It’s Wrapper Wednesday! And this week we’re taking a look at a fruity twist on a classic chocolate bar: a ‘Banana Whip Milky Way’ from Australia.
The original ‘Milky Way‘ bar was invented by American confectioner Frank Mars in 1923 and is a concoction of nougat and caramel, enrobed in milk chocolate, and was inspired by popular malted milk drinks.
Outside of the US the ‘Milky Way‘ does not contain any caramel and the whipped vanilla nougat is considerably lighter than it’s American counterpart. The American ‘Milky Way‘ is essentially a UK ‘Mars‘ bar, and a UK ‘Milky Way’ is similar to a US ‘3 Musketeers‘…got all that?
Confusion aside, this wrapper belonged to an Australian ‘Milky Way‘ (just like the UK recipe) but with banana flavoured nougat instead.
I wish I could remember what this tasted like because I am attracted to anything banana flavoured! We also don’t see much in the way of ‘Milky Way‘ variations in the UK either so this was a novelty – I’d sure like to see more flavours like this available globally.
The British Candy Connoisseur 