I'm so old I Remember when:

[The Moonshiner]

It's called shrink-flation. Rather than raising the price (that would count as inflation) they reduce the size or materials of the product. .gov is happy, the company doesn't have to raise their prices and the consumer usually just brushes it off, while if the price went up many would stop buying.

Remember when a can of soda was actually 12 oz?

I just call it they're Fing us. More money, less product or both it all comes to the same conclusion for me.

 

[The Moonshiner]

I feel your pain
When will it stop
It has to stop
Well I guess it doesn't really
I bought a 50 piece box of the small bags of potato chips. It was about 85% cheetos and the rest doritos, BBQ, sour cream and onion etc. I can guess which is the cheapest to produce

Stay away from the Cheetos man.
Chester is all jacked up on them now days. It's sad.

 

[Rick589]

Except that they have been raising the prices too. Hence the terrible inflation

I’ve taken to home gardening, chickens, home preserving and bulk buying(when necessary). This has the dual benefit of making us more self reliant AND it reduces my contact with the public.

 

[Rick589]

In my experience, anecdotal evidence is usually proven correct by science once they get around to investigating. I can't count the things I "already knew" when scientists make some amazing discovery. SMH

True, it usually takes the scientific brain trusts years to announce what all of us run of the mill common sense thinkers knew all along.

 

[sdm111]

 

[Sally PB]

Don't EVER forget the sugar ... KoolAid's NASTY without it!

I have used unsweetened KoolAid to dye protein fibers (wool, mohair, silk). The kettle I used to dye them (enamel on steel) was permanently etched to the level of the dye bath. The commercial dyes I used didn't even do that.

 

[AGeese]

I just call it they're Fing us. More money, less product or both it all comes to the same conclusion for me.

The other day I saw one of the empty whip cream containers my mom washed and saved from Thanks Giving. It was some other "healthy" brand with coconut oil or something so already double the price.

The container was shorter than Cool Whip, and when you look inside you can see a large raised area at the bottom. So not only was this thing more expensive, and shorter, but with that secretly raised bottom I thought to myself you blankety blank cheaters!

 

[The Moonshiner]

when you look inside you can see a large raised area at the bottom.

That's scandalous. I'd bet whoever came up with that plan got a lot of pats on the back.

 

[AGeese]

That's scandalous. I'd bet whoever came up with that plan got a lot of pats on the back.

I will post a picture when I get around to it.

 

[Rick589]

Anyone here remember or know about Tasty Kakes? Still made today but also a fond childhood memory.