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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Varche on 17 May 2016, 11:14:10
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Anyone else noticed how manufacturers are selling us household stuff with less for the same price.?
Latest thing we have spotted is toilet rolls. My Mum had a stockpile of one brand. Down to last packet. My dad buys the same brand and packaging. The cardboard roll in the middle is bigger diameter. Crucially same number of sheets but they are thinner. So you use more per sitting and end up buying more.
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And choccy bars are getting smaller!
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And choccy bars are getting smaller!
1st thing I thought about was how the wagon wheel has shrunk over the years.
Quality street the price has remained arround £5 it's just the tin shrinks every xmas. :-\
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Toilet Rolls have always been a sore subject in this household (may have to rephrase that), why is it some lightly packed flimsy recycled toilet paper that you can lift up with your little finger (definitely have to rephrase that one) Costs £££'s and yet you can buy a heavy Ream (500 sheets) of quality Ink Jet Paper for Pennies. >:(
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Jars of instant coffee. Used to be 200gr, now often 190 or 180.
But then at a later stage they announce " Now Bigger " and increase back to the original size/quantity, and then it all starts again. >:(
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And choccy bars are getting smaller!
1st thing I thought about was how the wagon wheel has shrunk over the years.
Quality street the price has remained arround £5 it's just the tin shrinks every xmas. :-\
Wagon wheels. Maybe that is when you were younger wagons looked really big but now you are grown up they are just normal size?!! ;D ;D
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NO! The size of Wagon Wheels has definitely reduced significantly with time, being in fact a benchmark of "progress" in our society and an augury of its collapse into oblivion; it probably caused the destruction of Pompeii and the demise of the dinosaurs........
Ron
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:( Crème eggs are smaller
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Yes.....I could bore for England when it comes downsizing.
If manufactures insist on putting less in, then the overall size of the packaging should also be reduced.
Often it is not. Bastards. >:(
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:( Crème eggs are smaller
And taste rubbish now they don't have Cadburys chocolate on them
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:( Crème eggs are smaller
And taste rubbish now they don't have Cadburys chocolate on them
I could never eat those things, the cream was far, far too sweet for me.
I tend to go months without chocolate, then I'll get a craving, binged for 2 or 3 days till its runs out, then go without for months again.
My favs, normally biscuit variety, Wagon Wheels, Club Chocolate Orange, Dark Choc Digestives, Maryland Cookies and Orange or Mint Aero.
Ballards, off to Poundland now.
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:( Crème eggs are smaller
And taste rubbish now they don't have Cadburys chocolate on them
I could never eat those things, the cream was far, far too sweet for me.
I tend to go months without chocolate, then I'll get a craving, binged for 2 or 3 days till its runs out, then go without for months again.
My favs, normally biscuit variety, Wagon Wheels, Club Chocolate Orange, Dark Choc Digestives, Maryland Cookies and Orange or Mint Aero.
Ballards, off to Poundland now.
Won the Lottery have you ? ;D Feeling flush ?
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:( Crème eggs are smaller
And taste rubbish now they don't have Cadburys chocolate on them
I could never eat those things, the cream was far, far too sweet for me.
I tend to go months without chocolate, then I'll get a craving, binged for 2 or 3 days till its runs out, then go without for months again.
My favs, normally biscuit variety, Wagon Wheels, Club Chocolate Orange, Dark Choc Digestives, Maryland Cookies and Orange or Mint Aero.
Ballards, off to Poundland now.
Won the Lottery have you ? ;D Feeling flush ?
I wish, Lidl and Aldi are cheaper for Chocy Biscuits, unfortunately Poundland is nearer.
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:( Crème eggs are smaller
And taste rubbish now they don't have Cadburys chocolate on them
I could never eat those things, the cream was far, far too sweet for me.
I tend to go months without chocolate, then I'll get a craving, binged for 2 or 3 days till its runs out, then go without for months again.
My favs, normally biscuit variety, Wagon Wheels, Club Chocolate Orange, Dark Choc Digestives, Maryland Cookies and Orange or Mint Aero.
Ballards, off to Poundland now.
Won the Lottery have you ? ;D Feeling flush ?
I wish, Lidl and Aldi are cheaper for Chocy Biscuits, unfortunately Poundland is nearer.
Chocolate biscuits !!! B_***rd. I'm trying to lose weight. I dare not even think about them. I seem to be living on plain fish and vegetables :'( >:( . . . . . . but I do get a couple of glasses of wine in the evening :y
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:( Crème eggs are smaller
Cadburys insist that isn't true, and claim they would need new machinery to do it.
New packaging design is always a good sign that they're changing the quantity.
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:( Crème eggs are smaller
Cadburys Kraft Foods >:( (or whatever they are called now) insist that isn't true, and claim they would need new machinery to do it.
New packaging design is always a good sign that they're changing the quantity.
Minor correction
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:( Crème eggs are smaller
Cadburys Kraft Foods >:( (or whatever they are called now) insist that isn't true, and claim they would need new machinery to do it.
New packaging design is always a good sign that they're changing the quantity.
Minor correction
Yes when Kraft Foods bought out Cadburys and closed the factory at Keynesham near Bristol, they moved production to Poland where the Creme Eggs were produced to EU metric standards. ::)
Sadly for us metric Creme eggs are smaller than their British Imperial predecessors! :(
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:( Crème eggs are smaller
Cadburys Kraft Foods >:( (or whatever they are called now) insist that isn't true, and claim they would need new machinery to do it.
New packaging design is always a good sign that they're changing the quantity.
Minor correction
Yes when Kraft Foods bought out Cadburys and closed the factory at Keynesham near Bristol, they moved production to Poland where the Creme Eggs were produced to EU metric standards. ::)
Sadly for us metric Creme eggs are smaller than their British Imperial predecessors! :(
In order:
So we've all been driving General Motors Omegas and not Vauxhall Omegas. After all, GM has owned Vauxhall since 1925!
And yet the weight of a Creme Egg has apparently increased, which is odd if they're actually smaller. I love them, and haven't noticed a difference. And since when did the General Conference on Weights and Measures bother issuing a standard for Creme Eggs?
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Mars bar originally 68g.
Pretty sure they weigh less than that now.
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:( Crème eggs are smaller
Cadburys Kraft Foods >:( (or whatever they are called now) insist that isn't true, and claim they would need new machinery to do it.
New packaging design is always a good sign that they're changing the quantity.
Minor correction
Yes when Kraft Foods bought out Cadburys and closed the factory at Keynesham near Bristol, they moved production to Poland where the Creme Eggs were produced to EU metric standards. ::)
Sadly for us metric Creme eggs are smaller than their British Imperial predecessors! :(
In order:
So we've all been driving General Motors Omegas and not Vauxhall Omegas. After all, GM has owned Vauxhall since 1925!
And yet the weight of a Creme Egg has apparently increased, which is odd if they're actually smaller. I love them, and haven't noticed a difference. And since when did the General Conference on Weights and Measures bother issuing a standard for Creme Eggs?
This is true, but is explained by the fact that they no longer use Dairy Milk chocolate, but a cheaper chocolate formula which is denser. :o
Hence the new metric eggs are smaller and heavier! :)
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On the bright side all bog paper these days is of the "soft" variety,unlike the San Izal stuff of years ago.That stuff was so shiny it skidded and would cut you to pieces faster than a cutthroat razor if you didn't take care!
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Mars bar originally 68g.
Pretty sure they weigh less than that now.
Likewise Snickers Marathons... Down to 48g iirc :-X
And Polos used to be 7p rather than 70p >:(
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On the bright side all bog paper these days is of the "soft" variety,unlike the San Izal stuff of years ago.That stuff was so shiny it skidded and would cut you to pieces faster than a cutthroat razor if you didn't take care!
Luxury.
We uses the Daily Mirror or a dead cat. :)
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On the bright side all bog paper these days is of the "soft" variety,unlike the San Izal stuff of years ago.That stuff was so shiny it skidded and would cut you to pieces faster than a cutthroat razor if you didn't take care!
Gosh. Proper bog paper, that's posh. We use The Sun The Telegraph ;D Opti of course uses fivers. He'll deny that of course, saying it's actually tenners ::)
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On the bright side all bog paper these days is of the "soft" variety,unlike the San Izal stuff of years ago.That stuff was so shiny it skidded and would cut you to pieces faster than a grinder if you didn't take care!
Topically fixed :y
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Where everything is being downsized will they eventually call a can of Baked Beans a can of Baked Bean? ::) :o :o
Our free toilet paper seems to be getting bigger, must be due to the price of houses and the bigger estate agents adverts. ::) ::) ::)
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In a world where downsizing is the way forward,why are cars getting bigger???