WAGON WHEELS are smaller ***OFFICIAL***

Eat two - problem solved.

Noticed you call it a snack, it's neither a biscuit or a cake is it?

Yeah man, Wagon Wheels man! more like the wheels off a Mini Cooper man....................................









I'll get me coat!

Happy Christmas, and a great new year cooperman.

Happy Christmas boxy.. end up looking like f00kin mini cheddars if no-one complains. I'm not letting them ruin my wheels :D

Quite right cooperman, when I was a kid, drinking my free bottle of milk at school, (which Mrs Thatcher snatched from our thirsty young mouths. but that's another story ;) ) I could hardly finish my Wagon Wheel, they were so big. Not much more than a couple of bites now :(

And what happened to the bag of salt in my crisps as well !!!

And what happened to the bag of salt in my crisps as well !!!



Ask havering council...think its being stockpiled ):

Hoss.. you are obviously a cultured forumite...the salt in a bag gave you the option of having loads of salt or not!! Scandal imo.

There have been many debates amongst fans of the biscuit about the size. Wagon Wheels have supposedly shrunk in size as time has progressed, but Burton's Foods Ltd have denied this. It has been suggested that the supposed shrinkage is due to an adult's childhood memory of eating a Wagon Wheel held in a much smaller hand. In Australia however, Arnott's have stated that tray packs of Wagon Wheels were in fact Mini Wagon Wheels and have re-released the original 48g Wagon Wheels.

The original factory which produced the biscuit in Slough during the early 1980s were transferred to an updated and modern factory in Llantarnam in South Wales. The original factory in Slough produced the biscuit with crinkled edges and corn cobbs rather than the updated smoother edges. This caused the overall diameter of the biscuit to shrink slightly, but not as much as fans of the biscuit believe.

Also, although the UK Wagon Wheel has barely shrunk, it is still noticeably smaller than the Australian equivalent. The diameter of the Australian version is measured at 88 mm which is 14 mm larger than the UK version. Even though the Australian version is wider in diameter, the UK Wagon Wheel is notably thicker by 4 mm.

As of October 2006, the Canadian Wagon Wheel measured 70mm x 17mm

Fascinating!

It is quite difficult to track the size (and therefore the weight there of) of confectionary over time due to the manufacturer not being legally obliged to display the weight of the confectionary on the wrapper me thinks