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I just purchased a pack of rolos - something I've not done for about 20 years as I wanted to see if they were as good as I remembered.
Well, I thought the pack looked a little shorter than it used to but anyway , I ate one. Ate another , and another . Then thought there arent many left in the packet, and there were 3 left.
6 measly rolos in a pack.
Talk about shrinkflation - a pack / tube of rolos used to be long and you eat a couple , offer them round and have a long tube left for next time. Not now.
6 in a packet. And I think they are different to how they used to be.
Didn't seem as chewy. You used to be able to chew the caramel / toffee , now it was gone in one bite.
Has anyone experienced a non horse related sweet / chocolate disappointment recently ?
I think I'm going to have to go back tomorrow and buy something else and work my way through a list of my childhood favourites !
Curlywurly....
Well, I thought the pack looked a little shorter than it used to but anyway , I ate one. Ate another , and another . Then thought there arent many left in the packet, and there were 3 left.
6 measly rolos in a pack.
Talk about shrinkflation - a pack / tube of rolos used to be long and you eat a couple , offer them round and have a long tube left for next time. Not now.
6 in a packet. And I think they are different to how they used to be.
Didn't seem as chewy. You used to be able to chew the caramel / toffee , now it was gone in one bite.
Has anyone experienced a non horse related sweet / chocolate disappointment recently ?
I think I'm going to have to go back tomorrow and buy something else and work my way through a list of my childhood favourites !
Curlywurly....
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Think Mars was one of the first to start this scam when they started putting Believe on the wrapper , advertised at the same price but no mention of the shrinkage.
Wife just tole me that Munchies are similar to Rolo in that there's far less of them. Worst value ever though is a bag of crisps , most expensive fresh air on the planet  |
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I had a Toffee Crisp the other day. It bore no resemblance to a Toffee Crisp from 50 years ago
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Harden that's funny as I was looking for a packet of munchies originally but couldn't find any hence landed on the rolos. Thanks for the heads up, I won't bother looking again.
Your crisps comment made me laugh as my kids keep opening bags and saying daddy daddy look there are only 'x' many in the packet. TTtiger, another one that has been changed. Though You've made me curious nzw, I'm going to have to buy one and try it. |
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years ago there were these sweets I used to buy my kids when they were young, fizzy chewy things about the same size as opal fruits and about a dozen in the pack roughly the same size as the opal fruits, probably about 8 inches in length the pack ,anyway years later when my kids had got older about secondary school age my son brought a new pack home and the pack was about the same size but they had put the sweets side by side and instead of getting 12 you got 8 .....
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50 yr old toffee crisp,what you expect
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This seems like a great experiment to undertake, and or / a good excuse to buy lots of different chocolate bars.
This needs to be a joint effort undertaken on the forums' behalf in order to compile an official list of the top ten choccy bars. If anyone criticises our fatness we just say we were doing it for the greater good. I quite like the idea of this  |
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Don't buy a Yorkie
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6 Rolos in the pack?! So much for the old advert 'Do you love anyone enough to give them your last Rolo?' No I don't, I've only got 6 ffs, fo.
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Didn't every sweet seem bigger when we were all kids?
Or maybe companies did shrink them (I know that's also true) Bit of both sadly in changing our experiences of sweets - then again, at our age we also probably shouldn't be eating them for our health reasons too |
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have a look at those quality st and roses tins of chocs you got many years ago about 8-10 inches deep ,now they are plastic and about 4 inches deep ,plus they have changed the wrappers on the chocs and they are in kinda like little air filled packets so they take up more room in the tin/box and you get even less .
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Wagonwheels used to seem like they were the size of a steering wheel when I was a kid
Don't know if that's because my hands were smaller (that could apply to other things as well) Agree that crisps are the biggest con And what about these "fun size" chocolate bars Gone in one bite... Where's the fun in that? |
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Just remembered another one...
Got my grandson a sherbet fountain from a retro sweet shop near me The sherbet came about a third up the tube What a con |
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reg my ol mum kept one of those old roses tins from the 1960s for odds and ends and it was like a small drum easily 10 inches tall look at the size of em around this Christmas adout 4 inches tall ,that government Sugar ban or reduction didn't half help those sweet company's gave em Carta blanche to reduce the contents and size of bars etc to give you less for yer money! and more money for them
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more air than sherbert reg!
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Just bring back the Bar Six chocolate bar please.
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does anyone remember pink panther chocolate bars ? ...bright pink , sweet and disgusting . but as kids we ate them !...nap ; aztec bar to be championed .
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windsor knot12 Sep 24 10:19Joined: 12 Mar 07 | Topic/replies: 1,845 | Blogger: windsor knot's blog
does anyone remember pink panther chocolate bars ? ...bright pink , sweet and disgusting . but as kids we ate them !...nap ; aztec bar to be championed . Here we are then  |
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I have about a dozen or so old sweet wrappers topics bounty's cadburys choc etc ,surprisingly they seel well on ebay roughly 6 - 10 pound a pop had a lot more but sold em over the years
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sell well ^^^^
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The tuck shop next to our school used to let you buy 2 (or 4?) ounces of anything out of the sweet jars, even mix and match... Cola bombs, rhubarb and custard, peanut brittle... Etc
For about 6 d They even sold ciggies singly as well |
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you should have only had 5 as your supposed to give the last one away you greedy KOONT
, BAR 6,S to me always remind me of those vending machines on train station platforms where you begged your mother for the money to get one, if mam put on in the shopping basket fair enough I,d eat a BAR 6 ,but never in a million yrs would I spend my own pocket money on one |
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Haha yes 1st time P, I totally forgot you're meant to share the last one.
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wont be many giving the last one away with only 6 in a pkt
still got to go some to beat WALKERS they've gone from people looking for 5 pound notes in a pkt of their crisps to struggling to find a crisp |
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I work part-time in a shop and noticed the curlywurlys seemed small nowadays ,so I checked up the original . They were first sold in 1972 at a price of 3p and a weight of 500g .They are now 20p and a weight of 100g .
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to be fair for the sake of kids in the uk
half the size and to expensive to buy 2 is the way forward  , says the overweight 64 yr old sat on his Arris in the armchair watching the racing |
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A big feast is just a feast nowadays lol.
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wagon wheels are now go kart wheels
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mcvieties digestives that once wouldn't fit in a cup of tea end on to dip,now fit in easily facedown
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I used to buy the medium size nescafe ALZERA coffee and you had to be careful ripping the foil top off in case coffee went everywhere, now you have to tip it up verticle before any coffee comes out
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used to get my kids a 10p mix up on the way home from school ,my newsagents sells em but they are a pound now
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the topics are so small now they call em a mention
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The Chunky Kitkat. I used to love this plenty as a student. But, I do not think it's the same Chunky Kitkat I used to know. anymore. It seems to be lacking the crunch for some reason. I also think it's not as thick anymore. Maybe this is the reason for its lack of crunchiness.
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2 weeks ago wife bought a family pack/6 pkts of currie flavour McCoy crisps from one of the cheapie shops, she counted one pkt and it had 8 crisps in, but not all bad news if you wanted some co2 in an emergency ,you got a bag full
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The classy much missed Terry's Waifa bar.
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Callard & Bowser's butterscotch were the nuts.
They came wrapped in thin silver foil and were a bit pricey compared to other sweets but worth the expense. If I was broke, as a youngster, then I seem to remember half inching them on occasions.  |
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And the Kellogs Variety cereal packs...
Now... 2 cornflakes 2 coco pops 2 rice krispies 2 mini shreddies Where's the variety in that? |
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yeh remember that butterscotch, but at our school you were the bogs rollocks if you had a quarter of merry maids in the draw, must kids got 2 quarters of what we called SOAPS for the same price as a quarter of merry maids,SOAPS were cheap boiled sweets covered in sugar which were in half a dozen jars on top of the counter, a sort of poor mans cola cubes,lemon sherbets,sour apples,lime tablets etc,and we though they tasted of soap
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remember as kids there was a chocolate factory ,shuttleworths in the blue bermondsey, one sunday a bunch of us broke in and stuffed ourselves full of choclate ,you can only eat so much even kids get fed up with it ,anyway we nicked a few boxes full of bars of stuff to take back onto the council estate where most of us lived and handed it out to other kids chocolax it was called orange ,milk mint etc some of the kids ate a few bars of it ,wernt till i took a couple of bars home and my ol man said that is a laxative chocolate have you eaten any no i said ,good he said if you eat that it will be an eye of the needle job ,he said one square of it will give you the shitz ...some of those kids ate a couple of bars
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