[InterceptPoint]

This has NOTHING to do with Michelle Obama's initiative. The truth is that candy companies have been reducing the size of their offerings on a regular basis in an attempt to fool us candy lovers into believing that we are getting the same bar for the same price.

We know better.

That bar that we used to buy for 5 cents now costs well over a buck and is heading rapidly to 2 bucks.

But you can still buy a decent candy bar, in fact quite a nice one, for a dime - if it is a Mercury dime (worth about $2.43) and you buy the bar at your local coin dealer.

[2ndamendmentpa]

Agree - lets not give the Obama’s too much credit here.

[elcid1970]

They replaced the Mercury dime with the Roosevelt dime and removed the fasces, the ancient Roman symbol of unity, just because it had been used by Mussolini. Then in 1965 Lyndon Johnson took away the silver content and replaced it with the “Great Society Alloy” (cupronickel).

Anyway, candy bars have been shrinking for decades but this is the first time it’s being done for PC reasons.