Chocolate bars really are shrinking
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Creme eggs are definitely smaller.
They aren't. Not in the UK.
They were 40g when launched, they are still 40g to this very day.
lies, they've shrunk them but 40% and added a small lead weight to keep the weight up
i remember walkers were attacked for providing less crisps in their bags, and their defence was, to provide fresher crisps we have to have a equal amount of space in the bag or something. well this may be true, but they could have made the bags bigger instead of reducing the crisps.
When I worked in a newsagents when younger, we used to get packs of Walkers that were burst because they'd been overfilled. And cans of coke used to cost £0.40. You used to be able to take a pound down there and buy a days worth of supplies!
Weird thing is, that was only 7 years ago!
Weird thing is, that was only 7 years ago!
Some bars definately get smaller, i work in a shop and ive seen newer stock come in and be smaller. Most recently milky ways
Milky Way and Mars Bars have shrunk 7.2%, apparently. Evil things either way so more fool the people who buy them! Snickers all the way!
I thought that too.
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The worst thing to shrink is packets of sliced ham (not uber cheap processed stuff).
Caporegime
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Surely 35g is 35g, therefore if the last one you bought was the same, it couldn't possibly have shrunk.
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I also think it has something to do with supermarkets, when you buy something from a petrol station they allways rip you off. It isn't that bad though if you go to a bg tesco et al.
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The Americans have been mugged though
http://www.chocablog.com/news/cadbury-admits-creme-egg-shrinkage/
http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2007/cadbury-eggs-smaller-p1.php
Creme eggs are definitely smaller.
Moredhel speaks the truth.
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Everythings getting smaller while costing more. Drinks like coke are about the same size while costing more. Those 750ml (i think) bottles of coke and fanta etc used to cost 65p, now theyre over £1.10, could get a 2 litre bottle of coke for that a couple of years back.
I bought a flake yesterday and it cost about 65p,
I bought a flake yesterday and it cost about 65p,
Everythings getting smaller while costing more. Drinks like coke are about the same size while costing more. Those 750ml (i think) bottles of coke and fanta etc used to cost 65p, now theyre over £1.10, could get a 2 litre bottle of coke for that a couple of years back.
I bought a flake yesterday and it cost about 65p,
In most supermarkets you'll find the 1.5l bottles of coke etc are cheaper than the 500ml bottles.
In our local co-op the 500ml bottles of coke are £1.09, while the 1.5l bottles are 99p.
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I don't know how much the previous one I bought weighed, I'm just sure it had 9 chunks... must've been heavier, had to be.