Grocery Shrink Ray has struck again!

[captpackrat]

I found an old box of Tuna Helper buried in the back of the cabinet.  The expiration date on it is from 2008.  I'd just bought a ton of * Helper, and this box seemed unusually heavy.  I checked the weight and it said it contained 8.4 ounces.  I checked the other * Helper boxes, and they were all 4 to 6 ounces!

The instructions also call for a 7 ounce can of tuna.  Good luck with that, since almost all tuna comes in 5 ounce cans now.

Nothing like a little time capsule to show just how much the manufacturers have been shrinking their products.

Comments

[twigmouse.livejournal.com]

Annoying, isn't it?

Another thing along those lines that always bothered me was renaming sizes. I've been to several pizza places that cycled all their sizes down. Large is now "Family", Medium is now Large, and Small is now Medium. It break the rules, since "Medium" is defined as "around the middle of a scale of evaluation". So by definition, medium =/= small!

Grrr. I hate it when retailers and/or advertisers insult my intelligence.

[mikosquirrel.livejournal.com]

Weeeeeeell.. in olden times, ordering a "medium" pizza in America was a bad idea for anyone not used to ramming American-sized portions down themselves, unless they were going to have help eating it. "Medium" may be the wrong word, but you can't just go around calling enormous things "small". That doesn't wash either.

[twigmouse.livejournal.com]

Agreed!

Portion sizes here in Australia are more reasonable (though no less expensive) ;-)