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There used to be a 'text' about the variations of Snickers - why isn't it here anymore? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.208.165.5 ( talk) 15:52, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
==Has the recipe changed?==No In the image of the Snickers, it says "(original)", and even on Amazon US it has an "Snickers-Original Chocolate Candy Bar", so has the recipe changed in anyway over the years?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.208.155.173 ( talk) 11:14, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
Somebody ought to mention the event in 2005 when 3 million Snickers and Mars Bars were destroyed to due poisoning of several bars in New South Wales, Australia.
Too late, I win. :-)-- Erciesielski 22:52, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
What was wrong with my disambiguation line linking to Snickers (workwear) that caused User:That Guy, From That Show! to revert it? That line was totally in keeping with standard Wikipedia practice, so I'm restoring it. If anybody has a problem with it again, please explain why. Tgirl 11:37, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
The web-link http://static.highbeam.com/s/scotlandonsundayedinburghscotland/february112001/marathonschmarathon/ is dead, and the Internet Archive doesn't seem to have kept it. HTH HAND — Phil | Talk 10:31, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
Just corrected a spelling error in this area CaterTrade ( talk) 22:17, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
This article states the Almond Snickers was released in 2002. The almond version has been available in continental Europe since at least the mid 80s. Ben W Bell 12:06, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
I think it was called Almond Mars in the UK - although it was more like a Marathon. Grant 23:47, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
In the United Kingdom and Ireland, Snickers bars were originally sold under the name Marathon. In 1990, the name was changed to Snickers to the chagrin of many people. Today, still, some do not buy "Snickers".
Why do people not buy Snickers? Why would the name change be to the chagrin of many people? I don't get this; is it a UK thing? Can somebody explain?
No it's NOT a UK thing. A name-change wouldn't do anything like that. Sounds more American actually!-- 213.83.125.225 ( talk) 14:12, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
Yes, unfortunately it is. The UK population are a bunch of in bred parochial assholes who seem to think that becuase the name of something changes, they "aren't allowed to like it" anymore. Thats the sort of narrow minded "small group" mentality they have. In fact the best way to get the British to become healthier by giving up cigarattes and beer would be to rename cigarettes "Yankee Smokes" and beer "New York Brew", then none of them would buy it anymore........
Emesis 07:16, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
That's nonsense! I don't know anyone like that. -- 77.99.231.37 ( talk) 21:09, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
Hey, Emesis, do you like fruit? Trust me, no-one would stop drinking beer if they renamed it. You aren't English, right, so how the hell do you know what the UK do? You don't no nothing
For user 81.179 etc., we are not sad and people from the UK are not like that, not anyone i know.-- 77.99.231.37 ( talk) 21:09, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
Hey, user 81.179.178.131, do you like fruit too? The real problem is that us English have to live with you and your racist insults which are not insulting in any way. You just wanted to release anger. I say what i like and i like what a bloody say. DEAL WITH IT LOSER. Remind you of anyone?
Message to the troll...its nothing to do with a fear of change just a dislike of being subject to the dictates of those most reviled of people those in advertising/PR and indirectly big business.PS I've removed North of england from where you can get deep-fried mars bars...I'm from the north of England, live here and travel all over the region and have never seen one or heard of one on sale...as far asI know the only time I've heard them mentioned here is in comments along the lines of "you wouldnt believe what they sell in chip shops in Scotland..." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.254.173.35 ( talk) 13:17, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
It's not so much that. If they'd called it 'Knickers' it wouldn't have been so bad. It's just having what most English people would consider an American word foisted on a much-loved chocolate bar that most of us didn't even realize had come from America in the first place. It would be like expecting Americans suddenly to start calling the Hershey Bar 'Chuckles'. I, for one, still call a Marathon a Marathon! Grant 00:06, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
I'm glad I'm not the only one who doesn't like it. Marathon was a good, wholesome name, but Snickers sounds like some nasty disease, like rickets. One saving grace was the torment of the gullible by insisting that the London Marathon had been renamed to the London Snickers. Chris 09:36, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
People I ask say it's beacuse it sounds like "Knickers". After the change I never bought or ate another Marathon bar. I really wonder why they don't change it back, they must know how many people hate that name and how it must have effected sales.
I hate the Snickers name because it sounds as though it's more than one Snicker, whatever one of those is. 1 Marathon, 2 Marathons. 1 Snicker(s), 2 Snickers(s). It just doesn't sound right to me. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.29.166.169 ( talk • contribs).
Well, thanks for those who think we British are being pedantic in our dislike of the name 'Snickers'. It is just one brand out of many that has had its well known name changed just to bring us in line with the Europeans and Americans... Despite the fact that we are neither of them. With 65 million people in the country, their arguement that it's too expensive to print different wrappers for such a 'small market' is total b****x. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.110.181.149 ( talk) 02:22, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
As well as the possible "knickers" thing it also sounds a bit like "sneakers" which is an American word for some kind of sports shoes - so it sounds like an English (actually Greek but whatever) word being replaced by an American one. The main reason in my opinion why it's so unpopular is that they replaced the previous name "marathon" which sounded adult and perhaps manly - i.e. it said something good about the customers - with "Snickers" which kind of sounds childish - i.e. it talks down to the customers.
The unpopularity of the name change is pretty notable in the UK and should be reflected in the article. Of course Steve Coogan's Alan Partridge character refuses to use the new name and I've heard them talk about it on the pokerstars live stream something like 25 years afterwards.
so if snickers were called "marathon" in the UK all those years, what did u call the MARATHON BAR?
we have (had?) *BOTH* in the US. short-lived, perhaps, but marathon was some variant bar mars put out for a while. 2601:19C:527F:A660:5055:B455:D097:8B0E ( talk) 03:26, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
For clarification, it was actually mentioned in the Snickers episode of Snackmasters; Fred Siriex actually says in that episode that the original change of name to "Marathon" over here in the UK was because it sounded too much like "knickers". Visokor ( talk) 11:53, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
Hey - what happened to the picture of the bar in UK Marathon wrapping that used to be here? There were a couple of images - a Marathon wrapper as per the 1980s I think, and then a version from the 90s with "Marathon (in big writing) Internationally Known as Snickers (in smaller writing)". I thought these were great - where did they go? (end unsigned comment)
-- 24.0.138.63 ( talk) 01:36, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
As we know, the Snickers bar are covered with a brown packaging. But I'm sure that some years ago (in the 80's), the Snickers was covered with a red packaging. Anyone who remebers this, or even have a picture that can be added to the article? Hipporoo 00:38, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
That was Peanut Butter Snickers--
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I demand coverage of this ad campaign. 69.166.172.169 08:26, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
I demand that you put up or shut up and add it yourself if you think it is so important. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.139.82.3 ( talk • contribs) .
Hey now, don't fight. That's a funny commercial. "Happy peanuts soar...over chocolate-covered mountaintops, and waterfalls of caramellllll....."
i too feel that there should be some mention of this person and if he is an actual artist or not.
the guitarist is actor Jack Mulcahy. somebody should include a mention of this commercial and a link to the article on jack mulcahy. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 65.189.221.134 ( talk • contribs).
If no one objects, I am going to remove this dead link. ^ The Marathon candy bar, Christian Science Monitor, Home forum 1999-03-18 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Serenacw ( talk • contribs) .
I'm not convinced that Marathon became Snickers in the UK in 1990. I'm sure it was during my time at university, which would put it as 1985-1989. Unless my memory is playing tricks, I recall a vending machine in my hall of residence still had Marathons in, when shops sold Snickers. Can anyone find any alternative citations? — Tivedshambo ( talk) 20:06, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
NegroSuave 18:51, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
The reason for including the ingredients is that the "fun size" bars do not include an ingredients list. This is the size commonly given at Halloween. Snickers bars include partially hydrogenated soybean oil, a trans fat — an important fact. A specific ingredients list in the lead would be unattractive, so it goes in its own section. -- Charles Gaudette 11:37, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
The first sentence states that "Snickers is a candy bar...". However, in the UK at least, it would be a chocolate bar. How about "Snickers is a candy bar (British English: chocolate bar)..." or something similar. Would that be a worthwhile edit?
138.243.228.52 05:16, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
Anyone seen this? To a NASCAR audience??? My guess is that we will soon be writing here about The Mother of All Ad Blunders. -- Justanother 04:12, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Is this really significant. I don't think so. Not in terms of the legacy of Snickers. -- Spikelee 20:29, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
Does the "Australian recall" section really belong here? I mean, it is really that important in the scheme of things in Snickers history? I don't think so. Tens of thousands of products have had recalls of some sort, somewhere in the world, and we don't devote sections to them. Nor should we. Similarly, I don't think coverage of a Snickers Super Bowl commercial should dominate such an enormous chunk of the article when it's already pretty much forgotten. wikipediatrix 22:22, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
I noticed this variation on Snickers was absent from the list, but I wasn't sure if it was already listed under a different (previous?) name instead. The only notable bits are the 5 grams of protein touted on the label and the absence of nougat. Pedoleon 05:31, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
There was a paragraph added to the general description of the item in question that had copy/pasted information added to it from later in the page. Is it really necessary to explain what the Snickers bar was called in the UK twenty years ago in the general description? It's already explained in its own section of the article.
Also, the citation for the added paragraph in the general description is dead. The paragraph has been removed. Dovo 09:13, 6 August 2007 {UTC}
Does the football page or an archive of it still exist? If it won so many awards and accolades, then we should see something of it to demonstrate its worthiness. 24.177.128.131 16:29, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
I've seen an ad for Snickers with Mr. T in it. Basically, the guy falls over and pretends to be hurt when Mr. T arrives in a tank, saying "Quit your gibber jabbin, you aint hurt, you're pathetic" he then throws a Snickers bar at him, saying "Why can't you act like a real man? If I catch you acting like a crazy fool again, you're going to meet my friend pain!" After that, he drives off, before saying "Snickers, get some nuts!" before taking a bit out of it. Thing I'm not sure is if it's just a New Zealand ad or not. 121.72.32.58 20:24, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
Where does the name come from? According to Snickers (workwear), it comes from a Swedish word meaning "workmen". But what is the chocolate bar named after? JIP | Talk 20:29, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
The article states a fried Snickers packs 8,500 calories. I believe that may be a typo for 850, but I cannot find the source of the citation listed. Stagebear 17:16, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
Maybe this section can be worked on now that some time has passed since the SB? Thanks, -- 70.109.223.188 ( talk) 12:34, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
In 2008, a UK television commercial in which Mr T fires Snickers bars at a racewalker for being a "disgrace to the man race" was pulled after complaints from a US pressure group officially in need of a sense of humour that the advertisement was homophobic. However, very few, if any, gay men agreed.[18]
I doubt that something like that is officially stated somewhere, this is obviously a lie. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 145.53.41.229 ( talk) 13:28, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
I know it says that Snickers was made in the 1930s, but can it be more specific. -- 213.83.125.225 ( talk) 13:08, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
Sorry, i didn't notice the 1930 date! Was that a quick edit? Hahaha. -- 213.83.125.225 ( talk) 13:09, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
The link in the 9th citation is broken. The article doesn't seem to exist anymore. Someone who knows a little more about what to do in this situation should take care of it. GStick ( talk) 20:20, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
Who is they? The Mars company has a favorite horse, what the fuck does that mean? did they regularly pole the plant workers to find out their favorite horse? If you are going to add somekind of enigmatic information like that, how about explaining it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.34.130.22 ( talk • contribs) 17:32, 1 November 2011
I reverted an edit to change the header to read that Snickers is a "chocolate bar" because it is normally referred to as a "candy bar". But, the article candy bar is just a redirect to chocolate bar, implying that any candy bar is just chocolate. So, I didn't want to imply that this revert was because of vandalism as it was obviously meant to avoid the redirect. However, this also brings up the question... Should all references to "candy bar" be changed to "chocolate bar"? -- kainaw ™ 20:08, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
This article says that the bar was introduced as Snickers but as Marathon in the UK and Ireland. It isn't really clear where it was introduced as Snickers. Does it mean Worldwide or maybe America since the link is to foods of America. I did wonder after reading it. Are Wikipedia articles seen as American by default? Or where the product is from but without details of what this is? Shouldn't there be a country or countries listed where it was actually called Snickers to begin with?
I'm not mentioning this in a picky way but because I didn't even have knowledge of whether Snickers existed outside of the UK and am too young to remember Marathon bars, I did want to know and it just isn't clear! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.102.246.8 ( talk) 02:30, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
"Enrobed in chocolate" ??????????????? Who the fuck wrote this? Are corporations supposed to be allowed to write their products entries in wikipedia?
I want to point out that the Joule values given in this article are incorrect. The conversion factor between Joules and calories is 4.2 J/cal, but a food calorie is actually a kilocalorie, or 1000 calories. So a 280 calorie Snickers bar contains not 1200 J, as listed in the article, but 1.2 MegaJoules. This is a common error which occurs several places in the article.
Sincerely, Cslageewiki ( talk) 14:24, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
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This article is mostly about ads. I have to admit the texture is awful. It's sticky and hard to chew on, nothing like Twix from the same company, which is more like a cookie. -- 92.74.25.112 ( talk) 20:42, 29 April 2017 (UTC)
The Snickers bar was invented by an American in the 30s, but the history section nearly exclusively focuses on stuff that happened after 1990 in the UK and Australia. That's extremely unbalanced. GretLomborg ( talk) 22:15, 22 January 2019 (UTC)
should we mention the fact the the nougat contains recycled Snickers (as in, using proto/nougat-less bars in the nougat, which also reduces waste)? An episode of Snackmasters revealed that. Visokor ( talk) 16:23, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
Hello fellow Wikipedians! Yes, you read the header right... If some of you aren't aware, there was recently a controversy (but more of a troll) on Twitter where Snickers had removed a raised chocolate squiggle, resembling a vein, which was amply nicknamed the "Snickers dick vein" due to its phallic nature. My curiosity comes into play as to whether this would be relevant or not in the controversy section as this was a fairly popular meme on Twitter, even as far as getting Mars Inc. PR folks involved from the official Snickers account. TIA. KnightCamelot ( talk) 02:18, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
Noticed a couple controversies in the main body that are pretty old and can comfortably fit within the existing Controversy section. The King-Size controversy was more than 15 years ago and the recall more than 20, so this seems like an easy way to help. I know it's a big move for an IP edit, but I noticed the article's logical flow could be improved so easily and couldn't resist making the edit while passing through. Feel free to revert if you really think the article's controversies should be inserted somewhat haphazardly around the article like they were, rather than consolidated in the Controversy section, but hopefully there will be agreement that this was helpful. 49.228.245.135 ( talk) 06:28, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
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They have no or minimal information mentioning any ingredients as I can tell (feel free to correct me if I'm mistaken). The ingredients are listed on the packaging which is the most reliable source. I could source a photo under CC of an EU label if needed but the list of ingredients are not in English, so an NA package would be preferable in my opinion. 2A01:36D:118:4B5A:1565:24DD:F607:BFA5 ( talk) 04:21, 14 February 2024 (UTC)