{"id":733529,"date":"2026-08-10T13:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T13:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/733529\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T13:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T13:50:12","slug":"mars-bar-from-the-1990s-found-during-house-clearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/733529\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars Bar from the 1990s found during house clearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A 35-year-old Mars Bar has been found during a house clearance \u2013 and the discovery has gone viral amid claims it highlights the effect of &#8220;shrinkflation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The chocolate bar with a best-before date of 1991 was found during a clear-out of a house in Scunthorpe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Victoria Gordon, who runs the cleaning service, posted a photo on social media of the 62.5g bar alongside one of today&#8217;s Mars Bars, which is 40g.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was nearly as big as my hand, which was kind of why I noticed it,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 35-year-old Mars Bar has been found during a house clearance \u2013 and the discovery has gone viral&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-733529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}