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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2017 14:20:33 GMT
Recently bought a nestles Yorkie bar and couldn't believe how small the bar was! So went online and found an article which said in 2013 nestle shrunk the bar from 65grams to 55, and from 6 chunks to 5 but still kept it the same price..but yet the bar I bought was 46 grams! Unlike 70grams when the bar was launched in 1976.. So annoying, and like a lot of things nowadays, aren't always like what they were a few years ago.. saying that though, the taste seemed just the same, unlike Cadburys dairy milk bars, which to me have completely lost their taste compared to what they were like in the 70s. Maybe it's since they were took over by Kraft! So much so that I contacted Kraft and told them what I thought! And a woman said she'd been there 10 years and the recipe hadn't changed lol! Without wishing to come across as sounding like Alf Garnet" to her! I said I simply didn't agree! and dont believe you! And said To her, it's a conspiracy! resembling like something off the X files! Lol.. Any thoughts, retro people!????
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Post by Charles Bronson on Feb 21, 2017 15:13:28 GMT
I don't eat many chocolate bars myself these days, but the shrinking size infuriates me too. I'd sooner pay more, and keep them the same size as they were years ago.
Someone was talking to me the other night about KitKats, which he's always had a weakness for. He reckons they don't taste the same as they used to, and he's been eating them for years. He was saying that Nestle', Who took over from Rowntrees have admitted that they are made in a different way now, than they used to. I wouldn't know about the different taste myself. The wife always has KitKats in, but I never touch them these days.
Mars Bars and Bounty Bars were always favourites of mine, and they don't taste the same either, and that's not just my imagination.
I wonder how much of our chocolate is produced abroad now anyway ? Cadburys, despite promising not to, moved a lot of their production to Poland didn't they ?
Charles.
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Post by Steve Austin on Feb 21, 2017 15:25:09 GMT
They're all at it GC, making bars smaller but charging the same. Yorkie, Quality Street, Toblerone, Cadburys. I watched the Likely Lads Film recently and Terry gets a box of Family Circle (I think) biscuits and the box was heee-owwge!! Sometimes you wonder if it's just seeing all things retro through rose tinted specs but I remember Curly Wurlys being massive in the 70's too but nowadays, if you can find one, they're puny looking. Mars Bars, there's another one. Obesity seems to get the blame but I'm not convinced, the manufacturers are just being greedy. Kraft said they would not change the recipe but this article is interesting, depressing and not at all surprising: Changing chocolate
Not wanting to leave readers thoroughly depressed, cop a load of this and not a Snickers or Starburst in sight: Yummy!
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Post by Dirty Epic on Feb 21, 2017 16:06:21 GMT
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Post by Gene Hunt on Feb 21, 2017 17:02:18 GMT
Obesity seems to get the blame but I'm not convinced, the manufacturers are just being greedy. Exactly! So they make the bars smaller now. So what? What is stopping the greedy bleeders buying more than one to make up for the deficit? Win win for the manufacturers. Gene.
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Post by Charles Bronson on Feb 21, 2017 17:15:52 GMT
A lot of these companies are so devious and hypocritical, it sickens me. They couldn't give a you know what about people getting fatter so long as they make their money, and then they turn around and use that for an excuse for cutting down the size of the bars.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2017 17:17:21 GMT
Guess it frustrates me CB because I have one or two bars most days! and then there's the kids, so I probably spend quite a bit on choc.. but as for saying, we either make the bar smaller or increase the price, is naughty and taking the ••••! Lol Me thinks kraft are using more palm oil' and probably less coco, maybe it's cheaper lol But like most things today, quality is not mass produced cheaply, in a way it was in bygone times..
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Post by D.C. Burtonshaw on Feb 21, 2017 19:18:36 GMT
And then there's wagon wheels; people think we all remember them as being bigger because we were smaller as kids and the size hasn't changed. It's us that's got bigger! But they seemed to have shrunk too!
Mind you I remember my dad buying one of the original Mars bars when were kids and chopping it in half each for me and my brother as he thought one in one go was too much for us kids!
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Post by Alex Drake on Feb 21, 2017 19:46:07 GMT
My earliest chocolate memories were chocolate tools. You could get a saw and a hammer. Does anyone remember them ?
I also remember going to the outdoor in the local pub to get a lion bar having just seen the new commercial with the roaring lion.
A lifelong love of chocolate.
Alex
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Post by Gene Hunt on Feb 21, 2017 19:58:57 GMT
My earliest chocolate memories were chocolate tools. You could get a saw and a hammer. Alex Thanks for elucidating. Gene Genie.
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