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Shoppers start petition over discontinued popular Milkyway product

When it comes to hunting for your favourite snack, there are few things more disappointing than finding out that the one item you're looking for is no longer on the shelves.

Whether it's your signature savoury snack or sweet treat of choice, it can be pretty disheartening to no longer be able to purchase your foodie faves.

And it seems one recent loss has hit chocoholics pretty hard.

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Taking to Food Finds UK Facebook group member Sophie Parkinson shared with the groups near 150,000 members that the famous Milky Way Crispy Roll bar was being discontinued, captioning her post with with crying emojis.

A petition has been launched to get it back. (Food Finds UK.)

The description of the popular sweet on Poundland's website reads: "A firm family favourite for decades, the Milky Way bar has a light whipped centre covered in tasty milk chocolate. Lighten up and play with Milky Way!"

The post has received over one thousand reactions, 2.4k comments and over two thousand comments.

Replying to the post one said: "Home Bargains sell there own ones of these, the fake ones I call them, taste exactly the same. 15p each."

Another added: "This is why I can never find them any more honestly guys I've been looking for weeks, months even, and they have just vanished no warning, no nothing, like what gives? Has anyone started a petition yet?"

A third said: "My grandad used to buy us these after we came back from school. Loved these."

But they aren't the only ones to feel this way - with a petition actually having been started over the chocolate bar.

Jack Taylor, who started the Change.org petition titled 'Bring Back The Mars Milky Way Crispy Rolls', wrote: "The Milky Way Crispy Rolls are a beloved chocolate product that is produced by Mars UK which is also known as Mars Wrigley UK.

"Many people might have noticed that this product hasn’t been sold in shops or online shops because it has been discontinued, which is very disappointing.

"This product is a very popular product which many people love and it is a nice low calorie snack. This product has been around for quite some time and it’s disappointing that after all that time Mars Chocolate has discontinued it from there product range. I for one would choose the Milky Way Crispy Rolls over other Mars Chocolate products. For example I would rather have a Milky Way Crispy Roll rather than a Milky Way and I’m sure many other people think the same!

"This is a product that I really enjoyed buying and I want people to sign this petition so that we can hopefully get this product in production again.

The petition has so far received 1,224 signatures. You can read the full reason for its launch here.

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