To me, the quality of both the chocolate and peanut butter in Reeses have declined markedly. This coincided with the introduction of all those new Reeses-branded spinoffs. And what happened to the dark chocolate Reeses cups? So good and yet so short-lived. The good do die young.
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You'd think dark chocolate versions of things would be a no-brainer, but apparently not. Maybe it can't be processed as easily.
We have Aero bars here, milk chocolate with bubbles in it. There's Milk, there's Mint, occasionally there's Orange, but never Plain. I would love to ask an assistant for an Aero Plain.
At least I can get my preferred soap bars, Pears, in Mint. A bit hard to find sometimes; I keep a buffer stock and top up.
Dark chocolate costs more to produce, that’s all.
That might taint my enjoyment of pancakes.
I've been using Irish Spring for decades and it too has been changed in recent years.
I call it crapflation.
Many things have both increased in price and decreased in quality... In most cases products have also shrunk.
Many condiments and sauces have actually been watered down to the point that water is now listed closer to first, or first, on the ingredients list.
Many things have both increased in price and decreased in quality... In most cases products have also shrunk.
Many condiments and sauces have actually been watered down to the point that water is now listed closer to first, or first, on the ingredients list.
Fo sho'..... Used to have lots of pound bags of coffee beans on the shelves. Then it was 12 oz bags for just a bit under the pound price, and now there are many 10.5 Oz bags. Ugh. Quality not reduced on the expensive stuff.
A person can develop a real addiction to a product. For me it was Boraxo hand soap. I've used it all my life and was crushed when they decided to stop making it after over 100 years. Overnight a 5 pound box (about 3 years worth) went from $15 to over a hundred dollars. I figured someone would take up the slack and I was right. After about a year of off and on looking on the web I found what looked like a good substitute. Bought a 5lb. box and am happy to say it's pretty good. So, all is right with the world again. 
As of today, all local stores have been out of York Peppermint Patties for over a week. I’m panicking.
I guess it was about 6 years ago when I stopped in at the gas station and bought a couple of Butterfingers.
My immediate reaction was WTF??
I looked online, and sure enough, they’d sold out to Ferrer Roche.
The chocolate was wrong and the crisp was more gooey than any Butterfinger I’d ever had.
The only Butterfinger I’ve had in years has been in a Blizzard.
Everything it getting smaller. Bought a pack of Twizzlers the other day and they are much smaller around than they used to be. Of course, the price is a little higher.
I can deal with product shrinkage. But when they fundamentally change the product, and keep the same name on it, I get pissed. It's why we worked so hard to make the Standard Tobacco products as true to the originals as humanly possible, and still we did not entirely succeed. It's a tricky business with old, extinct products, but Hershey's, Mars, etc have no such excuses. they just don't give a flying f*ck about quality or consistency.Everything it getting smaller. Bought a pack of Twizzlers the other day and they are much smaller around than they used to be. Of course, the price is a little higher.
What I wouldn't give to have the original Clark bar back again.
Said the giraffe, "I want a Clark Bar!"
And, yeah, quality diminution sucks worse than price inflation.
And, yeah, quality diminution sucks worse than price inflation.
Yeah, just be honest with us.
If the price has to go up we might pay it, if it's a good product!