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3 Musketeers is basically a Mars Bar without the caramel. It’s extremely simple — it’s just chewy, cocoa-infused whipped nougat covered in a fairly generous layer of milk chocolate.

The way that Mars has named both this and Mars Bar is a bit confusing; this one is known as 3 Musketeers in North America, but Milky Way in the UK. That’s not to be confused with the American version of Milky Way, which is actually called Mars Bar everywhere else. Simple, right?

Whatever it’s called, 3 Musketeers is a classic — the nougat is nice and fluffy, with a decent amount of chewiness and a satisfying chocolatey flavour. It’s very sweet, but not overwhelming, with a nice hit of creaminess and flavour from the milk chocolate exterior.

Clearly, there’s a reason why it’s endured since the ’30s.

Manufactured by: Mars
Nutritional info (1 bar, 54.4 grams): 240 calories, 7 grams of fat (5 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat), <5 mg of cholesterol, 95 mg of sodium, 42 grams of carbohydrates, <1 gram of fibre, 35 grams of sugar, 1 gram of protein.
Ingredients: Milk chocolate (sugar, chocolate, cocoa butter, skim milk, lactose, milkfat, soy lecithin), sugar, corn syrup, vegetable oil (hydrogenated palm kernel oil and/or palm oil), cocoa powder processed with alkali, less than 1.5% – salt, egg whites, artificial and natural flavors.

Buccaneer is a bit of an odd one. It’s ostensibly a premium candy bar; I bought it at Whole Foods for over three bucks, and the wrapper proudly proclaims that it contains “nothing artificial.”

But the wrapper also uses the word “chocolatey” not once, but twice. Chocolatey is absolutely, positively not a word you want to see on a chocolate bar wrapper (or on the packaging for anything, really). It’s the word companies use when they can’t legally use the word chocolate, because the thing in their product that purports to be chocolate is not actually chocolate.

So that’s not great.

That being said, the “chocolatey coating” here is actually not bad. It’s not great, mind you, but it has very little of the waxy greasiness you associate with mockolate. Eaten with the rest of the bar, it could pass for middling dark chocolate.

As for the bar itself, it’s basically a Mars bar, but without the caramel (it’s also quite 3 Musketeers-esque, though the nougat here is a bit more dense, which makes me think of a Mars bar).

It’s fine, I guess? Its sweetness is a bit more restrained than its inspiration, which is nice, but there’s also nothing about it that particularly stands out. It basically tastes like one of those cheap imitation candy bars you can find at Dollarama, only it costs like triple the real deal, for some reason?

Manufactured by: Go Max Go Foods
Nutritional info (57 g bar): 230 calories, 7 grams of fat (6 grams of saturated fat), 75 mg of sodium, 43 g of carbohydrates, 1 g of fibre, 33 grams of sugar, 1 gram of protein.
Ingredients: Cane sugar, organic rice syrup, organic dehydrated cane juice, palm kernel oil, cocoa powder, palm oil, enzyme modified soy protein, salt, natural flavors, sunflower lecithin, guar gum.

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