We so do not. in a country that is becoming more like the US every day (Walmart bought one of our biggest supermarket chains, we get your music, your movies and your TV) one area of marked difference is the candy counter. It always surprises me.
Actually after doing a bit of research, prompted by "our candy guy" (my grandmother's brother's son...some flavor of Uncle), who wanted to know whatever became of his beloved "Lunch Bar", which is apparently now only availible in South Africa, if its the same one, and "Almond Clusters" (made by Peter Paul, makers of Mounds and Almond Joy), which were discontinued. I find that, in fact, you do have a Mounds analouge. From what I can gather:
Mounds~Bounty...Almond Joy includes almonds, and replaces the Mounds' dark chocolate with milk chocolate. Mounds/Almond Joy also used to have a cardboard tray, which has been omitted.
I would never know this. Bounty is my own personal hell. Desecrated coconut. The coconut is a noble fruit (or maybe nut) when cracked open, the milk poured into a Pina Colada and the white stuff chewed right off the husk. But dry it and it's the culinary equivalent of pissy sand.
My wife feels the same way, it's one of the two things we have in common. We got married on the beach in the Dominican Republic, and we gave strict instructions that we wanted a chocolate wedding cake, no dried fruit (our only other thing in common - the rest of the marriage is fun). Come the day, a chocolate cake appeared, but it was sat on a thin bed of desiccated coconut. Both Amanda and I wanted to gag as we ate our own wedding cake (that's the kind of memory Mastercard can't buy) but we were too embarrassed to let our Dominican hosts know.
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Actually after doing a bit of research, prompted by "our candy guy" (my grandmother's brother's son...some flavor of Uncle), who wanted to know whatever became of his beloved "Lunch Bar", which is apparently now only availible in South Africa, if its the same one, and "Almond Clusters" (made by Peter Paul, makers of Mounds and Almond Joy), which were discontinued. I find that, in fact, you do have a Mounds analouge. From what I can gather:
Mounds~Bounty...Almond Joy includes almonds, and replaces the Mounds' dark chocolate with milk chocolate. Mounds/Almond Joy also used to have a cardboard tray, which has been omitted.