Post Adfo0MrEb1v2eLcxf6 by condret@shitposter.club
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(DIR) Post #AdQHdhvclCaN9gQvFA by tk@bbs.kawa-kun.com
2024-01-02T03:34:19.151311Z
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Rising Costs Mean Food Companies Are Making Snacks, Sodas Taste WorseBut the Coke didn’t taste as good as it used to — and it left a weird aftertaste. I thought there might be something wrong with the can, or perhaps my rosy childhood memories clouded my judgment. But as I indulged my urge, I found the same thing. Even Coke-drinking friends I spoke to agreed: The taste had changed.It wasn’t just Coke; other foods from my childhood taste different now. The Dairy Milk chocolate bars I used to enjoy after school aren’t as creamy and taste too sweet. Lay’s potato chips don’t pack the same flavor punch they used to. A stroll through Reddit shows I’m not alone: Thousands of people have noticed the quality of their favorite snacks getting worse.“Ritz crackers. For some inexplicable reason, maybe around 5 years ago the crackers went from being nice and firm and dippable to nowadays easily crumbling to bits with even the lightest dip,” one user complained a few years ago.“You could bite into a Twix and feel your teeth travel through a heavy layer of caramel,” another Redditor lamented, adding, “Now they snap in half and taste like a sugar cookie with some chocolate on it.”“Breyers used to be the best for store-bought ice-cream, but now it’s just a crappy mess,” a third said.People aren’t imagining these changes — manufacturers are quietly modifying their recipes to save money and maintain their profit margins. The phenomenon, which has been called “skimpflation” and “flavorflation,” is a way to hide the impact of inflation and avoid passing higher costs on to the consumer. But by replacing expensive ingredients with cheaper ones, companies are also making food less tasty, less healthy, and less satisfying.
(DIR) Post #AdQHzyU3t86Ws79uVs by coolboymew@shitposter.club
2024-01-02T03:38:52.413024Z
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@tk definitively real and happened way before the current economyOreos has long stopped soaking milk properly
(DIR) Post #AdQI8MtZ0lTitn5cSO by ElDeadKennedy@shitposter.club
2024-01-02T03:40:24.635419Z
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@coolboymew @tk remember this shit? god i hated that garbage so much, what a strange taste it had
(DIR) Post #AdQILddk48pob316Ya by ElDeadKennedy@shitposter.club
2024-01-02T03:42:48.340696Z
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@coolboymew @tk lucky you
(DIR) Post #AdQIM02InVYK3ag1tQ by coolboymew@shitposter.club
2024-01-02T03:42:38.590275Z
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@ElDeadKennedy @tk nope
(DIR) Post #AdQIXtuhO3yeXinNVA by ElDeadKennedy@shitposter.club
2024-01-02T03:45:01.513732Z
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@coolboymew @tk must have been around the time i decided to stop drinking coca cola. what a disgusting piece of shit
(DIR) Post #AdQMAamYka1UMf85QG by Eiswald@poa.st
2024-01-02T04:25:38.189132Z
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@tk Had a coke around Thanksgiving and noticed the difference from how it used to taste and how it tastes now immediately.One serious Issue with the U.S. specifically is that despite pretending to have food safety standards comparation have carte blanche to poison and inoculate our food supply with all kinds of horrific shit running the gambit from plastics, to heavy metals, to chemicals, sedatives, and even addictive stimulants. The average American is on an unwitting regiment of involuntary hormone therapy.
(DIR) Post #AdQO2TUaAbqPLYygQi by vixn@noagendasocial.com
2024-01-02T04:46:34Z
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@coolboymew @tk Ages ago my dad told me that peanut butter got very expensive when he was younger, and that (because I thought prices would eventually go down when I was younger) the size of the peanut butter container shrunk but the price rose and never returned. That’s hardly legible I know but
(DIR) Post #AdQO99fuFUtTuZSZYe by vixn@noagendasocial.com
2024-01-02T04:47:46Z
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@Eiswald @tk I know corn syrup is bad for you. What else? I stopped using antiperspirant and stopped my wife as well. Now I’m learning about all these “parabens” and other things that I still don’t quite understand.
(DIR) Post #AdQPC1pBza7kO4jmQS by Eiswald@poa.st
2024-01-02T04:59:30.697628Z
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@vixn @tk You asked for this.youtube.com/watch?v=rQmqVVmMB3k&t=9s&ab_channel=WhatI%27veLearned
(DIR) Post #AdQPP1mvRJDo2RsLnE by Eiswald@poa.st
2024-01-02T05:01:51.606507Z
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@vixn @tk And did you know that 'recycled' cardboard also goes right into the food supply? I wish I could find the video on that as well but it's basically vanished.
(DIR) Post #AdQUHytQIxwunqNG9g by Eiswald@poa.st
2024-01-02T05:56:36.419191Z
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@vixn @tk youtube.com/watch?v=K0OtGIPRcAs&ab_channel=BusinessInsider
(DIR) Post #AdQbsbydAUlY7kDvpg by olmitch@shitposter.club
2024-01-02T07:21:39.876710Z
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@ElDeadKennedy @coolboymew @tk I used to drink that. It had stevia and a small amount of cane sugar
(DIR) Post #AdfnhNDV2LmYGGz6oq by jeffcliff@shitposter.club
2024-01-09T15:14:45.170489Z
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with a substantial % of the market getting covid and unable to taste *anyway* these companies might be more tempted more to do this
(DIR) Post #Adfo0MrEb1v2eLcxf6 by condret@shitposter.club
2024-01-09T15:18:11.440956Z
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@tk i recently experienced it with pesto from aldi
(DIR) Post #AdfoOHH10f7UHT5TbE by Moon@shitposter.club
2024-01-09T15:22:25.485230Z
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@tk This is the result of government policy and human psychology
(DIR) Post #AdfoXf2G2584aEeuOm by feld@bikeshed.party
2024-01-09T15:24:04.832370Z
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@Moon @tk I wonder if a bit of this is due to COVID fucking with people's sense of taste for longer than the illness and they haven't figured it out yet, they are just mad their snacks aren't hitting the same
(DIR) Post #Adfs7ogXvq22ncR3rs by feld@bikeshed.party
2024-01-09T16:04:11.873927Z
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@Moon @tk It reminds me of the story from a few months ago when a group of friends went out to dinner and everyone complained the food was flavorless but actually they all had asymptomatic COVID lol
(DIR) Post #AdfsZx28UFYWnbwveC by mapachin@novo-atlantis.null.media
2024-01-09T16:08:16.163237Z
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@Moon @tk aka capitalismall of my favorite traditional snacks still taste exactly the same :blobcattriumph: no thanks to nestle who is likely doing the exact same thing.
(DIR) Post #AdfsZyFHypfgYh6wmu by Moon@shitposter.club
2024-01-09T16:09:22.121244Z
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@mapachin @tk I guess it depends on if you think USA monetary policy is a cause or effect.
(DIR) Post #AdfspOSomeX2DUnFbM by mapachin@novo-atlantis.null.media
2024-01-09T16:09:46.159755Z
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@Moon @tk also isn't kinda weird how emotionally attached people are to these extremely corporate processed foods. its like ur mum and aunties got replaced with a huge machine.
(DIR) Post #AdfspPRn7xIxGbJwdk by Moon@shitposter.club
2024-01-09T16:12:06.263124Z
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@mapachin @tk yeah taht is true, junk food and comfort food makers spend billions of dollars designing the food to be addictive.
(DIR) Post #Adfsyhz1a28ZMTIcPQ by mapachin@novo-atlantis.null.media
2024-01-09T16:10:34.621398Z
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@Moon @tk i mean, we all know that corporates really run the show in the US.
(DIR) Post #AdfsyipqPeO80I0njs by Moon@shitposter.club
2024-01-09T16:13:39.492461Z
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@mapachin @tk indirectly, I mean the monetary policy of the USA is meant to keep the war machine running constantly, the reason for that is a variety of reasons that don't all have to do with capitalism.
(DIR) Post #Adft8gGmo1Y8wWMWtU by Moon@shitposter.club
2024-01-09T16:15:40.088835Z
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@mapachin @tk I'm not really defending capitalism I just think it's clear that this is the result of inflation which is being set by politicians by fiat, not cookie-makers who would have preferred making cookies that people want to buy, not sawdust.
(DIR) Post #AdftMyYTcO97hxSATY by mapachin@novo-atlantis.null.media
2024-01-09T16:14:52.859691Z
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@Moon @tk the war machine? i'm pretty sure that's pure capitalism right there. violent extractivism and all that. keep oil prices down to subsidize other market sectors to keep the profits flowing to the shareholders. bananna republics, &c.
(DIR) Post #AdftMzc3gYbazM8XhI by Moon@shitposter.club
2024-01-09T16:18:15.021383Z
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@mapachin @tk I don't disagree with your characterization
(DIR) Post #AdftTXTah94PkfIVrk by mapachin@novo-atlantis.null.media
2024-01-09T16:19:12.288584Z
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@Moon @tk i kinda went off on a thing soz
(DIR) Post #AdftTYOJIGRMaZpoH2 by Moon@shitposter.club
2024-01-09T16:19:27.096169Z
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@mapachin @tk you're good!
(DIR) Post #AdftWXE653C7qTTlXU by Moon@shitposter.club
2024-01-09T16:20:00.528482Z
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@mapachin @tk you are always welcome to reply to my posts any way you like.
(DIR) Post #AdftYGdeiyDUyjGBjU by leyonhjelm@breastmilk.club
2024-01-09T16:20:20.864453Z
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@mapachin The war machine is the biggest customer so in that sense, capitalism, sure@tk @Moon
(DIR) Post #AdftZQ556TLEYLdaq0 by mapachin@novo-atlantis.null.media
2024-01-09T16:17:49.783342Z
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@Moon @tk there's also the wage stagnation issue that doesn't allow prices to go up for certain commodities because of the antagonism between capital and labor. the same cookie from back in the day would be like 3x the cost probs.
(DIR) Post #AdftjWwwQ8NmkfeRhQ by leyonhjelm@breastmilk.club
2024-01-09T16:22:22.936409Z
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@MoonWilco @tk @mapachin
(DIR) Post #Adftp2nBSRmuxRiTyK by Moon@shitposter.club
2024-01-09T16:23:15.962450Z
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@leyonhjelm @tk @mapachin there's capitalism in name and there's capitalism in practice. the issue with the war machine is the government is the customer and it prints money to pay for the stuff. there's no actual "market" or "money"
(DIR) Post #AdftsHtVlVHQfHDsEy by polarisera@spinster.xyz
2024-01-09T16:23:57.835467Z
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@Moon @tk @mapachin If you can't defend free markets, defend your belief in central planned and regulated magic, that a bunch of anus-licking cowards in academy have a clue how to run anything.
(DIR) Post #AdfturG1G0l8v7yatk by leyonhjelm@breastmilk.club
2024-01-09T16:24:25.785305Z
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@Moon Correct on the demand side but the reaction of the supply is definitely capitalistic @tk @mapachin
(DIR) Post #Adfu2rRWS2fvoRAmgq by Moon@shitposter.club
2024-01-09T16:25:50.067643Z
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@polarisera @tk @mapachin I don't have an answer for you what a good system is, I am just trying to tease out accurate blame.
(DIR) Post #Adfu7EXwUjpmcpGEoy by tk@bbs.kawa-kun.com
2024-01-09T16:20:43.994139Z
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@mapachin @Moon The Military Industrial Complex is a thinly veiled money laundering machine: taxpayer money goes into the bank accounts of the rich executives at the top of the suppliers and contractors.
(DIR) Post #Adfu7Ga8vWmawEJ1Wq by tk@bbs.kawa-kun.com
2024-01-09T16:21:12.101104Z
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@mapachin @Moon The US keeps "making wars" because it wants to keep the laundering going.
(DIR) Post #Adfv9tpy31KXDfWk0O by polarisera@spinster.xyz
2024-01-09T16:38:21.097287Z
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@Moon @tk @mapachin Why would a complex human system be more controllable and predictable than a double pendulum?
(DIR) Post #Adg0z1Rg1He7M6MUee by genmaicha@stereophonic.space
2024-01-09T17:43:09.110279Z
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@condret @tk lately I noticed a lot of store-bought pesto no longer uses pine nuts