MARS Products

michael1983l

Absolutely garbage these days, I bought a twix for the first time recently and when I opened it I thought I'd bought a dodgy batch. The fingers were about a third shorter than last time I bought one, which wasn't that long ago.

I'd already stopped eating Mars bars since they changed the recipe, they now taste uninspiring and kind of dry.

So all in all I have given up on Mars now completely, I won't eat Cadbury either since they got bought out by Kraft.

I complained to Mars, this is what they had to say

Dear Michael,

Thank you for getting in touch. As you're aware, we have recently reduced the weight of our standard Twix bar from 58g to 50g. The reason for this is that we have made a global pledge to ensure that all of our single-serve chocolate products would contain no more than 250 calories per portion by the end of 2013. This is part of our commitment to promote responsible consumption, and as a signatory of the Department of Health's Responsibility Deal calorie reduction programme.

You may know that this is the latest in a series of commitments that Mars has made to ensure that our products allow responsible consumption: we have already removed artificial trans fats from our products and reduced the levels of Saturated Fat in our Mars, Snickers, Topic and Milky way bars by 15%.

Yours Sincerely,

Greg Devine

Consumer Care Team

I can see them losing much custom over their above stated company strategy. I am pretty certain at some point in the near future we will see an old recipe campaign by the Mars PR machine.

powerful_Rogue

michael1983l wrote: »

Absolutely garbage these days, I bought a twix for the first time recently and when I opened it I thought I'd bought a dodgy batch. The fingers were about a third shorter than last time I bought one, which wasn't that long ago.

I'd already stopped eating Mars bars since they changed the recipe, they now taste uninspiring and kind of dry.

So all in all I have given up on Mars now completely, I won't eat Cadbury either since they got bought out by Kraft.

I complained to Mars, this is what they had to say



I can see them losing much custom over their above stated company strategy. I am pretty certain at some point in the near future we will see an old recipe campaign by the Mars PR machine.

Bet they didnt lower the RRP by 12% when they made it that much smaller!

michael1983l

If anything it has increased.

Ezmondino

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/63636961#Comment_63636961



I got the same reply by the way when I asked. I now buy Lidl's own. Cheaper and bigger and have more caramel, like twix used to be!

stephen77

There are lots of government plans to reduce fats, salts and sugar consumption in the uk. Many other companies are folloeing these guidlines as well.
Most companies do not want to make the front page of the dailymail so they are signing up to the guidlines.
Mars are not the only company doing this.

While products may not eat as well, they should be healthier based on the government guidlines.
Now I do not agree with all the government guidlines, that is a different debatethough.

michael1983l

stephen77 wrote: »

There are lots of government plans to reduce fats, salts and sugar consumption in the uk. Many other companies are folloeing these guidlines as well.
Most companies do not want to make the front page of the dailymail so they are signing up to the guidlines.
Mars are not the only company doing this.

While products may not eat as well, they should be healthier based on the government guidlines.
Now I do not agree with all the government guidlines, that is a different debatethough.

At the end of the day, nobody buys a chocolate bar because it is healthy. And most people only eat them as a treat. Are we going to have callorie limits on take away food too?

How about the so called breakfast bars that contain more sugar and calories than a mars bar?

I do not need social engineering thank you.

wealdroam

michael1983l wrote: »

I do not need social engineering thank you.

Hmmm...

You may not think you need social engineering, but your Government, who you helped to elect, whether you voted or not, thinks you do.

Arlandria606

wealdroam wrote: »

Hmmm...

You may not think you need social engineering, but your Government, who you elected, thinks you do.

No... the government, who the population elected, thinks the population does. That has absolutely no bearing on anyone as an individual.

stephen77

michael1983l wrote: »

At the end of the day, nobody buys a chocolate bar because it is healthy. And most people only eat them as a treat. Are we going to have callorie limits on take away food too?

How about the so called breakfast bars that contain more sugar and calories than a mars bar?

I do not need social engineering thank you.

Need it or not, its happening and more targets will be put in plaice.

There are to many fat people about for the nanny state not to get inolved.

michael1983l

wealdroam wrote: »

Hmmm...

You may not think you need social engineering, but your Government, who you elected, thinks you do.

I didn't vote, but even if I had it wouldn't make a difference. It is the Civil Servants who are doing most of the work on this, who stay no matter what Government is elected.

powerful_Rogue

stephen77 wrote: »

Need it or not, its happening and more targets will be put in plaice.

There are to many fat people about for the nanny state not to get inolved.

This wont solve anything!

All the fatties will do is buy two bars to make up for it!