving up chocolate is working at their Slough office for a couple of weeks. I saw several people start work in the offices and relish the idea of free chocolate in the office (Mars bars that didn't meet the quality required for something like the ripple pattern) but be off chocolate within 3 weeks.

If you get the chance, and live close by, a factory visit is a must, they make more than Mars bars there, the sweet smell is overpowering and really off putting. You'd be cured for life.
 
I do keep Mars bars in the house in case of emergency ie low readings but have to say i have never liked them
 
Contralto said:
that one he showed if you scroll over was 39 carbs per bar, expecting you to eat only half
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No one bar = 57g = 22g of carbs so we where both wrong I stupidly read the 19g of protein as the weight of a bar rather than one bar being one portion of 57g.

My brother in law a T1 always kept some handy to treat hypos.
 
DavidGrahamJones said:
I used to work for Mars as a contractor. One of the best ways of giving up chocolate is working at their Slough office for a couple of weeks. I saw several people start work in the offices and relish the idea of free chocolate in the office (Mars bars that didn't meet the quality required for something like the ripple pattern) but be off chocolate within 3 weeks.

If you get the chance, and live close by, a factory visit is a must, they make more than Mars bars there, the sweet smell is overpowering and really off putting. You'd be cured for life.
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I know someone who works there and they do not make Mars bars at the Slough factory any more they are made at another one and you can tell that now as the overpowering smell of chocolate in the area has gone
 
I would still eat one if I could I was never a real chocoholic but did enjoy a Mars bar sometimes
 
30 or 40 years ago there was a fad diet - Mars Bars only. Nothing else. I don't think it caught on. :eek: My friend tried it for 2 days.
 
Boo1979 said:
To despise them
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mars-Prote...8&qid=1512069633&sr=8-2&keywords=quest+bar+uk

I see at the bottom that they've expaded the “protein bar” claim to bounty and snickers too - they always made me feel nauseous too!
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I think all big food companies are just adding the word protein to the title, repackaging and selling the same stuff as a healthy option. I was reading the back.of a bread wrapper and comparing a "protein" loaf with an ordinary loaf. The slices were smaller, so the amounts were less, but other than that it was the same.
 
Kentoldlady1 said:
I think all big food companies are just adding the word protein to the title, repackaging and selling the same stuff as a healthy option. I was reading the back.of a bread wrapper and comparing a "protein" loaf with an ordinary loaf. The slices were smaller, so the amounts were less, but other than that it was the same.
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Yes, you have to be careful. If it says "protein" bar/loaf/whatever it must have some protein in it but not necessaril high protein. It will only be "high protein" if it actually has high protein in it. (like the Lidl rolls). Same with low carb. There are products that say "low carb" and it probably is, but there are products that say "lower carb" and it won't be low, just lower. (The Hovis lower carb loaves are certainly not low carb)
 
Pinkorchid said:
I know someone who works there and they do not make Mars bars at the Slough factory any more
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That's interesting! When I went on the factory tour the machinery was much more interesting than the chocolate. The conveyor belts with about 15 mars bars across were a sight to behold. Even the tour guide, who had helped design the production line referred to them as "our little soldiers".

The wrapping machine was my favourite, the speed that they go through, one by one was amazing. When they go wrong is a sight to behold, Mars bars flying upwards instead of continuing through the mach was very amusing. The Mars bars that end up on the floor (which is spotless) end up in a big wheely bin thing and some is given away, some sold in bags for 50p and the unwrapped chocolate can go back into the chocolate but within certain limits. Sorry, I digress, happy days.
 
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