The most basic of things is now for sale, and at a pretty price I might add. Air has not been free at most gas stations since there was "full" service at the pump. (You have to be over 40 to know this means that an actual person would come to your driver side window to see what you wanted, would take care of your fueling, wash the windows, check the tires for air (free), maybe even check fluids under the hood. (I found out years later that if a car is, or has just been, running, that the fluids will Always show as low since they are currently circulating, or coming back FROM circulating) AND, even longer ago than THAT, boys and girls, you often got trading stamps or drinking glasses, or some other prize for coming to that station so many times, it was wonderful. Well, NOW you're lucky if the person behind the counter/glass can find the time to take your money and get the pump number that YOU have to remember to tell them, or that's another trip back up there, and that is IT. Now if you have a gas card, you can still flash it at most of the employees, and get air and water for free, but it still requires that walk to where THEY are, and wait your turn in line...sigh.
But this is not news....what I'm about to tell you may just BE.
Air is finding more and more room in our FOOD now. They are trying to make this sound like a new, wonderful invention made to make the product even more tasty....BAH.
First is Hershey Chocolate, they now have TWO products out, a chocolate bar AND kisses that have air bubbles in them!! And they refer to them as "delights". Well, they're LIGHT alright. For the same price as a complete, full-on KISS, you're getting the teenage virginal version of a kiss, FOR THE SAME PRICE, and you're getting at least one third less chocolate, maybe more. Same thing with the bar. These adorable (or at least that's how they're marketing them, caverns in your candy bar makes it considerably lighter on the actual goods your paying for!! And then there are English Muffins. Thomas English Muffins are pretty good, but the "nooks and crannies" version is NOT a real, whole muffin. It is, after splitting it, a partial muffin bottom, and a miserable little flap for the top. Know why?? Because they "give" you all these marvelous "nooks and crannies' for your butter or whatever to hide in, that's why. Does anyone else remember when you had to use a fork and I mean all the way around a muffin to split it, and when done,you had TWO complete halves to spread whatever on. With these N & C muffins, you can barely even make a breakfast sandwich with an egg and sausage. Now you can still buy the store brand or the wonderful Orowheat brands and still get a great, full-size muffin that is sturdy and has some substance, but start paying attention to more of your regular food, and see if you don't see differences. My oatnut bread, which I toast on the darker side (otherwise you basically just have warm bread) used to be able to stand up to margarine and peanut butter, but now collapses as if it's a punctured balloon. Saltines and chips and cookies are thinning out, too, you will notice. But we are paying the SAME amount of money, OR more.
I really like the Tilapia fish now available, but if I were the paranoid type, I'd swear they managed to bio-engineer a fish with the least fleshy flesh possible. I mean it's a wonderful, lightly flavored fish, but good grief, you'd have to eat twice as many pieces of it to get as full as you would with, say, cod, another white fish. There is just nothing to it, substance-wise.
There are other things, but if you pay attention, you'll start to see it yourself.
Even "extra large" eggs seem to be the OLD size of regular eggs, and regular eggs are possibly being laid by either very young chickens, or very ambitious pigeons.
The only thing that seems to be better for time, for some unknown reasons, is almonds. You can buy a pound of them, and flavored, for $4 now. They are no longer the BOSS of the nut world. They seem to take turns, nuts do. Right now, it seems to be walnuts and pecans, so grab the almonds, and btw, pistachios, while they are low on the nut list (unlike me) and enjoy. Did you know almonds not only lower cholesterol, but also have calcium,for those of you, like me, don't care for milk. I DO eat yogurt, but I apparently need more, and about 20 almonds a day does the trick, it would seem. GOOD deal, at last.
SO, make sure when a company offers a new "delight", that it's not half of what it used to be for the same price.
Just shoppin' and sayin'
Dragonfly
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