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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Kimberly on June 19, 2013, 12:06:17 PM
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Doesn't get quite the reaction he wanted (http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023046596)
Wed Jun 19, 2013, 10:45 AM
Star Member DainBramaged (38,143 posts)
Back in 2009 Oreo cookies were 22oz for $2.99 most places
Then the package disappeared and was replaced by the 15.25 oz. size at the same price at most discount stores.
Now the package is 19oz now called 'Family size'. $4.49 at Target.
The consumer is ****ed again. Packaging magic brought to you by the scum in corporate marketing.
Don't get me started on what they did to Chips Ahoy....
You bought a product made with high fructose corn syrup, one of the DUmpster's pet bogeymen? For shame!
Response to DainBramaged (Original post)
Wed Jun 19, 2013, 10:47 AM
taught_me_patience (3,871 posts)
1. Simple solution is to not eat that crap n/t
Response to taught_me_patience (Reply #1)
Wed Jun 19, 2013, 11:05 AM
Star Member DainBramaged (38,143 posts)
15. And you were named crap judge when?
Response to DainBramaged (Reply #15)
Wed Jun 19, 2013, 11:31 AM
Star Member closeupready (19,704 posts)
22. Here's a list of Oreo ingredients:
SUGAR
UNBLEACHED ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE {VITAMIN B1}, RIBOFLAVIN {VITAMIN B2}, FOLIC ACID)
HIGH OLEIC CANOLA AND/OR PALM AND/OR CANOLA OIL
COCOA (PROCESSED WITH ALKALI)
HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP
LEAVENING (BAKING SODA AND/OR CALCIUM PHOSPHATE)
CORNSTARCH
SALT
SOY LECITHIN
VANILLIN--AN ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR
CHOCOLATE
Response to closeupready (Reply #22)
Wed Jun 19, 2013, 11:40 AM
Star Member DainBramaged (38,143 posts)
30. You still don't get it do you?
Go preach to someone else. As a person who occasionally likes a 3Musketeers or Oreo, don't try to push your brand of purity on me or anyone else.
Meh x 3
Response to DainBramaged (Reply #30)
Wed Jun 19, 2013, 12:04 PM
taught_me_patience (3,871 posts)
49. If you only eat it occasionally, then why complain about an extra $1.50?
Meanwhile, I've been tracking the price of broccoli for the last six years. In 2006, broccoli crowns were $1.50 - $1.80/lb. They are still exactly in the same price range seven years later.
Response to DainBramaged (Original post)
Wed Jun 19, 2013, 10:51 AM
Star Member closeupready (19,704 posts)
5. Americans are obese because, in part, overconsumption of
stuff like that.
I'm fine if they want to raise the price to $10.99.
Maybe have an apple instead.
Response to closeupready (Reply #5)
Wed Jun 19, 2013, 11:00 AM
Star Member DainBramaged (38,143 posts)
12. It has EVERYTHING to do with occasionally enjoying a treat, not your self-righteous indignation
over America's weight problem.
How pure are thou.......
Meh.
Response to DainBramaged (Original post)
Wed Jun 19, 2013, 11:05 AM
cbdo2007 (6,673 posts)
17. You have to look for sales.
Our local Target had Oreos on sale a few weeks ago for 19oz for $1.99 so if you shop around you can definitely find deals.
The problem is that everywhere has sales on different stuff and MOST people don't look for sales and pay attention to what they're paying for which items and plan ahead, so most people pay the normal price for stuff, subsidizing it for the rest of us who DO do our homework on this stuff.
Well comparision shopping is a lot like work and it's just not fair you paid a lower price for your cookies. So Obama needs to start another government program to make sure cookie prices are fair.
Response to DainBramaged (Original post)
Wed Jun 19, 2013, 11:22 AM
Star Member boomer55 (55 posts)
18. Don't eat corporate processed foods
Make ur own healthy cookies from natural ingredients
Too much like work! Much easier to whine on the internet!
Response to DainBramaged (Original post)
Wed Jun 19, 2013, 11:34 AM
historylovr (211 posts)
24. They've been doing this for years to other products.
A gallon of bleach reduced to 3 quarts. 1/2 gallon of ice cream is now 1.5 quarts. A 5 pound bag of sugar is now 4 pounds. Cans of soup reduced to 10 3/4 oz, when they used to contain 14. (May not be the right number exactly, but I have recipes from several years ago that would call for one can of soup at about that measurement.) They think we don't notice, but we do. Everything is being slowly reduced in weight and size but the price remains the same or goes up.
And that's the larger point I wish the OP had made, because the discussion is devolving into what's bad to eat. Yes, we know we shouldn't eat it, but we're being shafted and not just because some of us have the bad habit of consuming processed foods. We're paying MORE for LESS.
Response to historylovr (Reply #24)
Wed Jun 19, 2013, 12:03 PM
Star Member DainBramaged (38,143 posts)
48. "Yes, we know we shouldn't eat it, but we're being shafted "
Something the purity squad fails to acknowledge.......
Thank you
That was my point yet I am amazed how so many 'smart' people don't get it here.
Lol! If you don't agree with DB, you're not 'smart'. Ole DB is pretty dumb if he couldn't predict his OP would get exactly the reaction it did.
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This was one of my favorite replies:
zappaman (8,637 posts)
46. Damn you Obama!!!!
I'm not voting for him next time!!!!
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"The cost of energy must necessarily rise", Obonga the candidate.......you DUmmies voted him into office and it takes energy to make things so quit your bitch'n.
....and there's shortage of OREOS.....Moochelle is eating them as fast as they can make them.
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:rotf: :rofl: :lmao:
DainBramaged edited the post.
Here's how it reads now:
DainBramaged (38,146 posts)
The purity squad wins, if you don't eat like them you suck [View all]
Last edited Wed Jun 19, 2013, 01:39 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)
have a nice day.
:lol:
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How come you never see conservatives trying to dictate what people can and cannot eat?
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I know something happened in early 2009, what was it?
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I know something happened in early 2009, what was it?
They put an Oreo in the White House.
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They put an Oreo in the White House.
:rimshot:
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Oreos & Chips Ahoy are almost always on sale at WalMart- 2@$2.50.
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They put an Oreo in the White House.
when I saw the title of this thread, I thought the DUmmy was bitching about black people acting white.
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He hasn't been having a very good time at the DUmp lately. Still, he shows up every day.
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Isn't the slogan for women "My body, my choice"?
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No one agreed with him, so he self deleted - a page from the Dorkangel playbook.
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Now, now, dummie... your hero's wifey said we have an obesity problem in America. This is just the way they are going about curing it.
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Oreo, Unlock the Magic.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNjfqRs0aag[/youtube]
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They put an Oreo in the White House.
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
:racist:
:-)
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Oreos are freaking delicious. I think I'll buy a jumbo pack at Sam's Club this weekend.
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I love Oreos -
I had a big package sent to me while living in the UK in 1989, since they were nigh impossible to find then.
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:lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
Response to DainBramaged (Original post)
Wed Jun 19, 2013, 02:06 PM
Star Member MineralMan (54,724 posts)
78. You didn't like the response, so you edited your OP and turned
it into a Meta thread, whining about DU? Nice work...
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Response to MineralMan (Reply #78)
Wed Jun 19, 2013, 02:56 PM
Star Member DainBramaged (38,163 posts)
94. It's none of your business pal
you only show up with personal attacks and shit for constructive comments. DB is a poopyhead.
I'll delete it now so you have noting but air to reply to. Attaboy DUmbass. :rotf:
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What a ****ing whiner.
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What a ****ing whiner.
To put it mildly.
In case anyone's forgotten, the brain-damaged primitive's in the past admitted he was so miserable he wanted to die.
One wonders why he's taking so long.
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It's on sale for $2.99 at the A&P. :-)
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Wed Jun 19, 2013, 10:45 AM
Star Member DainBramaged (38,143 posts)
Back in 2009 Oreo cookies were 22oz for $2.99 most places
Then the package disappeared and was replaced by the 15.25 oz. size at the same price at most discount stores.
Now the package is 19oz now called 'Family size'. $4.49 at Target.
The consumer is ****ed again. Packaging magic brought to you by the scum in corporate marketing.
Don't get me started on what they did to Chips Ahoy....
Liberal policies always have consequences. In this case, more expensive cookies. That's life in the liberal city. Country. Whatever.
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What a ****ing whiner.
All together now, for the brain damaged primitive . . .
:sosad: :sosad: :sosad: :loser: :loser: :loser:
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He could be whining about something else like all the stuff the Obama does wrong, but you know out of sight out of mind.
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He could be whining about something else like all the stuff the Obama does wrong, but you know out of sight out of mind.
NOWAY!!
For those that sayeth any word but praise of Lord 0 thou shall be labeled RACIST and forced to wear the Scarlet R.
Thus if one is black and sayeth the slightest disagreement with Lord 0 thou shall be labeled OREO and forced to wear the Scarlet O.
So let it be said. So let it be written.
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When I saw the title of DB's bitchin, first thing that I thought of was obama's daddy, obama's momma and Frank Davis.
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Product shrinkage has been going on for a long time, but it does seem to have exploded under Obama. Producers use to be able to get by with temporary price hikes when their costs like fuel spiked , but they could lower them later on when fuel prices lowered again. That being said, they never lowered the prices to where they were before.
Under the Obama Regime , producers don't see their fuel costs going down like they did under previous administrations. They just keep going up and up, so they resort to smaller packages and slightly higher prices.