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[kimberly_a]

Shannon and I biked down to the (sorta) new Berkeley Bowl this evening, primarily because (1) I wanted to check out the store's "British food" section and (2) Shannon wanted to have a look at the nearby bike trails, which have been recently under construction. Despite the morning's drizzling rain, this evening it was lovely, sunny weather for a

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[nekogirl]

British candy is significantly sweeter than Canadian candy... I'm not sure about American candy (although I know your candy is different than ours as well.) That may be why they have it in the British section. I'm pretty sure that Kit-Kat is originally British though. Ah, I looked it up on Wikipedia... everywhere else it's made by Nestle, but in the US it's made by Hershey... same as Rolo.

[kimberly_a]

That's interesting. I haven't noticed a big difference in the sweetness of American vs. British candy, but I did notice that the chocolate tastes a lot different. After I'd been living in Scotland for several months, American chocolate tasted like wax to me. Nowadays, there's a lot of British chocolate sold here (in the Bay Area, anyway), so the contrast is less stark.