{"id":19842,"date":"2024-11-30T08:59:05","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T08:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=19842"},"modified":"2024-11-30T08:59:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T08:59:05","slug":"man-who-found-smooth-mars-bar-gets-2-compensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=19842","title":{"rendered":"Man who found smooth Mars bar gets \u00a32 compensation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The man who caused an online storm when he found a Mars bar without its signature ripple has received \u00a32 in compensation.<\/p>\n

Harry Seager\u2019s picture of the confectionery generated interest from thousands of members on the Dull Men\u2019s Club Facebook page, with one labelling it \u201chideous\u201d.<\/p>\n

The 34-year-old said while Mars Wrigley UK would not give him a reason for the imperfection, group members said the bar had escaped being blown by air.<\/p>\n

Mars Wrigley UK said earlier this month<\/a> the bar “slipped” through its production line and confirmed the swirl was being kept.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Seager, from Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, was on the way to a classic car show in Birmingham with friends and picked up the chocolate bar at a service station in Thame, Oxfordshire.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only reason I emailed [Mars] was because I was interested in what might have caused it to happen. That is all I wanted to know and they kept side-lining that question,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think \u00a32 is great; it will be two free Mars bars. Maybe they could have sent me more \u2013 but I\u2019m not being ungrateful. I think it\u2019s amazing after everything that\u2019s happened that I got the \u00a32 voucher.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mars bars were first made by hand in Slough, Berkshire, in 1932, and are still made in the town.<\/p>\n

\u201cA few people who used to work at Mars\u2019 factories commented [on Facebook] and they said it goes through a machine called an enrober, which is like the waterfall the bars go through,” Mr Seager said.<\/p>\n

\u201cApparently they get blown with air along the top as it comes out of that waterfall. Apparently there\u2019s meant to be somebody at the end who removes the ones which haven\u2019t been hit by the air.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know what happens to them then. I suppose they got put into products that have Mars bars in, like cakes and things.\u201d<\/p>\n

With regards to other confectionery, Harry enjoys most chocolate bars but is not a fan of all sweet treats.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t like the strawberry and orange cremes in a box of Roses or a box of Quality Street but I do like the coffee ones. I remember they took the coffee ones out a very long time ago but as a kid I remember them,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Those Quality Street Coffee Cremes are only available at John Lewis and Waitrose this Christmas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Source: <\/em> www.bbc.com\u2026<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The man who caused an online storm when he found a Mars bar without its signature ripple has received \u00a32 in compensation. Harry Seager\u2019s picture of the confectionery generated interest from thousands of members on the Dull Men\u2019s Club Facebook page, with one labelling it \u201chideous\u201d. The 34-year-old said while Mars Wrigley UK would not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}