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

  • jordanlund@lemmy.world
    43·
    13 hours ago

    I hit this with the chocolate banana cheesecake I posted here last week.

    I’ve been making variants of it for some 30 years now, and while most of the ingredients are raw ingredients, it does call for an entire 12 ounce bag of miniature chocolate chips. You have to use mini chips because of the low baking temp, full size chips don’t melt all the way and give it a weird texture.

    Imagine my surprise last week to find that Nestle morsels only come in 10 and 20 ounce bags now.

    Fortunately, the STORE brand was still a standard 12 ounces and the recipe still works. Fine. I didn’t want to give Nestle the money anyway. ;)

    • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
      21·
      11 hours ago

      If you’re going to use ounces you either make the result divisible by 4 or you use fucking metric. 10 in ounces defeats the entire point of 16 ounces in a pound. Fucking 5/8ths of a pound. Great unit of sale, very useful.

      • jordanlund@lemmy.world
        19·
        12 hours ago

        At least if I bought the 20 ounce bag, that’s divisible by 4, and taking out 12, leaves 8… but still…

        Baking shouldn’t start with a Tower of Hanoi puzzle.

        • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
          3·
          8 hours ago

          And if it was an 8 ounce bag you could easily scale the recipe with the ratios since you’re using 1/2 lb chips instead of 3/4 lb. But this 5/8ths shit is just asinine.