What candy bar originally came in three pieces and had three different flavors?

The candy bar that originally came in three pieces with three different flavors was 3 Musketeers.

When Mars introduced 3 Musketeers in the United States in 1932, each package contained three separate pieces of whipped nougat: chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry. The three-part format inspired the name, referencing Alexandre Dumas’s 1844 novel The Three Musketeers. The original product was therefore closer to a shared variety pack than the single chocolate-flavored bar sold today.

During World War II, sugar restrictions and rising production costs made the multi-flavor version impractical. Mars eventually discontinued the vanilla and strawberry pieces and continued with the most popular flavor, chocolate. The modern bar consists mainly of chocolate-covered, chocolate-flavored whipped nougat.

This history is sometimes confused with Milky Way because the two products have related nougat-based designs and different names in different countries. The original 3 Musketeers was not named because it contained three ingredients; its name referred to the three separate flavored pieces in the package. Limited-edition flavors have appeared since then, but they are not the original format.