Consumerist.com really needs to change its name to APlaceToBiatchAboutFirstWorldProblems. com

I remember when this first started happening at the dawn of time.

I think the real question here is, "Who the fark eats Raisin Bran?"

/Mini-Wheats forever

kudayta: I think the real question here is, "Who the fark eats Raisin Bran?"

/Mini-Wheats forever

Raisin Bran is farking delicious, but it makes me shiat something fierce, and I normally shiat a lot anyway.

Balki is pissed.

So what's keeping the writer from putting her own raisins in? Sunmaid raisins are pretty good.

Oh well. The store versions don't have granola that is as good, and the Walmart one especially isn't mixed for anything. The first bowl is all flakes and the last is all raisins (First-World Problems). I'll pay more for the Kellogg's...

CDO. There is medication to treat it

I wish they would take out two scoops of the raisins themselves. There's some unwritten rule of that kind of cereal where you can't get a spoonful of it without seven thousand raisins for every flake of bran.

Ivory Soap pulled shiat like this a few months ago. They went from a 4.5 oz. bar to a 4.0 oz. bar. At least Ivory had the balls to used a gold wrapper to announce their 'Special Edition Ivory'. When I called the 800 number, The rep. told me she didn't know why the new packaging was there and the new size was to "enhance the user experience".

Companies reduce costs by charging the same (or more) for less product on the sly. Film at 11.

Wouldn't two scoops of raisins in a smaller box give you a higher raisin/bran ratio?

I'm all for that

Slackfumasta: kudayta: I think the real question here is, "Who the fark eats Raisin Bran?"

/Mini-Wheats forever

Raisin Bran is farking delicious, but it makes me shiat something fierce, and I normally shiat a lot anyway.

This. My god, they might as well call it poop cannon.

Shazam999: Slackfumasta: kudayta: I think the real question here is, "Who the fark eats Raisin Bran?"

/Mini-Wheats forever

Raisin Bran is farking delicious, but it makes me shiat something fierce, and I normally shiat a lot anyway.

This. My god, they might as well call it poop cannon.

the slogan should be "two poops of raisins", amirite?
/got nothing

DisembodiedVoice: Wouldn't two scoops of raisins in a smaller box give you a higher raisin/bran ratio?

If the 'scoop' were a legal trade measure, yes. Since it's not, Malt-o-Meal bran flakes and add your own raisins (or the dried cranberries... now often cheaper than the grape-raisin.

Good news is, there are still 100 raisins in every box of Unicorn Raisin Puffs.

Eh, ice cream cartons did that like ten years ago.

If a person is genuinely concerned with how much money they are spending for a certain amount of cereal, why are they buying the name brand cereal in the first place and not the identical generic product for half the price?

Isn't the real outrage not the fact that post has 2 fewer ounces of Raisin Bran in their product, but that they are charging you so much for a product identical to Great Value Bran Flakes with Raisins in a different, prettier box?

Furthermore, they in no way tried to deceive the consumer. They printed the weight of the product right on the outside front of the box. If they kept the outside at 25oz., but then a Consumerist person actually weighed the cereal and found it to weigh 2 oz. less than that, then I would consider that a valid consumer advocacy story.

This story is just "Post accurately prints the weight of their product on their boxes."

Just more of the hidden inflation in our economy

Mike Chewbacca: Eh, ice cream cartons did that like ten years ago.

It's a farking conspiracy I tell you!

For most cereals, it's either Costco or bag brand. Ralph's is the only store that sells generic Golden Grahams that I can find, though.

SpaceBison: Mike Chewbacca: Eh, ice cream cartons did that like ten years ago.

It's a farking conspiracy I tell you!
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Noticed this on my Ben And Jerrys the other day.

/I sound fat

I worked with a guy who worked on the raisin machine for that cereal. Raisins like to stick together, so it was a real PITA to get it to work right.

They actually have QA people who count the number of raisins in random boxes.

TheGreatGazoo: I worked with a guy who worked on the raisin machine for that cereal. Raisins like to stick together, so it was a real PITA to get it to work right.

They actually have QA people who count the number of raisins in random boxes.

Those aren't all raisins that they're counting.

The Homer Tax: If a person is genuinely concerned with how much money they are spending for a certain amount of cereal, why are they buying the name brand cereal in the first place and not the identical generic product for half the price?

I don't know about Raisin Bran, but generic Cheerios taste like shiat compared to the real stuff. And I thought that'd be simple enough to not fark up.

Actually one of the better Consumerist greens I have seen. At least there was a pretty picture and actaul evidence of chicanery by Kellogg's. Not a shocker, in any way, but amusing.

WalkingSnake: The Homer Tax: If a person is genuinely concerned with how much money they are spending for a certain amount of cereal, why are they buying the name brand cereal in the first place and not the identical generic product for half the price?

I don't know about Raisin Bran, but generic Cheerios taste like shiat compared to the real stuff. And I thought that'd be simple enough to not fark up.

I've never had a store brand cream cheese that came close to Philadelphia (the name brand, not the sunny place).

Kuroshin: Companies reduce costs increase or maintain profits by charging the same (or more) for less product on the sly. Film at 11.

More likely. Sort of the same thing, but not really.

The El Monterey "Family Pack"



Where "Family Pack" means two less chimis (32 oz. vs. the prior 40 oz.) than the previous packaging.

/price also went up from $2.38 to $3.00.
//still buy them

Wow, the consumerist is farked.

Eat less, you fat farks.

and was lucky enough to still have the old box sitting in his recycling bin so he could prove the difference.

Translation: Lets garbage pile up.

AverageAmericanGuy: Eat less, you fat farks.

Nobody got fat from eating too much raisin bran.

BKITU: Consumerist.com really needs to change its name to APlaceToBiatchAboutFirstWorldProblems. com

I don't see any .com being all that relevant to the interests of most third-world residents; such a name change really isn't necessary, is it?

That's because they had to pay tribute to their new CEO, Satan, by branding it with the number of the beast:

Eh, ice cream cartons did that like ten years ago.

Ice cream shrinkage is an ongoing process. Haagen-Dazs started selling 14 or 14.5 ounce pints about three years ago. The local supermarket added cuplike support stands in the freezer so you wouldn't notice the container was smaller.