A woman in ND is giving this out to overweight kids on Halloween.

[Peikko 1,575]

Maltesers are a confectionery product manufactured by Mars, Incorporated. Maltesers consist of a roughly spherical malt honeycomb centre, surrounded by milk chocolate. They are most popular in Denmark, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, Spain, Ireland, Canada, France, Hong Kong, Iceland and Portugal.^{[citation needed]} Maltesers are sold in a variety of packaging, including plastic bags (ranging in size from small 'fun-size' upwards), larger cardboard boxes and tubes, and plastic buckets (ranging in size from medium to very large). They also have medium sized "teasers" in Celebrations boxes. Maltesers are also one of the types of sweet included in Mars's Revels assortment.

In February 2013, Maltesers were sold in Faroe Islands, Austria, Italy, Malta, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Switzerland, Macao, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Australia, New Zealand, Slovenia, the Isle of Man and the United Kingdom.

History

Maltesers were created by Forrest Mars, Sr. in 1936, and first sold in 1937. They were originally described as "energy balls" and aimed at slimming women.^[1]

The current Maltesers' slogan is "The lighter way to enjoy chocolate" - earlier slogans have included "The chocolates with the less fattening centre", "No ordinary chocolate" and "Nothing pleases like Maltesers". The Australian version also contains the line: "Made in Australia... ...exported to the world." In the 1930s, advertisements claimed that the Maltesers honeycomb centre is seven times less fattening than ordinary chocolate centres; this led marketers to claim it was beneficial for weight loss.^{[citation needed]}

In 2011, the product gained Fairtrade accreditation in the UK and Ireland by sourcing all their cocoa and sugar under Fairtrade Terms.^[2]

^{It appears their candy is a lot healthier than our candy.}

I love maltesers and now I can buy them in a local store! I didn't know about the Fairtrade accreditation, that's magic

[himher 634]

halloween is brainwashing the young to grow up to be takers instead of makers. door to door, demanding handouts, give me some candy or i'll tp your lawn..

[Sarah Elle-Même 660]

Those ways ALWAYS start with making the person that needs to change feeling like ######. Best incentive ever.

Aw come on guys who let the troglodyte in?

Here's a fun story about the virtues of parents shaming their kids: My best friend is Chinese American. As she likes to say, she may be Chinese but she didn't get the "Asian" genes. She's been overweight her whole life and her family mercilessly taunted her most of her life, criticizing everything she did, even things that had nothing to do with her weight. She was told since she was a little kid that because she was fat she wasn't valuable. She was also less valuable as a female but that's beside the point. Did this shaming kick her butt into losing weight? No. It made her a cutter, bulimic, and she once attempted suicide. Thankfully somewhere along the line she realized that her parents and relatives were all a*sholes and she was a great person regardless of how she looked. So you know what she did at 18? Told her parents to go #### themselves and moved out. Got an apartment share, got a job, saved and went to CUNY for college, got a better job, shed a lot of weight, and to this day nearly 10 years later has not spoken a word to anyone in her family except her brother. #### them, indeed.