Weights and measures

[Tarot]

The little lady was very upset standing there, she was worried about the way her dress seemed so baggy and long on her

body, for years she,d had this dress and it had never hung so badly.

Well no one informed her that Andrex toilet rolls were no longer soft strong and long but had shrunk by almost two inches wide and had less width than before.

But no shrinking of the price. Andrex need to tell us something about there new smaller size toilet roll.

Any other sneaky product changes out there?

[pablogrande]

Theres a whole load of products, chocolate bars etc have been reduced in size so that poundland can carry on stocking them

[PaulK]

Rip Off Britain

[ibilly99]

Fings aint wot they used to be - as Jeremy Paxman says "Why is this lying bastard lying to me?"

[uncleglen]

For a couple of years now, in the major supermarkets, the largest size of product is not always the cheapest option. Seen in tesco lately- Soya chocolate drink 2 for ?2 but one only costs 98p!

[Huguenot]

The UK Cadbury's Creme Egg is 39g and 180 calories. Despite rumours, it's been that size since the modern one was introduced in 1971.

The US and Canada's are only 34g and 150m calories.

Diddled 'em.

The AU and NZ Egg's are no longer manufactured locally, but instead are now imported from the UK, resulting a size reduction from 40g to 39g.

Ha ha!

[katie1997]

Coffee. Does anyone remember when coffee (to take-away, how exotic) was served in polystyrene cups, and if you timed it right, you'd get a lid before they ran out of them. Lucky you.

Seems like those cups were tiny compared to the sheer volumes on offer now where you need two hands to carry them.

Fairy cakes. These were pre-cupcake mania. They were really dainty compared to the gigantic offerings you get now.

I'm sure bubble gums used to be bigger tho.

[Husker]

pablogrande is right - Toblerone became an Alp shorter so Poundland can still stock them! Cabury's also cut two chunks off to key the RRP.

There was also a Panarama programme recently about supermarkets deliberately pricing stuff in a confusing way so people can't easily work out the best deal.

[maxxi]

katie1997 Wrote:

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> I'm sure bubble gums used to be bigger tho.

No, but the Bazooka Joe cartoon strips were funnier...

http://drawn.ca/wordpress/wp-content/images/BZcomic40.gif

*blows Bazooka Joe Secret Club Ring*

[katie1997]

Blimey maxxi, ooer misses, I know its a slow friday afternoon and all that but there could be CHILDREN reading this!