Doesn't get quite the reaction he wantedWed 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.
