The 70-Year-Old Beloved Boxed Mix Grandmas Won’t Be Buying Anymore
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"It's just so upsetting."

During the previous round of shirkflation I warned people about knowing what year a recipe was from because “a can” means something different in 2004 than in 2010. And now it means something different again in 2025.

Now boxes are getting the shrink treatment too.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/618032

Comments

    • aeronmelon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      183·
      8 hours ago

      It’s American by nature.

      “It’s 1950 and a can is a can is a can, everyone knows how big a can is. And it will never change!”

    • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldEnglish
      612·
      13 hours ago

      While this is true, Betty Crocker is shooting themselves in the foot with this.

      Back in the day having a recipe for a specific box made cooking easier and locked people into one brand of ingredients.

      This move is undoing a lot of the marketing they did back in the 40s and 50s

    • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world
      6·
      9 hours ago

      I had a chicken casserole recipe and it called for “a can of cream of chicken soup”. Ok, this soup comes in the normal, single serving size and the jumbo “cooking for a family” size. It made the recipe unusable.

      • kreskin@lemmy.world
        14·
        8 hours ago

        anything that calls for a can of cream of chicken soup was going to end up the same way regardless.