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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on November 11, 2014, 09:02:54 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025803537
Oh my.
underpants (109,243 posts) Tue Nov 11, 2014, 06:54 PM
The missing one. --- food shrinkage
So my daughter and I decide to make crescent roll hot dogs on Sunday. Run to the store and get back. Stuff the National brand all-beef dogs with cheese (Daddy is cooking) and then start rolling out the crescent rolls. We get to the last one and we are out of hot dogs. Huh? For the next 5 minutes we both were cracking up WHERE IS THE 8th HOT DOG?!?!? We look everywhere. The cats? No the boy wouldn't and the girl is too fat to get up on the counter.
Finally I fish the hot dog wrapper out of the trash (hey it was on the top). No mention of quantity on the front cover. We assumed it was 8, right? Turn it over to look at the nutritional information. Serving Size: 1 hot dog. Servings per container: 7
7?!?!? We just figured there were 8. Didn't count them because there have always been 8... or 12... or the huge packages.
Also, that morning we went to McDonald's (yes I am terrible) and the Egg McMuffin is now at least 20% smaller than it used to be. They are shrinking our food but still charging the same price. Nice. Remember when gas prices were the reason for food price increases? Yeah gas is going down but not the food prices.
customerserviceguy (16,828 posts) Tue Nov 11, 2014, 07:01 PM
1. That's been going on all of my life
and I'll be 59 next week. Sizes shrink, prices don't, then they come out with the "Large Economy Size" and the process starts all over again.
At least they could have made your hot dogs a bit smaller, and kept eight of them in the package. Nothing worse than a wiener shortage.
grasswire (41,855 posts) Tue Nov 11, 2014, 07:05 PM
2. what about the dinky cracker boxes?
That one gets me. Smaller and smaller and smaller!
I'll have to check the hot dog packages at the store tomorrow to see what's up.
^^^Uh oh. Sherlock grasswire's donning her cape and funny hat, and grabbing her pipe and magnifying glass, to go out detectiving.
Warpy (79,805 posts) Tue Nov 11, 2014, 07:08 PM
3. Yeah, then they bullshit us about our wages
because food prices aren't going up.
LiberalEsto (20,840 posts) Tue Nov 11, 2014, 07:25 PM
4. Check out Ocean Spray 100% juice cranberry juice bottles
Instead of giving you 64 ounces, they've shrunk the top half of the bottles and only give you 60 ounces. The shrinkage is hard to notice, but I try to read the fine print on labels.
Ilsa (35,034 posts) Tue Nov 11, 2014, 07:50 PM
5. Hebrew National only has 7 dogs in a package.
6 if they are the longer bun length. Could that explain why you were missing one?
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grasswire (41,855 posts) Tue Nov 11, 2014, 07:05 PM
2. what about the dinky cracker boxes?
Luckily for poor addled Judy, dumpsters are as big as ever.
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Even toilet paper is shrinking, the roll is not as wide as it used to be and slides around more on the holder.
Bacon is sold more in twelve ounce packages instead of one pound packages.
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Even toilet paper is shrinking, the roll is not as wide as it used to be and slides around more on the holder.
Bacon is sold more in twelve ounce packages instead of one pound packages.
I think it's all due to the First Wookie's school lunch regulations.
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Even toilet paper is shrinking, the roll is not as wide as it used to be and slides around more on the holder.
Bacon is sold more in twelve ounce packages instead of one pound packages.
A long time ago coffee went from 16 oz to 13 oz.
But it is a revelation that dogs went from 8 to 7. I agree with the DUmmies that sort of sucks.
To keep pace, I assume that hot dog buns will go to 9 per package?
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Obama shrunk your dollar, DUmmie....so food companies increased your food allotment by -25%.
Actually it's a negative -12.5%....I was just anticipating next weeks allotment increase.
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Erich Bloodaxe BSN (4,876 posts) Tue Nov 11, 2014, 08:04 PM
6. That sort of thing screws up a lot of recipes that were developed over the years using 'standard'
packaging sizes. For a brief while, the kraft shredded cheese packages went from 8 ounces down to 7 where I am, but there must have been an outcry of ticked off consumers, because after a month or two they were right back up to 8. But other things have shrunk and stayed shrunk, like ice cream, which used to come in 'half gallon' sizes, and now most often seems to be 1.5 quart.
^^^has heard about this, the shrinkage of ice cream.
<<<concerned, because consumes a lot of ice cream.
However, it must be a blue state phenomenon, because out here in the Sandhills of Nebraska, all ice cream is still sold in half-gallon and one-gallon sizes, no diminuition at all in franksolich's lifetime.
csziggy (16,888 posts) Tue Nov 11, 2014, 08:24 PM
8. Some of my mother's really old recipes call for specific can sizes
Like this:
after which a chart
And it really screws up recipes when the "standard" can size is changed. For instance, now tuna comes in smaller than 6 ounce cans so a recipe for tuna casserole that used two 6 oz cans is now shorted by as much as an ounce. But then, the "premium" tuna I got at Costco is in a 7 ounce can so two of those would have two ounces MORE tuna than Mom's old recipe! Of course now I don't use canned vegetables like she did so I can throw more or fewer frozen vegetables into the recipe to adjust the proportions.
bhikkhu (9,182 posts) Tue Nov 11, 2014, 08:13 PM
7. Along those lines, you can't drive as far on a gallon of ethanol-mix gas
...so there's some shrinkage there as well.
^^^yeah, that's true, but ethanol's something Democrats, liberals, and primitives have been supporting for years.
Good for the Nebraska farmer, too bad for the primitives.
One needs to be careful about what one wishes for.
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^^^has heard about this, the shrinkage of ice cream.
<<<concerned, because consumes a lot of ice cream.
However, it must be a blue state phenomenon, because out here in the Sandhills of Nebraska, all ice cream is still sold in half-gallon and one-gallon sizes, no diminuition at all in franksolich's lifetime.
We rarely buy ice cream in anything other that 1 gallon pails, but there is one brand that has a 5 quart pail.
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It's all for your own nutritional good and 'Best interests,' comrade.
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It's all for your own nutritional good and 'Best interests,' comrade.
Chocolate rations have been increased from 30 grams to 25 grams per week.
The DUmmies should love it!
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^^^has heard about this, the shrinkage of ice cream.
<<<concerned, because consumes a lot of ice cream.
However, it must be a blue state phenomenon, because out here in the Sandhills of Nebraska, all ice cream is still sold in half-gallon and one-gallon sizes, no diminuition at all in franksolich's lifetime.
Stewart's in Saratoga Springs still sells half-gallons of ice cream. They have the Peppermint Stick flavor in their stores now. It's not too bad. I prefer the Crumbs Along The Mohawk or the Adirondack Bear Paw flavors . . . 'course, there's Peanut Butter Pandemonium, too . . . and Death By Chocolate . . . and Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup . . . and . . . and . . . (repeat)
:-) :naughty: O-) :whistling: