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I just bought a Terry's choccy orange for £1 from Tesco - part of the weight reduction plan

The segments have one side hollowed out - that's different I think, so I look at the box and see it weighs 157g. I thought it was 175g, not 157. So I do a quick search on the interweb and I'm right. The sneaky buggers have reduced the weight of Terry's choccy orange from 175g to 157g.

Gutted

In reply to Michael Hood:

Can I ask...have you kept it at room temperature?

In reply to Michael Hood:

I blame Nigel Farage or the EU.

In reply to Michael Hood:

You've effectively just lost weight while getting one of your five a day. Win win.

In reply to Ridge:
Famously they moved their manufacturing from York to Poland a few years back, I think they are sabotaging our confectionary. Does the foil make a nice hat?

In reply to DerwentDiluted:

I like the hat so much I bought shares in Bacofoil. It's the only growth industry we're likely to have in the near future.

In reply to Michael Hood:

Obviously this a crisis!

In reply to Michael Hood:
This should not be allowed, have you noticed blocks of cheese used to be 400g are now 350g and Pringles weights go up and down with the offers. It's just downright cheeky.

Cheers

Toby

In reply to Michael Hood:
This is terrible news, and is worse for coming at a bad time.

In reply to Michael Hood:

http://metro.co.uk/2015/10/15/are-they-shrinking-our-favourite-chocolate-ba...

I don't believe those figures for Mars bars, they're tiny these days.

In reply to Toby_W:


Applies to lots of products. I just bought a jar of honey, thought it was a pound and it was 340 gms., more fool me I know but this is getting increasingly common.

In reply to Lusk:

It's the same with cream eggs, as a kid iIused to eat mine with a spoon like a real egg. No way a spoon would fit now.

In reply to Michael Hood:



So do you not get the central segment either?
In our house we call it the 'nut'.

In reply to deacondeacon:

That's the most important bit.

Bl00dy shrinkflation isn't it.

In reply to Michael Hood:

Magnums have now all got smaller also, but not by the same amount. If you go for the posh double caramel one it's about the size of my thumb.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jan/22/unilever-shrink-magnum-cor...

In reply to Michael Hood:

Some Swiss chesse makers are even selling their cheese with holes it it. Disgraceful.

In reply to Michael Hood:

'The current Guiness World Record holder for the fastest time to eat a Terry's Chocolate Orange, Adrian Blake, has said that the decision to shrink the chocolate orange would not only harm the experience of enjoying the product, but also make future challenges to his achievement unfair.'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry%27s_Chocolate_Orange#Changes_to_product...

In reply to Michael Hood:

Buy my chocolate at Lidl these days - it seems pretty good for the money. Cadbury's is small and crap since going to Kraft. They even tried to sell Hershey bars here in the UK, they're the pits of crap chocolate.

In reply to Rigid Raider:


that wouldn't be allowed if they were in the EU.

In reply to Michael Hood:

It is because the cost of Coca has risen dramticaly over the last five years and they don't want to spoil their proffits or raise the price of the product...

In reply to Michael Hood:

Damn,

I did the same the other day (£1 from Tesco). I always find that it's compulsory to eat a chocolate orange in one sitting, so at least this means I'm less of a greedy guts than I thought I was.

In reply to Jimbo C:



One Christmas someone bought me a gift pack of 7 of these (old big size) and I'd scoffed the lot by the day after boxing day. And two boxes of chocolate liqueurs. Now THAT'S training.

In reply to Dax H:

As of last year their 6 pack are now 5 packs but in the same box. So my delicious eggs rattle around now like a loose nut placement because there's room for a 6th but they've taken it from us.

In reply to Jimbo C:


This also was my one consolation as I stuffed it all down

In reply to Michael Hood:

Bastards. They are just bastards. Terry's Chocolate Oranges have been a part of my family's rituals for years and years. They were always in the Christmas stocking and always a part of birthday celebrations. My boys - assimilating the tradition - even got me one for Fathers Day.

And its in the fridge and I've just checked it. 157g. Bastards. And its made by someone called 'Mondelez'.

Bastards.


I still want one this Christmas, mind.

In reply to Michael Hood:

They sacked all the staff in York and moved production to Romania which also put British Sugar out of business , I have boycotted them ever since.

In reply to muppetfilter:

Well, Morrisons in Piershill, Edinburgh still has them at 175g!!

In reply to BrendanO:
Scotland votes in. Chocolate Oranges are bigger here.

In reply to aln:

Deep fried CO, anyone?

In reply to Offwidth:

Well I'm Scottish so don't forget to batter them first.