Last year, reader M. sent us pictures of her favorite low-calorie ice cream bars from Weight Watchers, noting that the bars had each lost a few milliliters. Apparently, the Giant Fudge Bars have stayed with their program, and have now become less giant.
Last year, the bars were 4 fluid ounces even, and M. was annoyed at the “dirty tricks” that food companies pull to give us slightly less chocolate. Those tricks are what we call the Grocery Shrink Ray, The latest box that she purchased has the same number of bars, shrunk to 3.5 ounces each.
A change to the Weight Watchers program also means that the smaller bars have more points under the new program than the old ones.
If you add up the missing ice cream, you get 3 fluid ounces, enough for a seventh mini bar. For the sake of comparison, here’s the former package:
by Laura Northrup via Consumerist
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