• Obinice@lemmy.world
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      29 days ago

      I had no idea Twix used to be called Raider, I’ve learned something new!

      Snickers used to be called Marathon, I know that one :-)

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        29 days ago

        Twix was called Raider in many european countries, above all all german speaking countries, don’t ask me why. When they got renamed to Twix in 1991 about 70% of all countries that offered the bar already called it Twix.

        The renaming happened with the slogan “Raider heißt jetzt Twix, … sonst ändert sich nix” broadly “Raider is now called Twix, … nothing else changes”

        The Slogan ofcourse was used by many german speaking comedians and satirists when it came to Twitter… “Twitter heißt jetzt X, … sonst ändert sich nix.”, with the added bonus that a lot changed, for the worse, underlining Muskian lies.

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          29 days ago

          Oooh so there’s actually much more to it than meets the eye! Damn. Thanks for taking the time to explain :-)

          I bet this information will be mixed with my COVID fever dreams and is going to remain lodged in my brain as core knowledge somehow forever :P

    • daed@sh.itjust.works
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      1 month ago

      I like Xitter still better. I dunno about his current ties to China but in Chinese you pronounce xi as shi AFAIK.