Toffee crisp, wtaf!

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Fancied a toffee crisp bar and haven't had one for years. I put a four pack on the food delivery and they came. Sat down with a nice brew and wtf?! It was non existant nearly. The only thing i can compare it to is sleeping with a bloke who has a microscopic penis (which i have navigated, once). Two mouth fulls and that's it.

In my head I remember them being at least four times the size. What on Earth is going on?

Picture supplied to show lacking size.

For the poll:-
Yanbu: they are a shadow of their former selves
Yabu: they have never changed size and are massive

That was a throw my head back LOL 😁

They’ve done the same with curly wurlies - they’re about half the size they used to be . ☹️

i remember when i used to have them when i was a kid they were quite a mouthful with the krispies and chocolate kind of heaped up on the top of them. prices up confectionary size down

The vast majority of chocolate bars now are crap. I remember when a Mars Bar was a proper size and had a delicious, really thick ‘roof’ of chocolate. If you were so inclined, you could turn it upside down, nibble off the thinner bottom chocolate along with the nougat layer, and be left with a lovely thick chocolate shelf topped by the caramel. A real treat! Now the chocolate on top is so thin and pathetic.

It’s the same with Rocky Bars. Their USP was the incredibly thick chocolate encasing the biscuit - and it really was properly thick. Now the biscuit has the thinnest bloody painting of chocolate on it and it’s totally pointless as a chocolate biscuit bar.

i think the manufacturers pretend it’s to ‘be healthier’ but really it’s a stingy cost-cutting exercise. I don’t think it’s healthier anyway as the chocolate bars are so disappointing and so minute that you have to eat two anyway, and even then they’re just one big disappointment.

@PigletJohn thank you !! Its a shame Cadbury chocolate has declined so much

Enshittification. See also CocoPops which are no longer a guilty pleasure but a mouthful of sadness. And don’t even get me started on what they’ve done to Feasts.

Am I the only one picturing the microscopic penis that was devoured in 2 mouthfuls?

All those type of chocolate bars are now tiny and ,in taste and texture,a shadow of their former self. They are just not worth their calories!

You are so right and this has happened to me only this week - got a big box of kitkat, blue riband and toffee crisp.
The kk and br were fine but the toffee crisp was tiny and I was honestly so shocked and really disappointed - two bites and gone!!
I hadn’t seen one in years so it really surprised me - they used to be 4x bigger.
I know in the grand scheme of things this is not a big deal but it was almost a joke size - almost unbelievably tiny!!

Have you seen the absolute state of Curly Wurly’s recently? They’re at least half the size!

All our old favourite chocolate bars are utter crap now. Rubbish chocolate, rubbish ingredients.

On the upside it makes it easier to eat less chocolate, but I mourn all the old favourites

And wafer thin.

These are one of the most disappointing of sweets from the past, Toffee Crisp used to be my second most favourite bar of chocolate.

My first was Topic, it really was huge and did have a hazelnut in every bite. I still miss them. Criminal they were discontinued. 😥

It is very normal for multipacks to be a fair amount smaller than standard bars across all chocolate. Or at best best there will be both an option of a multipack that is smaller and cheaper, and one full sized but more expensive.

It's been like this for years, Ive avoided the smaller cheaper multiple packs for a long time now.

It really pisses me off that huge conglomerates are allowed to buy up successful businesses - in the case of Cadbury, a British institution - and slowly but surely change recipes until products are all but ruined.

I need an independent company in the know to create something so close to old Dairy Milk and Galaxy that we can turn our backs on such evil as Nestle and Kraft for good and hopefully run them out of our chocolate market for good.

Unfortunately, a good few of the independent brands (Eg Tony's & Fatso) are expensive and not very nice, IMO.

Yep. The chocolate is also plasticky now. They were my favourites (alongside Cadbury Marble bars) so I share your disappointment. I may be mistaken but I think Toffee Crisps were included in a list of chocolate bars I read about that could no longer call themselves chocolate apparently.

Does anyone remember the coconut toffee crisp that was in a light blue wrapper? It was delicious

Shrinkflation and enshittification in action right there.

Shrinkflation and enshittification in action right there.

Shrinkflation and enshittification in action right there.

I think the ones in the 4 pack are smaller than the individual bars.
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Get your ducks in a row OP and LTB Nestle

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That is a sad, pathetic looking toffee crisp OP. It looks squashed, I remember them being much chunkier. I haven't had one in years but I can see I'm not missing anything. Sadly all chocolate bars have shrunk in size and taste weird because of the changed chocolate recipes.

@acergarnet I loved Topics too.

Yes I think your right, so you need to eat 2 together!!!