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Just had a Snickers bar
WHAT THE HELL !!!
i thought it was lightweight...
"8. Snickers
Another of Mars, Inc’s products, Snickers bars were cut down by 17 per cent, from 58g to 48g. Prices remained the same at roughly 51p, until they were raised to roughly 60p (except for Asda, who sell them for 45p)."
telegraph - chocolate getting smaller
so i bought something else as well (kitkat!)
Introducing Shrinkflation. Not just Snickerses, it's a near universal practice;
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40703866
Customers more likely to know the cost of an item rather than the precise weight/size/number of biscuits.
See 'The Freddo Index', keeping tabs on the cost and scale of the famous chocolate frog.
@dougal - now thats an interesting link - thanks.
Cinema tickets what a rip off!!!!
simliar WebPage i found in the METRO shows the Biscuit BOOST is the best value for money, as its actually got bigger but price wise its the same!
at least the trusty big mac still good value ;)
Sort of connected: after some incidents of disappointment (she says "betrayal") the best friend always questions restaurant staff closely to find out how many scallops (minimum) she will be getting in a dish that promises them in the plural. Because once, apparently, there were only TWO.
The plum pudding my wife was given in hospital after emitting the oldest child had only two very small plum fragments in it.
Only vaguely connected:
fish "alla Milanese" means "fish in breadcrumbs". Somewhat disappointing if you are expecting a new and exotic experience...
I often check when ordering Ginger beer that they are serving a soft drink not a mixer. When I order a drink I want more than 75ml or it.
If your product comes in a box there is no need for it to become smaller when shrinkflated. Simply reshape it to continue fitting in the same box while being considerably less satisfying. Just ask Toblerone (or is that Tobler-two thirds!).
the classic "eggs Benedict" and its 1 egg on a single muffin.
I've had a bacon sandwich with one rasher of bacon in it before.
I like the smaller bars. I only ever buy a pack of four if on a pound deal. I eat one item only and therefore have saved money and calories ok soon they will be fun size of course. Except maybe bounties and fudges they seem about the same.
In the very olden days a Macowans penny chew had to be cracked on the kerb and half given to your pal. Though mouths were smaller and pavements softer in the seventies
In Argentina they have milanesa a la napolitana, which is a little confusing to Italians (despite the the majority of the population having Italian roots)
Am I the only one who is finding that trousers are definitely smaller than they used to be.
Nope.
Just don't order Italian cycling clothing
@Greenroofer ;-) ;-)
Fries at fast food outlets are defo smaller, large is the 1980's small !
ahhh the 80's......
I for one prefer the new smaller mars bars. The full sized ones from a few years ago would leave me in a sugar coma!
Am I the only one who is finding that trousers are definitely smaller than they used to be.
No. See also hills getting steeper and hangovers easier to acquire.
At least the winters are getting warmer.
Roads are getting wider...
"In the very olden days a Macowans penny chew had to be cracked on the kerb and half given to your pal. Though mouths were smaller and pavements softer in the seventies"
Ah, yes McCowans Highland Toffee. Almost guaranteed to pull several fillings out. Also risked breaking a tooth if one attempted to "chew" on a cold day / before warming said toffee in mouth prior to mastication.
Twenty "new pence" could get you one of the above, a pack of sweet cigarettes (or some shredded coconut tobacco), and a Marvel comic ( Doctor Strange, Fantastic Four or The Incredible Hulk in order of preference), with maybe some "new pence" to spare, maybe in half penny coins: felt like you had more left over. Of course you could blow (literally) the rest on some Bazooka Joe bubble gum (with free mini-comic inside) or maybe a Sherbet Fountain/Dip Dab.
I'll bet the contents of the famous "10p Mixture" we used to get from Phillips' Ice Cream van in Dalkeith in the 70s wouldn't amount to much these days.
It provided an evening's eating / chewing / sooking for a young lad.
[W]e are no sooner boys than we are adult, no sooner in love than married or jilted, no sooner one age than we begin to be another, and no sooner in the fulness of our manhood than we begin to decline towards the grave.
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Crabbed Age and Youth
In Argentina they have milanesa a la napolitana, which is a little confusing to Italians (despite the the majority of the population having Italian roots)
Apparently the "a la napolitana" bit refers to "it was first made and sold in Restaurante Napoli owned by Jorge La Grotta in Argentina in the 1940s". Or so Wikipedia says.
fish "alla Milanese" means "fish in breadcrumbs". Somewhat disappointing if you are expecting a new and exotic experience...
Milanese should be fried in clarified butter and not oil, then finished with butter and/or a squeeze of lemon.
@kaputnik
Thanks for that clarification.
Winter cycling tights dug out for first time since last time it was properly cold. What kind of moths can shrink fleece lined lycra? Because that's obviously the problem here...
What kind of moths can shrink fleece lined lycra?
Moths or months?
Ouch! But also, v good.
That sort of Lycra does shrink if you leave it for six months in a drawer.
@Iwrats Painful pun was good (and justifiable!) No need for edits.
@gembo as I suspected...
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