What did they do to my chocolate?

[momoffuzzyfaces]

I've noticed companies are using cheaper ingredients/ making things smaller rather than raising the price.

Here they do all that but they still raised the prices!!!

We can blame the media for some of this by gripping about people being too fat!!!

[lizbud]

Well, as long as they don't mess with my 3 Musketeers Minis, I'm cool.

[Dorothy39]

Well, as long as they don't mess with my 3 Musketeers Minis, I'm cool.

Heavens!!! Don't even mention that !!!!


When I was just a " little tot" , my parents laughed at me for craving 3 Musketeer Bars!!!( I still enjoy them)

They told me that , 3 Musketeer Bars , "used " to be, 3 seperate Candy Bars, wrapped together.

http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=795497

[momoffuzzyfaces]

Well, as long as they don't mess with my 3 Musketeers Minis, I'm cool.

A bunch of us may have to gang up and whup up on them if they do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lizbud]

A bunch of us may have to gang up and whup up on them if they do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Darn tootin .....

[critter crazy]

I love three muskateers!! My favorite of all candy bars!! Butterfinger runs a close second! he he he!!

[Almita]

Well if they mess with my Crunch Bars then there's definetley going to be a protest! They better not be messing with the food we love to eat and make them smaller and expensive!

[Pembroke_Corgi]

Here they do all that but they still raised the prices!!!

We can blame the media for some of this by gripping about people being too fat!!!

I forget which yougart brand did this... maybe yoplait, they changed their 8 oz. cups to 6 oz. cups because "people like it better that way." Yeah right! Who likes getting less for their money?!

[Sevaede]

Oh no!

I am sad every time I think I get juked out of my salt and vinegar on my Pringles.

[Vette]

So im not the only one that has thought this!!

also other things as well..
such as a can of tuna,, i swear used to have more tuna in it then it does now a days.

i think have redused the amount/size in a lot of stuff...
thinking we notice

or at least thats how i look at things.

[sandragonfly]

whew, don't kat kit me!

or have they changed... ?? haven't had one for quite a while! I had a couple once a year anyway.

sorry catnapper!

[dukedogsmom]

You haven't had good peanut butter cups until you've tried the WalMart brand. They use real peanut butter and thicker chocolate and are delicious! Now I'm wanting some.

[cyber-sibes]

5# bags of sugar have become 4# bags... A pound of coffee is now 12 ounces.......

I noticed this too! Ice cream is like that now - no more "quarts" are real quarts. And sometimes they switch to listing it in metric units just to make it even more confusing!
They don't realize just how all this will impact the sweet craving masses! I need a candy bar...

[cyber-sibes]

In honor of this thread I bought some snack-size heath bars (one of my favorites) at the grocery store tonight and ate a couple in the parking lot. Purely for research, you know.
My research conclusion is that they have shrunk, too. They're almost as thin as a Kit Kat stick.

[catnapper]

I finally got an email response from Hershey regarding my concerns about the reduced size of my Reeses cup.

Just over 100 years ago, Milton S. Hershey founded a business to manufacture and sell quality chocolate products. He began with just three products -- HERSHEY'S sweet chocolate, HERSHEY'S baking chocolate and HERSHEY'S cocoa -- and the determination to sell them at an affordable price. Over the past century, the company he founded has continued this tradition of offering consumers both quality and value. Today, as so many years ago, consumers know that the name HERSHEY'S stands for the best in taste and quality at a price they can afford.

It is The Hershey Company policy to offer the best possible value for consistently high-quality products. The costs of most ingredients and packaging materials have been rising as well as costs for marketing and shipping. Despite the weight reduction our products continue to be an excellent value for the consumer.


Your interest in our company is appreciated.

Boy, all they did was send me a form letter. No coupons or anything else! and it took a week to respond! hmph!