Smooth Mars bar man gets £2 compensation from chocolate giant
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Mars Wrigley UK says the smooth bar "slipped" through and confirmed the swirl is being kept.
  • ApeNo1@lemm.eeEnglish
    269·
    23 days ago

    “Dear Mars, I was unable to enjoy my recently purchased Mars Bar as it was missing the trademark thick veins running down its shaft.”

    • Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      201·
      23 days ago

      How is a Mars bar a fuckin quid now?!?

      You think that’s nuts.
      It’s 9 quid for two ass creams with the chewing gums innit.

      • NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        16·
        23 days ago

        I recently had a broken fridge and had to live off non-refrigerated items for a while. It’s more expensive to eat tinned meats (corned beef, spam etc.) than it is to eat fresh/frozen meats. That broke me a bit.

        • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
          84·
          23 days ago

          It doesn’t just come in the can naturally like a nut bro…

          Someone has to put it in that can, that costs money

          The less people buying it, the more expensive it is, because the fixed costs are spread out among less consumers.

          • Hadriscus@lemm.eeEnglish
            23·
            22 days ago

            That can’t be true. I’ve seen the spam fields, bushes sprawling up to the horizon, tins glittering in the sun like melons after a morning rain…

            • Jonathan@lemmy.worldEnglish
              16·
              22 days ago

              Ah, that brings a tear to my eye to think about. I grew up on a SPAM farm and worked it through my formative years. So many good memories working that patch. You know it’s gonna be hard work, but rewarding, when they start to lose their metal shine and ripen into a blueish hue. It’s time for harvest when the letter-like pattern deepens to a rich yellow.

              Gosh, I feel sad for folks who’ve never peeled and bitten into a fresh SPAM fruit right there in the field.

    • BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      23 days ago

      It’s because a quid is worth much elss that it used to be, not because a mars bar is worth more (although I’m sure some of it is increased profit margins masked as inflation gouging customers too)

      • 3ntranced@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        22 days ago

        Hey, American here. I watch tons of old British telly and I thought i had a good understanding of currency terms but now I’m confused. I thought a quid is just another word for a pound?

        While im here, is pence-pennies,tuppence-2 pennies, a shilling-like a dime or something,bob-just slang for pound? Plus you guys had the euro sort of wander in before brevity, it’s all so confusing.

        • feedum_sneedson@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          22 days ago

          Tuppence is two pence, and nobody says it anymore. Shilling was twelve pence in old money. Farthing was a quarter penny. Ha’p’ny was a half penny. Bob was another word for a shilling. Crown was 60 pence, which was a quarter of a pound. Now we just have pounds and pence/pennies. It’s much simpler.

        • HowManyNimons@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          22 days ago

          Most of those are old-timey pre-decimal coins. You only need to know pounds (or quid) and pennies (or pence).

        • m4xie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          32·
          22 days ago

          A shilling used to be 12 pence, and there were 20 shillings in a pound for 240 pence to the pound, before we decimalised.

          A dime is 10 cent, but that’s just the name for the coin. Shillings used to be a part of the number system which was split into three tiers, not two with a decimal place.

          Bob used to be slang for a shilling, not a pound.

          We’ve never had the euro. The Republic of Ireland uses the euro, but if you call them British you’ll get into real trouble.

  • BananaPeal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    401·
    23 days ago

    Fun fact: the Mars bar is marketed as a Milky Way in the U.S. There was a Mars bar in the U.S., but it had almonds. It has since been rebranded as Snickers Almond.

    • KittenBiscuits@lemm.eeEnglish
      12·
      23 days ago

      The Milky Way and the Mars bar were both created by the same person. And the Milky Way was created about 12 years earlier in Chicago. Forrest Mars went off to start his own Mars candy division in the UK after a fight with his dad.

      I had a client that had a Mars heir as a client, and knew they were based in the DMV. I was curious how an American candy company with a candy bar named after the family ended up being created in the UK.

          • kryndis@lemmings.worldEnglish
            13·
            22 days ago

            DMV stands for D.C./Maryland/Virginia in that context and refers to the D.C. metropolitan area.

            What you’re thinking of is the Eastern Shore peninsula, which is called Delmarva and is made up of parts of those three states.

  • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.worldEnglish
    381·
    22 days ago

    You can’t tell me this isn’t the exact way you’d expect this guy to look. He said he’s gonna use his 2 quid settlement for more mars bars. I’m comforted.

  • AmidFuror@fedia.io
    21·
    22 days ago

    Great. Now that Mars buckled, everyone will be suing over their smooth candies. They may have made this case go away, but they’ll soon be out tens, maybe even hundreds of pounds.

  • Dasus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    22 days ago

    I used to send a complaint for faulty products to companies in my late teens/early 20’s as I was low on money. Like once I got some energy drink in a bottle made for Pepsi. Same volume, no difference, but a mistake, so got 5€ for it so “won” like 3€ for that. I’d pick out products like that if I saw them in a shop for that very purpose.

    Once I genuinely was annoyed though, as a soft drink company that filled the vending machine at our school had filled it wrong and I got what was essentially Fanta he I wanted an energy drink and it was fucking hard waking up that morning.