Question: Is condensed milk the same as sweetened condensed milk? 

I have a fudge recipe that calls for condensed milk and I can not find strictly condensed milk, only sweetened condensed milk or evaporated milk.

Answer: 
Just to add to Marti's answer: If the recipe was written in the US within the past 30-40 (maybe more) years, "condensed" almost *certainly* means sweetened condensed. Sweetened is just assumed if the milk is described as "condensed". At least in the US, unsweetened condensed milk is never called "condensed", it is called "evaporated".

To boost my confidence in this answer before I posted it, I searched Amazon for "Condensed Milk". In 22 pages of results, I was not able to find a *SINGLE* product described as "condensed milk" that was unsweetened. I did however find several that used "condensed milk" without the word sweetened in the name of the product page, but without fail, these *ALL* turned out to be sweetened. 

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If the recipe is old or if its origins are outside of the US, I can't be absolutely positive what the author intended, but I have *never* seen "unsweetened condensed milk".
As a recipe developer / chef... 'Sweetened Condensed Milk' and 'Condensed Milk' are exactly the same product - just labeled differently by different manufacturers for different markets. Condensed milk is ALWAYS sweetened.

Here's the lowdown:

Evaporated Milk, is just that. Milk that has been evaporated with 60% of the water removed. This product has NO sugar added.

'Sweetened Condensed Milk' and 'Condensed Milk' take this evaporation process a step further and add up to 40% sugar by volume. 

So to sum up:

* 'Sweetened Condensed Milk' and 'Condensed Milk' are exactly the same product.
* 'Sweetened Condensed Milk' and 'Condensed Milk' are both up to 40% sugar by volume.
* Evaporated milk contains no added sugar.

Really hard to believe that the other answers here are so wrong...