On 07/01/2017 06:45 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 7/1/2017 8:15 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
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


Sure, but for 200 years rhey just increased the price. Now they try to
deceive.

Back in my First Communion class, there was a little problem explaining
adultery to eight year olds. The illustrated text took an alternate
path, with a masked man with a bucket of water pouring it into a milk
can to adulterate the milk. Walmart and others still follow this
practice by adding water to meat and calling it a solution to provide
flavor and tenderness. Others just short fill the standard containers
hoping you don't notice or design fancy new wrappers that conceal a
smaller quantity.

There are still some that follow the old ways. Big Pharma just increases
the price for the same dosage hundreds of percent but they have a more
captive audience.