Just bought a Mars bar for the first time in ages...WTF?

[yello]

Same with Wagon Wheels.
Should be renamed Castors...

and you've waited so long to say that!

 

[yello]

Used to be able to fit a whole LP on one side of a C90 cassette too.

I had small tape (a C4???) that came with the cassette deck I bought (with my own hard earned paper round money). I recorded a favourite song (which shall, for fear of embarrassment, remain secret) on it, half on one side and the rest on the other. To this day whenever I hear that song, I recall exactly where the tape clicked off and I had to flip the tape to hear the rest!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Thankfully there's Heston's Hoops.

 

[classic33]

Where did the rest of it go. They're bloomin' tiny. Total rip off. Half the fun of a Mars bar is that, or was that it was a bit of a challenge. Not now. Might as well have had a bloody Milky Way.
This country, honestly.

Just had a bite out of this one, sorry.

 

[pplpilot]

Marianne Faithful will be devastated

Ha! Ha! Id forgot all about this... Brilliant.

 

[FeistySquirrel]

Just looked into my crystal ball into the future 5yrs... The new standard mars bar size is confirmed:

 

[rualexander]

Mars Bars and other bars go up and down in size every few years.
It seems the current standard Mars Bar is only 51g which seems pretty small, the largest I remember them being is 68g

 

[ColinJ]

Just looked into my crystal ball into the future 5yrs... The new standard mars bar size is confirmed:

The biggest picture ever (4 bloody Megapixels!) of the smallest Mars Bar ever?

 

[Pale Rider]

The biggest picture ever (4 bloody Megapixels!) of the smallest Mars Bar ever?

Said the man with slow internet connection.

Nice to know I'm not alone - the stupid pic coughed and spluttered a bit before it loaded.

 

[MontyVeda]

Just had a bite out of this one, sorry.

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Shouldn't that be in the things that over promise and under deliver thread?

 

[classic33]

Same with Wagon Wheels.
Should be renamed Castors...


GC

Used to be six inch diameter

 

[cosmicbike]

Used to be six inch diameter

Nah, more like the size of a football.

Is this not a perception thing, white dog sh#t excluded (which is, incidentally, down to their diet)?

 

[Cycleops]

From Wikepedia:
In the second half of 2008, Mars UK reduced the size of regular bars from 62.5 g to the current 58 g. Although the reduction in size was not publicised at the time, Mars claimed the change was designed to help tackle the obesity crisis in the UK. The company later confirmed that the real reason for the change was triggered by rising costs.[5][6] In the UK, most Mars bars are still made at the Slough Trading Estate.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Used to be six inch diameter

And had the best advert tag line:

So big you've got to grin to get it in.​

I can verify that as a chat-up line, it didn't always work.

GC

 

[classic33]

Nah, more like the size of a football.

Is this not a perception thing, white dog sh#t excluded (which is, incidentally, down to their diet)?

Nay, they'd introduced metric only rulers(15cm) at school at the time. Also had family working in the factory that made them. So got them cheap.