Since when was a pound 12 ounces?

Wife sent her dad (basement dweller) to the store to pick up a few pounds of bacon.

He returns back with 3 packages of el cheapo bacon. Well, OK.

I start to put them in to the meat drawer. Package is about the right size but the part where the bacon is seems smaller.

Yep, looking at label sure enough, 12 oz.

Obviously looks like the metric system has come to roost. DAMN EU!

 

Smaller pigs maybe?

 

i keep tellin yas, money is nothing
the "real" things i.e. food, are being measured the same as gold now......lmao
before long itll come full swing and youll be buyin gold by the bacon sized slice...
its alrady measured in carrots ( misspelling intended )

 

nah, it a 'trick'

packaging is the same size as we have been 'trained' to believe is a pound

the price it so the consumer 'thinks' it's a deal because it's 75 cents less than the national brand

the consumer get a lower quality/quantity product but pays a higher price based on weight.

It's rampant. Look at the bottom of the jars of today. big concave meaning less product inside and jar looks the same. That way the manufacturers can keep the same price point and the consumers don't notice that they are getting less for their money.

looks like it has come to the meat aisle too.

 

That 12oz pound of bacon is running 4$ unless its on sale, needless th say bacon in my home has become a luxury treat and is no longer part of every day life

 

I always look at the price per ounce right next to the price. That is the only way to know how much it is really costing you. I had to imprint this methodology into my wife. She bought name brands when we met now she will only buy generic. Took a few years finally I got tired of arguing with her one day and picked up a block of the non Velveeta block cheese and showed her the nice shiny package in it. To her astonishment it said Velveeta. SO as I stated earlier always always look at the price per ounce....

 

This is exactly why I cure and smoke my own lunch meats and bacon WITHOUT curing salts (nitrates and nitrites).

 

That's progress, less (healthy)food for more money. More reason for me to keep learning how to preserve foods.

 

That reminds me of the time a few years back when a smoker told me I should quit having my microwave popcorn cook long enough to get half burnt because it was carcinogenic.

 

Dont yall know nuttin??
It comes in the 12oz pound becouse its made with lean pork!!
Matt

 

Soon we will be buying all of our foods in carot weights!
Now that'll be interesting!
How many carots to a lb. ....?
Maybe instead of carots we'll just go to grams, drams, or grains?
Sheesh!
I did notice the way that chocolate is soldnow...and I see the cans are not 16 oz, but 15 ounces!
Nah, "they" wouldn't try to pull one over on us, now whould "they"?
In a heartbeat of an amazonian hummingbird!

 

I likes me bacon........

But I recently tried a 'bargain' brand - three packages for ten bucks. Seemed a deal.
But the 'bacon' was gummy and fatty, the slice would stretch 50% by the time I peeled it from the package, so I had to cut it in two in the package! It fried down to nothing. Useless garbage. Made me wish I had a dog to give it to.
I went back to the name brands. Twice the price, but a much better product.

Coffee burns my grits...... The cans get smaller..... a one pound vacuum-sealed bag is now 11 ounces. The 34.5 oz can became 27.8 oz, and doubled in price!
If it gets any worse, I'll switch to tea......

 

I used to buy coffee in the real metal cans, I gave the coffee away and kept the cans! Today I can't afford the coffee, and it's now in plastic!
CRUD!