Snickers Rip Off

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This applies to other snack multipacks, I'm sure.

Mrs Secure has just come back with a 4 pack of Snickers.

Now, many multipacks have the single item reduced in weight, but this is taking the mick.

They used to be 58g, even in the multipacks, but then they reduced to 48g.

Now the multipack weight of an individual bar is 41.7g (0.7g....really?)

They have done it claiming to meet their pledge of reducing each portion to maximum 250 cals, in order to quell the obesity epidemic.
 
Funny how the price rarely goes down to help with the "poverty epidemic"
"Nanny State" fiddling at the edges again. Why make "portions" smaller? People will just eat two!
 
Send her to Aldi next time. Better quality and better value.
 
happens all the time
remember the tin off chocolates used to be 3LB or 1362gms for£5 at xmass
each successive year you loose perhaps 30 gms they are now down to around 900gms
 
I once got asked to design a glass jar for a sandwich paste you know the stuff.

The brief was to make it so it had less product ( cant remember the grammes maybe 15 gramms less ) in it but they didn't want it to look smaller.

Calculations done model made, the model makers I recall phoned me about it, was it right etc etc yes it was right.

Model came back went to a board meeting they were very impressed you couldn't tell the difference superb. .........errr no I'd dropped a clanger. Too much glass in it taking up the volume.
The mistake was found in the file whilst I was on holiday, transposed two numbers must have been too exited about holiday.

Serves em right.
Once saw a food industry add that said
" why sell meat when you can sell water !"
That's why Nettos no added water bacon is better! !
 
Not just the size that's decreasing, but the quality as well. Had a Double Decker for the first time in years, recently. Tasted like cack - nothing like it used to. And Cadburys Dairy Milk is now over sweetened and lower quality. Won't bother with any Cadburys products again.
 
woodbine said:
Not just the size that's decreasing, but the quality as well. Had a Double Decker for the first time in years, recently. Tasted like cack - nothing like it used to. And Cadburys Dairy Milk is now over sweetened and lower quality. Won't bother with any Cadburys products again.
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Cadbury were bought out by kraft I think ..........less cocoa solids in it now ........crap.
 
Cadbury's Wispa used to be have highest cocoa content of all the Cadbury bars at 30% -then they discontinued it. But then they brought it back -hooray! Except they'd reduced the cocoa to 28%, and it didn't tast as good. A few weeks ago I had to do a taste trial of a soon-to-be-introduced 'new and improved' Wispa. Down to 25%. Tasted like cooking oil.

Cream eggs used to be runny when I was a kid -that was the whole point of the 'How do you eat yours?' campaign -they were fun and dripped all over your shirt if you weren't careful! Now they're all stiff and gritty inside. Pointless. Then Kraft tried to change to chocolate to their American recipe and everyone hated that (I suspect my Wispa trial was the same thing).

Terry's chocolate oranges used to be to die for. Then they were bought by Kraft, manufacturing moved to Poland, and now they taste all sickly.

Conclusion? Kraft don't know **** about chocolate.

Aldi chocolates are excellent! But then you'd hope so, being German.
 
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