[Closed] Toblerone - is nothing sacred!

It's wrong, just plain wrong. Sack the product development team and the accountants that asked for the financial saving.

We get ours from the local pound shop. I'll just buy 2

*Waits for inevitable attempt from the usual suspect to tie this in to Brexit*

I'd expect nothing less from the evil vampire squid that is Mondelez.

And as for their tax affairs...

while the size of the packaging has remained the same.

Intent to deceive? Will spin as - 'Customers will be happy to know that our distinctive packaging remains as classically sumptuous as ever, as is the flavour of Toblerone'.

*Waits for inevitable attempt from the usual suspect to tie this in to Brexit*

I blame Trump. His tiny hands needed extra leverage to snap off a triangle, but now it's a great chocolate bar that will be a huge success, making chocolate great again.

*Waits for inevitable attempt from the usual suspect to tie this in to Brexit*

Sadly the article killed that.

I blame EU regulations.

Well CFH, the company did say it's for UK customers only therefore wholly linked to Brexit.

If you don't like the constant references to Brexit you shouldn't have voted for it.

HTHs.

Well CFH, the company did say it's for UK customers only therefore wholly linked to Brexit.

Did they?

A spokeswoman for Mondelez acknowledged that the foreign exchange rate was currently "not favourable", but added: "This change wasn't done as a result of Brexit."

the company did say it's for UK customers only therefore wholly linked to Brexit.

Did they?

you shouldn't have voted for it.

Did I?

*edit- 🙂 @Drac

Are you really getting butt hurt on a thread about tasty chocolatey treats?

Just the tailend of a trend started when Terrys Chocolate Orange was changed to make the oily Satsuma available now

@legend, no. Just extracting the urine. 🙂

*edit- @Drac

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Toblerone? When was the last time anyone actually bought Toblerone?

Dez, visit any airport in the world. Marvel at the hordes of people buying Toblerone as a gift for people they don't really are about. A bit like After Eights in some ways.

Toblerone? When was the last time anyone actually bought Toblerone?

Christmas.

Drac - Moderator

Toblerone? When was the last time anyone actually bought Toblerone?

Christmas.

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Farmfoods, 4/11/16 at approx. 5.30pm.

Yesterday Dez - the black one

(side note - we actually managed to bring the largest one they do back. From germany. On a bike tour. Sportsbikes. Almost 4ft long, 10lb in weight. Taff's wife was made up. Customs at Calais/Dover were gobsmacked at the thing)

Nah! Christmas is definitely 25th December even at shite food outlets.

I only buy them to make houses for my snakes.

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Tobler½

Don't Google tobleroning

Toblerone? When was the last time anyone actually bought Toblerone

Most Decembers when my wife forgets our wedding anniversary, feels guilty, and buys me a ****ing toblerone on her way home from work. And then this is close enough to Christmas that she thinks she'll get one for my Christmas stocking. I am doing an experiment to see how many instances of buying me a toblerone that I never eat it will take before she stops buying them. We're up to about 15 so far. Yes yes, I know, I could mention that I don't like them, but that seems a bit ungrateful.

It's to keep it out of prisons innit?
That looks even more awkward and painful to stick up your arse* than the old one!
Where will this madness end?

*Stop what you're doing and imagine the sound that would make.
The old one would be like a giant zip tie. BRRRRRRRRRRR.
The new one would be like a tiny,two stroke outboard engine. Put-put-put-put-put.
Enjoy the rest of your day with that image in your head.
You're welcome 😈

Ok, I think you'll find that the company "wouldn't confirm if this was for U.K customers only" or a Europe wide initiative.
That's on the BBC News, take a look.

But still, goes to show that the cost of everything is going up or products slashed as a consequence of Brexit, better it's out in the open rather than sticking your fingers in your ears pretending it's not happening whilst crying to Daddy to make the intellectuals stop pointing out salient facts and consequences eh.

Blah, di blah.

Don't Google tobleroning

Ok, I think you'll find that the company "wouldn't confirm if this was for U.K customers only" or a Europe wide initiative.
That's on the BBC News, take a look.

Right next to the part that says it has nothing to do with Brexit?

The former MrsIHN worked (indeed still works, I think) for Kraft Foods, who later, in a company renaming approach that would even make contestants on the Apprentice weep, became Mondelez (it's, apparently a clever concatenation of monde, i.e. world, and delicious. Jesus wept).

Anyhoo, she worked a lot with the chocolate factory in Bern in Switzerland that made Toblerone (she actually helped to switch all the production to a much cheaper factory in Poland, the same one they moved all the making of Terry's Chocolate Oranges to from York). Consequently, she could get her hands on a [b]lot[/b] of free Toblerone, the best possibly being when my then work asked for some donations for the Christmas prize draw, and she presented a box, 3ft cubed, of Toblerone minis 🙂

She could also supply the massive novelty bars, the ones that there is only one way to eat; a hammer and chisel.

[i]Christmas.[/i] etc.

See this is it - if the had kept quiet, it's such a big gap between seeing one Toblerone and your next, no-one would have noticed!
(except maybe those who indulge in regular Tobleroning)(not that I have any idea what that is)(but I can guess)

Drac - Moderator

Nah! Christmas is definitely 25th December even at shite food outlets.

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You can go and raffle yourself...
Huge toblerone for a pound= not shite food outlet. I mean they sell other stuff, but I don't touch that and try not to let the other customers brush up against me.

Wait until they trigger Article 50...

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A spokeswoman for Mondelez acknowledged that the foreign exchange rate was currently "not favourable", but added: "This change wasn't done as a result of Brexit."
However, she was unable to clarify whether the change in shape affected only bars sold in the UK and not the rest of Europe.

So in the Eurozone no changes. In the UK the bars are smaller. It's not Brexit, it's just a small "**** you" to Brexit voters is what she means 🙂

See ^^ told ya's.

No need to apologise.. 😛

And I so loved your Bro's chest pump, innit.

Drac

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Oh dear. Getting a little over exuberant, aren't we. Especially considering you only quoted from an article. Or do you actually get off on trying to prove folk wrong.

Sad little man...

OT - At least the chances of ragging the top of your mouth are reduced now the gap is larger. That's a plus, right.

I assume they are going to have to rename it 'Toberl'

Isn't "less product in the same size box" pretty much exactly the opposite of what we should be doing with packaging?

Well according to [url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b082q27f ]the Today programme this morning[/url] (from 2:49:14) it IS very clearly to do with Brexit:

Sarah: "Dominic, that sounds like a Brexit story, are we blaming Brexit for the Toblerone change?"

Dominic: "It's a bit or Marmite-gate, a bit of Brexit, and also a disastrous product launch..
...Mondelez the giant American corporation that makes the bars says it is having to make savings because of the weaker pound...
...Toblerone has said 'Like many other companies we are experiencing higher costs for numerous ingredients... to ensure Toblerone remains 'on shelf', is affordable, and retains the triangular shape, we have had to reduce the weight of just two of our bars in the UK'"

Sarah: "And it is just in the UK is it? This really is a Brexit story"

Dominic: "Just in the UK"

Sarah: "Woah.. Brexit affects Toblerone. If we'd known that in advance..."

I'd rather they just put the price up so the effect of currency changes is transparent, rather than screw with the product. Obviously they think that the chances of sterling popping back up are pretty slim if they're prepared to change their production line to that extent.

Yep, Sterling hasn't been doing too well against the dollar for a while now, but there was a notable nose dive around June this year:

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Nothing to do with Brexit tho. Pure coincidence. 🙄

I've been caught a few times with 'packaging bigger than the product' - anyone else outraged at only finding five Nature Valley bars in the box instead of six? Eat Natural are at it too, 3 bars in a box blatantly big enough for 4, and Chocolate Oranges now have extra 'segment detail' on each piece which looks suspiciously like empty space where there used to be chocolate.

Worse yet are Pizza boxes which are an inch or two bigger on either side than the diameter of pizza within, a special place in hell should be reserved for whoever came up with that one... 👿

Well according to the Today programme this morning (from 2:49:14) it IS very clearly to do with Brexit:

But yet the company says otherwise.

Who are Dominic and Sarah?

Kraft Foods, who later, in a company renaming approach that would even make contestants on the Apprentice weep, became Mondelez (it's, apparently a clever concatenation of monde, i.e. world, and delicious. Jesus wept).

They also failed to discover in advance of the new name launch that it sounds just like a term for oral sex in Polish or Russian (can't remember which)

But yet the company says otherwise.

Indeed.

The company say it is to do with the weak pound/dollar, which as I pointed out above has [i]absolutely nothing to do with Brexit[/i]. Honest.

Who are Dominic and Sarah?

[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/4pGRqgJhTJK2ys9L8PptxcG/sarah-montague ]Sarah Montague[/url]: main presenter on Today and various other BBC News programmes.

[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2016/today-programme-business-editor ]Dominic O'Connell [/url]: business news presenter on Today programme, previously the Business Editor of The Sunday Times.

I'd rather they just put the price up so the effect of currency changes is transparent…

Have you not received the memo?
Companies raising the shelf price of any product due to falling pound and rising costs should be boycotted because they must hate England.
Any company suggesting Brexit is effecting how they do buisness, the price they charge, or the product they offer, should receive the worse PR in their existence, and a right drubbing on social media.

You can see why they tried a different approach; they couldn't have got it more wrong though, could they! Someone is in the wrong job somewhere…

Drac - Moderator

But yet the company says otherwise.

They say it's to do with the exchange rates change don't they? Which means it's brexit related.

13thfloormonk - Member

I've been caught a few times with 'packaging bigger than the product' - anyone else outraged at only finding five Nature Valley bars in the box instead of six? Eat Natural are at it too, 3 bars in a box blatantly big enough for 4, and Chocolate Oranges now have extra 'segment detail' on each piece which looks suspiciously like empty space where there used to be chocolate.

Try buying gluten free stuff- if you get the tesco "special flakes" frinstance you could literally fit 2 entire packets of the cereal into a single box. The jaffa cakes box is the same size as a proper jaffa cake box but the biscuits are half the size. It's like they go "this food substitute isn't quite disappointing enough yet, let's go for broke"

But yet

Bless your tautological entanglement.

The company say it is to do with the weak pound/dollar, which as I pointed out above has absolutely nothing to do with Brexit. Honest.

I can see the link

Mondolez innit, did anybody see that documentary a few months back?

It's like they go "this food substitute isn't quite disappointing enough yet, let's go for broke"

😀

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You win the Internet for today.

Chapeaux donald.

Ah, culled from b3ta. (-:

[i]The company say it is to do with the weak pound/dollar[/i]

I presumed it was the rising price of cocoa? Like, why Cadbury is filling all it's bars with biscuits, candy pieces and shit.

Somebody more cleverer than me

I presumed it was the rising price of cocoa? Like, why Cadbury is filling all it's bars with biscuits, candy pieces and shit.

I suppose the colour of chocolate would mask that quite well, at least.

Seriously if anything this is a good thing:

1) we eat far to much sugary stuff in this country, so people eating less can only be a good thing.

2) It opens the doors for other companies to compete.

It's easy to blame Brexit but the reality is Mondelez have been trying to ramp up their profits with shoddy products from way beofre the Brexit vote. Example why do you see also those Cadbury's bars with Oreo chunks or other sh*t in, because the other sh*t is cheaper.

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Not gonna get worried till Green & Black or Lindt start pulling this shit

It's a deal with airlines. Weighs less.

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[i]Example why do you see also those Cadbury's bars with Oreo chunks or other sh*t in, because the other sh*t is cheaper.[/i]

See 3 posts above yours 🙂

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Cheers for that, I was reminded of it when Perchy made his comment earlier.

I blame Trump. His tiny hands needed extra leverage to snap off a triangle, but now it's a great chocolate bar that will be a huge success, making chocolate great again.

😆

Right next to the part that says it has nothing to do with Brexit?

You know when you got dumped and they said 'it's not you it's me' you believed that as well didn't you? 😆

All this A50 arguing, you're all toblermoaners

Example why do you see also those Cadbury's bars with Oreo chunks or other sh*t in, because the other sh*t is cheaper.

Their best innovation was Dairy Milk Bubbly. Where they have filled the chocolate with Air. Someone must have got a promotion for that idea.

Show me a confection that hasn't shrunk since the 70s.

Forget that; I found this far more disturbing:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-37897103

£2900? 😯

You could buy a bike for that...

You know when you got dumped and they said 'it's not you it's me' you believed that as well didn't you?

Wouldn't know it's never happened.

A couple of thoughts.
Why not just make it shorter but with the same "lumpiness"?
Did the Swiss hold a referendum on this?

Don't Google tobleroning

Googles tobleroning

Why not just make it shorter but with the same "lumpiness"?

Because then there wouldn't be enough Alps to spell "Toblerone"?

Is this just a move to protect people's soft palate?

Show me a confection that hasn't shrunk since the 70s.

Am I imagining it or have they shrunk chocolate oranges too?
Had one yesterday and the sides of each segment used to be flat. The newer ones have a flat side and a recessed patterned side meaning obviously less chocolate.
I might have to eat another one to make my mind up?
It's a travesty!

^

Having been a Terry's Chocolate Orange addict for nigh on 35 years I'm actually pleased that they are now:

Smaller
Lighter
Less 'dense'
Less chocolate-y (more sugary)

They used to be a big half-brick-heavy ball of awesome that took some real force to separate before eating. The chocolate was silky-smooth, snappy, and not overly sweet.

Now they changed them I no longer get the cravings 🙂

It's good to see we're back discussing the important things in life after yesterday's hiatus with US politics.