Back in 2014 , the creation was a very different place . But this is n’t one of those articles with a cunning political subtext . Nope , we ’re here to babble out about burnt umber .
However , the news remains sorry .
It wasin December 2014that I bought a collection of Celebrations deep brown tubs from some o.k. UK retailers . batch were sundry , chocolates were discharge , and each tub was duly counted out . Four years on , I repeated the exercise . My dining room board was continue in Celebrations drinking chocolate , as I analysed the contents of ten sample distribution tubs . Then I did a statistical equipment failure of what you ’re getting for your cash .
If you ’re in the mode for some humble festive nostalgia , debate this . In 2014 , a stock Celebrations tub burden in at 750 g , included wrappers . For your money , you could expect :
- 15 Mars- 12.3 Malteasers ( sic)- 12.2 Milky Way- 12 Bounty- 11.7 Snickers- 7 Twix- 6 Galaxy- 6 Galaxy Caramel
A prompt bit of maths later , and on middling , you could expect to get 82.4 chocolates per single vat .
It ’s my sorry tariff to inform you that , just four year afterwards , the humans has dramatically exchange .
Whilst the retail price of the fair bath has persist constant , what you in reality get for your money has diminish importantly . In fact – and how ’s this for a newspaper headline determination ? – you ’re getting on average 9.775 fewer chocolates per tub . That ’s a decrease of 11.9 % in just a four year point . And we ’re tell that the era of austerity is get to an end !
What ’s more , the make - up of the contents has vary as well . Whilst we still get the core selection of eight dissimilar chocolates , it ’s very much Galaxy and Galaxy Caramel that now pick up the slack . Conversely , there ’s been a significant decrease in Mars ration . I can entirely - ish break that the bit of Mars Bars in a Celebrations tub has drop by an enormous 52.5 % in a four year geological period .
There are other key finding , too:• 28 % of a Celebrations bath is now made up of some sapidity of Galaxy , up from just under 15 % in 2014 .
• The division was more significant . The number of umber in one tubful wide-ranging from 70 to 75 . In each tub , only Malteasers and Snickers were present in the same numeral across each . We got ten and nine of those in each private tub respectively .
• Outside of Galaxy variants , the only chocolate to register an increase in quantity was the Twix , up from 7 a tubful to 8.5 .
• You ’re likely to get more Bounty bars than anything else , and the least plebeian chocolate is now the Mars – four geezerhood after it top off the chart . It ’s licitly accrue from the top to the bottom in just four years .
• The fewest phone number of individual cocoa you could bear in any tub is 6 , the most is 11 .
Here , then , are the numbers . They make grim interpretation :
It ’s tough time out there this Christmas , folks . Look after each other , and try not to niggle over the decreased number of Mars Bars . The world has stick out enough .
Simon Brew was the father of Den of Geek and previously serve as UK editor for Mental Floss . You canfollow him on Twitter .
