alt Hacker NewsThis is a dumb/pointless headline + article imo. Its actually probably a GOOD thing that candy bars are smaller by default, for health reasons. What matters, and what the article fails to even mention, is the inflation-adjusted cost per gram. Not saying shrinkflation is not an issue, but this article does nothing at all to highlight it.
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Balooga • today at 4:35 PM
Like everything in life, it depends. Due to ingredients, the old larger Mars may well have a lower glycemic index than the smaller newer bars.
I'm not saying that eating the old bar is like eating a banana. But ingredients-wise, the newer bars probably raise blood sugar a lot faster than the old bars.
tonymet • today at 4:34 PM
it’s much more likely this led to customers buying two
From an article someone posted downthread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49246228 ) :
> Mars could appeal to a more exciting chocolate eater, and a smaller lighter bar could increase consumption per capita: “While people loved the anticipation of biting into the chocolate, they often found that the bar lay rather heavily on their stomach at the end of eating it.
> “Which means they wouldn’t eat another, sometimes for the rest of the day.”
So the big change was a cynical attempt to make people eat more, not less.
The part that has dated most about that quote is that in 2002, Mars were happy to put that on record!