A man who became an internet sensation after sharing his Mars bar without any repercussions has been paid £2 in compensation.
A photo of Harry Seeger's slick Mars confectionery bar has sparked the interest of thousands of members of the Dull Men's Club Facebook page.
Mr. Seeger said he was not interested in receiving compensation for the undeveloped steel, but simply wanted to know “what industrial processes caused the ripples to not crest.”
Mr Seeger said he was heading to a classic car show in Birmingham with friends in a vintage bus when he noticed his Mars, which he had bought at an Oxfordshire service station, was unusually smooth.
“I actually forgot about it, but I remembered it the next day,” he said. “And I thought, oh, you know what? I'll message them and look into it. Maybe something was missed and wasn't discovered.”
The 34-year-old broadcaster, from Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, even wondered if Mars' distinctive ripples had disappeared completely. Mars Wrigley UK was grumpy and wouldn't explain what went wrong.
“They were very secretive about this and seemed to jump right into compensating me instead of telling me what the manufacturing defect was.”
The company announced earlier this month that the bars had “slipped” off the production line and reassured consumers that the ripples would continue.
Members of the Dal Men's Club told Seeger that the bar had survived being blown out by a machine called an enrober. “It tasted the same,” Seeger said. “It wasn't that thick, just a lot thinner at the top.”
Mars bars were first handcrafted in Slough, Berkshire in 1932 and are still manufactured there today. Britain's most popular chocolate bar.
Seeger thinks there may be a future for defective chocolate. “[It’s a] It's like buying a broken biscuit, right? They should make broken chocolate bars. That's a good idea. ”
