Shrinkflation in Halloween candy is insane

[Anonymous]

This is awful. How are we all going to get enough sugar?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is awful. How are we all going to get enough sugar?

LOL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well given my very skinny son has just been discovered to have pre-diabetes (he doesn't even have a sweet tooth!), I think it's not a bad idea to buy fewer candies, OP. We are in a diabetes epidemic that is costing the taxpayer a LOT of money, after all. The doctor how diagnosed my son told us that a third of the US population is thought to have pre-diabetes, but most don't know it, because their doctors haven't thought to test their A1C.

Get your A1C tested at your next check-up.

Type 1 or Type 2? There's a huge difference

[Anonymous]

I’m surprised people don’t know this but there was a major major problem with the cocoa harvest that has caused cocoa prices to shoot through the roof. If you buy the variety pack of candy, you’ll notice more twisters and starburst and basically anything without chocolate. The price of cocoa went up almost 500% in a year — it’s mostly due to climate change so probably won’t reverse anytime soon. This is one case where I don’t blame the manufacturers at all for shrinkflatkon — I’m surprised they haven’t raised prices a lot more.
https://www.newsweek.com/chocolate-prices-surge-cocoa-supply-1937973#:~:text=Chocolate%20prices%20have%20risen%20following,%242%2C862%2C%20according%20to%20RealTime's%20tracker.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m surprised people don’t know this but there was a major major problem with the cocoa harvest that has caused cocoa prices to shoot through the roof. If you buy the variety pack of candy, you’ll notice more twisters and starburst and basically anything without chocolate. The price of cocoa went up almost 500% in a year — it’s mostly due to climate change

You lost everyone there. Silly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m surprised people don’t know this but there was a major major problem with the cocoa harvest that has caused cocoa prices to shoot through the roof. If you buy the variety pack of candy, you’ll notice more twisters and starburst and basically anything without chocolate. The price of cocoa went up almost 500% in a year — it’s mostly due to climate change so probably won’t reverse anytime soon. This is one case where I don’t blame the manufacturers at all for shrinkflatkon — I’m surprised they haven’t raised prices a lot more.
https://www.newsweek.com/chocolate-prices-surge-cocoa-supply-1937973#:~:text=Chocolate%20prices%20have%20risen%20following,%242%2C862%2C%20according%20to%20RealTime's%20tracker.

Good to know, pp.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is awful. How are we all going to get enough sugar?

The Sugarpocalypse and ensuing Sugar Wars will sort it out. First you have to get through the wastelands to the land of sugar, then battle warlords decked out in apocalyptic garb and their minions, then perhaps, you come out on top and have a mini-sugar-fiefdom to rule over.

"First you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women!" - Homer "Sucrose Supreme" Simpson.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m surprised people don’t know this but there was a major major problem with the cocoa harvest that has caused cocoa prices to shoot through the roof. If you buy the variety pack of candy, you’ll notice more twisters and starburst and basically anything without chocolate. The price of cocoa went up almost 500% in a year — it’s mostly due to climate change

You lost everyone there. Silly.

No, just the deniers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m surprised people don’t know this but there was a major major problem with the cocoa harvest that has caused cocoa prices to shoot through the roof. If you buy the variety pack of candy, you’ll notice more twisters and starburst and basically anything without chocolate. The price of cocoa went up almost 500% in a year — it’s mostly due to climate change

You lost everyone there. Silly.

No, just the deniers.

So everyone except you and your other posts. Got it.
Cocoa went up as everything else did, due to poor economics and inflation.

[Anonymous]

This is all thanks to Bidenomics. And Harris will only bring us four more years of misery.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Better for American waistlines and kids getting sugared up on Halloween

Why are we fatter when the candy is smaller?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Downer spoiler: What's creepier to me is the new ingredients. Reese's cups now have some weird chemical. Hershey's started to add some "PRG" or something to its chocolate bars. Yes, I'm sorry I looked.

I looked at my bag of hershey's and there's no pgpr.
They all list cocoa butter as an actual ingredient of the chocolate (each kind of mini bar)

[Anonymous]

Thank you Biden Harris

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m surprised people don’t know this but there was a major major problem with the cocoa harvest that has caused cocoa prices to shoot through the roof. If you buy the variety pack of candy, you’ll notice more twisters and starburst and basically anything without chocolate. The price of cocoa went up almost 500% in a year — it’s mostly due to climate change so probably won’t reverse anytime soon. This is one case where I don’t blame the manufacturers at all for shrinkflatkon — I’m surprised they haven’t raised prices a lot more.
https://www.newsweek.com/chocolate-prices-surge-cocoa-supply-1937973#:~:text=Chocolate%20prices%20have%20risen%20following,%242%2C862%2C%20according%20to%20RealTime's%20tracker.

- and also inflation. Thanks Kamala !

[Anonymous]

It’s so expensive. I live on a major trick or treat block and I would need to spend close to $500 to give one small piece of candy to every child.