The former Consumerist website, back before they got absorbed into consumer reports (bleh), had a regular column on the “Consumer Shrink Ray”. Every few days a new grocery store product would show up having been shrunk in size while staying the same price. Consumerist liked to call out the ridiculous PR-speak that…

I remember when haagen dazs dropped from 16 oz to 14 oz and I noticed immediately. When I called out the company for it they claimed they didn’t want to raise prices on consumers, which is exactly what they’re doing when they charge the same for less. I’d rather just have them increase prices than try to sneak a…

it reminds me of the cadbury creme egg fiasco a few years back where people noticed they were smaller and cadbury said “oh no it’s the same size it was before, you’re just misremembering” and then one of the actors from The Office replied with a picture showing the previous years egg was indeed much larger.

Ditch the cutesy jargon name, call it what it is. Old fashioned price gouging. Pay more, get less. Calling it “shrinkflation” makes it sound too reasonable and acceptable.

That’s kinda what I was thinking - how many people have a cleaning service? But our household has two professional incomes and we’ve never even considered having a cleaning person so obviously I’m not the best judge of who uses cleaning services.

I’m sorry.... is this really worth an article? What percentage of people on here actually have a housekeeper? Is this not a site for poor millennials and poor genZ types? 

Amaro assures you they are not looking to go through your things, have a wild party, or do anything odd.

I mental health into quotes bc I'm clearly implying that those words are being used as a euphemism for "choking". I dont care about gymnastics bit i didn't put myself out there as a multimillionaire worldstar athlete either. It's fair for me to criticize. And im criticizing the media response., not her btw.

Good on her for having the privilege required to ignore the responsibilities of her livelihood.  I wish we all had a little more of that privilege.

Don’t even get me started on the exploitation and environmental disasters that happen in so-called Third World countries to grow the various substitutes

To me, meals need to have some heaviness to them. Meat sticks to your ribs. I’ve tried bean dishes and other protein heavy vegetarian food, but it all just goes right through me. These sandwich suggestions have lots of flavor, but they seem like they’d have no “staying power.”

My problem with vegan sandwiches is every piece of vegan bread I’ve ever eaten was dreadful, so if good vegan bread exists, it’s a unicorn recipe. Not real unicorn, obviously. 

a) The headline to this article is very accusatory. Does that generate page clicks for you? You’re coming off like an asshole straight out of the gate.

If I wanted a sandwich with no meat, I’d go to Subway....

Yeah. Sour milk gets used in pancakes, biscuits, all sorts of baked goods. You can use it as a starter to turn milk into quark. 

Wanted to read the comments before throwing in my .02. You are correct. A great vegan sandwich has 3 ingredients. Bread, Peanut butter, Jelly. Done.

A peanut butter sandwich is pretty good but the best sandwich bread has milk in it (makes it a softer crumb.)

Can’t say I’m going to eat your tofu, mushroom veganaise stuff, though. I’d be open to more suggestions but these just don’t look good to me, sorry.

as the late gordon ramsay would say “it looks like the dogs dinner”

No. They suck.

I like the tips in the article*, yet am bummed by the decision to say the audience for the article sucks at something. Was that necessary? Why assume going in that the readers are already hostile to what you’re going to say, and why would you think telling them they suck would make them more likely to listen to you?