An ounce here, an ounce there...I demand a recount! Or a refill, or SOMETHING!!!!
It all started with tuna. Look in any old cookbook- a "can" of tuna used to be 7 1/2 ounces! Now we're lucky to get 5 ounces, and half of THAT'S likely to be water.
But they didn't raise the price of the can!
Next it was coffee. Remember the "three pound can"? It took a few years, but that can's now down to an average of 33 ounces- a little over two pounds.
But they didn't raise the price of the can!
Cottage cheese. Yogurt. etc., etc.,etc. I even noticed that some paint companies are selling "short" gallons. Not that we can eat paint.
I think. But they didn't raise the price of the- well, you know.
But this is really the limit:
Since when is a "quart" jar of Best Foods Mayo only 30 OUNCES?????
I never buy name brands, so have no idea when this happened- my (non-unit-pricing) husband brought the offending jar home. Not that the name brand thing matters. I'm sure that store brands will soon follow suit.
And-you guessed it- they didn't raise the price of the...jar.
Well, whoop-de-doo. I'm pret-ty, pretty sure that I'm paying more for the actual product, and it really ticks me off that American manufacturers think I'm too stupid to notice.
So here's what I want from The Weight Police:
Hey, y'all!
Leave off hollering at all us poor RVing schmucks with Not Enough Towpower and go thump on those marketeers that keep insulting our American Intelligence. (no oxymoron cracks, please!)
We're a longsuffering people, resigned to the fact that everything gets more expensive every day- but these insulting "marketing tricks" are really Not To Be Put Up With.
Thank you for your kind attention.
" Not every mind that wanders is lost. " With apologies toJ.R.R. Tolkien
Pisses me off too. But you and I are in the minority on this one.
I was talking to a guy recently who was shaking his head about his girlfriend, who traded in a perfectly fine car that got 30 miles to the gallon for one that got 24 mpg, but had a smaller gas tank. All she considered was that "a fill up" was cheaper on the new car than on the old one.
So, it would seem, that indeed the American public IS that stupid.
I called Dryers ice cream and asked why they went from 1/2 gallon to 1.75 quarts to now 1.5 quarts........the lady told me people have asked for the smaller packaging..........do what????
I told her that we have purchased our last container of Dryers ice cream until they bring back the 1/2 gallon.......she hung up on me!
Eric
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fla-gypsy wrote: I notice these things. I am a serious label reader. Don't get me started on bath soap bars that shrunk in the center.
Shucks folks, this is nothing new!I am remodeling my 140year old stick & brick and am having a real problem getting things to line up. Seem some fool way back when use 2x4 studs that actually measured a full 2 inches by 4 inches, and there is not a knot in them! Now to make the new wall match the old one I have to rip 1/2" strips to glue on the "modern" 2x4's so I do not have a funky wiggle in the wall. Over the years I have seen studs get smaller and smaller, and smaller, I remember when 2x4's measured 1-3/4x 3-3/4 - the 1/4" loss was supposedly shrinkage and milling. Guess modern wood shrinks more and requires more machining to get those wonderfull twisty shapes you have to weed through to find moderately straight boards. I could go on and on, but I have to go "make" some more "real" 2x4's!
1991 Chevy Western Hauler 454 engine - RV cam, Headers, Dual Flowmasters, K&N 100 Gall Aux Gas tank
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2 daughters, 1 cat, 1 sofa lounging Pug, 4 peacocks, too many horses & chickens!
The Weight and Size Police are working out of the same office as the Salary Police, and the Federal, State, County and City Property and Income Tax Police. Get over it.
Retired and visiting as much of this beautiful country as I can.
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But they didn't raise the price of the- well, you know. 
