How many sweets in a tin of celebrations

The number of chocolates in one tub varied from 70 to In each tub, only Malteasers and Snickers were present in the same number across each. We got ten and nine of those in each individual tub respectively. Look after each other, and try not to squabble over the reduced number of Mars Bars. The world has suffered enough. You can follow him on Twitter. BY Simon Brew. But I am hoping to gather some crowd sourced data from you and others dear reader.

So I think my sample of 13 is a little low to give a statistically significant result. In fact I will amend the post to let people send me more data. But it is a pretty poor return of 13 replies after over 2, people read the original blog post.

Some years ago all the pockets were filled, with a few left over for the gift wrapping session. More recently the shortfall is up to six.

And the chocolate seems, on a subjective level, lower quality. In any case, I have moved to Lindt. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email.

Below is my summary of the average number of each type of chocolate in the 13 tubs sampled. So, to the crowd sourced Celebrations data… Buy a tub of Celebrations Download the Word document that has the graph paper here. You will need need some scissors and tape to make the full continuous sheet. This whole step is optional but it will make things easier.

But it looks as though it may actually be the confectionery firms who are to blame [File photo]. However, the actual number left a sour taste — just five. Celebrations tubs include miniature versions of popular chocolate bars, with the Milky Way not well-liked. But there was eight in the tub — only two fewer than the much more favoured Malteser Teaser.

The Milky Way in the Celebrations tub is not well liked. But there was eight of these miniature bars in the tub in an experiment by Which? All the confectionery firms said they tried to take consumer preferences into account when producing a mix. A Nestle spokesman added that its Quality Street assortment was made up of three different types of sweet — fruit cremes, chocolates, and toffees and fudge.

Each tub is broadly split into thirds along these lines, which is why you will get more sweets such as the strawberry delight, which is one of only two fruit cremes, and fewer of the purple one or green triangle, which are just two of the five in the chocolate-based category.

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