Every house has a rule about this bag. Nobody has ever followed it.
Mars Celebrations, the pouch of miniature, individually wrapped chocolates that gets opened for "just a couple" and is empty before the film finishes. Each one is a tiny version of a bar you grew up with.
So everyone has a favourite, everyone hunts for it, and everyone has one they quietly pretend not to see. The bottom of the bag tells you exactly who your family really is.
It is a proper sharing pouch. Whether it actually gets shared is between you and your conscience.
Frequently asked questions about Mars Celebrations Pouch
Q: Is this the UK version of Celebrations?
A: Yes, this is the British pouch, the one you would pick up in a UK supermarket. We ship it from within Canada, so it does not have to cross an ocean to reach you.
Q: How big is the pouch?
A: It is a 325g sharing pouch of miniatures. Enough for a film night with fair sharing, or a much quieter film night without it.
Q: Does it make a good gift?
A: It does. Everything is individually wrapped, so it travels well and is easy to split, and it goes down very well with anyone who grew up on British chocolate.
More about Mars Celebrations Pouch
In Britain, Celebrations are the chocolates that come out when people come round. Birthdays, visitors, a bowl on the coffee table, the box passed down the row at work when someone leaves. They are less a snack than a social occasion with wrappers.
People in Canada go looking for them because it is the mix they remember: the little bars, the coloured wrappers, the ritual of digging for the good ones. Nothing about it is complicated, which is exactly why it sticks.
This is the 325g pouch, everything individually wrapped, so it tips straight into a bowl or gets rationed out over a week, depending on your willpower. Keep it in a cool, dry cupboard away from the radiator and it will be fine until someone finds it. Handy for lunchboxes, the office and the glovebox.
It sits nicely next to a pot of tea and a packet of British biscuits, and plenty of people add a few full-size chocolate bars from home while they are at it. Fair warning: the miniatures make you want the big ones.
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A handy shortcut to the British favourites flying out the door.
The pouch gets opened and there is a short, polite silence while everybody works out what they are after. Celebrations has been made by Mars, Incorporated since 1997: miniature versions of the full-size Mars chocolate bars, which is exactly the problem. You know every one of them by name. You know which one you want, and you know you are not the only one. The polite part lasts about as long as the first pass round the room.
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A boy from Minnesota
Franklin Clarence Mars was born in Minnesota in 1883 and learned to hand-dip chocolate from his mother while recovering from a mild case of polio. By 1920 he had founded Mar-O-Bar Co. in Minneapolis, which later incorporated as Mars, Incorporated. In 1923, inspired by a chocolate malted milkshake, he introduced the Milky Way bar, and it became the company's best-selling candy bar. Not bad for an idea that started with a milkshake.
Then Slough, of all places
The British chapter starts in 1932, when Forrest Mars Sr. rented a factory in Slough and, with a staff of twelve, began making the original chocolate-coated nougat-and-caramel bar, modelled after his father's Milky Way and adjusted for European tastes. He founded his own Mars company there and created Maltesers in 1936. The Slough factory, the birthplace of the Mars bar, today also makes Galaxy and Maltesers for the UK, Ireland and the Netherlands. Slough is not where most people would guess. It is, though.
Still in the family
Mars, Incorporated remains a family-owned business, and its brands include M&M'S, Snickers, Pedigree and Whiskas alongside the chocolate, so the dog and the cat are looked after as well. The pouch, meanwhile, does what a shared bag does in any British front room. It sits on the arm of the sofa, it goes round during the film, and somebody always leaves one at the bottom. It is never them.
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The day it arrives we unpack it, pack your order and send it on its way. Advent calendars go first, and everything reaches you within a few days wherever you are in Canada.
Order now and it has your name on it. The favourites go early every year. The people who leave it until December are the ones who miss out.
