On Friday, June 30, 2017 at 4:42:02 PM UTC-4, Wade Garrett wrote:
On 6/30/17 4:22 PM, Oren wrote:
On Fri, 30 Jun 2017 11:54:48 -0400, Wade Garrett
wrote:

After recently attending the retirement ceremony for my rusted-out and
falling-apart ancient propane gas barbecue grill, I replaced it with my
first charcoal grill in 22 years. Getting ready for the Fourth you know.

But when buying my first bag of charcoal in these same 22 years, I find
that my former favorite fuel- a 20 pound bag of Kingsford Briquets- now
weighs only 18.6 pounds.

Guess I shouldn't be too surprised as a five pound bag of sugar now
weighs four pounds, a pound-bag of ground coffee contains but 11.5
ounces and most horridly, a half-gallon bottle of Scotch now is only
1.75 liters.

Milk and gas are next, I guess......

Buy the longer burning charcoal, use less, attain higher heat temps.
It doesn't take much charcoal to cook a steak, ribs, prime rib beef or
a 7 lb. pork butt.

We don't know your grill or how you tuned it for a long - overnight
cooks or if the bag is lump charcoal.

An OZ of pot costs more than it did in the 60's :-)


It seems you've missed my point which is sellers have reduced
long-standing and familiar standard package sizes in lieu of raising
prices ;-)

Sure, why not? They want to sell stuff, but their costs have increased,
and they know that people would squawk if prices increased. It's
capitalism in action.

Cindy Hamilton