Corporate "Down-sizing"

BIZILL

interstate bakeries corporation, better known to the rest of us as hostess has really got me flamed!!! why oh why do companies jip us consumers all the time just for a marginal profit? we get less product for the same price or more expensive a price than what we paid for in the past. i'm referring to 'twinkies'. i bought a package of ten the other day and just now had a major twinkie jonesing. i proceeded to open the package only to find that the wonderful hostess company shrank my snack. these things are now the size of 'zingers'. i just don't like it when companies do this sort of thing.

Q: what other foods have ya'll noticed 'shrinkage' from those of the past?

Jstas

Are you sure you didn't pick up a Twinkie Mini? I've seen them in stores around here before. They are like 1/2 to 2/3rds the size of a regular Twinkie.

BIZILL

the only "mini" hostess shows on their sight or google comes up with are there "mini muffins".

tryrrthg

Wendy's is now giving you the medium size fry with a value meal instead of the "Biggie". now you have to "biggie size" it to get a biggie. I don't even know if they make the great biggie anymore. Horseshit!

bobman1235

Twinkies are bad for you. THey're looking out for your best interests

steveinaz

Hey, there's a whole tribe of us 70's burn-outs who lived on twinkies for years---and we thrive today--well, ok; one of us has a kidney stone...LOL!

Sorry for the derail Bill, back on topic: seriously though, potato chip companies are the biggest offenders; 3/4 of the bag is air.

BIZILL

chips are the worst!

nadams

steveinaz wrote:

Sorry for the derail Bill, back on topic: seriously though, potato chip companies are the biggest offenders; 3/4 of the bag is air.

Oh, now... that's "settling"

bobman1235

I always wondered though, if 3/4 of the bag wasn't air, wouldn't about 4/4 of the bag be crumbs?

We're really feeding the stereotype about fat americans in this thread though.

BIZILL

bobman1235 wrote:

I always wondered though, if 3/4 of the bag wasn't air, wouldn't about 4/4 of the bag be crumbs?

We're really feeding the stereotype about fat americans in this thread though.

perhaps, but heck, a good 70/30 would be nice, would it not?

Jstas

BIZILL wrote:

the only "mini" hostess shows on their sight or google comes up with are there "mini muffins".

There is a bunch of stuff I've seen in stores from Hostess that isn't on the website. It might be old stock or something but I remember seeing the mini cupcakes, mini twinkies and mini other stuff too. I'm not up on the names. Hostess isn't real big out here because we have a regional company called Tastykake that many people like better. That and Drake's makes all of the Yodels, Ho-Hos, Ding-Dongs, Ring-Dings and Devil-Dogs. It can actually be hard to find Hostess stuff sometimes around here.

nadams

Tastykakes rock!

Dennis Gardner

My company's pizzas shrunk all sizes from 10,13,and 15 inches to 9,12 and 14 inches about 10 years ago. It was only due to competitors having the smaller sizes and we couldn't compete in the same pricing structure.

Different companies have done so for many reasons.

BIZILL

sure, for profit. i understand, but it still sucks arse.

jstas, something better than twinkies??? i may have to do some further investigating into that!

AsSiMiLaTeD

the new Wendy's thing pissed me off...

BIZILL

wendy's makes some good tastin' food for sure! burgers are awesome as well as the frosty. try the chili with cheese and onions. good stuff.

Jstas

http://www.tastykake.com/HomepageTemplate.aspx?PostingID=21&ChannelID=2

Get yourself a tastykake care package, if they still have them. They will take an assortment of the most popular and ship them anywhere in the world. I sent a couple of care packages to Hawaii once to a bar for the bartenders there. They were originally from NJ and we asked them what they missed most and one guy said Tastykakes. So I called a friend who was working for Tastykake at the time and he had 196 packages of Tastykakes sent to the bar.

I like them way better than Hostess stuff. That's just me though. So people don't like them. My favorites are Chocolate juniors and Butterscotch Krimpets.

Here is a link for Drake's Cakes. It looks like they are owned by the same company that owns Hostess. I think Drake's is only a Northeast thing though.

http://www.drakescake.com/

Here is a place you can get Drake's Cakes online: http://orderdc.com/catalog/index.php

BIZILL

thanks, jstas. might have to order a holiday pack.

BIZILL

another 'downsizing'/price rise is costco's starkist tuna. i always got the 12 bulk pack from there because it was cheap. went there the other week and now they raised the everyday price like $2. now it's cheaper to just hit any grocery store and buy what's on sale.

Skynut

Candy bars do this all the time.

First they advertise 33% less fat on their 33% smaller candy bar then they advertise 25% more when they put it back to original size and mark it up another $0.05.

Eff em.

I heard from a reliable source that it only takes $.05 cents per pound to get cereal to the shelf.
Cereal is over $4.00 per box (less than a pound) all the time and they make a killing on it.

No more cereal.
No more twinkies.
No more ripping us off.

Lets start a movement here to boycoyt everthing that is a rip-off.
We'll be famous.

bobman1235

Skynut wrote:

Lets start a movement here to boycoyt everthing that is a rip-off.
We'll be famous.

And really, really hungry.

Buy the generic cereal if you think the big cereal companies are ripping you off. Personally I think it's worth it to pay twice as much cuz the generic stuff tastes like cardboard.

Skynut

bobman1235 wrote:

And really, really hungry.

Buy the generic cereal if you think the big cereal companies are ripping you off. Personally I think it's worth it to pay twice as much cuz the generic stuff tastes like cardboard.

Put more sugar on it and cardboard is pretty good.

BIZILL

did someone say boycott twinkies? if i did that i'll be startin' another thread like willow's pertaining to withdrawals.

Pablo

I can't remember when that 1lb coffee can contained a pound of coffee.

On the twinkee thing, I just heard on the radio (from an health guy) on how bad they are for you. They are checking the shelf life of a twinkee, and after 15 years it's still soft. But they say don't touch it because the plastic wrapper is starting to get brittle!

BIZILL

bad for who? tell it to my tongue!!!

Skynut

Allways a good murder defence right?

Especially if it has been on the shelf for 15 years.

bobman1235

All that twinkie shelf life thing is baloney. Hostess says the shelf life of a twinkie is about two weeks. Just because it's soft doesn't mean it's good.

BIZILL

bobman1235 wrote:

Just because it's soft doesn't mean it's good.

sounds like something my ex would say.

Skynut

BIZILL wrote:

sounds like something my ex would say.

There is a good reason she is an ex.

BIZILL

perhaps i have indeed, been down-sized. no, i'm good to go! ladies, any takers?

BIZILL

damn, i hijacked my own friggin' thread!