Look at the size of my CurlyWurly !

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Including a bottle of wine (for size reference you understand).

Is it me or is this much smaller than they used to be ? I mean much,much smaller.

is that fun size?

They were as long as my arm when I was a child ...

They used to be the size of a ruler, roughly, I think, didn't they?

@SorrySoldOut I wish.

All chocolate bars are tiny now. They shrink them while increasing the price

16cm, or 6 inches in old money.

That's half a ruler. What a swizz

Which means I need to eat at least 3 to make up

Much better in the olden days when they were 8ft long and needed carrying by 2-3 children.

@JackieCollinshasnoauthority

They’re a lot narrower now as well!

I remember a curly wurly lasting a good 20 minutes or so!

@MrsFlinch indeed. I polished that one off on about 6 mins, and that was a leisurely pace.

Was yummy though

Is that out of a multipack? They are always a bit smaller

www.google.com/amp/s/amp.heart.co.uk/lifestyle/food-drink/cadbury-reduce-size-chocolate-bars-childhood-obesity/ they shrunk them because we're all too fat!

@MrsFlinch

They’re a lot narrower now as well!

I remember a curly wurly lasting a good 20 minutes or so!

Definitely. You had to properly commit to eating a curly wurly.

The chocolate will still fall off when you open it though.

Bloody chocolate shrinking bastards!

The whole novelty of the Curly Wurly, back in the daye of our lorde 1985, was that they were big. So when you were in the newsagents on a Saturday afternoon making a considered purchase with your 20p piece, you would weigh the size of the Curly Wurly against for example, the heft of a Mars bar. What is the point of a Curly Wurly now?

@blahblahblah321

Is that out of a multipack? They are always a bit smaller

Was about the post the same.

My mum actually weighed creme eggs once and the multi pack ones weighed less (so presumably smaller) than the individual one.

They're not as chewy nowadays either.

@dementedpixie

www.google.com/amp/s/amp.heart.co.uk/lifestyle/food-drink/cadbury-reduce-size-chocolate-bars-childhood-obesity/ they shrunk them because we're all too fat!

That's bullshit. They made them smaller (and charge the same per unit) to improve their profit margin.

But it makes them look better if they blame it all on us and the fact we're fat greedy bustards.

I also don't think anyone got fat from eating a curly wurly or a finger of fudge. More like a 500g slab of Dairy Milk.

I know its bullshit
They shrink them but keep the price the same and it's win win for them

They used to cost 11 and a half pence and were as long as my arm.

Sad times indeed.

Shrinkflation ☹️

Curly Wurly and a bottle of wine. Living the dream OP!

I still remember my first curlywurly. It was on a school trip in the 70s to the circus in Blackpool Tower. We were all given one in the interval. I couldn't work out how to eat it as we were squished in and if I held it as low as possible, touching my lap, it was too long to get my mouth over the top.

A curly wurly was the tried and tested guaranteed method for pulling out a wobbly tooth in our house!! Only time we got one!!