To say that actually, size DOES matter?

[2kids2dogsnosense]

Mr 2kids gave me a rare treat yesterday.

A multi-pack of Curly-Wurlies.

They are TINY!!!!!

It's been a while since I have enjoyed this rare delicacy, and I was enormously excited . . . I ripped the outer wrapper open* and was immediately brought down to earth by the size of the inner wrappers. I was trembling when I opened this even tinier inner sanctum . . . to reveal . . . disappointment in a bar.

I mean - what the heck? The curly-wurley I remember was a foot long extravaganza of chocolate-covered toffee glory. This was like a worm you find dried up on the pavement.

What with this, and now America has put itself into the toilet and pulled the chain, I can't see the Horsemen of the Apocalypse being far behind. In fact, they're probably at the Drango Service Station at this very moment shaking their heads sadly in disbelief at the Mars Bars.

*Yes - with my teeth! You know me by now. What did you expect?

I like the new Toblerone shape. Easier to snap off a triangle...

Well, funny you are discussing the Toblerone, as this is something I haven't eaten in years, don't even know if I have seen one since leaving UK, but really, it is not something that I have missed.

So, yesterday I flick onto Sky News Channel (if there is an international channel, this is the one I am referring to as I don't live in UK) and while the coverage of the USA election was going on... they went to "other" news. Lo and behold... there is was... on international headline news! Toblerone have changed their shape and made the pieces further apart. Well, I didn't know what to think to be honest. How will the world continue?? I sat there shaking my head, that this is what is now headline news.

But yes, I do agree. Chocolates are getting smaller. They are very sneaky here, don't put the price up, but make the chocolate smaller without a word. Our crisp packets are a quarter crisps and the rest air. They did it with the cold drink cans, and bacon. Hmmm did they think I didn't notice that all the bacon is now 200g packet and it used to be 250g! Same price mind.....

Well that puts paid to the idea that Americans aren't interested in world news

Then they came for the Marmite, and I did not speak out—
Because I don't like Marmite.

Then they came for the Toblerone, and I did not speak out—
Because I care not for triangular chocolate.

Then they came for Wispas—and there was no one left to speak for them.

Gin come back! You are supposed to push the triangles towards each other, not snap them off. I knew this all my life and have always have eaten toblerones the "correct" way just found out recently

Rebecca, I am not in USA.

CNN had NO other news on at all

Why would you want to snap off a triangle Gin? Holding the whole bar and 'gnawing' worked just fine.

Hang on, what?! Like, pinch two triangles together? Do they then snap? I can't picture it

I can't 'gnaw' anything thanks to false front teeth! Should probably lay off the chocolate completely

Shove

Now this is a whole other topic. What the bloody blazes is going on with a Wispa?? Someone brought me some back from UK a little while back. Well, its not even the same chocolate that I recall. Never mind it's half the size, but it doesn't even taste the same. You know a chocolate is god awful when it sits in your food cupboard for more than a week... and you have two teenagers living in the house with you!

So disappointed I was.

This is an outrage. Next you'll be suggesting that it was designed for sharing.

Why would you want to snap off a triangle

Why would you eat Toblerone when you could have Lindt??

murphys - I'm glad it's not just me!

Am I taking crazy pills, or does the wispa chocolate now taste as disappointing as the new creme egg chocolate? Dairy Milk doesn't feel as utterly moorish as it used to either. In fact, I haven't bought it in ages.

That toblerone size is a mockery! Disgusted.

To be perfectly honest, I bought a bar of chocolate about 2 years ago and it tasted so rank I've not bought a bog standard bar since.

I've stuck to Club biscuits and go for the larger flat bars. At least they taste of actual chocolate.

Shove

I just cannot explain it, but it left this awful layer of what felt like fat in my mouth. I also had a crème egg in my parcel and I was disappointed in that as well. Oh and also that blue and orange one, Double Decker is it? That was the worst of the lot!

I was always of the opinion that UK chocolate was far better than many others. Now I would rather have a slab of locally made South African chocolate, even though it is also mass produced.

I should send you a sample package shouldn't I Shove... . We seem to be good testers.

I still love a Twirl...

The last time I ate a Curly Wurly I remember noticing that they're not long enough to be ladders on the side of a fire engine birthday cake any more.

murphys - that'll be because Kraft downgraded the chocolate couverture on pretty much everything from Dairy Milk to shit-american-style-vegelate, I suspect. And then rebranded themselves as Mondelez, who incidentally also own t he Toblerone brand (and many others :( )

Absolute travesty, what happened to Cadbury's :( :(

murphys - YES! God knows, I'm no culinary expert, but it is like all you can taste is that fatty stuff, and the chocolate is just a thin slighty fake cocoa taste over the top of it. Could it be cocoa butter that we are picking up? I wonder if they have changed the recipe since Kraft took over Cadburys because I am convinced it didn't use to taste like that. (Double Deckers, though, have always been AWFUL!)

They should definitely give both of us jobs as testers! Mind you, we might have to eat loads of the 'orrible new stuff then...

Ooooh, x-post with thumbwitches. What is couverture though?? What is vegelate? So many new chocolate words!

Thanks Thumb, I didn't know that.

We have Cadburys here, I will need to check, but our chocolate still seems to taste the same as it always did. Except for Smarties, that new coating is not good.

Btw, there is a chocolate factory near me and I go into the factory shop every now and then. They make chocolate for M&S as I have seen them in there. Chocolate orange sticks, chocolate coated ginger and that sort of thing. Can be the Christmas range perhaps?

shovetheholly Then they came for the Toblerone, and I did not speak out—
Because I care not for triangular chocolate.

gin I like the new Toblerone shape. Easier to snap off a triangle...

You are supposed to attempt biting off the top of the triangle and hurt your teeth/gums. Tsk. Philistines.

murphys - yes, I'm in Australia, it doesn't taste much different here than it used to either, I suspect the reason is that the chocolate was different in the first place because it had a slightly different "recipe" to accommodate the different temperature and humidity that it encounters in our climates, as opposed to the N. American/European climate.

shove - couverture is just posh for "the chocolate on the outside". And vegelate is the nickname that true chocolateers gave the American stuff, because as far as they're concerned, it doesn't contain enough actual cocoa solids to qualify as chocolate.