Shrinkflation

Good idea in principal because people eat too much sugar and too many calories.

However, it makes no difference because instead of buying one smaller chocolate bar (or packet of crisps or ice cream/lolly…) people just buy and eat a whole family size bag or box of the things.
 
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NPBlue said:
Cadbury's claim there is a glass and a half of milk in a bar of chocolate.

Years ago, their advertising made the same claim and it was, indeed, a glass and a half of milk, the same sort of milk delivered to your door in the morning which you poured in your tea and over your cornflakes.

That sort of milk wasn't good enough for the yanks, so now, they've removed the natural cream and replaced it with palm oil.

They just can't leave anything be.
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Dairy milks haven't changed, they just use cheaper chocolate on stuff like creme eggs since Kraft took over.
 
grunge said:
Global chocolate shortage going on due to climate change and trees getting hit by parasites etc.

talked to a chocolate maker the other week and there are suggestions there will be no ( or dramatically reduced ) natural chocolate in 10 years. What’s mad is the fact 1 cocoa tree only produces enough for 4/5 bars of chocolate.
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Was it Mr Wonka?
Funnily enough on the taste the wife says they are different this year I wonder if they’ve changed the recipe, the Americans have shit chocolate if we go they same way I guess it might reduce sales here.
 
grunge said:
Global chocolate shortage going on due to climate change and trees getting hit by parasites etc.

talked to a chocolate maker the other week and there are suggestions there will be no ( or dramatically reduced ) natural chocolate in 10 years. What’s mad is the fact 1 cocoa tree only produces enough for 4/5 bars of chocolate.
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Yes, chocolate prices are through the roof, the chocolate makers we use had to choose between thinner / less chocolate and smaller price rises or bigger prices they went for bigger prices and maintaining quality, our customers seem to have accepted it, but large scale mass producers have obviously decided the mass market won’t accept much higher prices and cut back on the chocolate.
 
Make your own chocolate

Cadbury’s recipe



### Can You Recreate It at Home?

Yes—here’s a close historical approximation of the 1875 milk chocolate (small batch):



#### Ingredients (makes ~200g)

- 80g cocoa mass (100% chocolate liquor)

- 40g cocoa butter

- 100g granulated sugar

- 40g full-fat milk powder (not skim)

- Pinch of salt (optional, not original)



#### Method

1. Melt cocoa mass + cocoa butter at 45–50°C.

2. Grind sugar into fine powder (or use caster sugar).

3. Slowly sift in sugar + milk powder while stirring.

4. Conche (stir continuously) for 6–24 hours at 50°C (use a melanger or food processor).

5. Temper: Heat to 45°C → cool to 27°C → reheat to 31°C.

6. Pour into molds.



> Result: A crumbly, rich milk chocolate similar to early Cadbury bars.
 
Kippax Street 1880 said:
Dairy milks haven't changed, they just use cheaper chocolate on stuff like creme eggs since Kraft took over.
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By cheaper chocolate, I assume you mean less chocolate content, but the dairy milk bars have changed. They use palm oil as opposed to milk fat. Look on the label next time you buy a bar.

I studied food technology in the 70's and worked at a factory in Yorkshire for a while making chocolate. It wasn't Cadbury's but we had a good idea about the various recipes each manufacturer used, and palm oil was nowhere to be seen.
 
Lurpak - when they shrank a standard block from 250g to 200g a couple of years ago - looks ridiculous - especially when you put it next to unshrunk brands that are still available
 
Blue Maverick said:
The wife has just opened some mint matchmakers they are fucking tiny now, in fact not much bigger than matches, they really are taking the piss now, and yes I bollocked her they are for Xmas.
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It’s happening in Tesco. Used to get 3 660mil bottles for £6 with club card, now it’s £6.50

The supermarkets, energy companies etc are having out eyes out

I’m making my own person stand. I won’t buy wine gums if they are over a pound and the day Lidl pistachios go over £1.99 then they will be a thing of the past in my house…
 
A few years ago I was stumped as to how a Dairy Milk managed to achieve a 30% reduction in sugar, whilst still maintaining 70% of its original size.
 
Costco still sell the proper metal 2kg Roses tins for Christmas. Amazon sellers still sell 3kg tins as well.

It's just UK consumers seem to think paying £15/20+ is a no no. They seem to think the smaller tubs are better value.
We buy the big metal tins for gifts. We keep our original big tins and just fill them up each year.

Now don't get me started with the shite Quality Street dull waxy wrappers. It's Christmas for fucks sake.
Nothing dulls the spirits when these abominations reveal themselves. You can almost hear the deflation in people's souls when the see them.
I'm very sorry, but i don't care how many polar bears have to die, i want my shiny wrappers back!
 
NPBlue said:
Cadbury's claim there is a glass and a half of milk in a bar of chocolate.

Years ago, their advertising made the same claim and it was, indeed, a glass and a half of milk, the same sort of milk delivered to your door in the morning which you poured in your tea and over your cornflakes.

That sort of milk wasn't good enough for the yanks, so now, they've removed the natural cream and replaced it with palm oil.

They just can't leave anything be.
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The woman who was CEO UK was fired because the change in recipe devastated the cream egg sales. She made the change purely on the grounds that a US recipe was bound to be better.
 
Rowntrees Fruit Pastilles - will NOT buy them any more - not because they've shrunk, because they probably have, because they've pandered to f**kin vegans and removed the gelatine FFS - totally destroyed the chewability of them, b*stards. I'm now forced to buy Morrisons Own Brand because they still have animal product in them, yum yum! And they're cheaper too
 
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