funsize

Applause, Mars | standard bar | 50g / funsize bar | 24g

1990, Helen Crawley, Food Portion Sizes (second impression (with amendments); first published 1988), London: HMSO, →ISBN, page 22

We’re gonna have hollow chocolate eggs, ones that you can open up, and they’ve got scrummy things inside, you know, like Smarties and small Mars Bars. Not the big ones. Small ones, ’cos the big ones won’t fit, you see. Call them ‘funsize’, Lord, because they are fun to eat.

1991, Eddie Izzard, Amassed Hysteria!: A Collection of Great Comedy Sketches from Hysteria!, Hysteria 2! and Hysteria 3!, Penguin Books, pages 42–43

Your child should take at least 20 g carbohydrate (2 exchanges) beforehand in a readily absorbable form, eg, chocolate-coated biscuit (eg, 1 Penguin, 2 Jaffa cakes); funsize Mars bar or Twix (1 finger) or KitKat (2 fingers); 1 glass cola or lemonade (sweetened type); 4 squares ordinary chocolate.

1992, Jane Rossiter, Rosemary Seddon, The Diabetic Kids’ Cookbook (Positive Health Guides), revised edition, page 26

But if you want chocolate every day- either have just a couple of squares of a bar, or a ‘funsize’ bar, or how about getting that chocolatey taste another, lower-fat way – say a low-fat instant chocolate drink.

1993, Judith Wills, “Staying Slim”, in Complete Speed Slimming System: Your Ultimate Guide to Quickest-Ever Fat Loss and Figure Reshaping, London: Vermilion, →ISBN, page 120

Indeed overall, only those with the sharpest of minds are likely to come out on top – although the ability to rapidly carve each and every opponent into a cloud of funsize strips of bleeding flesh will also come in handy.

1998 March, “Die By The Sword”, in PC Zone, section “It’s Just a Flesh”, page 6