size of chocolate bars

cena

Is it just me or are chocolate bars getting smaller in size. The price of the bar for the size.

NIMAN

Yes happened quite a few years back when price of cocoa went through the roof.

Funny how people are still getting fatter though.

Ruu

Your hands are getting bigger.

cena

Ruu wrote: »

Your hands are getting bigger.

No they aren't

MS.ing

mad maaaaaaaaaad de ja vu about this thread, oh hang on

monflat

People are getting greedier

Much wants more

leeroybrown

Yeah. It's pretty standard for manufacturers to decrease the size of a bar gradually over time in order to keep it within a certain price limit. The classic example is how the Yorkie has shrunk from seven pieces to five pieces over the years with the pieces changing size as they went through the reduction.

frag420

MS.ing wrote: »

mad maaaaaaaaaad de ja vu ab out this thread, oh hang on

Im hanging....hurry up, I've an itchy sack!!

leeroybrown

Ruu wrote: »

Your hands are getting bigger.

Nah. That's actually just an optical illusion caused by his penis shrinking.

KeithM89

I still want a giant creme egg.

MS.ing

frag420 wrote: »

Im hanging....hurry up, I've an itchy sack!!

sounds like the least of your problems. Id be concentrating on getting my feet back on the stool if I was you

Rhyme

They rounded the edges of the Cardbury's Caramel bar this year as well making it even smaller.

biko

http://www.caloriesecrets.net/10-healthy-alternatives-to-chocolate-under-100-calories/

takamichinoku

leeroybrown wrote: »

Yeah. It's pretty standard for manufacturers to decrease the size of a bar gradually over time in order to keep it within a certain price limit. The classic example is how the Yorkie has shrunk from seven pieces to five pieces over the years with the pieces changing size as they went through the reduction.

Hold on a second!
I remember each block on a yorkie having one of the letters on it, Y-O-R-K-I-E, but I've no recollection of a seventh block. Used they just have the full word printed like the do on each of the five block ones now or something else? "Y-O-R-K-I-E-!"? "Y-O-R-K-I-E-."? ..."Y-O-R-K-I-E- "?

leeroybrown

takamichinoku wrote: »

Hold on a second!
I remember each block on a yorkie having one of the letters on it, Y-O-R-K-I-E, but I've no recollection of a seventh block. Used they just have the full word printed like the do on each of the five block ones now or something else? "Y-O-R-K-I-E-!"? "Y-O-R-K-I-E-."? ..."Y-O-R-K-I-E- "?

Some of us with longer memories will remember it having seven chunks in the 1990's. If I remember correctly it was a symbol of some kind on the first and YORKIE on the other six.

scream

How'd you even remember this stuff? I have a hard job remembering what I had for dinner yesterday, let alone what happened with a chocolate bar in the 90s.

Tail Docker

Lidl 74% Dark chocolate - 99c and big as feck.

northgirl

Pink snack used to have 3 fingers now only 2

leeroybrown

scream wrote: »

How'd you even remember this stuff? I have a hard job remembering what I had for dinner yesterday, let alone what happened with a chocolate bar in the 90s.

I remember buying a Yorkie and finding only six squared. Childhood crushed, etc.

scream

Tail Docker wrote: »

Lidl 74% Dark chocolate - 99c and big as feck.

I used to hate lidl but sometimes it has to be said, they do have some good stuff at times. Their white chocolate is very nice.

ctrl-alt-delete

Have noticed the Aldi "Titan" bar has shrunk lately. Time for a name change.

takamichinoku

leeroybrown wrote: »

Some of us with longer memories will remember it having seven chunks in the 1990's. If I remember correctly it was a symbol of some kind on the first and YORKIE on the other six.

Tried googling it just there, had "what was on the seventh" typed up and every suggestion was about some seventh day nonsense.


Anyways

Maybe it went up to seven briefly in the 90s? I can't remember seven though.
Look at the size of the blocks in that ad though! :eek:

MistyCheese

Feckin' tiny they're going. And Chomps are now 30c. You used to be able to get four for a Euro, tell yourself "that'll last a good while now", devour them all on the way home from the shop, turn around get another four for a Euro, walk home really quickly, throw the remaining two Chomps in the freezer and it'd be a few hours before you'd crack and stuff both of them in your gob in one go.

Now you only get 3 Chomps out of your Euro and 10c change. Breaks up the whole flow of the thing.

leeroybrown

takamichinoku wrote: »

Tried googling it just there, had "what was on the seventh" typed up and every suggestion was about some seventh day nonsense.

I'm really stretching the memories but I'm certain they had a seven chunk Yorkie. Perhaps the original was six then they added a seventh for a while before reducing it back down.

A cow called Daisy

northgirl wrote: »

Pink snack used to have 3 fingers now only 2

Noticed that myself. Maybe I just got more fingering back then:o

scream

Yeah I still don't remember sh!t, apart a single chunk filling my mouth entirely and making me dribble.

snubbleste

Cadbury large bars were 250g, then 230g, now 200g ..and the price has increased significantly from 2.00 to 3.00

Cadbury treatsize range used to be 3 for e5 on offer, now e4 each and there is less in the bag

Gongoozler

Yeah there were 7 pieces in it before. Then down to 6 then 5.is it still at 5?

LostBoy101

I think it's a marketing ploy to get people to buy more

Sam Kade

cena wrote: »

Is it just me or are chocolate bars getting smaller in size. The price of the bar for the size.

You're getting bigger from eating too much chocolate which makes the bars seem smaller

Tin Foil Hat

Never remember 7 squares on a Yorkie. Been eating 'em for thirty years.

leeroybrown

Gongoozler wrote: »

Yeah there were 7 pieces in it before. Then down to 6 then 5.is it still at 5?

It's still five. We appear to have established that the original had six pieces but it went up to seven in the 90's (I think it was a "now even chunkier" ad campaign). Eventually they'll increase the size and price again with a similar campaign and begin the slow reductions again.

feargale

ctrl-alt-delete wrote: »

Have noticed the Aldi "Titan" bar has shrunk lately. Time for a name change.

"Titanic" bar?

Dyr

"Curly Wurlys should be the size of a small ladder"

feargale

Wait till they put holes in the middle of the Rolos, like Polo Mints.

cena

Sam Kade wrote: »

You're getting bigger from eating too much chocolate which makes the bars seem smaller

I hardly eat chocolate.

Yeatz

feargale wrote: »

Wait till they put holes in the middle of the Rolos, like Polo Mints.

Good God, that's almost as dystopian as a Kinder Bueno without the creamy hazelnut filling.

Tin Foil Hat

cena wrote: »

I hardly eat chocolate.

Then the new sized bars will suit you grand.

feargale

I once asked for a suite with a view, and got a Polo Mint.

diomed

There must be an ombudsman that deals with this sort of thing.
I bought a Snickers, opened the big wrapper, and found a tiny bar inside.
There ought to be a law ...

JONJO THE MISER

The new trick in tesco is to have the 3 pack of bars for 1.50 when they are 1/3 the size, it only seems to be in Tesco, dealz and Dunnes the bar sizes are the same.