How 5 of your favorite chocolate bars got their name

You see them in your grocery store, gas station, and TV on a near-daily basis, but have you ever stopped to wonder how your favorite candies got their names? No?Okaaaaaaaayyyy.

1.Snickers:

This one's pretty simple — Franklin Mars[Not related to Bruno Mars], who founded Mars candy company, created the "Snickers" chocolate bar after his extremely successful Milky Way chocolate bar. “Snickers” was the name of a favorite horse that the Mars family owned, so he just said "f*ck it" (probably), and named the candy bar after a horse. (Hey, it's a better name for a chocolate bar than "Sea Biscuit".)

2. M&Ms:

Forrest Mars Sr. went into business with Bruce Murrie, who was the son of Bill Murrie, former president of Hershey’s Chocolate. During World War II, Mars and Murrie began making the candy-coated chocolate treats together, hence the name "M&Ms". However, after the war ended, Mars pushed Murrie out of the partnership, which is why each candy only has one "M" printed on it.

3.KIT KAT;

First produced in 1935 as Rowntree's Chocolate Crisp, the Kit Kat received its modern name in 1937 when it began to be marketed as the Kit Kat Chocolate Crisp. Frustratingly, no one can confirm where its name came from, though it's widely believed to be a reference to the famous Kit Cat Club, a 1920s jazz nightclub in London's West End which was, for a long time, one of the city's most popular venues.

The nightclub was itself named after the Kit-Cat Club, a political society formed in the early 1700s and named for the man who owned the tavern where meetings were held—one Christopher Catling, a.k.a. Kit Cat. All of which gives the Kit Kat a pretty impressive lineage.

4. Milky Way:

Introduced in 1923, the Milky Way was both inspired by and named after a popular malted shake of the era. The intention was that the bar—the first-ever filled chocolate bar—would replicate the flavors and experience of drinking the similarly-named milkshake.

5.TWIX:

For most chocolate bars, there's some clue to where the name came from—and if there isn't, you can normally work it out. But the Twix name is shrouded in mystery in much the same way its bars are shrouded in chocolate.

The product originated in the UK in 1967, and early ad campaigns in Britain and the U.S. emphasized the word "mix," so it might be that Twix is a portmanteau of "twin" and "mix" or "twin" and "stix," referring to its pair of bars and mixture of ingredients.