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Anyone getting screwed over with chips?

Kathy said:
In Westchester County where I grew up we called them wedges. Boy did I get strange looks when I started at UConn and asked for a wedge.
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My wife's best friend married a guy who grew up near Ossining. Im from the Hartford, CT area. I gave him the weirdest look the first time he ordered a wedge. Now I know!
 
XLCenterFan said:
My wife's best friend married a guy who grew up near Ossining. Im from the Hartford, CT area. I gave him the weirdest look the first time he ordered a wedge. Now I know!
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Ham and coleslaw wedge was my favorite from T&T deli
 
mussels said:
In central/north jersey I grew up with subs. Moved to Philly a couple of years back, went into a deli and ordered a sub. The guy said "What are you talking about?". He kept pretending not to know what I was talking about and bottom line was he wouldn't serve me until I called it a "Hogie"
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I'm a big cheese steak guy and needed to learn the lingo before going to Pat's/Geno's a few years back. Didn't have any problems but "wizz with" just sounded funny when I said it the first time...
 
I thought the title referred to the worldwide microchip shortage and how it is effecting certain industries and prices of some products. I was relieved when I realized it was about something really important. When the thread morphed into sandwich naming...wow.
 
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Deepster said:
Your first problem was going to those spots.
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Yeah I'm not sure what I was expecting, but it didn't live up to the hype.
8893 said:
Nah, his first problem was preferring cheese steak to Italian Roast Pork, with sharp provolone and broccoli rabe.
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Tough but fair.
 
JakeTheDog said:
One that gets me is coffee beans. It used to be standard to get 16 oz and now 12 oz is the new norm. I get it from a consumption perspective in that a 12 oz bag gives less chance for the beans to lose their flavor/freshness, but the price point never dropped. In fact the price seems to have increased irrationally. Yesterday at the grocery store I saw a whole lot of 10 oz bags and am mentally preparing for the inevitable drop to 8 oz bags.
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Just remember that less is more. That will help you to deal with this madness.
 
Horatio said:
You have to get them when the buy one- get one free sale is on. If not you paying $5 plus per box for roughly $2 in muffins. I once got mad and bought the competitor
-“Little Debbies” mini muffins. Not as good but more muffins and cheaper. Your welcome
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I would only buy the coffee cake ones and then the Walmart in Norwich only ever had blueberry for some reason. So I haven’t had one in a couple of years. I think that’s a good thing though lol.
 
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JakeTheDog said:
One that gets me is coffee beans. It used to be standard to get 16 oz and now 12 oz is the new norm. I get it from a consumption perspective in that a 12 oz bag gives less chance for the beans to lose their flavor/freshness, but the price point never dropped. In fact the price seems to have increased irrationally. Yesterday at the grocery store I saw a whole lot of 10 oz bags and am mentally preparing for the inevitable drop to 8 oz bags.
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Willoughby's Coffee & Tea: All Coffees

www.willoughbyscoffee.com
 
B1GEast said:
You sir, you, should write a letter to somebody sitting in a chair in their office in some ivory tower making margins off of the air in your cheetos bag, those bastards!
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In 2017, sales of Cheetos exceeded $1 billion dollars, which was more than 5 times the combined sales figures of its next 9 competitors in the cheese snack food category. But the original cheese snack product was Cheese Doodles.

To help take some of the sting out of snack food bags that are disappoint us by being less full than we expect, I offer a couple of anecdotal tidbits directly from the "man behind the snack," and his wife who was notably less modest in telling tales about the famous product. But first, some background:

Morrie Yohai - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org

Sometime in the first few years of the new millennium, I was invited to join a dear friend for Friday night services at her temple. There was some aspect of the evening that related to or honored the Saturday morning Torah study group that she attended, and from which she would regularly share very accessible and generally excellent poetry that was written and distributed by one of her cohorts. He was a slightly-built older man man with a wispy ponytail that was always collected within a thin rubber band.

As was custom, there was a social reception afterward, with wine, crudite, and sweets, and I found myself in conversation with an petite, elegant, and highly animated mature woman named Phyllis, who eventually came around to telling me she was married to the poet. Before long, she moved the conversation forward, by offering in a hushed, conspiratorial tone, "Morris would kill me if he knew I told you, but he invented the Cheese Doodle."

The Wikipedia article above, and the NYTimes obit that served as a major reference source, emphasized that Morrie was modest about his credit for the product, but willing to claim having come up with the name. Phyllis, without any prompting or her husband's watchful eye, told me that the name "doodle" was actually an acceptable (and more playful) reworking of pluralized children's slang word for poop, "doodies." At the time of product creation, when the extruded cheese form emerged from the machinery that created it, there was instant & delighted recognition that its shape and size resembled the feces of a small dog.

Morrie, a naturally shy man, had an even better story, which he told me after seeing me a few times and apparently deciding that I was OK to talk with. He'd grown up on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, not far from Yankee Stadium, which he would visit often. When he showd up one day on a new bicycle, Morrie was hailed down at the perimeter of the stadium. The man who admired his bicycle said, "Hey kid, can I ride your bicycle?," and then proceeded to spin around the broad areas where fans would congregate before entering the facility. He performed all kinds of tricks, including wheelies, hands-free, standing up, and when he was finished he offered appreciative thanks for the fun he'd had. And yes, that joyous overgrown kid was George Herman Ruth.
 
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B1GEast said:
That half gallon tub was the bomb. It took up half the freezer. Ice would grow around it and on it.
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Never lasted long enough to get ice burn.
 
Kenny11 said:
what about those delicious mini-muffin things that only come 4 in a bag?!
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Graduated to these. I'll stop eating them after I gain another 25 pounds. And it's only 7 bucks a box.

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ZenConn said:
Meanwhile, after nearly 5 months, @Chin Diesel is still looking for takers of his 24 month salt cured prosciutto. 😂
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As a reminder that big ole' ham hock was given to a friend/neighbor as a Christmas gift. I just got to enjoy some of it over New Year's. And it's location was lost somewhere in late Jan/Feb as it got passed around from house to house. Fortunately it never made it to my house.
 
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Make your own, it is pretty darn easy and cheap!

The same goes for a lot of things people waste money on like salad dressing, pasta sauce, and hummus. All of it is very easy to make and you save so much over the long haul, with fresh ingredients you pick.
 
This thread is “chipping” away at me, not your average “cookie cutter” thread !
One of the funniest threads I have seen on here, great responses !
 
Scoe said:
It’s not to often I will buy chips when I do I get a small bag whenever I get a grinder I have been noticing the bag being half full. They seem to inflate the bag more to sell the image of the bag being 2 times bigger then whats actually in it. Anyone noticing this in general when buying food. I guess its good for me now as I really don’t need to have chips.
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You won’t have this problem if you buy Pringles. Usually stacked the same for decades with more flavors now.
 
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