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Cutting the product

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hydration9806 @lemmy.ml

2w ago

Cutting the product

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My mother did this with coco pops for years and my sister didn't realise until her twenties when she caught her in the act
- Your sister was still being served cereal bought by her parents in her twenties?
  She really gotta have her Pops. (jaws notes)
  
  And her insulin.

I usually buy the cheap Fruity Pebbles for my kids, but Walmart has out of them one day so I got the name brand as a treat. Their response? "Dad, please don't buy those again. Dyno Bites are better." I was flabbergasted.
Then again, they don't see cereal ads, don't know who the Flintstones are, but love dinosaurs.
- I think you imprint on things as a kid and don't like change. I definitely had my preferred after school snacks and even different brands just felt wrong.
  
  For example, I loved the shitty school pizzas, even though they were a culinary abortion.
  
  Swiss rolls > ho hos
  
  I've imprinted of specifically Hood Golden Eggnog. I have it every year and no other eggnog hits for me.
- Growing up I watched all the cereal ads and I still preferred the Dyno Bites. There's so much crap added to the "big brand" cereals. It's like eating sugar. It must be overwhelming for them trying those after being used to Dyno Bites.
  
  Strange, from memory it was the exact opposite. The brand names actually had decent flavor/texture, while the off-brands had humongous amounts of sugar, to the point where you actually taste the sugar rather than it just sweetening the overall flavor.

The price difference was huge not long ago. Now it's much closer and everything is overpriced severely.
That's not a "back in my day" thing either, do the math on it and where it should be from inflation and where it's at from gouging are not even close.
- Since covid manufacturers basically just started colluding across the board to fix prices. Every government around the world has utterly failed at holding them accountable

Tootie fruities are just flat out better tha Froot Loops. Fight me.
- Malt o meal is just better in general. The Colossal Berry Crunch is better than Cap'n Crunch too. And you can buy the giant bag that lasts forever.
  
  I like that crispix cereal but it's fucking expensive. I wish maltomeal made a version of it.
- cereal is cereal, mostly

Kids: Happily eating substitution
You: Reveal the trick
Kids: "Well now we're not eating it anymore" (and also they could supposedly tell something was off all along)
- Literally everyone is like this. Everyone. You'd do the same thing.
  You order a grass-fed porterhouse
  You receive it. Tastes different than what you expected but it's good. they must make it different here
  Chef comes out and says you just got epic pranked. That was a grain-fed ribeye (I don't know steak cuts)
  You refuse to pay.

can someone explain the difference between the two ?
- There is none, but kids are picky and want expensive name brands because pretty images
  
  It shows you the power of branding. I remember that there was a study where kids were given a regular hamburger in a McDonald's wrapper and the same hamburger by itself and kids overwhelming said McDonald's tasted better.
  I think they even replicated the experiment where the McDonald's hamburger was unwrapped and kids still preferred the McDonald's wrapped burger.
- That big bag costs less than the little box.
  
  That used to be universally true. Is it still? I think the last time I looked at the bag about 7 years ago it was just about on par with the price per oz of the name brand. The store brand in the box (as opposed to the name brand in the box) is still cheaper though.
- The box is a name brand cereal. The bag is a copycat store brand cereal that's cheaper.
  
  Malt-o-meal is also a name brand rather than a store brand. Just less well known than Kellogg or General Mills.

My parents mixing the expensive cat food with the cheap cat food: ⬆️
- Yeah they tossed the marshmallow mateys in with my lucky charms too

Mines are still open, chimney's need sweeping, Looms need resetting you want name brand go earn it

Forget the kids, don't let Meemaw find out!
- don’t let Meemaw find out!
  lol they learned the trick from Meemaw!

Those are the same product..
- ... Obviously you don't have kids
  
  Yup, but they are made in the same factory

My mom used to cut our honey nut tasteeos with regular tasteeos.
Like a 3 parts regular to 1 party honey nut cut.

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