At least it is still around. Yum. I wish they would bring back the original Polly Waffle. I read somewhere that someone was making a very similar one but only supplying small cafe's or similar 

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We love Violet Crumbles, but like Kit Kats, Mars Bars, Flakes, Aero Bars & White Knights they've shrunk to half their original size & their prices have gone through the roof.

We're with Dougwe, losing Polly Waffles was a low blow.

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Interesting the bit about size and cost. Watched a documentary recently that says sizes of snack foods have actually gone up and that's one of the reasons we are an overweight nation. The other is we buy a bag of bite-size pieces and eat the lot. In all cases they are convenient and cheap relative to what they were 50 years ago.

In same documentary, a "TV dinner" used be 180gms. The same one today is 400gms and is same % of average wage then and now. Implies two people could share a meal for 1/2 the price.

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Desert Dweller wrote:

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We love Violet Crumbles, but like Kit Kats, Mars Bars, Flakes, Aero Bars & White Knights they've shrunk to half their original size & their prices have gone through the roof.

 

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Interesting the bit about size and cost. Watched a documentary recently that says sizes of snack foods have actually gone up and that's one of the reasons we are an overweight nation. 

 

Nothing against you Rusty but that's total rubbish. Did the confectionery companies pay the documentary makers to say that? Or are our hands ten times bigger than they were when we were 12 years old?

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RustyD wrote:

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Desert Dweller wrote:

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We love Violet Crumbles, but like Kit Kats, Mars Bars, Flakes, Aero Bars & White Knights they've shrunk to half their original size & their prices have gone through the roof.

 

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Interesting the bit about size and cost. Watched a documentary recently that says sizes of snack foods have actually gone up and that's one of the reasons we are an overweight nation. 

 

Nothing against you Rusty but that's total rubbish. Did the confectionery companies pay the documentary makers to say that? Or are our hands ten times bigger than they were when we were 12 years old?

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No rubbish. Pure facts.

A 1/4 lb family chocolate bar was 227gm. This eventually became 250gm and was then reduced to 200gm with a cost reduction. It was later increased to 220gm then back to 200gms. However, the family blocks of chocolate today are 350gms. Which is way bigger that 227gms at decimal change over time. The 1/4lb bar was about 25c in 1966. Makes it $1.43 / kg in todays money for a family block. The 350gm so-called family block is $1.43 / kg. Changes in sizes but cost hasn't. The issue the documentary was making was we buy the large economy size and eat it all. The large economy size is bigger but no more expensive per kg.

Regardless of the size snack foods are today the cost still appears to be about the same. Do you eat a bag full of snack sized items, a single serve, or a family size? 

In early 1966, a 227gm chocolate bar cost 25c. Weekly wage for a 15 year old unskilled worker was $10 (that was me working a vacation job). Worker could buy $10/$0.25 bars = 40 bars = 40 x 227 = 9.08 Kg of chocolate.

Fast forward to 2018. A 350gm bar costs $5. Similar worker gets at least $400 / wk. Thats $400/$5 80 bars = 80 x 350 = 28 Kg of chocolate.

Who cares if there are different size bars available, they are still cheaper than 50 years ago.

There is creative accounting by both the press and manufacturers. Never let perception take over from reality. However, perception is often what counts, not reality.