Imagine a new kind of shrinkflation where instead of the portion reducing, it’s the taste of the food that becomes weaker.
That’s what’s happening with bell peppers and giant strawberries, isn’t it?
Or tomatoes. They don’t deliberately grow them bigger and more watery, but they did breed them for transport and automated harvest for decades. So now we have wooden, watery tomatoes that taste of nothing.
Jokes aside this is a real instinct of great chefs - taste everything. I remember seeing a documentary with Gordon Ramsay in which he visited Middle America and investigated the drug trade. In a scene some drug cook mixed diesel fuel with raw cocaine and Ramsay - clearly without thinking- dipped his finger in and tasted it. Instant regret, but he really couldn’t help himself :)
I just paid $2.89 for gas…
It’s literally a dollar cheaper at my Costco compared to the typical gas chains.
Seems a little…
Suspicious.
To be clear, even a dollar more is still comparatively cheap. I’m Australian and we’re about $2 AUD / L, which is roughly USD$5/gal, and I know Europe and New Zealand are more expensive than us.
Lots of things are subsidized by the government. Almost every basic need of a society is subsidized in the US.
This is an edited tweet, but the timestamp is from March 2022, which was shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine. I think gas prices did go up at that point, but it was still idiotic for conservatives to blame Democrats in the United States for the economic fallout of a war in another continent.
Its the fucking news media. Anything from gas to Dijon mustard is the fucking GOPs complaint and they blast that shit straight into your eye globes non stop. It’s like fox sits by the grocery store check out lane and waits for the the first woman with a stack of 200+ coupons to come by to ask what their programming should be.
Same. Prices are down or steady. This guy is making an issue where there isn’t one for political points. And people will believe it!
You have to chug it Charlie. You can’t tell the difference unless you chug it. Go ahead… we’ll wait right here.
Bon appetit.
