![]() It's easy to see why some people might puzzle over the name of Mars' 3 Musketeers candy bar: The confection has no obvious connection to the literary creations of Alexandre Dumas (especially now that representations of the Three Musketeers characters are no longer featured on the bars' wrappers), and name isn't reflective of any quality of the candy itself. So much so, in fact, that we'll invent and cling to fanciful, fictitious explanations that seem more satisfying or understandable to us than mundane realities, even when the subject is as trivial as candy bars. ![]() Many of the items covered on our site exemplify the notion that we human beings don't like things that don't make sense, but we really do like interesting stories. ![]() And that is the Just So Story of why 3 Musketeers has only two ingredients. So, the labels were switched, and both bars were so popular, the candy company couldn't very well reverse themselves and change the names back after they were such a hit. This has a strain of plausibility, because a Milky Way bar has three ingredients (to review: chocolate coating, nougat, caramel), and it is easy to envision the smooth chocolate nougat interior of the 3 Musketeers bar as a veritable galaxy of taste. The legend goes that Milky Way and 3 Musketeers were released on the same day, but the labels were accidentally switched. Someone told me a story about the origin of the names of Milky Way and 3 Musketeers bars. Consider the following claim about the origins of the Mars Company's popular Milky Way and 3 Musketeers candy bars:
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