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The Mars Candy Bar Is Shrinking · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Candy bar shrinkage one of six point seven Light FM.
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  Speaker 1: That's where we're going. It's Cubby Christine producer Kristin. By
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  Speaker 1: the way, that was Olivia Dean. Now, yeah, how do
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  Speaker 1: we sum up the headline here? Candy bar shrinkage.
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  Speaker 2: Candy bars are shrinking. Mars is shrinking was the headline,
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  Speaker 2: and not the planet the candy bar. So apparently somebody
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  Speaker 2: was cleaning out a hoarder house they found a Mars
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  Speaker 2: bar from the nineteen nineties, actually nineteen ninety one. Wow,
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  Speaker 2: and people aren't this is all online. Of course, people
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  Speaker 2: aren't as shocked by the fact that somebody hoarded a
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  Speaker 2: candy bar from nineteen ninety one as they are to
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  Speaker 2: the size of the bar. So if you look at
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  Speaker 2: it it's available online, you can definitely tell there has
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  Speaker 2: been shrink flation in our world in a big way.
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  Speaker 2: It was like a quote unquote normal sized bar, right,
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  Speaker 2: and they've gotten so small since then.
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  Speaker 1: Now that looks like the small ones you get for Halloween.
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  Speaker 2: Close and even the small ones you get for Halloween.
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  Speaker 2: Have you noticed over the years they used to be Yes,
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  Speaker 2: they are small. They're like just a little bite size now
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  Speaker 2: than they used to be like little mini bars and
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  Speaker 2: now they're just like one little square.
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  Speaker 1: I thought I was going crazy.
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  Speaker 2: I know, it's frustrating.
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  Speaker 1: It seems smaller these days. Yeah. And by the way,
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  Speaker 1: they still make Mars bars. I wasn't sure. I had
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  Speaker 1: to look it up. Oh yeah, I thought they were gone.
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  Speaker 2: No, there's still around around.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but that one from ninety one.
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  Speaker 2: Uh huh. You can see shrink well even you know,
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  Speaker 2: I hate to go from a Mars bar to toilet paper.
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  Speaker 2: But have you noticed toilet paper? Right, You've got like
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  Speaker 2: whatever is set up in your home was set up
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  Speaker 2: for toilet paper back in the day, so that it's
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  Speaker 2: short now compared to.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, good little bar because now we have more on
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  Speaker 1: a roll.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so they they shortened them, like they they they're
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  Speaker 2: just shorter roles. They're not what they used to be either.
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  Speaker 1: They need to be longer, right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yep, all the strinkflation that's happening, man.
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