Re: Alaskan treats
NOT the same.
Cadbury licenses the recipe to Hershey*, who modifies it to be cheaper (sure TASTES cheaper). The colors on the wrapper are different, and the sizes have often been different also.
* Hershey also licenses KitKat from Nestle. Again, the US version tastes cheaper. I can tell the differences in either brand when my sister-in-law brings them from Scotland, and boy do I prefer the "imports"!
Hershey, fast food companies, and major beer brewers: giving the US the cheap crap it wants because it just doesn't know any better. (Does Disney belong in this list too? They're not as cheap but it is often crap...)