Elevens

A few years back, people in here were discussing "The Dealership" episode. The vending machine took George's dollar, but the last ®TWIX (the candy bar with the cookie crunch) wouldn't drop down.

   While reading the thread, I remembered I had just bought a ®TWIX
"Family-Pak" with my groceries, and went to get one.    (Can you say
"product-placement"?)    So anyway, as I was opening the package I
noticed that it said: "Eleven 1.27 oz. individually-wrapped bars".

The first thing that I thought of was that 11 x 1.27 oz. must come out to some sort of even measure. Ever see a 13.97 oz. package of anything?

  Neither before nor since, have I ever encountered something else that
was sold by the elevenses.    Couples rarely have eleven children.
Beer and soda comes in singles, sixes, eights, twenties, and
twenty-fours; but not elevens.    Even when you buy donuts, you get
twelve (or maybe six), but not eleven.

Who do you think is responsible for the 11-pak? The government?

jg

"jeffry gagnon" wrote in message news:[email]...

A few years back, people in here were discussing "The Dealership" episode. The vending machine took George's dollar, but the last �TWIX (the candy bar with the cookie crunch) wouldn't drop down.

   While reading the thread, I remembered I had just bought a �TWIX
"Family-Pak" with my groceries, and went to get one.    (Can you say
"product-placement"?)    So anyway, as I was opening the package I
noticed that it said: "Eleven 1.27 oz. individually-wrapped bars".

The first thing that I thought of was that 11 x 1.27 oz. must come out to some sort of even measure. Ever see a 13.97 oz. package of anything?

  Neither before nor since, have I ever encountered something else that
was sold by the elevenses.    Couples rarely have eleven children.
Beer and soda comes in singles, sixes, eights, twenties, and
twenty-fours; but not elevens.    Even when you buy donuts, you get
twelve (or maybe six), but not eleven.

Who do you think is responsible for the 11-pak? The government?

jg

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I'm pretty sure former lead guitarist of Spinal Tap, Nigel Tufnel, became an executive at Twix after the band broke up.

   Dear Mr. Paskoudniakis--   Naturally, I considered the Nigel Tufnel
(amp to eleven) – ®Twix (eleven-pak) theory as I was opening the
package.    But I quickly rejected it, having copious notes and video
recordings from a more recent "candy bar blind-taste-test" held at a
Volvo dealership in East Rutherford, NJ.

   (Nigel was there, but one of the participants would identify himself
only as "Perun".    He was wearing a fedora, a beltless trench coat, and
double-knit slacks – and had arrived at the Volvo dealership in a
silver-grey 1987 Crown Victoria).
            _

Nigel Tufnel: (To Perun on August 21, 2008, 03:47:50 pm, E. Rutherford):

"Lactation is the best candy bar, imho. Come to think of it, it has to be at least a year since I last had one.

"I think Kit Kats are the most under-rated candy bar. Twix comes a close second." Perun:

"Twix sold out. Raider was good." (Tape is garbled after this point). _

   Although rumored to have thrown in with ®Twix, Mr. Tufnel (in no
uncertain terms) prefers Lactation and Kit Kat.    "Raider" is obviously
some sort of code word.    I'm pretty sure Perun is with the government.

jg

Lol...How highly observant of you. I love to philosophize about random things like this. If I had to offer an educated guess I would say it originally started out as a 12-pack. Then in an attempt to pull a fast one on us, the buying public (hopefully without being noticed) they withheld one candy bar but left the price the same.

This happens in the marketing rooms of every major corporation. When the price of raw materials goes up they have to decide to give us less product and keep the price the same, or charge us more for the same amount of product they've been selling us.

As an example, do you remember how big those "Grandma's Cookies" used to be? Back in the 80s they were HUGE, almost as big as your hand. Today their about 3 inches in diameter, but sell for about twice the price.

They count on the fact that we throw out containers when we're done with the product. If we kept them we'd see how we're getting screwed...and also be labeled as pack-rats for hoarding garbage.