Why did they name the Milky Way after a chocolate bar?

Question

Why did they name the Milky Way after a chocolate bar?

Answer 1

I hate you

Answer 2

I suppose it could've been the other way round

Answer 3

The chocolate bar was named after the star consellation, silly! LOL!  :D

Answer 4

Milky Way

Mars Bar

Galaxy

Magic Stars

I dunno why they do it but they're yummy

Answer 5

The Milky Way, despite all the stars in it, is mostly dark because most of the material it contains is dust, especially on the outside.  The interior is the brightest part, with many young, bright stars.  This is similar to how a Milky Way bar is dark on the outside and light on the inside, a fact which was not overlooked by astronomers.  Originally, they were going to name it after a cookie, but Oreo would not let them use their brand name.  A similar situation occured with their next suggestion, Mounds (which would have been a more fitting name, as spectral observations indicate the center of our galaxy is most likely coconut-flavored).

Answer 6

They wanted to call it Fred but thought that sounded to complicated for people like you.

Answer 7

the chocolate bar is named after the Milky Way not the other way round!

Answer 8

Because it came first. Er- I think.

Answer 9

Because it would sound silly to say we live in the Three Musketeers galaxy.

Answer 10

I feel that the Milky Way wasn't named after a chocolate bar, cause the chocolate bar was created much, much later than the Milky Way was "found".  Therefore, the Milky Way was originally called something else, however, it was named such due to the way it looks, a giant swath of "milky" substance, as opposed to a giant chocolate bar.  Think this was done by the Greeks, or some such very early civilization.

Answer 11

Same reason they named the planet Mars after a chocolate bar: astronomers get hungry at night and snack a lot.

Answer 12

Chocolate bar was named after.

Answer 13

Because Almond Joy didn't sound as good.

Answer 14

duh - try reversing

Answer 15

"Milky Way, Mars, Galaxy,either astronomers get hungry at night stargazing" , or the chocolates tastes "heavenly"..lol..

Answer 16

Lol, why are so many people hating you? I don't get it.  Make a whole new question for that.

Here's what happened:  The founder of Mars' Candies (which created the Milky Way candy bar)  paid an exorbitant amount of money to the board of scientists who named our galaxy.  It was a very high stakes marketing ploy.  It has been the candy companies' mode of operation for many years to name their products after words which were in very common public usage, hence "Mars" Candy Corporation.

Answer 17

They didn't.  The Milky Way Galaxy was named long before the candy bar was invented.  

"Our galaxy's name - the Milky Way - is a translation from the Latin "Via Lactea" which is derived from the Greek word "Kiklios Galaxios" which means milky circle. If you go to a dark sky location, the plane of the Milky Way appears as a swath of light across the night sky. There is a Greek myth for the origin of the Milky Way. That is that the baby Heracles is brought by Zeus to Hera to drink her milk so he could become immortal and the Milky Way is nothing more than spilt milk."

The candy bar wasn't named for the galaxy either.

"Created in 1923 in the kitchen of Frank Mars, the original MILKY WAY(R) bar -- a now comforting combination of milk chocolate, nougat and caramel -- sold for a nickel and was an overnight success for Mars. Designed to replicate the taste of malted milk shakes, which were the rage of the roaring '20s, MILKY WAY(R) was named after a famed malted milk drink of the day -- not the Earth's galaxy, as many contend."

Although I didn't look this part up, it seems fairly obvious that the candy company and the Mars Bar were named after the founder Frank Mars, not the planet.

Answer 18

I think the chocolate bar was named after the Milky Way...

Answer 19

accually  a school girl named the milky way the milky way

Answer 20

Twinkie would sound so .. American.

Answer 21

hahahahaha

probably because Mars was already taken and it would cause a few Snickers in the field of astronomy  ;-)