curleytops

Thats what we keep hearing, cornish wafers were one item mentioned to be in short supply (due to the co. that makes them being located in Carlisle and they're still on clean-up/dry-out duty up there) but I've not had any bother getting them or any Jacob's McVittie's etc.

Pulaski

Your McVitie's are likely coming from Manchester, Liverpool, Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire, or Harlesden, London.

Fish n Chips 56

Speaking of Biscuits did anyone notice that the tins of Cadburys we get over Christmas dropped in size from 17.6 oz to 11.8 oz, I opened the tin and there was more plastic filler than a little, of course the price at Wal-mart and World Market stayed the same, I wont be buying any more, they seem too expensive for what they are.

Perth

It's an industry-wide problem. In order to not raise prices, they reduce actual food contents and keep the price where it's at

Pulaski

It's the same as when they reduced the size of Mars bars a few years ago, and simultaneously changed the wrapper, so instead of being wrapped like a block of butter it had a wrapper with serrated "ears" at either end, so remarkably the end-to-end measurement of the new smaller bars in their wrappers was the same as the old bars.

Stephen J Gould wrote an off-topic article, back in the 80's I think, about the size and price of Hershey's bars. The bars had a peculiar cycle of getting progressively smaller while the price remained the same, then jumping up in size when the price increased, before declining in size again. Plotting the size against price, the graph was a series of reverse J-shaped curves, however Goulding noted that each time the size jumped up, it jumped up to a size smaller than the previous time it jumped up. ..... He concluded that you could extrapolate the graph to determine what the price of a Hershey's bar would be when the size reached zero!

Fish n Chips 56

I know the manufactures do this all the time, but to remove a third is way over the top.

Fish n Chips 56

I totally understand thanks for that...

The piece about the Hershey bar is a good one too. Thanks.

curleytops

The Cadbury's creme eggs look more like robin's eggs these days. I had a Crunchy bar the other day and the chocolate was so thin you could see the centre shining through it. I'll not be buying either again.

cheers

Are Christmas Cadbury biscuits were so bad we had to throw most of they away. They upset our stomachs. They were discoloured. .........and the tin box was mostly packing material with very few chocolate biscuits.
We have a plentiful supply, in the shops, of Cadbury Chocolate fingers ($2)
Cheers

jasper123

Hi Don, we are both fine, Mum's 97 in June, she now has pulmonary hypertension and also COPD (she has never smoked in her life!!!!) and has just been prescribed her first inhaler!!!
but she's not doing bad for her age though,

Sorry to hear about Julian,

I bet you sound great on your new organ ---- good for you, love to both you and Tippawan from both of us.
Rod and Phyllis.

cheers

This is one way to correct errors that bothered me when I read just now.

dontheturner

Thanks Rod, Sad to see that age is getting at mom, but give her my love.
Daughter has been up to Scunthorpe (solo) trying to sort out a care home for her Mother, - and has done the best she can, but was very distressed by the time she had coped with the traffic from the north. Now the good news, Tim's Eldest daughter is visiting us while in the UK London University - where she is lecturing for three days -but only coming here for a couple of hours, tomorrow, from about noon till three. Never mind - be lovely to see her. Take Care. Don & Tip.

cheers

So the referendum is in June.
Will the US decide if the UK can leave the EU?
(troublemaker here)
Cheers

cheers

I read it was supposed to be warm there today?

dontheturner

We should never have been part of Europe. They hate us - and have little time for us. If someone can tell me what they Buy from us - because I don't know. We should have stuck with the Commonwealth. Oh! Rant over - How are you Cheers? - I am as young as ever! take care, Don