“If God dwells inside us, like some people say, I sure hope he likes enchiladas, because that’s what he’s getting.”

I’m with you in this one (so expecting downvotes). I’ve got 5 people in my house that all watch a shit load of YouTube. Originally I used Vanced on my phone, but realized that my kids were watching YouTube on the TVs and on their personal devices. At one point, I went into my daughter’s room at night and saw there were ads playing on her device where she had fallen asleep watching YouTube.

So once Vanced shut down (I know there is ReVanced and other alternatives) I decided to start paying for YouTube Premium. The reality is, being a tech nerd is fine for me, but it wasn’t easy to scale up and protect my entire family from ads on all their devices. So I figured that a few bucks a month was worth it for me.

Aww but I thought I was special.

Kamala did this the during the debate and it worked much better than I expected. She was basically like “yeah everything this guy just said is bullshit. Anyway, here’s what I’m going to do.”

Also not to get into any freak gasoline fights.

There are videos of people reacting to hearing Megadeth’s Holy Wars… the Punishment Due for the first time. I enjoy the song, but I first heard it when I was probably like 10 and don’t really remember the first time. Would be fun to hear it with a fresh pair of ears.

Example reaction video: https://youtu.be/sh8wxc4tctE

That was a really fun book to listen to. He narrates the second one as well, but it didn’t capture lightning in a bottle the same way.

Probably shouldn’t mention that if you get asked about how you got started at your kid’s school career day.

Worth.

And how many wipes do they need after dumping their girlfriend?

So are we not gonna talk about the whole area labels for cannibals?

Hitachi Magic Wand?

Yeah you’re right. I stuck to the old askreddit rule of not adding clarifying text and put it in my comment instead. That kind of gets buried though. My bad.

I like that name. Deformulation definitely implies that the change was not made for the benefit of the consumer.

Well said. Skimpflation describes exactly what I’m talking about. It’s subtle, because they’re banking on the fact that people won’t notice immediately and then will gradually accept the new recipe. Probably the same reason that people remember Cadbury Cream Eggs being better when they were kids - and a million other tiny things.

“Hey boss, we took the fish out of our fish sticks like you asked.”

“Great job, Johnson. Slap a “Great new taste” sticker on it and call it a day.”

I think it’s different enough from shrinkflation that it needs its own name. My gripe specifically was with Naked Juice, where if it was just being sold in a smaller bottle, I would buy more. But the recipe has actually changed to a point where I don’t want to drink it at all now, because it’s just not the same.

From an article linked above, my emphasis added, this is different because consumers are less able to protect themselves from it by being informed:

“We have long observed shrinkflation and bad value for money maxi packs,” Laura Clays, spokesperson for consumer protection organisation Test Achats, told The Brussels Times. “However, these tactics were mainly dubious from a financial point of view. This is still unacceptable, but consumers were able to protect themselves by keeping an eye on the price per unit.”

She stressed that in the case of “cheapflation”, the consumer is left more or less powerless. “This tactic is really about what people are ingesting, which is even more sneaky. While this will likely not have major health effects, eating less fishy fish sticks is definitely not a healthier meal option, so that’s not ideal.”

Yeah. I was having trouble finding exactly what I was looking for by googling “Naked Juice watered-down”. I did find something else that suggested specifically what I was seeing with Naked Juice described as Applejuiceification. But that doesn’t seem as versatile to describe other food products.

“Cheapflation” sounds exactly like what I was thinking of. https://www.brusselstimes.com/1021212/not-so-fishy-fish-sticks-what-is-cheapflation-and-what-to-pay-attention-to

In Albert Heijn’s fish sticks, the fish content dropped from 75% to 55%.

Eeewwww

That’s what I originally thought, but I’ve only seen that term for tech stuff. Wikipedia describes it as “a pattern in which online products and services decline in quality”.