Jaffa cakes have become the latest product to cut what you get for your money.
Since there seem to be a lot of Jaffa cake fans here I thought I'd post the news.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41400677
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Apparently the Jaffa cakes are the same size, shape and price per 'biscuit', there are just 10 per pack instead of 12. They are probably just complying with an EU directive about selling in metric as opposed to imperial units! :(
Yet another - very important - justification for Brexit! ;)
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The Photographer formerly known as Sine Kwanon said
Apparently the Jaffa cakes are the same size, shape and price per 'biscuit', there are just 10 per pack instead of 12. They are probably just complying with an EU directive about selling in metric as opposed to imperial units! :(
Yet another - very important - justification for Brexit! ;)
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Will we have to buy eggs in 5's soon?
Tomtom said
The Photographer formerly known as Sine Kwanon said
Apparently the Jaffa cakes are the same size, shape and price per 'biscuit', there are just 10 per pack instead of 12. They are probably just complying with an EU directive about selling in metric as opposed to imperial units! :(
Yet another - very important - justification for Brexit! ;)
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Will we have to buy eggs in 5's soon?
Good point!
What about the baker's dozen? Won't somebody please think of the bakers???
I welcome this resizing of the Jaffa Cake, it means I won't be eating as much when I munch down on the entire pack. Seriously, they're laced with cocaine or something. Damned addictive orangey biscuit cakes :( :(
The first thing I bought with my very first pay packet when I was 16 (yes, Jaffa cakes really have been around that long) was a box of Jaffa cakes and I scoffed the lot!
The Photographer formerly known as Sine Kwanon said
there are just 10 per pack instead of 12. They are probably just complying with an EU directive about selling in metric as opposed to imperial units! :(
No, they're more likely sneakily passing on raw materials costs in a way that they thought the public were too stupid to notice.
Manufacturers emblazon their products with 'NOW EVEN TASTIER' or 'NOW BETTER VALUE' or 'BIGGER PACK' type logos, but you never see 'LESS PRODUCT BUT STILL THE SAME PRICE' ones. Strange that.
I buy my Jaffa Cakes in Poundland - so no matter what size they become they will still cost £1.00
Pack of 24
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The Photographer formerly known as Sine Kwanon said
The first thing I bought with my very first pay packet when I was 16 (yes, Jaffa cakes really have been around that long) was a box of Jaffa cakes and I scoffed the lot!
Many of my uni meals comprised of a pint of milk and a packet of jaffas for dunking. That and the canteen's stewed baked beans and some sausages.
How on earth I survived I have no idea!
Paul645 said
The Photographer formerly known as Sine Kwanon said
there are just 10 per pack instead of 12. They are probably just complying with an EU directive about selling in metric as opposed to imperial units! :(
No, they're more likely sneakily passing on raw materials costs in a way that they thought the public were too stupid to notice.
Manufacturers emblazon their products with 'NOW EVEN TASTIER' or 'NOW BETTER VALUE' or 'BIGGER PACK' type logos, but you never see 'LESS PRODUCT BUT STILL THE SAME PRICE' ones. Strange that.
"The boxes now weigh 4.3oz rather than 5.2oz, but McVitie's has reduced the recommended price from £1.15 to 99p.
Twin packs, which now have 20 cakes rather than 24, are now £1.89 rather than £2.19.
"These changes represent the same price per cake, however, pricing ultimately remains at the sole discretion of retailers," the firm said.
Tesco and Sainsbury were both selling a box of 10 for £1.
On online provider Ocado, the boxes were priced at £1.19.
A McVitie's spokesman added: "There is no change in the size, shape or weight of individual cakes in the McVitie's Jaffa Cake range."
That, of course, did not stop aficionados taking to Twitter to express their feelings about the "Jaffa quake"."
Tiny Tog said
I buy my Jaffa Cakes in Poundland - so no matter what size they become they will still cost £1.00
Pack of 24
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Are they in date?
The Photographer formerly known as Sine Kwanon said
Apparently the Jaffa cakes are the same size, shape and price per 'biscuit', there are just 10 per pack instead of 12. They are probably just complying with an EU directive about selling in metric as opposed to imperial units! :(
Yet another - very important - justification for Brexit! ;)
Classic case of shrinkflation.
Mind you, jaffa cake fans are generally less well-armed than toblerone fans. You can do real harm with a toblerone in its triangular tube, I reckon. Jaffa cakes are non-lethal confectionary.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrinkflation
It even has a wikipedia page now...
No surprise, I'm sure they used to be 14 or 16 per sleave at some point way back in time, *cough, 70's!
It is all about profits. Let's not put the price up but get the public to buy less. If was metric there would not be packets reducing from 500g to 450g in the same sized box. Or like fluid packages 1L down to a stupid 864ml. Greed from manufacturers.