Shrinking Chocolate
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Sugar would remains the same, if not higher. Only thing that would be reduced is the cocoa and dairy content.
I find that very unlikely, the taste would change dramatically.
Nope, cocoa is expensive and that is a way to cut costs.
Would be funny if they were the size of an adult face.
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so 20 years ago we should have been fatter?
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Were kids all fat in 60-80's when the choc bars were bigger?
its what they put in them, more sugar these days.
"Cadbury Dairy Milk was reformulated in 2006 and again in 2009, with the addition of palm oil as a replacement for some cocoa butter. In August 2009, Cadbury announced it would return to using cocoa butter instead of palm oil as the formula due to a poor response from consumers."
Not entirely sure how you reached that conclusion from my post, perhaps you should read it again.
What has reductions got to with an entirely different thing?
You claimed that the difference in product weight was down to a decrease in cocoa and dairy, specifically, whilst sugar and other ingredients remained the same or even increased in value. Did you have any source for this or was it just an uneducated guess? The quote I posted explains that cocoa butter was substituted for palm oil, not more sugar, and was subsequently changed back after complaints about taste. Fairly easy to comprehend I mistakenly thought.
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I noticed that, only last week!! Was doing a Tesco home shopping session and all of the coke bottles are now 1.75L. I was wondering if that was a temporary thing? If it's permanent, then God has just killed a kitten...
No, you're not getting what I'm saying at all. The chocolate being less in size comparatively means they are using less ingredients in making it. It's a pretty simple concept.
Lightweight.
It the crap we eat today not a daily choc bar.
A lot of kids do not know what a home cooked meal is, its Mc D's or Chinese/kebabs/Indian all of which are not even proper Chinese or Indian meals but made for UK market or even poor ready meals.
Also a lot of kids are less active added to they have more money to spend.
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Well no. How much raw ingredients they feed into their production line is based on demand and supply potential of their final products, not how big their bars physically are. Your idea may have more weight at an independent confectioners, however Mars is a massive demand and supply operation, they don't use less ingredients simply because they have a smaller bar - as in if they are actually selling more of the smaller bars then there is no difference.
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