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Toblerone triangle change upsets fans

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Northerner said:
What a stupid idea! 😱 Why not just reduce the size so you could reduce packaging? 🙄

Toblerone is my Christmas treat chocolate (alongside Lindt Lindor) :(

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37904703
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It's not just because of Brexit either, which was the immediate conclusion a lot of tweeters came to, I gather. Someone at daughters work brought a load back for them from a European duty free shop, and it was the same, only 360g and wide open spaces of air. I gather they've done the same to Terry's chocolate orange - hollowed out the sections a bit, so you are now paying for air!
Hands off our chocolate!
 
Part of their appeal was the chunkiness of the blocks. They obviously have to keep the same number of blocks so the letters will fit but they could have mase a smaller size. Unless of course they have tuns of packaging that they don't want to put to waste.
 
Love Terry's chocolate orange, very moreish though once a year treat maybe.
 
The Toblerone would suit me - always had difficulty breaking a piece off to eat it even before the big D. Where have they hollowed out the segments of orange? Down the middle, so instead of having a spare bit of choc to fill the gap, you now have air? - No that wouldn't work, surely the spare bit down the centre is what holds it all together?
 
trophywench said:
The Toblerone would suit me - always had difficulty breaking a piece off to eat it even before the big D. Where have they hollowed out the segments of orange? Down the middle, so instead of having a spare bit of choc to fill the gap, you now have air? - No that wouldn't work, surely the spare bit down the centre is what holds it all together?
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From the picture I saw, (which I now can't find else I'd post it) each segment is slightly concave on one side, so they only stick together at the edges.
Found an article, but not a good picture.
http://metro.co.uk/2016/10/08/terry...w-10-smaller-and-people-are-outraged-6179921/
 
Ah, right - in practice does anyone think you'd really notice any difference? I mean anyway it shouldn't bother any of us anyway since we know it's a bit naughty eating it - so the fact it's 10% smaller does us a favour really! I reckon they were all stock photos of 'normal' ones Robin!
 
trophywench said:
Ah, right - in practice does anyone think you'd really notice any difference? I mean anyway it shouldn't bother any of us anyway since we know it's a bit naughty eating it - so the fact it's 10% smaller does us a favour really! I reckon they were all stock photos of 'normal' ones Robin!
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The only thing that bothers me is that they're hoping we won't notice that it's effectively a whopping price increase.
Of course, I only have one segment as a treat on Boxing Day!😉
 
With the triangles close together, you could squeeze two together and make them easier to crack off the bar. I think it will make an already tricky shaped bar more difficult to eat.
 
Amigo said:
With the triangles close together, you could squeeze two together and make them easier to crack off the bar. I think it will make an already tricky shaped bar more difficult to eat.
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That was my very first thought when I saw it - no longer able to just push the 'peaks' together to break a piece off. It will become a lost art, spoken of only in legend, and hushed tones... 😱
 
I have never eaten a toblerone so I don't have a benchmark, but I noticed the chocolate orange bar had significantly smaller segments, now that suited me because it was smaller but I will be most distressed if the "core" of the orange has been messed with, that's my favourite bit, all that extra bit in the middle has to be saved to the end and then troffed, it's the law :D
 
KookyCat said:
I have never eaten a toblerone so I don't have a benchmark, but I noticed the chocolate orange bar had significantly smaller segments, now that suited me because it was smaller but I will be most distressed if the "core" of the orange has been messed with, that's my favourite bit, all that extra bit in the middle has to be saved to the end and then troffed, it's the law :D
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Never had a Toblerone? I found it impossible to come back from a day trip to France without buying the biggest Toblerone possible in the duty free shop.:D
 
There are much nicer chocolate creations freely available at any French supermarket, I assure you.

I have a bar of dark choc with roasted almonds in my fridge right now, actually I think it may be calling to me right now ......


Yes, it was !
 
Oh, while in France I bought some lovely chocolates. Went around easter time one year & bought a bag of easter eggs. Didn't expect them to be of high quality, but they were gorgeous! Very high cocoa content.
 
Haven't had a Toblerone for many many years....... In fact it's extraordinarily rare that I have chocolate in any form.....
 
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