Man who found smooth Mars bar gets £2 compensation
Man who found smooth Mars bar gets £2 compensation
Mars Wrigley UK says the smooth bar "slipped" through and confirmed the swirl is being kept.
“Dear Mars, I was unable to enjoy my recently purchased Mars Bar as it was missing the trademark thick veins running down its shaft.”
"Dear BBC, thanks for the illustrated article on our product. Our advertising and PR manager says it's the best £2 we've spent all year'
How is a Mars bar a fuckin quid now?!?
It's because a quid is worth much elss that it used to be, not because a mars bar is worth more (although I'm sure some of it is increased profit margins masked as inflation gouging customers too)
Hey, American here. I watch tons of old British telly and I thought i had a good understanding of currency terms but now I'm confused. I thought a quid is just another word for a pound?
While im here, is pence-pennies,tuppence-2 pennies, a shilling-like a dime or something,bob-just slang for pound? Plus you guys had the euro sort of wander in before brevity, it's all so confusing.
You can't tell me this isn't the exact way you'd expect this guy to look. He said he's gonna use his 2 quid settlement for more mars bars. I'm comforted.
Excellent choice. I would.
Fun fact: the Mars bar is marketed as a Milky Way in the U.S. There was a Mars bar in the U.S., but it had almonds. It has since been rebranded as Snickers Almond.
So what's a milky way advertised as?
I’m not from the US, but I think it’s 3 Musketeers:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_Musketeers_(chocolate_bar)
The Milky Way and the Mars bar were both created by the same person. And the Milky Way was created about 12 years earlier in Chicago. Forrest Mars went off to start his own Mars candy division in the UK after a fight with his dad.
I had a client that had a Mars heir as a client, and knew they were based in the DMV. I was curious how an American candy company with a candy bar named after the family ended up being created in the UK.
TIL. I dislike Milky Ways, they're incomplete substandard Snickers. 3 Musketeers are even worse; nougat is the worst part of the Snickers. In a Halloween haul, I'd always rather eat a roll of Smarties or a packet of two Spree than a Milky Way or 3 Musketeers, and that's the equivalent of saying I'd rather eat a piece of chalk.
FYI: Tums is chalk. :)
A mars bar with no dick vein. Welp at leat the bloke got 2 pound(ing)s compensation.
I will laugh my ass off if they do remove it for real tho. Thats when we know cancel culture has gone too far.
Great. Now that Mars buckled, everyone will be suing over their smooth candies. They may have made this case go away, but they'll soon be out tens, maybe even hundreds of pounds.
Yup. Obviously a smooth brained idea
Great. When did Mars go woke?
Tucker Carlson demands the return of the throbbing dick vein to the demasculated Mars bar.
Only then will Musk arrive on Mars.
Now this is the kind of hard-hitting journalism I'm here for
Did they make him break it in two and mail it back first?
the Dull Men’s Club Facebook page
They only paid him because it would be exciting and ruin his reputation as a dull man.
Ironic that BBC reported it.
I used to send a complaint for faulty products to companies in my late teens/early 20's as I was low on money. Like once I got some energy drink in a bottle made for Pepsi. Same volume, no difference, but a mistake, so got 5€ for it so "won" like 3€ for that. I'd pick out products like that if I saw them in a shop for that very purpose.
Once I genuinely was annoyed though, as a soft drink company that filled the vending machine at our school had filled it wrong and I got what was essentially Fanta he I wanted an energy drink and it was fucking hard waking up that morning.
"Dull Men's Club" must be code for Mad Lads
He could have asked them for 100 to send the factory code.