Snack cakes getting smaller and smaller

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Seems to me that since I was a kid, Little Debbies and Break Cakes and such have gotten smaller than they were. Has anyone else noticed this, or is it something that just happens when you get older and grow larger? Used to be the jelly cream pies were a few bites, but now it's like I can fit the whole thing in my mouth, and its barely 3 inches wide. I wish they would keep them the same size and just increase the price due to inflation, instead of keeping the box the same price and having to shrink the things.

 

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I'm 48. You should have seen the size of a candy bar when I was a kid...and they were only a nickel!!

 

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Good topic.

Especially since Cheezy-Poofs and Snacky-Cakes are two of my favorite food groups. It was several years back when I happened to ask my mom "I thought sugar came in five pound bags?" She said "They DID."

 

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I've noticed the same thing with Big Mac's. After years of eating them, they now look tiny in my chubby little hands... :confused:

Dave

 

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Pizza is like that too. Seems like a large pizza from Pizza Hut is the same size that a medium used to be. I though it was just me. :think

 

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I think it might be a marketing ploy - the packaging always seems to be the same but the contents seems to gradually get smaller....

Although it may be a government conspiracy to fight the growing obesity problem in your great nation:confused: :eek:

 

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Down Sizing.

Down sizing is what it is called, less product in the same size package at the same price. It's been going on for years.

 

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And whats up with all the thin wall, air filled gumballs?

You know, ...back in my day.................................

 

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Would you like that Twinkie Super Sized?

 

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And what's up with potato chips? You go buy this big bag of chips, and it's already half empty!:scream:

 

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You can buy supersized Twinkies?? :)

 

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The above mentioned items are in direct correllation to the increasing size of the toilet paper spool w/ less actual paper wound on the spool. Coincedence? :confused:

 

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Originally posted by Wade
The above mentioned items are in direct correllation to the increasing size of the toilet paper spool w/ less actual paper wound on the spool. Coincedence? :confused:

Click to expand...

ROTFLMAO!!:)


Not to change the subject, but the next time you wife drags you to the store to buy groceries, and toilet paper, when the check out person is scanning the TP, ask he/she if they think that'll be enough TP for the amount of food you bought! I guarentee your wife will leave you at home from then on!:p

 

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The shrinkage in size of snack cakes, bags-o-chips, Twinkies, pizzas, (5th food group), Big Macs is directly and inversely proportional to the age and size of the stomach in which they land. Oh yeah, 16 oz. sodas and beers used to be big. Now 32 oz. is small.

 

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singletracker500,

LMAO

I'm gonna do that, that's some funny shiz'!!!!:) :) :)