Well, well, well, every day is a school day. The things you live and learn. Where to begin?

Bahlsen is a German company that calls itself a “proud family business.” They make biscuits available in most of the UK supermarkets and they are pretty good too.

Their main brand is the Choco Leibniz biscuit which used to be sold in a 125g packet of 9 biscuits. However this has just all changed. The packets now only contain 8 biscuits and weigh 111g. I know one could just say it’s only a biscuit, keep your hair on. Yet in my view it is a point of principle.

The “proud family business” has made cost savings and not passed them onto the consumer. It seems that this practice is so rife that a new term “shrinkflation” has come about.

Things get even worse for Bahlsen, as whilst doing a bit of research it appears that the “proud family business” has recently been reported on for using hundreds of forced labourers from Nazi-occupied Poland and Ukraine from 1940 till 1945.

Needless to say I won’t be buying any Bahlsen biscuits any more.