I want to tell a little story. This happened 45 minutes ago. I was at the grocery store and told my daughter she could pick out a snack treat for herself. She picked Lucky Charms Bars, I was happy to buy them until I looked at the box and the price*. $4.99 CAD for 110 grams of Lucky charm bar. $1 per 22 gram serving. That’s $20 a lb.
Know what I can get for $20 a lb or less?
Pretty much any steak cut, chicken, pork, TVP, oatmeal, rice, beans, fruits, or vegetables.
I feel like inflation, and this ingredient swapping enshittification of food has hit hardest on junk food. My family has been fairly insulated from it because we don’t eat a lot of it. Of course, I’ve noticed chicken and beef and other staples go up, but they haven’t shot up like packaged convenience food has.
- I talked her out of those, I pointed out for the same $5 she could buy many, many more cookies, or ice cream for days. And she understood that, thank goodness.
I feel like inflation, and this ingredient swapping enshittification of food has hit hardest on junk food.
That’s not even inflation doing that. It’s the greedy companies that raise prices, knowing some people will still buy those things.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
“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.”
For instance, this year Conagra again changed one of its recipes: It reduced fat content in its Wish-Bone House Italian salad dressing by 10%, replacing oil with water and more salt.
And journalists at The Guardian recently compiled a list of companies reducing the amounts of key ingredients in their products — avocado in guacamole, egg in mayonnaise, and olive oil in various spreads.
Many grocery stores and retailers worried about customers moving to discount chains will put pressure on manufacturers to keep prices low by threatening to delist their products and not display them on shelves.
This year the World Health Organization classified aspartame, a popular artificial sweetener used in things like ice cream, breakfast cereal, and soda, as a possible carcinogen, meaning it could cause cancer.
But when influential measures ostensibly meant to gauge Americans’ standard of living don’t capture how our favorite foods are changing, we end up buying goods that are not only more expensive but less enjoyable.
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Who the fuck interviews redditors? Boo hoo the neckbeards are sad their foods are getting less unhealthy
It’s bullshit too, like most Redditor hate. Twix is exactly the same now as it was when I was a kid. It hasn’t even succumb to shrinkflation yet.
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Looks like we pissed off some reddit users lmao
you can simplify the entire modern economy down to “[corporation] is quietly ruining [object/service/everything]”
maybe some day people will eventually wake up to the reality that capitalism optimizes the efficient creation of profit, not the efficient creation of quality or quantity of products. in fact producing products or anything of quality is actively inconvenient to the profit motive- which is why you see subscriptions everywhere now.
