That's right. Another bitch thread by the old bastard.

Guess who screwed up and had to go to the food store the first week of the month, and on a holiday weekend no less. Actually it wasn't as bad as expected. I think everybody was in the park with Yogi Bear and their pic-a-nic baskets this afternoon. Perhaps they all did their shopping BEFORE the holiday. I may have to re-think my holiday food shopping schedule.


Now to the point!
33 oz./935 gr WTF is that?!?! A few years back all the coffee companies started putting 39 oz. of coffee in the same old #10 tin can that had held an even 3 lbs. or 48 oz. up to that time, for the same price. I'm still not sure how they just about had the can full with 18% less product but they managed. I don't think they fooled most people for too long and yes I was insulted that they thought we were so dumb and they were sticking it to us and we didn't notice.

Today I couldn't find a 39 oz. can. It seems they have all changed size to a lesser amount again. It did appear that while they maintained the appearance of can shape, they actually did make a smaller can. (I didn't buy any yet to compare, I'll have to grumble about it for a while before doing that) The thing that got me was it is now 33 oz. or 935 gr. What the hell kind of a measurement is that? It's not an even anything or a multiple of any smaller unit, even in our cocked-up, dumbshit US system. We refuse to acknowledge a better system that the rest of the entire planet uses and keep our heads in the sand (or up our ass) and then we take the joke-system we have and twist it even further to make it harder to use. Stranger yet is the fact that different coffee companies have chosen different amounts to reduce "the big can" by. Next to my brand was one with 36 oz. / 2 lbs. 4 oz. / 1.02 Kg. and one that almost got it right with 35.5 oz. / 1.006 Kg., almost an even unit of something. (I'll have to try that brand )

This is like our gasoline prices of $2.74 and 9/10 cent per gal. What the hell is that suppose to be or who is it suppose to be fooling? I use to believe it was only motivated by their greed and they were just trying to finagle a few more pennies out of us. Their efforts to maintain an archaic system and convolute it more have gone beyond that and only make it more complicated for even them and fools no one. I've now come to the conclusion they are just plain STUPID.





Have a nice Labor Day

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