‘A shame’: 35-year-old Mars bar found in hoarder house proves shrinkflation is real

A UK cleaner is accusing Mars Inc of shrinkflation after discovering a 35-year-old chocolate bar in a hoarder's house that dwarfs the versions today. REUTERS It’s an ancient Mars-ian artifact. It’s not just fast food that’s subject to shrinkflation. A 35-year-old Mars bar found in a hoarder’s house in the UK proves that chocolate bars, too, used to be bigger. “The size difference was greater than I expected,” Victoria Gordon, 44, told Jam Press of the sweet find. The Brit runs a cleaning business that specializes in remediating everything from crime scenes to biohazard sites. While cleaning out a hoarder house in the seaside English county of Lincolnshire this week, she stumbled across the vintage chocolate bar, which she shared in an online video. Victoria Gordon was shocked at the size o