Mars Bar from 1991 found - and it's 20g bigger than one from today

https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews· Aug 10, 2026 · 11:26 AM UTC ·1 min read · 0 reactions · 0 comments · 7 views

TL;DR · WeSearch summary

Key facts

▪Honey, they've shrunk our Mars BarsImage source, Victoria GordonImage caption, Now and then... the 1991 Mars Bar alongside one from todayByEleanor MaslinEast Yorkshire and LincolnshirePublished59 minutes agoA 35-year-old Mars Bar has been f

How this story was covered

3 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 3 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: centre. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.

Centre · 2

▪ Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's — Bbc
▪ 1991 Mars Bar highlights shrinkflation and inflation alike — Boing Boing

About this source

BBC News — UK publishes from United Kingdom and files mainly under news. We currently carry 849 of its stories.

All BBC News — UK coverage →

Original article

BBC News — UK · https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews

Read full at BBC News — UK →

Story provenance

Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record

inspect →

Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.

Record

Original publisher	BBC News — UK
Canonical URL	https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1j1kjy7gewo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss
Publication time	Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:26:19 GMT
Retrieval time	2026-08-10T12:25:43.049Z
Last seen	2026-08-10T12:25:43.049Z
Headline source	Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite)
Excerpt source	publisher body
Excerpt method	First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited.
Summary	WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer)
Summary source text	contentText
Citation coverage	Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL.
Cluster	-vZcDaSIZ_-9 · 3 stories
Cluster logic	Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison.
Ranking reason	Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking.
Publisher visit	Yes — open original
Substitutes article?	No — link-out required for full text

Rights status (four layers)

Publisher-declared

No publisher-confirmed rights record for this source yet.

Machine-readable

No source-specific machine-readable restriction detected beyond the public feed.

WeSearch interpretation

WeSearch declared handling (basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed). This is WeSearch policy, not a legal grant on the publisher's behalf.

Unknown

Retrieval and training permissions are not asserted unless the publisher confirms them.

WeSearch handling by dimension

Indexing	May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)?	Allowed
Snippet	May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown?	Allowed
AI summary	May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article?	Limited
Retrieval / RAG	May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation?	Not asserted
Model training	May the content be used to train AI models?	Not asserted
Commercial reuse	May the content be reused commercially?	Not permitted

Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.

Open original publisher → Source rights JSON → Machine-readable provenance → Rights framework → WESEARCH-STORY-PROVENANCE-V1

Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand

Honey, they've shrunk our Mars BarsImage source, Victoria GordonImage caption, Now and then... the 1991 Mars Bar alongside one from todayByEleanor MaslinEast Yorkshire and LincolnshirePublished59 minutes agoA 35-year-old Mars Bar has been found during a house clearance – and the discovery has gone viral amid claims it highlights the effect of "shrinkflation".The chocolate bar with a best-before date of 1991 was found during a clear-out of a house in Scunthorpe.Victoria Gordon, who runs the cleaning service, posted a photo on social media of the 62.5g bar alongside one of today's Mars Bars, which is 40g."It was nearly as big as my hand, which was kind of why I noticed it," she said.Image source, Victoria GordonImage caption, Victoria Gordon found the old Mars Bar on 5 AugustSpeaking on BBC…

Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at BBC News — UK.

Anonymous · no account needed

Discussion

0 comments