Monday 10 November 2014

Gulls (though not seagulls?)

Seagull or Sea Gull is a common, informal, name for Gulls, sea birds in the family Laridae.

Just thought I'd post this picture because I liked it (and took it, and played around with the colour):


Food companies that try to fool you

There are many ways that companies are trying to avoid raising prices - though I think that often it is more like "there are many ways that companies are trying to avoid being seen as raising prices".

Now, I'm sure that this company/food would never try to fool you, but I've seen so many things under the general category of "make the container smaller" that I wonder if there are any products that have remained the same. Beer maybe? Some of the worst offenders:
1. Allen's Apple Juice - if the can gets any smaller it will be 'individually sized'
2. Frozen Juice
3. Some pop (soda for my potential American reader)

I thought I'd also found an especially egregious example with pizza (under the similar "large package but less weight/volume" category, but I later saw that it was due to 'thin crust' versus 'regular'. Still, if you're buying thin crust I'm guessing you are probably getting a little less of the toppings too:

Standard size, and 901 g.


Standard size, and 480 g.

Oh well, I'm sure that craft brewers will never change the size of their bottles!