"l not -l" > wrote in
b.com:

>
> On 30-Apr-2014, Kalmia > wrote:
>
>> I try to avoid this by buying the ones called 'thick sliced'.
>>
>> I just wish we could get back to a full pound, be it bacon, coffee,
>> or whatever. And oh, those shrunken cans of tuna.
>
>
> I never buy tuna, canned or otherwise, so can't say what happens
> there; but, I do whole-heartedly agree on coffee. A package that
> visually appears to be the same size as the one-pound bag of my youth,
> now has as little as 11 ounces. It seems that each decade they drop
> an ounce from a "pound bag" of coffee - wonder how they will shrink
> the K-cups that are so popular now?
>
I buy coffee in 12 oz bags for ~$5, which works out to about $6.66/#. No
wonder why they don't use 1# bags.



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