Penguins

[Wurzel]

In today's lunchbox (lovingly prepared by Mrs Wurzel) I find a Penguin bar. The wrapper even says "penguin original". Should have measured it before I ate it, but I would guess it was somewhere between 1/2 to 2/3s the size of the "original" that I remember.

 

Have they got smaller? It seems to be a growing (or shrinking) trend with many chocolate bars, unless of course it's just memory playing tricks and everything seemed bigger when we were younger.

[stevegrant]

Smaller and more expensive.

 

Packets of crisps are the same, those Walkers Baked crisps are a massive con, you get about 12 crisps per pack

[Micky]

Wagon Wheels - really small now....

[Window Cleaner]

Penguins were never all that big, used to be able to eat a packet of 7 in about 2/3 minutes,mind you I was a chocaholic.

[Joe Kirkup]

Curly wurlies - werea foot long when I was a kid now only 6 inches or so. Seems to be a bit of a trend in my life

[dellboypete]

I suspect many people will put this down to global warming

[PaulSaint]

To be fair, it will help the UK's "Obesity Timebomb"?

[PaulSaint]

......unless you think, theyre small, I'll have 2

[Window Cleaner]

To be fair, it will help the UK's "Obesity Timebomb"?

 

There's a new report out that says that moderate but regular chocolate intake keeps you slim.I've never ever been overweight but I've certainly eaten my fair share of chocolate (and about half of the entire third world's share as well).Then again I don't eat crap or sauce or mayonnaise or anything like that.I used to run about 20km a day as well and for that you need the old unleaded which chocolate provides,not to mention the magnesium and other trace elements that it contains.

[Deano6]

Smaller and more expensive.

 

Packets of crisps are the same, those Walkers Baked crisps are a massive con, you get about 12 crisps per pack

 

 

Things in costing more than when you were a kid shocker.

[norwaysaint]

It's political correctness gone mad!

[Ken Tone]

I remember when you could feed a family of 4 for a whole week on a Mars bar.

 

I genuinely can remember when eating a whole Mars bar was a major feat requiring signficant stamina. Now they're less filling or rich than a 1960's Milky Way was.

[Window Cleaner]

I genuinely can remember when eating a whole Mars bar was a major feat requiring signficant stamina. .

 

Rubbish, I ate 29 in about 12 minutes in a Rag Week stunt,no problem whatsoever. However just after that I must have had an iffy pint of Newcastle Brown which led me to chucking up on the tube to Cricklewood.:lol:Fairly redecorated that tube I did.