Am I the only person who'd rather food manufacturers raised prices than shrank containers?

[Orwell]

@Orwell

Their “All Natural” is excellent, and a lot better than their regular. The All Natural has only real, natural ingredients, like homemade. I highly recommend it.

The entire list of ingredients in Turkey Hill’s All Natural vanilla ice cream: NONFAT MILK, CREAM, SUGAR, VANILLA, VANILLA BEAN.

In their regular vanilla: MILK, CREAM, CORN SYRUP, SUGAR, WHEY, NONFAT MILK, CELLULOSE GEL, CELLULOSE GUM, VANILLA, MONO & DIGLYCERIDES, CARRAGEENAN, VANILLA BEAN.

All Natural chocolate: CREAM, SUGAR, NONFAT MILK, BELGIAN-STYLE CHOCOLATE BASE [SUGAR, WATER, COCOA, HONEY, UNSWEETENED BELGIAN CHOCOLATE, SALT, BAKING SODA (SODIUM BICARBONATE)], COCOA.

Regular chocolate: MILK, CREAM, SUGAR, CORN SYRUP, COCOA PROCESSED WITH ALKALI, WHEY, NONFAT MILK, MONO & DIGLYCERIDES, GUAR GUM, CARRAGEENAN.

All Natural mint chocolate chip: CREAM, NONFAT MILK, SUGAR, CHOCOLATE CHIPS (SUGAR, CHOCOLATE LIQUOR, COCOA BUTTER, SOY LECITHIN, VANILLA), OIL OF PEPPERMINT.

Regular mint chocolate chip: MILK, CREAM, SUGAR, CORN SYRUP, CHOCO CHIPS (SUGAR, COCOA PROCESSED WITH ALKALI, SOYBEAN OIL, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED COCONUT OIL, CHOCOLATE LIQUOR, SALT, SOY LECITHIN), WHEY, NONFAT MILK, MONO & DIGLYCERIDES, GUAR GUM, CARRAGEENAN, OIL OF PEPPERMINT, BLUE 1, YELLOW 5.

I always get the All Natural. It’s way better than almost anything out there.

[Savannah]

@eschereal

The thing that irks me is more along the lines of these companies are passing the cost on to us. We are the ones who have to throw away all that excess packaging.

I would rather the price be raised so I knew what was happening, and could keep recipes working. But it’s the extra, wasteful, excessive packaging this tactic causes that also enrages me. We are supposed to be getting smarter about that, not going the other way. Makes me very, very unhappy.