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• Th4tGuyII@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As others have said, sweets

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  • guyrocket@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wait...I think you're saying that Brits call candy sweets...maybe...

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    • Th4tGuyII@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Definitely Brits, but not just Brits - Sweets is the preferred term in much of the English speaking world, with Candy being very distinctly associated with the US.

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      • otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Interesting. I’ve used candy to refer to non-chocolate sweets. Sweets refers to sweet candy, and chocolate.

        On that note, for a long time, I’d thought “candy bar” was called as such because they tend to not contain any actual chocolate.

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• ivanafterall@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wee Confectionary Yum Yums

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• kindenough@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Confectionery...sweets

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• Skrewzem@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sweets?

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  • LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve actually heard people call candy “sweets” here in the midwestern US quite a lot

    We use both

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  • Xariphon@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Goddammit... I've watched enough Bake-Off, I should've known that.

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• DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lollies, or a lolly.

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