Trauma cleaner finds ‘enormous’ 35-year-old Mars Bar during house clear-out

• A trauma cleaner’s discovery of a 35-year-old Mars Bar has sparked debate about ‘shrinkflation’ due to its size.
• Victoria Gordon, who runs the cleaning company Pocket Rockets, found the chocolate bar – with a best-before date of 1991 – while clearing out a house in Scunthorpe.
• She posted a photo of the 62.5g bar alongside a modern Mars Bar, which weighs 40g, with the comment: “Can we all agree that this Mars Bar from 1991 is enormous!”
• The find has gone viral on TikTok, with many saying that it is an example of ‘shrinkflation’ – where companies reduce the size and weight of a product while keeping its price the same.
• A Mars spokesperson told the BBC: "Over the last 35 years, we have made a number of updates to our bar sizes and pack formats to reflect consumer demand, alongside considering wider external factors such as manufacturing costs and the price of cocoa."