BS: I'm outraged

Subject: RE: BS: I'm outraged
From: Tangledwood
Date: 02 Jul 10 - 11:15 PM

Supermarkets here are required by law to display "per unit" prices as well as the cost of the item, so it is easy to make a comparison of $X per litre etc. They still find ways to confuse the consumer though. For example in the fruit and veg section loose tomatoes may be displayed at $4.36 per kg while some prepacked ones are $4.24 per pack. Of course, the pack is only 750g, not a kg. It seems that it is the supermarket, not the law, that defines what unit is used.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm outraged
From: mousethief
Date: 02 Jul 10 - 09:28 PM

frogprince: This is especially true of (a) M&Ms, and (b) soft drinks. There are so many different sizes of soft drink bottles, some in ounces and some in millilitres so you can't easily compare them without a calculator. Before it was 1/2 litre, 20 oz, 12 oz, 16 oz, 24 oz, 1 litre -- and now they have those two-packs which together are more than a litre and less than 2 litres. I'd swear it's all done to confuse you about which is the best buy.

Of course the best buy is not to drink that sh*t at all.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm outraged
From: gnu
Date: 02 Jul 10 - 07:26 PM

MT... right ondude. And, they all have websites. Give them "feedback" up the

Subject: RE: BS: I'm outraged
From: frogprince
Date: 02 Jul 10 - 07:11 PM

Whut I've been fed up with for awhile is "giant economy size" items that actually cost "more-per" than the smaller sizes. The most recent I noticed was 8 and 12 oz packs of the same shredded cheeze, with the 12 oz priced just over half again as much as the 8 oz. It's been fairly common with cereal sizes. The first I ever caught on to it, I happened to take a closer look at the pricing of larger and smaller packs of 35mm film; the larger packs were more per photo.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm outraged
From: Mrrzy
Date: 02 Jul 10 - 12:41 PM

I have great fear of what will become of Cadbury's...

Subject: RE: BS: I'm outraged
From: mousethief
Date: 02 Jul 10 - 01:08 AM

Diluting a product like the Heinz baked beans is diminishing our choices as well. Are we going to let the big multi-national corporations get away with this?

Not if we stop buying them.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm outraged
From: Charmion
Date: 01 Jul 10 - 11:08 PM

I still mourn the passing of Pure Spring ginger ale, a pop made and sold only in the Ottawa Valley that very definitely tasted of ginger, which Schweppes and Canada Dry do not. The Pure Spring people also made Honee Orange, a non-fizzy pop (most unusual) that really tasted of oranges, and a defiantly red Swiss Cream Soda that tasted of nothing on earth. Sigh ... Où sont les liqueurs douces d'antan ... ?

Subject: RE: BS: I'm outraged
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 01 Jul 10 - 09:32 PM

What annoys me the most is that distinct flavors, as well as products, are disappearing.

My favorite candy, a delicacy local to the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area, is ceasing to exist. They are little amber-colored gummies called candy raisins. They don't look like raisins or taste like raisins; I think they taste like cream soda.

Stark used to make them and then they were bought by NECCO who decided to cease production. Go to Candy Raisins

There is NO other candy quite like them. Just as there is no other butterscotch like the late and very lamented Callard & Bowsers. Nothing else can replace it; it's unique.

I remember back in the '50s and '60s when there were many different flavors of soda (pop, tonic, soda pop) available. Now there are the big guys -- cola (Coke and Pepsi), the uncolas Sprite, 7-Up (is 7-Up still around?!?), the occasional root beer, gingerale, grape and orange...

Diversity is very, very important! When we lose a flavor or product, it's gone. Our choices are diminished. We are less rich than we were before.

Diluting a product like the Heinz baked beans is diminishing our choices as well. Are we going to let the big multi-national corporations get away with this?

As Ian Robb said --
Oh, they're taking it away,
Yes they're taking it away
They are taking all the good things
You can hear the people say
And they'll take it all tomorrow
If they don't take it today
From the poor and sick and helpless,
They are taking it away.

Rant over.
Linn

Subject: RE: BS: I'm outraged
From: gnu
Date: 01 Jul 10 - 09:00 PM

I bought Graves canned with pork and molasses for 50p a tin just a few months ago. Hienz hasn't been on my menu for years.

I used to bake my own years ago, but now I cook for only two. So, Saturday baked beans and biscuits are just not practical save a few times a year as a treat.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm outraged
From: Charmion
Date: 01 Jul 10 - 07:55 PM

Make yer own. Crock pot. Few things are easier -- and quality assurance is in your own hands.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm outraged
From: gnu
Date: 29 Jun 10 - 03:18 PM

Grave's. (My fav.)

Subject: RE: BS: I'm outraged
From: gnu
Date: 29 Jun 10 - 02:28 PM

Clarke's.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm outraged
From: GUEST,999
Date: 29 Jun 10 - 02:07 PM

I`m with Raptor on this. Some recipes are priceless and they should NOT be fucked with. Libby`s bean were an example. Talk about piss a guy off. Humbug.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm outraged
From: Mrrzy
Date: 29 Jun 10 - 11:06 AM

Outraged? You must have been paying attention...

Subject: RE: BS: I'm outraged
From: kendall
Date: 29 Jun 10 - 08:20 AM

Jacqui bought me a big can of mixed nuts. The contents listed each kind, and included was Pecans. Sure, TWO pecan halves!

Remember when coffee was one pound AV.? it is now one pound TROY and sometimes less!

Subject: RE: BS: I'm outraged
From: kendall
Date: 29 Jun 10 - 08:18 AM

I never could stomach that awful Heinz mixture. Here we have real home style beans. State of Maine, or Stewarts, just like Mother used to make.
Did you ever try to eat Manhattan clam chowder? Ketchup in clam chowder? It looks like there was something hurt bad in there.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm outraged
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 29 Jun 10 - 02:48 AM

LOL... who needs Spaw when we have Ed T... :>)

Subject: RE: BS: I'm outraged
From: Ed T
Date: 28 Jun 10 - 05:51 PM

While you have a right ro be outraged, and even double
flutterblasted.

Since bean intake could now be lesser, have you considerd proportionally reducing your intake of beano?

At a minimum, the manufacturer should indicate a possible decrease in blow-by, cushion creepers, butt barking and air biscuits? Have you considered launching a "gas action lawsuit", get the drift?



http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:bcNkQqdPQP4J:learn.shorelineschools.org/shorewood/wcrocker/documents/beano_

Subject: RE: BS: I'm outraged
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 28 Jun 10 - 04:58 PM

One of the barely-surviving fast food outlets that has advertised their "foot long hot dogs" for something like 7 decades here now delivers a "foot long" that is a 10-1/2 inch long bun containing a weenie that is barely 9 inches long.

The bun possibly has not changed, but the weenie used to stick out both ends, which is what prompted me to check the measurement a while back.

I'm quite certain that the older wieners were a full foot long, since back in the time when you knew the workers at places of business that you patronized (late 40s?), a "famous jokester" of the generation before me liked to take a foundry "shrink ruler" in and make loud complaints about the weiner being too short - just as a tease of course.

At least a couple of the shops got in the habit of keeping a "legal ruler" at hand just for him. One shop nailed a ruler to the counter, with a sign that said "Check Us Out."

John

Subject: RE: BS: I'm outraged
From: Don Firth
Date: 28 Jun 10 - 02:37 PM

Customer to waiter:    What is this?

Waiter to Customer:    Why, it's bean soup, sir.

Customer to Waiter:    I don't care what it's been, I want to know what it is now!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: I'm outraged
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 28 Jun 10 - 02:16 PM

We (Canada) have been buying an "organic" brand of cooked beans lately because chili con carne and other dishes made with beans can be prepared much more quickly than if we started out with dry beans.
Pinto, black, red, and occasionally others are on store shelves.

Real bacon, ham, molasses, etc. can be added in cooking; much better than Heinz or other brands with that little piece(s) of fat that stands for the "Boston Baked," etc., on the label.

Of course good dried beans, soaked overnight are best, but the canned beans are good.
Of course if we want Tepary or other less common beans with their unique flavors, we start with dried.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm outraged
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 28 Jun 10 - 02:00 PM

this is a thread about beans... where the hell is Spaw?

Subject: RE: BS: I'm outraged
From: Charmion
Date: 28 Jun 10 - 01:53 PM

If you want my never-fail crockpot recipe, drop me a PM.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm outraged
From: gnu
Date: 28 Jun 10 - 01:22 PM

Easy to make. Easy to clean up... as a bachelor, I can soak things in the sink for days. >;-)

Subject: RE: BS: I'm outraged
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Jun 10 - 10:49 AM

It's not all that difficult to make your own. It's just the work involved.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm outraged
From: Arnie
Date: 28 Jun 10 - 10:15 AM

Well someone is fighting back on the diminishing food front. I read that a stall at Glastonbury was selling foot-long sausages! To eat one, you have to hold it with outstretched arm, like a vuvuzela. No wonder the Glastonbury bog cleaners were working 12-hr days!!

Subject: RE: BS: I'm outraged
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 28 Jun 10 - 09:34 AM

Reminds me of a joke I heard when I was a kid, growing up in St. Louis, MO.

Q. Why are there exactly 239 beans in a can of pork and beans?

A. Because, if there were one more, it would be too farty!

Subject: RE: BS: I'm outraged
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 28 Jun 10 - 09:22 AM

Write to the mayor of bean town!

Subject: RE: BS: I'm outraged
From: MarkS
Date: 28 Jun 10 - 08:59 AM

Noticed the number of ounces in a container of ice cream lately?

Noticed the amount of liquid in a can of cranberry sauce lately?

Gaaaaaaah

Subject: RE: BS: I'm outraged
From: Wesley S
Date: 28 Jun 10 - 08:53 AM

I'll bet that really messed up your breakfast.....

Subject: RE: BS: I'm outraged
From: Bobert
Date: 28 Jun 10 - 08:19 AM

Beaners Unite!!!

Subject: RE: BS: I'm outraged
From: gnomad
Date: 28 Jun 10 - 07:53 AM

Maryff has my take on it, I don't buy that mixture myself but do sometimes buy the beans. I've noticed that the proportion of beans:juice varies a fair bit between batches, and the sauce itself is of varying thickness.

If Heinz were working out of a domestic kitchen I would say somebody had neglected to give the pot a good stir before serving, on their scale I suppose that ought to happen automatically.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm outraged
From: Maryrrf
Date: 28 Jun 10 - 07:41 AM

Could it have been a one off - a slip in their quality control where not as much beans got into that particular can when they went through the line? It will be interesting to see if other cans show the same shortage.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm outraged
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 28 Jun 10 - 07:35 AM

Well with VAT going up to 20%, they have to make cutbacks somewhere.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm outraged
From: bobad
Date: 28 Jun 10 - 07:05 AM

Better yet a video and post it on YouTube.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm outraged
From: gnu
Date: 28 Jun 10 - 06:59 AM

You should have taken a pic and sent it them.

Subject: BS: I'm outraged
From: Raptor
Date: 28 Jun 10 - 06:31 AM

Last night I comenced to perparing one of my favorite meals. Beans and Wieners. When I opened the can of Hienz baked beans with pork in Tomato sauce. And was compleatly dumbfounded to find that they have cut back on the amount of beans that they put in the can. What poured out of my can was a watery mess. The bean contentwas cut by almost half. ALMOST HALF! I was sceptical when in the early nineties when Hienz bought out Libbys deep browned beans and pledged to keep the same recipe, and I knew this would happen. What a truly dark day.

Whats next our ketchup?

I'm mad as hell and I'm not gonna take it anymore!