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.
