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Default The Great Downsizing Rip-off!

Christopher Helms > wrote:
> On Feb 27, 1:45 am, "J. Clarke" > wrote:
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>>> "Christopher Helms" > wrote in message
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>>> On Feb 26, 2:11 am, "Julie Bove" > wrote:
>>>> "sf" > wrote in message

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>>>>> On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 20:21:21 -0800 (PST), "
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>>>>>> Containers often stay the same size, just an ounce or two less
>>>>>> weight.

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>>>>> Why are they downsizing at the grocery stores and upsizing in fast
>>>>> food restaurants?

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>>>> I didn't know that they were. Didn't McDonalds take the Super Size stuff
>>>> off of the menu? And Burger King re-did their sizes. I'm no expert on fast
>>>> food though.

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>>> Whoppers used to be huge things. But no more. Even "regular" sized
>>> hamburger buns at the grocery store have been shrinking to the point
>>> where they are closing in on what used to be called "slider" buns.

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>>> I had noticed that. I bought some Bimbo bread the other day. It is put out
>>> by Thomas. It says, "Say beembo". Two slices have only 23 g of carbs.

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>> The last time I remember a Whopper being a "huge thing" was, uh, never.
>> The last one I had, a year or so back, was about the same size as the
>> first one I ever had sometime in the '60s. It's always been a quarter
>> pound patty.

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> The bun has been getting steadily smaller.


Fast food hamburgers went down hill fast after they started irradiating the
meat. The burgers really tasted awful no matter where one went. In the
sixties I thought the beef from hamburger joints was very good. After the
sixties a slow decline until irradiating the food. Today the great
downsizing for hamburger joints are awful. Home cooking will be on the
rise.

Ice cream is also not sold by the half gallon anymore. That is were I
noticed the downsizing the most.

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