:facepalm:

I thought Bri said CARBO chip. I'm like, what, they ADD carbs?

Prices went up on everything and the contents of the packages got smaller. :mad:

And I'll take some Swiss cheese!:cheese:

They've been doing the smaller package size for years ... when was the last time you saw a pound of coffee?

But yeah, it is more pronounced now.

Remember when ice cream was sold in half gallons?

it's not`?

seriously

I mean it's not?

why, yes, grynch - I'd LOVE some cheese! :D

I just, frankly, am flabbergasted at how much I spend at the grocery and I DO coupon and I DO take advantage of sales and I TRY to watch it - it's me and my 20 year-old son, so it's not like I'm feeding four or five people. I just can't believe the prices. It's really disheartening to spend so much for so little. And I don't like feeling like a miser, but that's what I have to do to make it on my pittance of money.

I give you nine hundred and ninety-one more words:

I don't know what is going on with cheese, but it can't be gouda! :unsure:

thanks, I'll be here all week. try the cheese.

Well first they rounded off the edges a little bit and put a removable lid on top instead of that flap thing with the right angle corners, but they kept them half a gallon in size. They did that for a good decade or so, so we really got used to it. But then, with the rounded corners, they were able to just do a little more rounding, and put a little taper on the sides, and the top and height remained the same, but the size dropped down to 1.75 quarts. Then a year or two later, they rounded them off a bit more and increased the taper, and we're currently at 1.5 quarts.

Oh, here. I found a picture. Including one of the old folded cardboard cartons that was actually a half gallon.

Oh, c'mon. That was funny, IM. You should have left it.

I remember those folded cardboard ones. The were such a pain in the ass and so messy.

Our local Ice cream still comes in half gallons, it's about $5. but regularly goes on sale for $2.99

IT takes 10 pounds of milk to make one pound of cheese.

I know a lot of dairy farmers. If you had to be a dairy farmer, or if you knew a dairy farmer, you'd wonder why milk is so cheap.

Most of the dairy farmers around here mostly sell milk at a loss. It makes no sense whatever. The price of milk is artificially set by the commodities market.

Dairy farming is hell.

I thought the first carton was with lactose. When I realized it's also lactose free I thought the joke would fizzle.

Thanks, though. :)

My really beautiful fashion plate niece is dating the son of a guy I went to HS with: dairy farmers. He's a great young man; we liken them to Green Acres. If they marry we will play that at the wedding.

But he works ALL THE TIME. Holidays: gotta go milk or whatever, the cows.

Cows don't know no holidays.

Yeah, you don't get to stop breastfeeding human babies on holidays either. Boobs of any species don't know no holidays.