Cadbury has shrunk the size of its Dairy Milk sharing bars by 10%, but will not reduce the price.

danoliver1 · 29 Mar 2022 at 21:02

Need to change their slogan to a glass and quarter of milk in every bar.

V F · 29 Mar 2022 at 21:09

~Divine~Wind~ said:
Have you seen the size of a Micro Machine wheel!?!? ....Sorry Wagon Wheel Is the correct name

Not in a long, long time. I remember they were massive. Or at least in pack lunches for school. Yorkies used to be massive as well and Toblerone used to be a hot topic many, many years ago here.

Vern1961 · 29 Mar 2022 at 21:12

Cadburys is awful anyway these days, more like chocolate flavour candy. Green & Blacks or Lindt 85% or 90% dark gives you a decent hit.

dlockers · 29 Mar 2022 at 21:17

Vern1961 said:
Cadburys is awful anyway these days, more like chocolate flavour candy. Green & Blacks or Lindt 85% or 90% dark gives you a decent hit.

Someones become a top revenue earner

UTmaniac · 29 Mar 2022 at 21:24

Shrinkflation has been going on since at least the non-binding rainbows and unicorns vote.

Reuben klang · 29 Mar 2022 at 21:33

I’d rather they just increased the price and kept them normal/same size.

Inflation and wage increase etc means everything goes up anyway.

Vern1961 · 29 Mar 2022 at 22:10

dLockers said:
Someones become a top revenue earner

Sometimes you can't compromise on quality, whether it's chocolate or decent Yorkshire teabags!

Chojin · 29 Mar 2022 at 22:13

arknor said:
what?!?!? I used to love walnut whips as a child.

haven't even seen them in a decade afaik

Yeah they did a few years back and it got quite a bit of publicity / free advertising. I think they have reintroduced a version with the nut back on since then.

robfosters · 29 Mar 2022 at 22:17

Liquid_Entity said:
Same with a 30g pack of crisps for 80p or 120g for £1, if on offer. Why would I buy a tiny bag when I can devour a huge bag.

I love a big bag of crisps, but I just cannot find a big sharing bag of ready salted that has a proper amount of salt in. They’re all bland due to the pathetic amounts of salt.

I don’t want lightly salted rubbish, I want dollops of the stuff.

dcsarge · 29 Mar 2022 at 22:21

Vern1961 said:
Cadburys is awful anyway these days, more like chocolate flavour candy. Green & Blacks or Lindt 85% or 90% dark gives you a decent hit.

Absolutely this, most the popular choc bars of youth are sugary muck these days. Cadbury are by far the worst. I try and avoid refined sugar but if I am craving chocolate a good quality dark bar is the way to go, or a dark hot chocolate mmmmm.

V F · 29 Mar 2022 at 22:24

Chojin said:
Yeah they did a few years back and it got quite a bit of publicity / free advertising. I think they have reintroduced a version with the nut back on since then.

Deadly if you spilled the cream onto anything. Horribly sticky but great memories of the late 80s for Walnut Whip in Christmas stockings.

Bluecube · 29 Mar 2022 at 22:41

Cadbury’s is muck these days anyway having been reduced to excess sugar laden American junk bars.

Chojin · 29 Mar 2022 at 22:44

V F said:
Deadly if you spilled the cream onto anything. Horribly sticky but great memories of the late 80s for Walnut Whip in Christmas stockings.

One of the classics.

In the 90s I bought a set of acrylic paints. Inspired by Bob Ross I tried painting a mountain scene. It wasn't very convincing and I remember my brother saying it looked like a Walnut Whip.

Kutter · 29 Mar 2022 at 23:52

Must have cost them a bit of money for the new bar molds. Those aren't cheap.

dcsarge · 30 Mar 2022 at 01:46

Chojin said:
One of the classics.

In the 90s I bought a set of acrylic paints. Inspired by Bob Ross I tried painting a mountain scene. It wasn't very convincing and I remember my brother saying it looked like a Walnut Whip.

A happy accident

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koolpc · 30 Mar 2022 at 01:53

Talking about crisps, i hate it as the packets are mostly packed full of air! Hardly any crisps!

Kelt · 30 Mar 2022 at 02:42

Haven't bought any Cadbury **** for years. Awful stuff.

jpaul · 30 Mar 2022 at 08:12

Kutter said:
Must have cost them a bit of money for the new bar molds. Those aren't cheap.

are the reductions exclusive to the uk .. eu kept the original size non-dairy(?) bars and molds
How is the UK on the obesity front versus eu - couldn't but think of this thread with the report on unecessary baby mortality in UK, wondering if the two were related.

to give them their due was given some bars of their white chocolate at xmas that weren't bad

Efour · 30 Mar 2022 at 08:18

Ummm living under a rock for past 20 years?

Hagar · 30 Mar 2022 at 08:32

When I was a kid, bars of Dairy Milk were about the size of a single stick of DDR ram and cost 2d, (a bit less than a new penny) we got one a week if we were good. On that basis even the new sharing bar should suit a family of five for a couple of days at least.