American candy vs British sweets

It can be tricky to buy candy when travelling between the US and the UK. Even sweets with the same name in both places are actually different!

Candy that exists in both countries, but with different names:

- Whoppers in America are Maltesers in the UK
- Hersheys Mounds in the US are Nestle Bounty in the UK
- Dove chocolate in the US is Galaxy chocolate in the UK
- Pull and peel strawberry Twizzlers in the US are strawberry laces in the UK
- York peppermint patty in the US is Kendell mint cake in the UK
- Original MoonPies in the US are Wagon Wheels in the UK
- Laffy Taffy in the US is Chewits in the UK
- JuJubes in the US are like mini Wine Gums in the UK

Candy that exists in both countries, with the same name:

- Kitkat

- Mars bar
- Snickers
- Cadbury eggs
- M&Ms
- Starbursts - used to be Opal Fruits in the UK
- Skittles
- Twix
- Haribo - but the selections in the packs are different
- Tictacs
- Milkyway
- Rolo
- Nestle Crunch bar

Candy that exists in the US but not in the UK:

- Butterfingers - a peanut butter flavoured centre and chocolate outer
- Hersheys chocolate bar/kisses
- BabyRuth - a peanut, caramel and nut bar named after a baseball player who hit 714 home runs
- 3 Musketeers - chocolate and nougat
- Whatchamacallit - peanut, caramel and chocolate
- Heath bar - 'English' toffee and chocolate
- 100 Grand - rice crispie crunchies and caramel
- Hersheys Almond Joy - similar to Hersheys Mounds which is basically the same as Nestle Bounty
- Swedish Fish - gummy fish
- Reeces cups and Reeces pieces - more chocolate and peanut butter
- MikeandIke - chewy, fruity sweets
- Payday - caramel and peanuts
- Tootsie rolls - chewy chocolate
- Warheads - extremely sour sweets
- Goo Goo clusters - sold since 1912, with chocolate, peanuts, caramel and marshmallow
- Teddy Grahams - chocolate biscuits in the shape of teddy bears
- Cherry Mash bars - cherry chocolate
- Laffy Taffy - made by Wonka, it's a chewy candy that's similar to toffee

Candy that exists in the UK but not the US:

- Kinder eggs  - believe it or not, these are actually illegal in the states

- Yorkie - thick chocolate chunks
- Minstrels - cylindrical chocolate disks with a crisp shell
- Dairy Milk
- Timeout - chocolate and wafer
- Caramac - caramel flavoured milk bar by Nestle
- Aero - bubbly chocolate

Candy with the same name but that's very different  in both countries:

- Smarties - in the US, Smarties are flat, fruit flavoured disks that come in little rolls. In the UK, Smarties are  chocolate with crisp sugar shells in different colours
- In the UK, Sour Patch Kids are made by Maynards. In the US, Sour Patch Kids are made by the Allon  Candy Company. Larry got very mad when he saw Maynards on the UK packets!