Welsh woman shows how many tins of Quality Street you'd need to fill tub from the 80s
Many people look forward to doing one simple thing at Christmas - popping open the boxes of chocolate.
The festive season is a time of year when many of our favourite brands release bumper tubs of our treasured choccies, but it's no secret that they've decreased in size over the years.
Brits often talk about what's commonly dubbed as "shrinkflation", whereby food products decrease in size, but don't decrease in price. Recently a Welsh woman took to TikTok to show just how much Quality Street has reduced its portion sizes over the decades - and the results are wild.
In the clip, @welshvalleyslass shows a woman with a "retro" tub from the 80s and it looks absolutely huge. It's fair to say you'd never get your hands on a box of chocolates quite that large in this day and age, but there's more to the story than meets the eye.
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The video then shows how many tubs of Quality Street it would take to fill the "retro" version, and the results are mind-blowing. According to the video, you'd need four boxes to fill the "retro" tin, so times really have changed.
Alongside the video, she wrote: "A retro tin cost £7 in the 80s, and one tin would last until Christmas was over. The tins were eco-friendly too. They were used for decades after."
People have been left stunned by the results of the experiment, as it's mind-blowing to see just how much the tin sizes have changed. One person even said they'd buy one of the old tins if they could get their hands on one, just to fill them to the brim with choccies.
Nowadays you can snap up a 600g tub of Quality Street for around £6 in some supermarkets, though prices may vary. Decades ago, the tins were said to hold up to 2.5kg of choccies for over the festive season.
During the late 1970s and 1980s, nostalgic adverts (that you can still find online) advertised 2.5kg tins of Quality Street available for the price of £4.99. But, there's something you need to bear in mind.
Back in 1979, a fiver was worth around £24 in today's money. If you have a Tesco Clubcard, you can actually bag a 600g box of Quality Street from Tesco for £3.95.
If you need a little help with the maths, a "retro" tub is roughly 4.16 times as big as a 600g tub. This means, if we multiply Tesco's £3.95 price by 4.16, we end up with a cost of £16.46 for the same weight as the retro tub.
So, in a nutshell, people are potentially saving just under £8 for every two and a half kilos of Quality Street they chomp down on during the holiday season.
Nestle has been asked to further comment about the changing sizes of Quality Street tubs.
