- cross-posted to:
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- cross-posted to:
- hackernews
During the previous round of shirkflation I warned people about knowing what year a recipe was from because “a can” means something different in 2004 than in 2010. And now it means something different again in 2025.
Now boxes are getting the shrink treatment too.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/618032
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What happened to grandmothers cooking and baking from normal ingredients, using handwritten recipes collected on papers randomly stuck into an old cook book?
Grandma grew up in the 80s eating microwave dinners. She never learned to cook.
Your grandma maybe
The average grandma. My grandma is 90 and grew up in a very different world.
Whoms grandma is around 45-50?
Assume two generations of people having kids at 18 years old putting gramdma at at least 36. Assume the average kid is between the ages of 0 18 putting them at 9. 9+36 is 45.
Kids born in 1980 and growing up in the 80s are old enough to be grandparents now.
That is by no means „average“
using measurements like ‘a can’ is just a bad idea anyways…
While this is true, Betty Crocker is shooting themselves in the foot with this.
Back in the day having a recipe for a specific box made cooking easier and locked people into one brand of ingredients.
This move is undoing a lot of the marketing they did back in the 40s and 50s
Yeah they’re really burning that 1940s marketing asset
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