Is Shrinkflation Affecting Your Grocery Shopping in Canada?

[Evo]

No offense intended, Evo, but I'd be astounded at that run of poor quality control discoveries if it weren't you. You poor thing. You really ought to sue all of them to pay for all of your broken bones in your other misadventures. Like standing and walking.

This was all with a 2 year period. Everything happens to me.

 

[turbo]

My QC problems have been sporadic. I remember finding a huge intact green grasshopper in my string beans in a rare school lunch (must have been a blizzard that day, so my mother gave me 10-15 cents for lunch instead of making me walk home). I liked lots of vegetables, but not the USDA surplus canned string beans, so I swapped my beans for some other food with a girl across the table from me. She made loud, excited noises when she noticed the 'hopper, and generally livened up lunch as everybody else started inspecting their food. I should have grabbed the 'hopper and eaten it, but she ran and dumped her tray before the thought came to me.

 

[glondor]

Coke and Pepsi seem to have changed for the worse in this area as well, I think they have changed the sugar to corn syrup or something like it. Tastes like crap. I guess they did not think anyone would notice. Heinze ketchup seems different as well, sweeter?

 

[Evo]

I don't think Hienz is as bad ad Hunt's ketchup, or it wasn't. Hunt's now uses two types of corn syrup and is so sweet it's sickening. I bought a bottle and it was like tomato pancake syrup, I had throw it away.

 

[Astronuc]

I don't think Hienz is as bad ad Hunt's ketchup, or it wasn't. Hunt's now uses two types of corn syrup and is so sweet it's sickening. I bought a bottle and it was like tomato pancake syrup, I had throw it away.

Um - you need to do a cooking/food show. Greg could do the online support for it.

You could do brand comparisons, in addition to good 'ol home cooking, gourmet cooking, restaurant reviews, and foreign/ethnic cooking in exotic places like Papete, Bora Bora, . . . .

 

[Moonbear]

Coke and Pepsi seem to have changed for the worse in this area as well, I think they have changed the sugar to corn syrup or something like it. Tastes like crap. I guess they did not think anyone would notice.

I think they replaced the sugar with corn syrup about 20 or 25 years ago. When's the last time you had a soda?

Heinze ketchup seems different as well, sweeter?

I don't eat enough ketchup to notice. My primary use for ketchup is to make bbq sauce, which gets sugar added anyway, so I probably wouldn't notice a slight change in sweetness.

 

[glondor]

I drink it all the time, It seems to have changed just in this last year. Maybe it is new in Canada?