Jamz3k

is it just me or is the biscuit we called Twix getting smaller?

V5RLTD

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The same scam as the Mars ice cream one! Had one the other day, it must have shrunk 1/3 from what i remember

MikeCardiff

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All chocolate bars have shrunk over the years - the reason the manufacturers do it is so they don't have to put the price up, they just give you less for the same money.

I bought a mars bar a couple of weeks ago, and I'm pretty sure my hands haven't doubled in size since I was a teenager, so they must be getting smaller.

PaulC72

Same with wagon wheels they were as big as a house when I was a kid, not I can fit a whole on in my mouth ;-)

zs_phil

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i had some of them last week in my pack up at work but yes i think they are twice as small unless its because my hands are alot bigger now

Jamz3k

there is also less Jam in the Jammy Wagon Wheels.

ScoobyWon't

Galaxy shrinks by 17%

richie001

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Luminous

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Creme Eggs are the worst They used to be huge, now they are just tiny

SwissTony

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Nothing compares to the great Curly Wurly scandel of the 90's
I remember the school sweet shop sold them and you could make it last a day. Now I doubt you could ekk it out to 4 mins

magepaster

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I saw a news item recently about this. A representative of the manufacturer claimed that Wagonwheels these days are only a quarter of an inch in diameter smaller than the original.
Seems a lot smaller than than to me.

S1FU

I know what you mean especially about the curly wurly's and wagon wheels. Grrr.

finalzero

Either the bars have shrunk................




YOU ARE A BIT FAT ENIT?!

tanyatriangles

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The manufacturers won't REALLY be knocking nearly 20% off the size of their products, not when inflation is only 2%? Will they?

Easy extra money for the dishonest gits.

Same as LV, who tried to put my insurance, contents and cars, up by nearly 20% this year. Needless to say, I'm not with them any more

Klaatu

What? The longer lasting snack? Not in my hand it's not...

Gear Head

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Nope, your mouth is getting bigger.....which is very hard to believe!

[-(o)-]

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Its healthier stuff too. Tracker packets about twice the length of the bar these days.

I'm blaming them for the weight I've lost since I got back from holiday.

mykp

theres a candy maker in japan who make 100 yen tubes of sweets and there synonymous with keeping their products the same weight and price for over 30 years. What they do is look for new ways to make their product for less than they do now.

example: they make a tube of sweets which are made of the same type of candy that we get those fake kids cigarettes in, but they come in small pellets.

To make them more profitable and keep the price the same they reduced the number you got per box by 2 so now you get 48 but they increased the overall size so you get the same weight as 50. but because the size is bigger and the packaging time is shorted. About 0.005 seconds per box, they can make more boxes in a shift and make more keep the profit margins the same and therefore the price the same.

perhaps this is something they should look at here instead of making their products smaller!

mart360

Dosent it make you laugh, when they peddle out the

"we've reduced the pack size rather than put the price up"

lol How about,

"well seeing as you've kept our profit margins inflated since we started

producing this bar, we thought we would absorb the increasing costs as to

give our loyal customers the the same amount".

Then you have to laugh, when they blame the economy for lost sales...

No, its sod all to do with the economy, its the fact that punters are fed up

being taken for a ride lol


Mart

Fabioso

The most laughable explanation I heard was on the news a few weeks back when they were discussing "Rising costs of manufacturing chocolate bars".

When the chocolate manufacturers association representative was asked about shrinking bar sizes he said "It had nothing to do with the rising costs of raw materials but more to do with his members' concern for the health of the nation by reducing the calories in their favourite snacks! (by reducing the bar)" so they don't get so obese.

I laughed so hard I nearly choked on my Curly Wurly

May be that's also why you only get half a packet of crisps these days? Wait for the pubs to start selling you a pint with only half a pint of beer in the glass "Its for the good of your liver!!!"

So he doesn't think they might buy 2 bars instead then or a "KING SIZE" one............ Do they really think the consumer is that stupid?

boomer

Dunno if it was just me, but whenever the "Twix" advert appeared in MSN today i got a "summat gone wrong, do you want to debug" type error dialogue box appear under XP.

For them to attempt to run crap code on my PC is a scam in itself!!

mb

scrappydoo

all this is criminal surely?

ScoobyWon't

So they should take two Twix out of each packet? I suppose they would make a profit that way!

Bubba po

Am I the only person on here who has read the classic essay "Phyletic Size decrease in Hershey Bars" (1983) by Stephen Jay Gould?
I think I might be.

Leslie

They have been steathily reducing the size for a long time now. In the true tradition of all "Con" merchants!

Les