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Sometimes these shrinkings are (accidentally) synchronized. In the early 2000s almost everything available from big manufacturers in Brazilian groceries shrunk
by vonuebelgarten 12y ago
Sometimes these shrinkings are (accidentally) synchronized. In the early 2000s almost everything available from big manufacturers in Brazilian groceries shrunk while keeping the same prices (e.g. cookie bags going from 300g to 290g).
Last year and a half yogurt not only shrunk but started vanishing from the malls, being replaced by almost identically-looking bottles of "fermented milk", as the new formulation did not met the mandatory labeling standards to be called "yogurt". Of course, the prices were kept or raised.
That's everywhere.
- mikeash 12y agoIntellectually, I know that "fermented milk" is a perfectly accurate way to describe cheese, yogurt, and similar products, but I don't know if I could bring myself to buy and eat something that had it right on the label....
- wolf550e 12y agoHow about fermented grape juice or fermented grain?
- mikeash 12y agoOddly, I have no problem with those. Something about fermented milk specifically sounds bad. Even though I'll happily eat all sorts of cheese.
- mikeash 12y agoFor what it's worth, I decided this might be because I've had far too much experience with disgusting sour milk that sat in the refrigerator too long, while my only experience with rotten grain or grapes is with the nicely packaged kind where it was done on purpose.