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21 votes
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How it’s made: Inside a French potato chip factory
17 votes -
Joe Biden criticises US snack makers for ‘shrinkflation rip-off’
32 votes -
The Roman Colosseum: What it was like to attend the games
12 votes -
Study on the health impact of snacking shows quality of snacks more important than quantity or frequency
24 votes -
Confession: I like shrinkflation
I’ve been noticing food shrinkflation a lot here in Belgium lately. Smaller soda cans, biscuit packet counts going down, 125g becoming 115g etc. And honestly, to choose between the same size...
I’ve been noticing food shrinkflation a lot here in Belgium lately. Smaller soda cans, biscuit packet counts going down, 125g becoming 115g etc.
And honestly, to choose between the same size package getting more expensive vs less of it… I’ll take the latter. It’s reducing consumption. Which is great as a whole, but also selfishly if I’m buying a pack of crisps and I get to eat less of it … great.
Not so great on essentials obviously but those aren’t really hit by shrinkflation as much as snacks, etc.
Okay, that’s it. I do want to stress that I don’t like paying more for the same shit, but on a practical level, if I do, I much rather get less for the same price than have to spend more and be stuck getting the same quantity.
Especially if it’s junk food… I’ve even found myself disliking the old soda can sizes when I come across them. Having gotten used to the new ones, the old ones are straight up too much.
43 votes -
Cheap, easy, and not-too-unhealthy homemade snacks?
By now we all know that ultraprocessed foods are really, really bad for you, and that should rule out the majority of snack foods you find on the shelf at the grocery store. We've never been big...
By now we all know that ultraprocessed foods are really, really bad for you, and that should rule out the majority of snack foods you find on the shelf at the grocery store. We've never been big consumers of ultraprocessed snack foods in my house, but we do like to snack. And we really need to diversify beyond popcorn for our snacking purposes. Fruits and nuts are of course an obvious option. What other cheap, easy to prepare, and not-too-unhealthy snack foods do you like to make?
18 votes -
Kellogg to separate into three companies focusing on snacks, cereal and plant-based foods
11 votes -
A day in the life of (almost) every vending machine in the world
6 votes -
The fight over who can take credit for the invention of Flamin' Hot Cheetos
9 votes -
The history of popcorn
13 votes -
Ballpark peanuts, a classic summer pleasure, have been benched
7 votes -
Investigating the etymology of "Triscuit"
16 votes -
There’s an entire industry dedicated to making foods crispy
8 votes -
So long, salt and vinegar: How crisp flavours went from simple to sensational
15 votes -
Peckish pedestrians in Copenhagen will soon be able to pluck healthy snacks directly from greenery around the city
13 votes -
Why the government should tax unhealthy foods and subsidise nutritious ones
11 votes -
Analyzing the best way to make popcorn
13 votes