Hello!

What an original and creative name for a chatroom, @quid! ;D

I never thought I'd see the day where one could be suspended for being rude to a bot!

@amWhy well I had to be quick.

@quid By the way, the election chatroom is quite off topic. Maybe other users ought to be suspended too??

@quid Hah!

@amWhy I did not look in detail. I am more in the mood for eating chocolate or ice-cream than doing chat moderation to be honest. :-)

@quid Good for you! ;D

What flavor ice-cream is your favorite, @quid?

@amWhy that's a tricky question lately I was eating mostly just chocolate or vanilla because that's versatile and I buy a large box in the supermarket.

I would not describe this as my favorite flavor though.

Actually I hardly ever ate vanilla ice-cream except in sundaes that ask for it.

But somehow I quite like one the supermarket has. There seems to be a lot of actual vanilla in it.

@quid I understand. Vanilla is the most versatile, for Sundaes, root beer floats, with cake or pie, or topped with berries, etc.

A novel flavor is okay for getting a scoop or two at an ice cream shop.

I quite like sorbet or at least sorbet like things, raspberry and apricot for example.

@quid Yes, that's very refreshing.

Strawberry not so much. But hey maybe I should give it a try I think it's ages I did not eat that.

Maybe it would be like with vanilla.

So what is you favorite flavor @amWhy

@quid Oh, that's hard. Vanilla is most versatile. I really like Butter Pecan (buttered pecan?) as well, or dutch chocolate almond? But I haven't treated myself to icecream for quite awhile. One of my favorite ice cream based treats are malts: chocolate or vanilla.

@amWhy what is a malt?

Not just a milkshake, but a malt, which is a milkshake with malted milk added.

Now I'd need to know what malted milk is but that might be easier to find out.

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When I was growing up, my Mom would sometimes sprinkle malted milk powder on our scoops of ice cream. Nirvana!!

Interesting.

It appears that's what inside Maltesers.

@quid Very likely. In the US, they're often called "malted milk balls", also the brand "Whoppers".

@amWhy something I learned recently is that "Milky Way" is entirely different in different countries.

I somewhat noted as I once ate one in the US and it was not quite what I expected but I thought that was some kind of secondary type.

@quid Wow! I wouldn't have known that.

But I once went to a Pizza Hut in Mexico (while there for three months, hankering for the pizza I was used to). But it was nothing like what I was used to. It tasted fine, but not anything like what I was used to.

And CocaCola in Mexico is premium, over the current CocaCola in the US. The US, sometime ago, changed it's Coke formulation by replacing sugar with Corn Syrup. Mexico plants still use sugar.

You can now find Mexican manufactured CocaCola in the US, still bottled in 12 oz glass bottles, which CocaCola (US) did away with decades ago.

Yes Coca Cola can vary quite a bit from one country to the other.

For the Milky Way. That bar is known as simply Mars outside the US. By contrast Milky Way corresponds to 3 Musketeers.

@quid In the US, the Milky Way is the 3 Musketeers, but with a thin layer of added caramel. There no longer is a Mars Bar in the US, which was a nougat with almonds, covered in chocolate, which has now been marketed as "Snicker's Almond".

@amWhy I like that one, but it is tricky to find here (and/or seems unreasonably expensive); not really unreasonable but dispportionately.

MARS Co. (responsible for all the candy we've mentioned, including Maltesers), has merged with Wrigley's (chewing gum), and is now MARS WRIGLEY

Wrigley originated in Chicago, and financed Wrigley Field, home to the Chicago Cubs. I sometimes wish there weren't so many mergers :(

@amWhy somehow I thought Wrigley might be related to wriggle, but it's just a name it seems.

Then I was also sure for a long time that Mars is name for the planet.

@quid Mars candy bars are mined from Mars (the planet), already in wrappers, even!

@amWhy well, I did not imagine that, I was a smart kid after all. Still am! Just an old one.