Human being said:

Cereal boxes are made to be mutilated when opened and the plastic liner tears irregular. I believe this is so the cereal is stale in a week and you must buy another $6 box

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Human being said:

Cereal boxes are made to be mutilated when opened and the plastic liner tears irregular. I believe this is so the cereal is stale in a week and you must buy another $6 box

My 7 year runs with scissors.

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I ran out of aluminum foil yesterday; my last roll had lasted a couple of years.

This new roll, which I just opened, has foil that's thinner and a lot flimsier than the last roll. So, sometime in the last 2 years, Reynolds Wrap went from being a quality product -- a top name brand, too -- to being total shit.

What other brands have cheaped themselves out recently? It's a sad phenomenon.

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You realize there are different options of tinfoil from Reynolds Wrap? You probably picked up a roll of the light duty and not the heavy duty rolls.

Original_Lonely_Guy said:

1) Nutter Butter Cookies - When the FDA required that Trans Fats go on the labelling, Nabisco removed them from Nutter Butters. That's when I realized that most of their great taste was derived from trans fats.

2) Many Bottled euro beers are now 11.2 ounces. They used the excuse that they wanted to standardize on 330 ml as in Europe. Fuck that, this is America. Give me my 12 ounce bottle.

3) My local pub has pint glasses that look normal. The other day I poured a 12 oz beer into one and it went right to the fucking rim! I've been getting ripped off by 4 ounces for years now! They achieve the allusion my making the glasses about a quarter inch less tall, slightly thicker bottoms (but not obviously so) and if you look closely the are almost cone shaped.

Original_Lonely_Guy said:

1) Nutter Butter Cookies - When the FDA required that Trans Fats go on the labelling, Nabisco removed them from Nutter Butters. That's when I realized that most of their great taste was derived from trans fats.

FatFuckFromJersey said:

True. They used to be delicious. now they taste like quasi-peanut slabs of oil and chemicals.

Original_Lonely_Guy said:

I notice the sugar and the biscuit a lot more. The creaminess is largely gone.

I guess that is for the best, transfats are like toxic waste.

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chewy chips ahoy changed their recipe a few years ago and it's complete shit. The cookies are also much smaller than they used to be

. said:

hormel chili.

I used to LOVE that shit in the 70s when I was 10 years old or so.

When you'd open the can there'd be a quarter inch thick layer of orange beef fat. It was nice and rich chili.

These days, they keep the fat at only about 8 grams and it is largely unsaturated (not beef fat).

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So, if I understand correctly, somehow it brings joy to you that the product you are currently buying is quite expensive - but that's OK because the crappy alternative has gotten to be expensive also?

Fascinating what passes for reasoning on this here premium ebiz forum these days.

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No, I am happy that I have an healthy alternative to that toxic sludge that the corporations market as peanut butter.

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The back page of the coupon section in today's paper has an ad from Subway.

Look closely and you see a notation about the "30 oz. drinks" and picture of the cup.

Of course it used to be 32 oz.