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Candies in Britain get smaller again
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Broken Joystick
At least you can talk. Who are you?
Yeah same, once you're halfway through a bar you can't tell the difference anymore. Good for melting too.
Could you recommend a brand?
iceatcs
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Yeah but the chocolate has up to 40% reduced real sugar before britexit. Nestle and Cadbury taste changing all the time. It starting when drink sugar tax. I won't be surprise there are actually the sugar tax fright them, even if not applied them yet.
Turbo Killer
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Fellow Americans please don't call them candy, the brits are getting their panties (knickers?) in a bunch over it.
Andrea Leadsoms ministerial cakes.
Herr Schwarz
Banned
Who would of thunk it, leaving the EU is bringing the UK so many fucking Ls. They can't handle all the Ls.
Because forming economic policy for a voting bloc that'll all be dead in under a decade sounds like a grrrrrreat idea.
Hey remember those days in the 80s when the pound would buy you so much more? Yeah those days are fucking done.
Because forming economic policy for a voting bloc that'll all be dead in under a decade sounds like a grrrrrreat idea.
Hey remember those days in the 80s when the pound would buy you so much more? Yeah those days are fucking done.
I'll have you know we get our knickers in a twist, not some brash, uncouth American bunch thank you very much. /s
No.
Companies have been doing this for ages, due to inflation causing their costs to rise. I guess they calculate that its better to keep price lower and make portions smaller than to keep portion sizes the same and put up the prices more.
However, this isn't some brexit profiteering, the pounds value just nosedived, so naturally their costs have risen quite substantially. Its not a scapegoat - there is a direct cause and effect here that, frankly, you have to be wilfully ignorant to ignore.
Its chocolate, people aren't going to stop buying it.
Aarglefarg
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I was surprised to find the word 'candy' has origins from around the world, considering how much it is associated with the US.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=candy&allowed_in_frame=0
TeamLeftMatch
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"Just don't get sick" says Theresa May. "Good health is a privilege"
chromatic9
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There has to be a Brexit bar at some point. The name just sounds like a choccy bar, "have a break have a brexit"
Slackbladder
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Well, thankfully I rarely buy chocolate anymore but I certainly don't condone this. Sure, make the chocs smaller but make them cheaper too you fuckwits.
Audioboxer
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Even although it's funny to laugh at Brexit, and cry, this is simply opportunism to sell less to consumers but charge the same.
RumblingRosco
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I don't understand half of the words in this thread. Could a mod put a NSFAmericans warning in the title?
TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared
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GKSilKamina
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never forget
I die a little on the inside every time I see those newer Toblerone bars.
Hippolnareff
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Brexit people right now
Lol, perfect
Although I don't think this is Brexit related, they've been doing it for years.
blame space
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There's a store called poundland?
TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared
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CyclopsRock
Member
Not being funny but who actually buys chocolate at full price? Shower gel, chocolate and toilet paper - buy when it's on sale, and buy unimaginably large quantities.
lol I can't keep large quantities of candy in the house. I'll just eat it right up.
Dee Dah Dave
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I remember when a King Size Mars Bar could feed you for a week for 35p 
Mars bar 25p, Marathon 26p
Mars bar 25p, Marathon 26p
It's bullshit like this that's made me stop buying chocolate so much. I hate this awful shrinkflation.
Coca Cola are also trying to pull this with their new 1.75L bottles instead of 2L. The 1.75 are now the same price 2L used to be, and 2L are an outrageous £2.30.
And people are so stupid. They just swallow it down. I have friends who bring round the 1.75L bottles all the time now. I refuse to buy them. Nothing but profiteering.
Coca Cola are also trying to pull this with their new 1.75L bottles instead of 2L. The 1.75 are now the same price 2L used to be, and 2L are an outrageous £2.30.
And people are so stupid. They just swallow it down. I have friends who bring round the 1.75L bottles all the time now. I refuse to buy them. Nothing but profiteering.
CyclopsRock
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PJV3
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Well, there is always more gruel.
But we ruled the waves, much more fulfilling.
travisbickle
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More Brexit bullshit.
Most confectionaries went through a size increase during the 90s-early 2000s because production was cheaper during a period when they weren't paying suppliers of ingredients well(especially globally). They have been reducing since then because of increasing costs which include treating farmers/suppliers better.
Hardly any are smaller than they were when they were introduced in the 60/70/80s.
TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared
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I have a big bag in my bedroom I got from Nintendo World in new york. I don't buy chocolate often, but when you seen the good offers, I bulk buy it and dine out on it for weeks. Like recently they had big cadburys bars on offer, 3 for 3. I bought 30 odd of them, plus staff discount brought it to 27 quid, that'll last me till June/July at least.
Ban Puncher
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Yeah, they sell all sorts.
It really should of been called Pound Town.
nekkid
It doesn't matter who we are, what matters is our plan.
Buy 3, get 0 free. What a bargain!
TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared
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Well each bar worked out at a quid (or 90 pence each)
Dee Dah Dave
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Pickled Onion Monster Munch are where it's at anyway, fuck chocolate.
I don't buy the 3x multipack Cadbury for £1 either, when it used to be 4x, out of principle.
nekkid
It doesn't matter who we are, what matters is our plan.
I'm just playing. I'm guessing you mis-typed, otherwise "3 for 3" sounds like a crappy "offer".
Nah, not a typo, they just omitted a £ sign and expected people to know anyway (because it's kind of obvious really for the exact reason you state - otherwise it's not a deal
)They were 3 for £3, which is a deal because the larger bars usually sell for more than £1 each.
Almost killed me here pal.
nekkid
It doesn't matter who we are, what matters is our plan.
Nah, not a typo, they just omitted a £ sign and expected people to know anyway (because it's kind of obvious really for the exact reason you state - otherwise it's not a deal
They were 3 for £3, which is a deal because the larger bars usually sell for more than £1 each.
Oh I see, haha.
Yes, same, neither do I. That's another thing I can't stand.
The weird thing is that sometimes places like Pound land have the traditional 4 packs for £1 which they've obviously imported from somewhere in Europe where the size hasn't been cut.
I also haven't bought a single Creme Egg since they took Dairy Milk out of the recipe and cut the size of egg boxes to 5. Like real eggs come in boxes of 5? That ruins the ENTIRE point.
Eh... Isn't all of the stuff at pound shops already de-bigified in the first place?
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