Damn a ton of you really don’t like to let people enjoy things huh?

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    10 hours ago

    I never understood why people would pick pringles over other chips. The consistency is weird and it’s just questionable stuff pressed into shape. It’s the sausage of chips

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        I haven’t had Munchos since high school. Used to love them. But even then, I started to notice the amount of chips in each bag getting less and less.

        It’s like when they started selling “whipped” yogurt for more than regular yogurt, despite it just being regular yogurt plus air.

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          Shrinkflation, or something like that I guess.

          Chips are pretty unhealthy, so I try not to eat them much. So for me, less is generally better. Also, Munchos are salty as hell. But that said… gotta have 'em once in a while!

          Pringles might be good for some kind of insulation project, maybe. They’re certainly not fit for human consumption, these days.

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    9 hours ago

    All pringels are shitty. All of them are disgusting.

    So when did Pizza Pringels get disgusting, at conception.

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    9 hours ago

    The first time I had these was probably 1998 while I was at my obese cousins house for a sleep over and that’s all the food they allowed me to have because it was so gross that they didn’t even wanna eat it. Then I fell asleep on the floor and they left me there all night. Very weird memory tied directly to this horrible flavor 😂😭

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      7 hours ago

      That’s indeed s weird memory, and quite shitty from your family tbh.

      But thanks for sharing

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    10 hours ago

    Did they ever have flavor?
    I remember being disappointed by them as far back as the mid 90s.

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    14 hours ago

    The day companies realized “hey, we’re already so successful that we can just change up our recipes, still sell the same product and people will just buy on name value alone”.

    Unfortunately, it works because people are that dumb.

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        13 hours ago

        I’m getting so tired of the whole “we can’t do anything about it” excuse. It should instead be said “we won’t do anything about it”

        Can you imagine the power the people actually have in themselves collectively? You underestimate that.

        If people collectively got their shit in gear, this practice wouldn’t happen. Why? Because people decided NOT TO buy it. If they don’t buy it for weeks and months, it’ll tell the company that “hey we know what you’ve been up to, this shit isn’t working” which will leave the company to decide to pull it or revert back to what it was that made us buy it in the first place. Which is quality.

        Don’t be coming to me with this defeatist talk of “uhhhh we can’t do anything about it” because we WON’T because we’re DUMB.

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          13 hours ago

          Its bloody annoying when you point how buying a luxury good is bad in so many ways and some idiot is like “but what am I gunna do? Not buy an xbox? Not pay $70 for a game? Not buy Nestle products?” And im like…yea thats exactly what you do. You should be more disappointed or angry that something you liked got ruined by a corporation. Saying you “need” those things does not absolve you of the damage you’re doing to society.

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            12 hours ago

            And then when they buy those things, they are directly telling the companies “yes, we accept this, please do it more”.

            “But I’m just buying from the store and making uneducated guesstimates about how transactions and business works” What they don’t understand is that money moves very fast and around. Whatever you buy from the store, cuts are made and the cuts do reach the corresponding companies (aside from thrift stores, flea markets .etc).

            Yeah I get the idea that not enjoying what you used to enjoy sucks and going without it sucks even more. But, it’s not you or me that ruined that enjoyment and it’s not even the store itself that ruins the enjoyment. It’s always the ones making it and it is always the marketing teams involved that push for these prices that ruin it.

            So route your anger directly to all and any marketing teams and go through whoever many you have to, until you’re bitching directly at the top of the chain about it. Bitching at overworked-Joe working at X shitty store, is doing it wrong. Bitching at the people who obliviously continue buying the shit, is also a good idea, but after awhile, you’re wasting time and breath.

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          Nice point, but I cant get people to agree that maybe killing innocent people is bad. Getting them to boycott pringles? Laughable that youd even suggest people care enough. Its not that I wont do anything about it, its that I cant.

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            3 hours ago

            That’s not really the kind of point I was making. You’re just tossing word salad and twisting contexts.

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          13 hours ago

          Isn’t a market economy glorious that way? It’s better than petitioning the government to update their 5-year plan on crisp flavours.

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    17 hours ago

    don’t let 'em gaslight ya, in 2008 they did some rework on fat and salt, around 2010 they screwed with a lot of different flavors. They used to have a pretty heavy tomato+herb taste, but it’s been quite a while.

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    12 hours ago

    Like 2 years ago, or around that time. I stopped bothering with the pizza one because of this. The other flavors are still loaded with flavor powder. IDK why the pizza one started getting only half-seasoned.

    I get the pepperoni cracker (not pretzel) Combos instead now.

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    11 hours ago

    They used to have Onion flavour too, not anymore. Now they have shour cream with Onion or something like that.