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[+] 270 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)
  • [–] [S] 137 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    "Dear BBC, thanks for the illustrated article on our product. Our advertising and PR manager says it's the best £2 we've spent all year'

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Are you thanking the Big Black...Candybar or the British Broadcasting Corporation?

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  • [–] 52 points 2 years ago (28 children)

    How is a Mars bar a fuckin quid now?!?

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    How is a Mars bar a fuckin quid now?!?

    You think that's nuts.
    It's 9 quid for two ass creams with the chewing gums innit.

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    £9 for two ass creamings, chewing gum or no, is a bargain

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    The thing that's breaking my brain right now is the price of spam

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I recently had a broken fridge and had to live off non-refrigerated items for a while. It's more expensive to eat tinned meats (corned beef, spam etc.) than it is to eat fresh/frozen meats. That broke me a bit.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    It doesn't just come in the can naturally like a nut bro...

    Someone has to put it in that can, that costs money

    The less people buying it, the more expensive it is, because the fixed costs are spread out among less consumers.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That can't be true. I've seen the spam fields, bushes sprawling up to the horizon, tins glittering in the sun like melons after a morning rain...

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    Ah, that brings a tear to my eye to think about. I grew up on a SPAM farm and worked it through my formative years. So many good memories working that patch. You know it’s gonna be hard work, but rewarding, when they start to lose their metal shine and ripen into a blueish hue. It’s time for harvest when the letter-like pattern deepens to a rich yellow.

    Gosh, I feel sad for folks who’ve never peeled and bitten into a fresh SPAM fruit right there in the field.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (15 children)

    It's because a quid is worth much elss that it used to be, not because a mars bar is worth more (although I'm sure some of it is increased profit margins masked as inflation gouging customers too)

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (14 children)

    Hey, American here. I watch tons of old British telly and I thought i had a good understanding of currency terms but now I'm confused. I thought a quid is just another word for a pound?

    While im here, is pence-pennies,tuppence-2 pennies, a shilling-like a dime or something,bob-just slang for pound? Plus you guys had the euro sort of wander in before brevity, it's all so confusing.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I think of quid as the british equivalent of "bucks"

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    Fun fact: the Mars bar is marketed as a Milky Way in the U.S. There was a Mars bar in the U.S., but it had almonds. It has since been rebranded as Snickers Almond.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    So what's a milky way advertised as?

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    American here; you're spot on. The US/Mexico version of the Milky Way bar has a layer of caramel in addition to the nougat, and 3 Musketeers is essentially the global version of Milky Way. Our bars may be also bigger in size.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    The Milky Way and the Mars bar were both created by the same person. And the Milky Way was created about 12 years earlier in Chicago. Forrest Mars went off to start his own Mars candy division in the UK after a fight with his dad.

    I had a client that had a Mars heir as a client, and knew they were based in the DMV. I was curious how an American candy company with a candy bar named after the family ended up being created in the UK.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    How did they get an office in the department of motor vehicles

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    You can't tell me this isn't the exact way you'd expect this guy to look. He said he's gonna use his 2 quid settlement for more mars bars. I'm comforted.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    A mars bar with no dick vein. Welp at leat the bloke got 2 pound(ing)s compensation.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Great. Now that Mars buckled, everyone will be suing over their smooth candies. They may have made this case go away, but they'll soon be out tens, maybe even hundreds of pounds.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Great. When did Mars go woke?

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    Now this is the kind of hard-hitting journalism I'm here for

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    Did they make him break it in two and mail it back first?

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    the Dull Men’s Club Facebook page

    They only paid him because it would be exciting and ruin his reputation as a dull man.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    Ironic that BBC reported it.

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    I used to send a complaint for faulty products to companies in my late teens/early 20's as I was low on money. Like once I got some energy drink in a bottle made for Pepsi. Same volume, no difference, but a mistake, so got 5€ for it so "won" like 3€ for that. I'd pick out products like that if I saw them in a shop for that very purpose.

    Once I genuinely was annoyed though, as a soft drink company that filled the vending machine at our school had filled it wrong and I got what was essentially Fanta he I wanted an energy drink and it was fucking hard waking up that morning.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    "Dull Men's Club" must be code for Mad Lads

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