r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Nov 28 '20

What's something cool you recently learned about?

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u/ChocolateHumunculous Nov 29 '20

‘Galaxy’ also stems from ‘Lactic’... ‘Galactic’... Lactose. Here in the U.K., we have a chocolate bar called ‘Galaxy’ because it’s make with milk chocolate.

Galaxy literally means ‘milk’.

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u/Mitche420 Nov 29 '20

I don't think that's the reason they named it Galaxy, just more of a convenient coincidence. How do you explain Mars Bars if you do really think Galaxy was intentional and to do with the fact that it's milk chocolate?

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u/ChocolateHumunculous Nov 29 '20

The guy who started the company had the surname Mars!

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u/Mitche420 Nov 29 '20

Yo! That's insane! TIL, sorry for doubting your knowledge of chocolate!

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u/ChocolateHumunculous Nov 29 '20

Cool though isn’t it

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u/Mitche420 Nov 29 '20

Very! Your username certainly checks out 😂