Text 1723, 60 rader
Skriven 2013-06-25 11:36:45 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
   Kommentar till text 1636 av JIM WELLER (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: Food stuff and a rant
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-=> Quoting JIM WELLER to ALL on 23 Jun 13  20:38:00 <=-

 JW> soup. We pulled out that second half and made scalloped potatoes
 JW> with ham and Feta, potato salad with ham and Feta on a bed of
 JW> spinach and ham and potato chowder with it. Also lots of spinach
 JW> salads, creamed spinach and spinach dip.
 JW> It was OK, not too boring, and we didn't waste anything but I doubt
 JW> if we are going to have either more feta or ham in the near future!

Besides being on the salty side, they are both strong flavors... and you
had a lot of it at once...  ;)

 JW> Downhill alert: Breyers All Natural Ice Cream is no more. It isn't
 JW> even ice cream. It has so many gums and other additives and so
 JW> little cream that it is now called "Frozen Dairy Dessert". I just
 JW> bought some chocomint "creamy and luscious frozen dairy dessert" that
 JW> has about 20 ingredients in it besides milk, cream and sugar
 JW> including (sic) "chocolatey chips". It has a very strange and
 JW> vaguely unpleasant mouth feel.

Haven't been buying that for a while, mostly due to the premium price,
not going on sale, and lack of options in our store...  Now I'll have to
check out that ingredients list again... ;(

 JW> They also went from honest half gallon (1.89 L) tubs down to sneaky
 JW> little 1.66 liter and then 1.42 L packages.

Pretty much everyone has done that... and when Wegmans got customer
flack as it was happening, the response was that they all were sizing
down, so the machines wouldn't do the larger ones any more, so they had
to go with the flow...  Not a totally satisfying response, but there it
was... 

 JW> I wish we could force them to just call it Unilever Frozen Dessert
 JW> Product. It isn't really Breyers any more. I hate companies that buy

Truth in advertising..?  What a concept...!   ;)

 JW> successful businesses for the name, change their product to increase
 JW> profits and as well I hate it when they quietly trim their box size
 JW> from 2 quarts, to 1.75 quarts and then 1.5 quarts. They spend all
 JW> that money on branding, then through their own actions make the
 JW> brand worthless. I wonder if they realize they're teaching people to
 JW> stop loyalty? Note to corporate marketers: teach your customers to
 JW> hate you and you will go out of business.

They're hoping that enough people just won't notice, I guess...  But
when the Brand Name merchandise isn't better than the less expensive
local or store brands, or, worse, is far worse than... then they really
should expect to lose customers...  Loyalty is earned...  :)

 JW> ... Have a sense of humor about the absurdity of the marketplace.

Yup.  Quite necessary...   :)

ttyl         neb

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