{"id":894,"date":"2013-02-19T23:33:23","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T03:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/?p=894"},"modified":"2013-02-19T23:33:23","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T03:33:23","slug":"pattern-recognition-milkybar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/2013\/02\/pattern-recognition-milkybar\/","title":{"rendered":"Pattern Recognition &#8211; Milkybar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Pattern Recognition &#8211; documenting two or more references in a short period of time to a common term or object which I had never before consciously observed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Milkybar<\/strong> is a white chocolate confection that is produced by Nestl\u00e9 and sold in Australia, New Zealand, India, Ireland, Kuwait, South Africa, Spain, and the United Kingdom. It sold under the name Galak in Ecuador, Brazil, and the rest of Continental Europe. Nestl\u00e9 have produced white chocolate since the 1930s, and started using the brand Galak in 1967. In many European countries a version with puffed rice is also available.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Milkybar-Wrapper-Small.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Milkybar-Wrapper-Small-300x82.jpeg\" alt=\"Milkybar-Wrapper-Small\" width=\"300\" height=\"82\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-904\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Milkybar-Wrapper-Small-300x82.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Milkybar-Wrapper-Small-500x137.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Milkybar-Wrapper-Small.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Milkybar-Split.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Milkybar-Split-300x81.jpeg\" alt=\"Milkybar-Split\" width=\"300\" height=\"81\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-902\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Milkybar-Split-300x81.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Milkybar-Split-500x136.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Milkybar-Split.jpeg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; From the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Milkybar\">Wikipedia Milkybar Article<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Reference #1 &#8211; Sidepodcast.com, 2\/14\/2013<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_909\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sidepodcast.com\/post\/happy-milkybar-day-valentines-day-with-difference\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-909\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/milkybar-sidepodcast-300x182.png\" alt=\"Reference #1 - sidepodcast.com, 2014-02-14\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-909\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/milkybar-sidepodcast-300x182.png 300w, https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/milkybar-sidepodcast.png 402w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-909\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reference #1 &#8211; sidepodcast.com, 2014-02-14<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Formula 1-centric site <a href=\"http:\/\/sidepodcast.com\/\">Sidepodcast<\/a> mentioned Milkybars in the not-Formula-1-related post <a href=\"http:\/\/sidepodcast.com\/post\/happy-milkybar-day-valentines-day-with-difference\">Happy Milkybar Day<\/a>.  I assumed at the time that this was some form of candy bar that was available in the US but under a different name.<\/p>\n<h2>Reference #2 &#8211; @Queen_UK, 2\/19\/2013<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_913\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Queen_UK\/status\/303769395187040256\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-913\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/milkybar-queen_uk-300x141.png\" alt=\"Reference #2 - @Queen_UK, 2013-02-19\" width=\"300\" height=\"141\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-913\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/milkybar-queen_uk-300x141.png 300w, https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/milkybar-queen_uk.png 408w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-913\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reference #2 &#8211; @Queen_UK, 2013-02-19<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The second reference came this morning over breakfast, scrolling through twitter, from the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Queen_UK\">@Queen_UK<\/a> parody account.  The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Queen_UK\/status\/303769395187040256\">tweet<\/a> read:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr Clegg on the phone. Bit upset that the horse meat scandal has reached Nestl\u00e9. Says he can&#8217;t believe there&#8217;s horse meat in Milkybars.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pattern Recognition &#8211; documenting two or more references in a short period of time to a common term or object which I had never before consciously observed. Milkybar is a white chocolate confection that is produced by Nestl\u00e9 and sold &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/2013\/02\/pattern-recognition-milkybar\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":921,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions\/921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetmore.org\/john\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}