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Is it common in Britain to call things like Mars Bar, Twix, etc "chocolate bars"? In all my life, I've never thought of them as such, and don't think I've every heard them called that. To my mind, a "chocolate bar" is a solid bar of pure chocolate (like a Cadbury's Dairy Milk ), or at most, a solid bar with things mixed in with it (like a Cadbury's Fruit and Nut). Is this my mistake? A regionalism? Or an error in Wikipedia? Iapetus ( talk) 14:35, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
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Product type | A bar of solid chocolate | A bar of chocolate combined with other ingredients, such as wafers or nougat | A confectionery bar containing no chocolate, including those which contain only compound chocolate and no true chocolate |
Example | Cadbury Dairy Milk | Snickers | PayDay (confection) |
Main Article | Chocolate bar | Chocolate bar | Candy bar |
Category | Category:Chocolate bars | Category:Chocolate bars | Category:Candy bars |
Disambiguator | (chocolate bar) | (chocolate bar) | (candy bar) |
List article | List of chocolate bar brands | List of chocolate bar brands | List in Candy bar |
In British English Articles | "chocolate bar" | "chocolate bar" | ”confection” |
In American English Articles | "chocolate bar" | "candy bar" (eg, "Oh Henry! is a [[chocolate bar|candy bar]] containing...")
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"candy bar" |
In Canadian English Articles | "chocolate bar" | "chocolate bar" Canadian English generally refers to these as "chocolate bars", though only bars of solid chocolate can be marketed as such. | none yet identified |
I've been working on standardizing language and scope of chocolate bar-related articles and categories, including Candy bar, Chocolate bar, Category:Candy bars, and Category:Chocolate bars. The above chart is the approach I am taking to the standardization.
The articles and categories are a bit of a jumble due to regional language differences. My approach is to make those language differences more explicit, while implementing consistency across articles.
My first thought was to use candy bar as the generic term, but that didn't work out for several reasons:
About the Goo Goo Cluster: The cited source says, opage 126, that the 1912 Goo Goo Cluster is "the first chocolate combination candy" [not "bar"], and that the Clark Bar (1917) was "the first combination candy bar".
I do wonder whether that statement ought to also have qualifiers of "name brand" and "in the US". WhatamIdoing ( talk) 19:06, 10 January 2021 (UTC)
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Is it common in Britain to call things like Mars Bar, Twix, etc "chocolate bars"? In all my life, I've never thought of them as such, and don't think I've every heard them called that. To my mind, a "chocolate bar" is a solid bar of pure chocolate (like a Cadbury's Dairy Milk ), or at most, a solid bar with things mixed in with it (like a Cadbury's Fruit and Nut). Is this my mistake? A regionalism? Or an error in Wikipedia? Iapetus ( talk) 14:35, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
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Product type | A bar of solid chocolate | A bar of chocolate combined with other ingredients, such as wafers or nougat | A confectionery bar containing no chocolate, including those which contain only compound chocolate and no true chocolate |
Example | Cadbury Dairy Milk | Snickers | PayDay (confection) |
Main Article | Chocolate bar | Chocolate bar | Candy bar |
Category | Category:Chocolate bars | Category:Chocolate bars | Category:Candy bars |
Disambiguator | (chocolate bar) | (chocolate bar) | (candy bar) |
List article | List of chocolate bar brands | List of chocolate bar brands | List in Candy bar |
In British English Articles | "chocolate bar" | "chocolate bar" | ”confection” |
In American English Articles | "chocolate bar" | "candy bar" (eg, "Oh Henry! is a [[chocolate bar|candy bar]] containing...")
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"candy bar" |
In Canadian English Articles | "chocolate bar" | "chocolate bar" Canadian English generally refers to these as "chocolate bars", though only bars of solid chocolate can be marketed as such. | none yet identified |
I've been working on standardizing language and scope of chocolate bar-related articles and categories, including Candy bar, Chocolate bar, Category:Candy bars, and Category:Chocolate bars. The above chart is the approach I am taking to the standardization.
The articles and categories are a bit of a jumble due to regional language differences. My approach is to make those language differences more explicit, while implementing consistency across articles.
My first thought was to use candy bar as the generic term, but that didn't work out for several reasons:
About the Goo Goo Cluster: The cited source says, opage 126, that the 1912 Goo Goo Cluster is "the first chocolate combination candy" [not "bar"], and that the Clark Bar (1917) was "the first combination candy bar".
I do wonder whether that statement ought to also have qualifiers of "name brand" and "in the US". WhatamIdoing ( talk) 19:06, 10 January 2021 (UTC)