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

A 35-year-old Mars Bar has been recovered during a location clearance – and the find has gone viral amid claims it highlights the effect of "shrinkflation".

The cocoa barroom pinch a best-before day of 1991 was recovered during a clear-out of a location successful Scunthorpe.

Victoria Gordon, who runs the cleaning service, posted a photograph connected societal media of the 62.5g barroom alongside 1 of today's Mars Bars, which is 40g.

"It was astir arsenic large arsenic my hand, which was benignant of why I noticed it," she said.

Speaking connected BBC Radio Lincolnshire, Gordon said: "We were clearing retired a hoarder's location and everything we were rooting done was decades old.

"This Mars Bar stood retired to maine because arsenic I picked it up it was astir the full magnitude of my hand.

"I was like, 'Wow, look astatine the size of that!'"

A Mars spokesperson said: "Over the past 35 years, we person made a number of updates to our barroom sizes and battalion formats to bespeak user demand, alongside considering wider outer factors specified arsenic manufacturing costs and the value of cocoa."

Gordon, who runs Pocket Rockets, is not judge what she will do pinch the bar, but she said she mightiness beryllium sitting connected a "gold mine".

"I do station immoderate hoarding videos but I've ne'er had thing spell this viral," she said.

"It's truthful fascinating what group find truthful interesting. I almost put it successful the skip [but] I mightiness do a UK circuit pinch it."