We were in Vons (one of the 3 big local grocery chains) the other day and gave into the impulse buy of Triple Chocolate Chewy Cookies. Did you catch that? They are supposed to be CHEWY damnit! We were hungry and running all over the place doing errands and cracked them open. The texture was totally off. They weren't crispy or soft-style. Some mushy place inbetween. Had to be a mistake right? So a day later we return them to a different Vons and get another package.
The same thing.
When its in the title you expect it to be part of the final product. If you bought air-puffed marshmallows and got a bunch of flaccid, third world country bra-less floppy marshmallows, you 'd be pretty pissed right? You shouldn't fuck with someone's junk food!
At the risk of sounding a bit too much like an old man with his "in the good old days" speeches, this isn't the first time the good stuff has slipped in some weird slight of hand sort of way.
Oreos aren't the same anymore. My (unprovable) theory is that they are aerating the cookie part of the Oreo to get more cookies out of the batch of ingredients. Why do I think this you may ask? How many broken cookies do you get in a batch of oreos now? AND when you dip them in milk they really, really fall apart, not just get tasty like they used to.
So Vons has tried skimping out by not including enough or any of the marshmallow to make the cookies chewy.
But that's not the only scam that the local groceries are trying to pull. Have you noticed how most groceries stores are having "family friendly" sales in these hard economic times? Um, if they were able to sell products at a reduced rate why didn't they sell them at that reduced rate all along? Because that is the real secret recipe. The usually inidentifiable aftertaste that is always there. The recipe is that there will always be skimping wherever possible as long as they can maintain the illusion of that happy palatable "freshness". It's the MSG of the business world. The prices will always be as high as they can while telling everyone how amazingly low they are reducing to give you better discounts.
Chew on that. Even if they do remove the marshmallows.
The same thing.
When its in the title you expect it to be part of the final product. If you bought air-puffed marshmallows and got a bunch of flaccid, third world country bra-less floppy marshmallows, you 'd be pretty pissed right? You shouldn't fuck with someone's junk food!
At the risk of sounding a bit too much like an old man with his "in the good old days" speeches, this isn't the first time the good stuff has slipped in some weird slight of hand sort of way.
Oreos aren't the same anymore. My (unprovable) theory is that they are aerating the cookie part of the Oreo to get more cookies out of the batch of ingredients. Why do I think this you may ask? How many broken cookies do you get in a batch of oreos now? AND when you dip them in milk they really, really fall apart, not just get tasty like they used to.
So Vons has tried skimping out by not including enough or any of the marshmallow to make the cookies chewy.
But that's not the only scam that the local groceries are trying to pull. Have you noticed how most groceries stores are having "family friendly" sales in these hard economic times? Um, if they were able to sell products at a reduced rate why didn't they sell them at that reduced rate all along? Because that is the real secret recipe. The usually inidentifiable aftertaste that is always there. The recipe is that there will always be skimping wherever possible as long as they can maintain the illusion of that happy palatable "freshness". It's the MSG of the business world. The prices will always be as high as they can while telling everyone how amazingly low they are reducing to give you better discounts.
Chew on that. Even if they do remove the marshmallows.