Twix Twix Twix is a chocolate bar made by Mars, Inc., consisting of a biscuit ("cookie" in North America) applied with other confectionery toppings and coatings (most frequently caramel and milk chocolate). Twix are packaged with two or four bars in a wrapper. Miniature and other variations of Twix bars are also available. The product was first produced in the United Kingdom in 1967, and introduced in the United States in 1979. Twix was called Raider in mainland Europe for many years before its name was changed in 1991 (2000 in Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Turkey) to match the international
Same-Sex Unions in Pre-Modern Europe that it did not make use of sociology. Classicist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn, himself openly gay, published a scathing and detailed review of Boswell's book in the scholarly journal "Arion". According to Mendelsohn, judged as a work of philology "Same-Sex Unions in Pre-Modern Europe" is a "bad book", and "its arguments are weak, its methods unsound, its conclusions highly questionable". Mendelsohn argued that Boswell failed to establish his two basic contentions: that "adelphopoiesis" (literally "creation of brothers") was a ceremony akin to marriage rather than a celebration of a ritualized friendship, probably intended for the reconciliation of heads of households,