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To: DJ MacWoW

So you are all upset over soup?

At least the Chinese aren’t around bayonetting anything that moves.
No tornadoes came last week and ripped your roof off and stole your stove.
You’re not in a hospital with your jaw wired shut, or unconscious in a coma being fed hospital food by a tube..

Soup, eh?

Kinda just teasing you. I know what you mean when they just change things all the sudden and you have been a faithful consumer for a long time. “New and Improved” can really mean “cheaper to produce”.

The one that gets me is when you used to get a pound of something, all the sudden, it’s in a 14.5 oz box.

Just a tip. If I find something I really like, I generally try to stock up on it. Sometimes I see those DAK canned hams on sale and I don’t buy just one, heck, I’ll buy six at once!


147 posted on 01/01/2011 11:43:46 AM PST by djf (Touch my junk and I'll break yur mug!!!)
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To: djf
“New and Improved” can really mean “cheaper to produce”.

Yup. But we pay the same.

The one that gets me is when you used to get a pound of something, all the sudden, it’s in a 14.5 oz box.

Yes. And they are doing that with everything. We're starting to buy more of one item too.

201 posted on 01/01/2011 12:15:33 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (If Bam is the answer, the question was stupid.)
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To: djf
The one that gets me is when you used to get a pound of something, all the sudden, it’s in a 14.5 oz box.

It may have been out there for a while but I just noticed that with chocolate chips when I was baking this Christmas. The regular bag of chocolate chips called for in most recipes is 12 oz. You'd think the big double bag of chips would be 24 oz., right? Nope. It's now 23 oz. An ounce to the customer might not seem like a lot but we're being cheated while Toll House and Nestle are making a bundle what with every 25th bag being a 100% profit increase for them.

212 posted on 01/01/2011 12:26:26 PM PST by bgill (K Parliament- how could a young man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
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