Cadbury downsize

Originally Posted by speedplay

God, I thought you were young too....

I listen to radio4 too #shock horror# If you mean why don't I listen to radio1, I did when i was a teen, then the music talk a swift nosedive and it hurt my ears. Can't stand most of the djs on it too.

Originally Posted by 454697819

ah right.. no I am not 30 stone lol

I agree to a point although eating dissorders are a whole nother ball game?

Didn't think you were unless things really had taken a turn for the worse since AR08

they are, but i fear if i venture near that topic i will be shot down again

Wasn't there talk of a fat tax?

So for the fat people who are really over weight they have pay more tax to pay for their health care which seems reasonable. If you have eaten yourself that way that way, then should pay for it. Its really simple if you consume too much and don't use it, then you will put on weight! Why can't people understand that? Same as the cat at home, which tends to sleep and eat rather than being o/s and killing mice and what not which it use to do very well.

I think its like any other person with an addidtion, then will deny the problem even thought its pretty dam clear they have problem not many people want to face up to their problems let alone deal with them.

I was talking to my Gran over xmas, about war time as she used to do all kinds of things to surive and about how they did they survie on rations. It was really interesting, thought she did well we didn't have any fatties then either!

What I find amazing is that their are people who starve to death, have illness becasue they can't even get enough of the basic food, where as we have people who die for being fat!

But there should a note that, some people through no fault of their own have put weight on for whatever reason then they should get all the help possiable.

I don't think it is that hard to make good food at home which is not only better for you, taste nicer and get this its cheaper...

[dizzyblonde]

I could bore you all to death with why the industry is cutting its chocolate bars and weights of tins down.....but I won't cause you lot won't believe me anyway.


SO..I will tell you all now that chocolate isn't fattening, its the massive lack of exercise and the amount of lard you eat for your tea that makes you fat.

Prior to working at Willy Wonkas, I'd eat pounds of the stuff, I have maintained pretty much the same weight all my adult life. I may be carrying a little extra baby flab now(obviously), but I am the same weight as I was ten years ago.

Guess what I've just eaten a 100g portion of Aero, whilst I walked to and from town pushing the pram.....and I won't see any of it appear on my ass

That's because you have a high metabolism

[timwilky]

So if it isn't going to your bum, must be your boobs. No wonder you is guzzling choccy

[dizzyblonde]

Originally Posted by timwilky

So if it isn't going to your bum, must be your boobs. No wonder you is guzzling choccy

LOL Unfortunately not, they deflated back to their original size after I stopped feeding Oliver. Shame cause man were they some twin airbags

Originally Posted by dizzyblonde

I could bore you all to death with why the industry is cutting its chocolate bars and weights of tins down.....but I won't cause you lot won't believe me anyway.


SO..I will tell you all now that chocolate isn't fattening, its the massive lack of exercise and the amount of lard you eat for your tea that makes you fat.

Prior to working at Willy Wonkas, I'd eat pounds of the stuff, I have maintained pretty much the same weight all my adult life. I may be carrying a little extra baby flab now(obviously), but I am the same weight as I was ten years ago.

Guess what I've just eaten a 100g portion of Aero, whilst I walked to and from town pushing the pram.....and I won't see any of it appear on my ass

Tell me why...I'm interested!!!

DB, I, at the minute at least, am a bit like you in that I eat loads of it but as I am fairly active, don't seem to put much weight on. I suppose we are lucky though!

interestingly if you have a high muscle mass you are also considered to the medical proffesion as morbidly and clinically obese

to the point that all of the New Zealand rugby team at the last world cup fell into this catagory even with a fat ratio of 10-11%

[dizzyblonde]

Originally Posted by Milky Bar Kid

Tell me why...I'm interested!!!

DB, I, at the minute at least, am a bit like you in that I eat loads of it but as I am fairly active, don't seem to put much weight on. I suppose we are lucky though!

I've got flappy jaw syndrome...its the secret to burning calories...talk people to death, keeps you trim

Seriously. As you little link said the cost of making chocolate has gone up. Cocoa import alone has increased massively. Then you have the massive cost of ferrying it around the country, and all the cost of packaging on top. If you make things smaller, you get more onto the waggon at the final end
A couple of years ago, Cadburys decreased the weight of their tins, can't remember how much, but it pretty much was so that the cost of 'said tin' didn't appear on the shop shelf in turn. When they did that everyone else followed suit. Willy WOnka, went from producing 1.2kg tins to 1kg tins, doesn't cost any more or any less to produce. They're even looking into a 'recycled' package and removing the tin altogether as its expensive. Willy Wonka doesn't make their tins onsite, its sourced out elsewhere, so is costly.

Everyone and everything is cutting back to save money, even penny pinching multi national corporations have to do it

Originally Posted by dizzyblonde

SO..I will tell you all now that chocolate isn't fattening

I'm sure it contributes more so than a substituted carrot does