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yesterjay

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14,569 posts

239 months

Sunday 30th October 2022
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3,275 posts

209 months

Sunday 30th October 2022
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Ok, I'll bite.

Wtf are you talking about?

Super Sonic

11,599 posts

75 months

Sunday 30th October 2022
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Quality Street hazelnut in caramel.

sherman

14,779 posts

236 months

Sunday 30th October 2022
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Quality street caramel tastes funny and goes bittty. I dont buy the tins at christmas anymore.

juice

9,533 posts

303 months

Sunday 30th October 2022
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The title always conjures up Sky Sports deadline day from when they used to report outside various football grounds hehe


normalbloke

8,397 posts

240 months

Sunday 30th October 2022
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yesterjay said:
1. Like everything, not so big anymore
2. But more importantly suspiciously, has anyone noticed the reduction in nut size contained within?

Absolute travesty of modern confectionary. They've replaced the large hazelnut with some weeny nut for ants.

Unacceptable.
Well, you can imagine the handwringing when it changed from a Brazil nut to a hazel nut.

hairy v

1,359 posts

165 months

Sunday 30th October 2022
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juice said:
The title always conjures up Sky Sports deadline day from when they used to report outside various football grounds hehe

rofl

Short Grain

3,413 posts

241 months

Sunday 30th October 2022
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normalbloke said:
yesterjay said:
1. Like everything, not so big anymore
2. But more importantly suspiciously, has anyone noticed the reduction in nut size contained within?

Absolute travesty of modern confectionary. They've replaced the large hazelnut with some weeny nut for ants.

Unacceptable.
Well, you can imagine the handwringing when it changed from a Brazil nut to a hazel nut.
Then they wonder why sales are falling!!

Cos you're talking the piss you tts!!

Won't be buying (non)Quality Street this year!!!

captain.scarlet

1,891 posts

55 months

Monday 31st October 2022
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Another example of shrinkflation. I believe that the argument that it's to maintain a steady calorific intake does not work because surely you'd have more just to compensate.

I posted elsewhere about McVities Gold bars being something like 22g only a few years ago, now down to like 18g. Visibly shorter after having not had them for a while. It just looked pathetic. The equivalent length of a fun size Mars bar.

Multipack used to be 7x3 = 21 (approximately 462g), now 6x3 = 18 (approximately 324g), yet it is still the same price.

So you're getting 138g less than before. IIRC that's around the same total weight of a multipack of 4 Bounty / Kit Kat Chunky type chocolates (assuming they've not shrunk further with things like Double Deckers, Boosts and Picnics).

Alternatively, divide that by the current 18g bars and you're being deprived of (owed) 7.6 Gold bars!

I think that of the few things that have actually stayed the same size are Tunnocks Caramel Wafers and Caramel Logs. Some reassurance there I suppose!

Short Grain

3,413 posts

241 months

Monday 31st October 2022
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yesterjay said:
Apparently a 'portion' is two Quality Street.

I've had more calories brushing my teeth.
If everybody just 'had a portion', you'd still be eating last year's tub!!

Radec

5,304 posts

68 months

Monday 31st October 2022
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It's no green triangle.