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This explains why I only needed to eat 1 Mars bar to feels satisfied back in the days while I now have to eat 3-4 bars.
I clearly remember they were 68 grams when I was a kid, which always weighed on my mind when I had to choose between a Mars bar and the 78 gram Oh Henry
Remember BJ Novak calling out Cadburys blatant advertising lie about the new eggs were not getting smaller. That you were getting bigger.
Start of CadburyGate segment:
https://youtu.be/TlXLCrzpToo?t=172
Fulls interview
They had a better font back then too.
I always had the feeling that they were 56% bigger when I was a kid.
You were just smaller then.
Factoring in 35 years of inflation. A $0.50 mars bar in 1991 is $1.21 today. The cost of a Mars bar today is at least $1.50 USD (after converting from UK pounds) and that's being generous.
Companies are greedier than ever and there seems to be no stopping it (meaning because of the oligarchy in the US, Congress will never do a damn thing about it, and certainly the spoiled man-baby's executive branch will do nothing about it), and no end in sight of it.
Fuck them all.
I would also be surprised if the cost of production, now using cheaper ingredients and far more automation, hadn't also decreased.
Not to mention less cacao
Oh absolutely. Productivity has increased drastically since the 90s but wages never kept up.
Don't say it in cop voice. Say:
workers engineers and scientists made everything drastically more productive and the pedophiles stole all the gains. We keep letting them.
We're saying the same thing. The productivity surplus is getting stolen by the Epstein class. I'm not trying to sugarcoat anything.
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In 1991 those were closer to 30 cents.
I was 12, so I didn't have 3 cents to rub together, let alone 30. I assumed it was similar to candy bars when I was in high school, which were about $0.50 at the time.
I was only like 9, but I remember that shit. Lol.
Least those were the prices here in the Midwest. Thirtyish cent candy bars, 25 cent bags of small chips, 35 cent cans of coca cola, 59 cents for a 20 ounce. If hamburger was a dollar a pound, it's because it wasn't on sale that week.
We've had the technology to stop this since 1791. Arguments about maturity could be made that put an industrial version as late as 1917.
That's still over a century ago.
... posted a photo on social media of the 62.5g bar alongside one of today's Mars Bars, which is 40g.
"Over the last 35 years, we have made a number of updates to our bar sizes and pack formats to reflect consumer demand, alongside considering wider external factors such as manufacturing costs and the price of cocoa."
I'm sure your customers have been demanding smaller bars that cost more.
"We didn't only shrink the size, we also lowered the quality of ingredients to maximize profits!"
The only people who enjoy Mars bars are shareholders
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I'm curious to see how different the ingredient lists are between the two.
Even the font weight shrank
Also, recipe blogs are a great source of information on shrinkflation. Going to the store to look for a package size that no longer exists is fun.
Even the design looks better!!! Why!?
Even the font got skinnier!
The chocolate was thicker too. Easier to peel off and eat separately.
I walked through some forest 2ish years ago, next to a football stadium
I found a snickers wrapper with “olympics atlanta 1996” next to the snickers logo
Aww man, that was 10 years ago
Sorry to make you feel old, but it was in fact 20 years ago!
Got some bad news, y'all. I was born in 1996 and Im ~~30~~ 10 years old
There's a question to give a judge an aneurysm. How do age of consent laws work when time machines are involved?
Enshittification is the word of the decade. Century?
I'd sign for enshittification being the worst thing that happens this century. Considering there are years 73 ahead of us in the century, it might only be the precursor of what will actually be the word of the century.
Probably something like "Omnicide", the way things are going.
Global warming is by far the worst thing but it leads to the same evil root of corporate greed.
I think fascism is worse. I think Russia invading Ukraine is worse. I think the genocide by Israel of the Palestinians is worse. I think wealth inequality is worse. I think the lack of social safety nets in the US, especially universal heatlh case, is worse.
Enshittification is bad, but I really don't think it's the worst thing.
enshittification is the symptom of the underlying issue
I mean the wealth inequality is sorta what drives it all.
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Soon it's just ars.
WRONG. It'll be just the one Mar.
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