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Shrinkflation
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Those of us of a certain age will remember, post decimalisation, when things that came in twelves like bunches of flowers suddenly came in tens. The first example of shrink/ greedflation.
We've come to expect processed ' foods' like twixes to be just millimetres bigger than fun size ( another marketing con ) and fewer in the packet
But from what I have observed, some items are being shrunk to the extent that they're almost no longer fit for purpose - like toilet rolls.
Most of us here know that if you buy fresh and unprocessed, you know what you're getting. But what if you're of the age when learning to cook at school was abandoned for health and safety issues? What health and safety issue is more important than learning how to feed yourself and your family healthy food. Jamie Oliver and others tried, but how far did they get?
We've come to expect processed ' foods' like twixes to be just millimetres bigger than fun size ( another marketing con ) and fewer in the packet
But from what I have observed, some items are being shrunk to the extent that they're almost no longer fit for purpose - like toilet rolls.
Most of us here know that if you buy fresh and unprocessed, you know what you're getting. But what if you're of the age when learning to cook at school was abandoned for health and safety issues? What health and safety issue is more important than learning how to feed yourself and your family healthy food. Jamie Oliver and others tried, but how far did they get?
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And it was nearly 60 years ago I was given the mnemonic ‘some men hate each other’ for the Great Lakes of North America. I can still name them.
I love cooking and also love being able to make a meal out of all sorts of different things.
Some lovely meals I have made will never be made again as I will never have the combination of those ingredients again!
Then you can teach Shakespeare, calculus and quantum theory.
Then we moved to Cheshire and a mixed grammar school where boys did carpentry and metalwork and girls did domestic science but, those clever enough to be in the Latin and German streams did neither of the practical courses. Fine by me as I'd have wanted to do carpentry but no girls allowed.
Neither thought it was important to know about the environment - except in physical geography at A level - nor growing one's own food.
These days I have taught myself to sew, sow and cook from necessity - useful, enjoyable and with plenty of scope for personal taste and invention.
We buy giant Toblerones at Xmas but never Twix, Mars bars and the like. I also like Fererro Rocher and have noticed the quality of their plastic boxes has declined but not the size of their chocs. I don't remember prices form one Xmas to the next.
Decades later I found som ein the English shop et Everberg and treated Possum and me to one each to eat on the drive home. We both spat them out - nasty, oily things - but then Possum was brought up on proper Belgian chocolate andI's adjusted my taste buds.
Here in France some chocolate is made with vegetable oils so I always have to check the labels now, especially for cooking chocolate and chocolate chips.