The Government is going to take action. Chocolate bars will be shrunk along with bumper sized packets of crisps and other must-have snacks that you can buy on the hoof from petrol stations, vending machines and local shops.
Health Minister Alan Johnson has spoken. What he said roughly translated, was that when people buy a huge Mars bar, they scoff the lot. This is due to the pressure of 'waste not, want not' or should that be 'waist not, want not'.
It is part of the Change4Life campaign, which is only happening in England but presumably shrinking choc bars will have an impact in all corners of the UK and people filling up at a service station in Glasgow, will only be able to buy the same size Twix as some one in Plymouth.
Anyway this is all a premable and I should maybe be revising my opinion of the UK Government which has come under fire for fiddling while Britain expanded but I'm certainly not going to be downsizing my criticism as I can reveal: NOT ONLY is the idea of making bars of choc smaller an old one, BUT ALSO, it came from the very people who Mr Johnson is about to take to task over the matter.
This story was carried on the BBC website in 2004. You have to ask the question, why is the Health Minister asking the food and drink industry to do something it did four years ago? Are the bars not small enough yet?
Or maybe it just didn't work, it was more lip service from a multi-billion pound industry and Mr Johnson has to say something to keep the confectionary industry sweet, rather than ruffle any wrappers.
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