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Nottingham Post
Nottingham Post
Entertainment
Lynette Pinchess

We compare Mars Bars with two supermarket brands costing a fraction of the price

Mars Bars aren't just one of the UK's favourite chocolate bars but one of the most popular in the world. When you need a sugar fix it's top of the chocs, a real satisfying sweet treat.

Before we get down to the serious business of a taste test, here's some trivia (you never know when it might be a question in a pub quiz). The chocolate bar isn't named after the Roman god of war or the planet. Instead it was called Mars, after the family of confectioners who created it.

Mars Bars were first manufactured in 1932, in Buckinghamshire, by Forrest Mars Snr. They're still made at the same Slough factory more than 90 years on and a whopping 200 million bars are sold in the UK and Ireland every single year.

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