Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it’s 20g bigger than today’s

1991年的玛氏巧克力棒被发现——比现在的重20克

A 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”. 在一次房屋清理过程中，一根35年前的玛氏巧克力棒（Mars Bar）被发现。这一发现迅速走红，人们纷纷表示这凸显了“缩水式通胀”（shrinkflation）的影响。

The chocolate bar with a best-before date of 1991 was found during a clear-out of a house in Scunthorpe. 这根保质期至1991年的巧克力棒是在斯肯索普（Scunthorpe）一处房屋的清理工作中被发现的。

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. 经营这家清洁服务的维多利亚·戈登（Victoria Gordon）在社交媒体上发布了一张照片，将这根62.5克的巧克力棒与现在市面上40克的玛氏巧克力棒放在一起进行了对比。

“It was nearly as big as my hand, which was kind of why I noticed it,” she said. “它几乎和我手一样大，这就是我注意到它的原因，”她说。

Speaking on BBC Radio Lincolnshire, Gordon said: “We were clearing out a hoarder’s house and everything we were rooting through was decades old. This Mars Bar stood out to me because as I picked it up it was nearly the whole length of my hand. I was like, ‘Wow, look at the size of that!’” 在接受BBC林肯郡电台采访时，戈登表示：“我们当时正在清理一间囤积者的房子，翻找出来的所有东西都有几十年历史了。这根玛氏巧克力棒引起了我的注意，因为我拿起它时，它几乎和我手掌一样长。我当时心想：‘哇，看看这尺寸！’”

A Mars spokesperson said: “Over the last 35 years, we have made a number of updates to our bar sizes and pack formats to reflect consumer demand, alongside considering wider external factors such as manufacturing costs and the price of cocoa.” 玛氏公司的一位发言人表示：“在过去的35年里，我们对产品尺寸和包装规格进行了一系列调整，以反映消费者的需求，同时也考虑了制造成本和可可价格等更广泛的外部因素。”

Gordon, who runs Pocket Rockets, is not sure what she will do with the bar, but she said she might be sitting on a “gold mine”. 经营着Pocket Rockets清洁公司的戈登还不确定该如何处理这根巧克力棒，但她表示自己可能坐拥了一座“金矿”。

“I do post some hoarding videos but I’ve never had anything go this viral,” she said. “It’s so fascinating what people find so interesting. I almost put it in the skip [but] I might do a UK tour with it.” “我确实会发布一些清理囤积物的视频，但从未有过像这次这样火爆，”她说。“人们对什么感兴趣真是太奇妙了。我差点把它扔进垃圾箱，但我现在可能会带着它在英国巡回展示。”