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Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy_bar_protest
TIL that the “Candy bar protest”, also known as “the 5 cent chocolate war”, “the 5 cent war”, and “the chocolate candy bar strike”, was a short-lived 1947 protest by Canadian children over the increase in price of chocolate bars from five to eight cents.
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Punk as fuck.
As the children marched, they sang:
> We want a 5 cent chocolate bar
> 8 cents is going too darn far
> We want a 5 cent chocolate bar
> Oh, we want a 5 cent bar.
60% increase is unreasonable for anyone for anything at any time.
It makes sense the children would protest. They already had a family to support and home to pay off. The coal mines and factory jobs just didn’t pay enough to support their sugar problem as it was.
Where is Ike?
Should have done this when dollarama started charging 81 cents for chocolate bars instead of 52
How about they make portions smaller, use a chocolate substitute, then hike the prices? Sounds like a great plan.
The chocolate bar price is too damn high!