brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
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Watch out for hidden ‘shrinkflation’ price rises, analysts warn
The bastards.
Watch out for hidden ‘shrinkflation’ price rises, analysts warn
The bastards.
Shrinkflation watch
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DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Nationalise Frazzles now! Arm the friteuses!
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
This certainly has been discussed here before - but probably indirectly as part of other threads.
IIRC the government/public health bodies have also been pressuring manufacturers to reduce portion/package sizes of foodstuffs they deem "unhealthy" for a few years now, with the thinly veiled threat of legislation if they don't comply.
IIRC the government/public health bodies have also been pressuring manufacturers to reduce portion/package sizes of foodstuffs they deem "unhealthy" for a few years now, with the thinly veiled threat of legislation if they don't comply.
SpookyFrank
Float like a caterpillar, sting like a tree
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
TBF Hershey's is effectively a homeopathic candy bar - the less of it you have to eat the better.
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
Hershey's don't fit the UK's definition of chocolate [candy] and there's something in that american junk that tastes like vomit.
Also, there isn't enough cocoa solids for British taste-buds, so given that European chocolate has even higher quantities I would hate to be around when someone such as a Belgian ate Hersheys instead of Lindt ....
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
I've noticed the cereal boxes have gotten smaller recently. They used to contain 16 to 20 oz. I picked up one the other day that contained 12 oz. Same price though.
I also happened to notice that the cost of bacon went way up since I last checked. Its been a while since I bought bacon, but it was a good double what I last remember. It was $8, instead of the $4 I remember. I'm told that meat is really going up. Maybe people will eat less of it.
I also happened to notice that the cost of bacon went way up since I last checked. Its been a while since I bought bacon, but it was a good double what I last remember. It was $8, instead of the $4 I remember. I'm told that meat is really going up. Maybe people will eat less of it.
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
Twirl did change after Mondelez took over IIRC. The last one I had was not like they used to be - and they are due to shrink again by the end of this year to fit the government's 200-calorie guideline/suggestion, along with Wispa Gold and Double Decker - which switched to a much more aerated, spongy, not chewy "nougat" a while back.
Nine Bob Note
Self-Isolating before it was fashionable
Space Raiders multipacks shrank from ten packets to six OVERNIGHT. That's an increase in price of 67%. Haven't bought any since, and I REALLY like them 
Serge Forward
Just enjoyin' my coffee.
The taste of choccy also changed when they started loading everything up with palm oil.
Due to transportation distances and lack of refrigeration back in the day American chocolate was made with sour milk. But not wanting to change things (which upsets customers) when the milk situation improved they started adding butyric acid to chocolate which does indeed taste like vomit.
not a trot
Well-Known Member
When I was a kid, Mars Bars cost 6d and were so big it took a week to eat one. And anyone who doesn't believe that can fuck right off.
Serge Forward
Just enjoyin' my coffee.
And wagon wheels were as big as an actual wagon wheel.
MysteryGuest
beyond boring and interesting
What I would like to see is the whole of the gross and disturbing, and indeed immensely tedious pustulence that is the tory party, and any and all of their supporters, shrinkflated into a tiny, impotently shrieking, writhing festering yellow-black blob about a centimetre in diameter by a mad scientist with a shrinking ray before being flushed down the bog into the sewer where they belong. OK, it's not strictly speaking shrinkflation, it's basically just shrinking tbh, but I still really want this to happen in my lifetime anyway, preferably as soon as possible as I'm fucking sick to the back teeth of them. Fingers crossed and all that...
eatmorecheese
Free the bimbo koala Kenny
I absolutely thought this as a kid and haven't changed my mind
locomotive
come on baby, do the locomotion
Further proof, if any were needed, of the superiority of Jaffa Cakes.
bluescreen
tofu eating wokerati
I could never really see what was fun about any of those fun size things, unless the idea was that you would eat a handful at a time.
Serge Forward
Just enjoyin' my coffee.
Marketing bollocks, never use the word 'small' as customers feel they're getting less for their money. Call it 'fun size' instead and it's positive as you're paying for fun stuff. I'd much prefer to see fun sized marketing types, preferably with their heads lopped off.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
The first time I came across some Hershey's Kisses, I was so excited to try them because of having seen them in movies, and it was such a let down, they were so disgusting, I was very disappointed.
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
My first thought when looking down that list was 'Where's the Wagon Wheels, everyone says they've shrunk, I need to know if they really have or if it's a trick or perception because of eating them when small versus when grown up.' I felt cheated by the lack of Wagon Wheels statistical evidence.
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
I mentioned something to a neighbour about the cost of Freddos a few weeks ago and he - British/English, fifties - hadn't heard of them!
I thought everyone knew about the Freddo inflation index, but he just muttered about the price or Big Macs.
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