Nobody has ever eaten just one Minstrel. Not once, not in the whole history of the bag.
Galaxy Minstrels are Galaxy's smooth milk chocolate in a thin crisp shell: the little round ones that rattled in your coat pocket on the walk home and turned up at every cinema trip you can remember. The shell cracks, the chocolate goes soft, and your hand is already back in the bag.
This is the UK bag, Galaxy on the front, and it ships from within Canada.
A: It is the standard 42g bag, the one-person size. Whether it stays one person's is between you and your conscience.
Q: Are these the same Minstrels I had growing up?
A: They are Galaxy Minstrels, the British ones with Galaxy on the bag. Same little round shape, same crack of the shell.
Q: Are they good to send in a parcel?
A: Very. A bag of Minstrels in a box of British bits does more for a homesick friend than a long letter, and it takes up far less room.
More about Galaxy Minstrels
Minstrels live in that corner of British chocolate you find by the newsagent's till and the cinema kiosk, a bag rather than a bar. Galaxy is the smooth one in the family, and Minstrels are that smoothness in a crisp coat you can carry about.
People in Canada search for them by name because the name is the memory. Saturday afternoon, a film nobody chose, a bag going up and down the row. You do not want a shelled chocolate. You want Minstrels.
This is a single 42g bag, small enough for a pocket, a glovebox or the side of a lunchbox. The shell makes them handy on the move, though a hot car will still win that argument. Keep them somewhere cool and dry, which is a lovely idea for a bag that rarely survives the afternoon.
Galaxy makes plenty besides, from the plain milk chocolate bar to Galaxy Caramel and Ripple. Minstrels tend to go home alongside a box of proper tea, or tucked into a parcel for someone in Canada who has started talking wistfully about the cinema.
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A handy shortcut to the British favourites flying out the door.
You know how Minstrels go. Nobody eats just one, and nobody eats them one at a time either. The bag gets tipped, a small handful goes in, and the shell does its job right up until it does not. In 1980s British adverts they were 'The chocolates that melt in your mouth, not in your hand', and anyone who has held a few too long on a warm afternoon knows that promise came with conditions. These are Galaxy Minstrels, made by Mars, and they belong to the cinema queue and the long car journey.
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An American in Slough
The story starts with a son who wanted his own patch. Forrest Mars Sr., son of American candy maker Frank C. Mars, moved to Britain and in 1932 started his own company, Mars Limited, in Slough, Berkshire. The factory he set up there is the birthplace of the Mars bar, which is a decent thing to have on your CV. It is still in Slough, and it still makes Galaxy alongside the Mars bar, Snickers and Maltesers. That is a fair chunk of the British sweet cupboard coming out of one town.
A very close second
Galaxy was first manufactured in the United Kingdom in 1960. In 2014 it was ranked the second-best-selling chocolate bar in the UK, behind only Cadbury Dairy Milk, which is exactly the sort of fact that starts an argument in an office kitchen. Over here you might know the family by another name: Galaxy goes by Dove in Canada and the United States. Same family, different badge, and the one with Galaxy on the front is the one you grew up with.
Still busy in Berkshire
Minstrels were brought under the Galaxy brand as part of Mars's rebranding, which is why the bag in your hand reads Galaxy Minstrels. They sit in a range that includes Ripple, Bubbles, caramel, Cookie Crumble, Fruit & Nut and Truffle. The Slough factory employs more than 1,850 people, and Mars is investing £190 million (2023 to 2028) to turn it into a 'next-generation manufacturing hub'. Somebody in Berkshire is clearly expecting you to finish the bag.
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