I found this during the eternal process of organizing some back drives. Not dated, but creation date of Aug 2007.. Don't know any other way to cure this kind of crap. A couple of years ago I noticed that facial tissues were smaller so I wrote to them and said I noticed they were smaller. They wrote back and said they weren't smaller. Sure enough, I found an older box and dammit, they were smaller.
Same thing, recently, with toilet paper and a whole host of other downsized things. It seems like if something is 5 inches or five oz, they'll figure out a way to "round it down." If it's metric, they'll find a way to get to the next lower round number in english units. Same the other way around. If it's english units, they'll figure a way to round that down to a "nice," even metric number.
Only the names and addresses were changed. To prevent l'il ole me from getting sued. I enclosed the can label --it was a 4 oz can of diced turkey which I like to make one-off turkey salad sandwiches with.
Rat Bastard Foods
Rat Bastard Foods Sales LLC
12xx Nutrition Place
Pocahontas MN 55912
Ref Your Chunk Turkey
Bar Code 0 00000 00000 0
Dear Sirs,
This net weight 4-oz can contained 2 fluid oz of liquid.
You s'pose you could fit more water in the can?
Only two more ounces of liquid and you could call it 97.33 % fat-free.
Don't send me any coupons. Just a note that says you fired your money-grubbing bottom-line CEO.
Yours sincerely,
Terry Whoziwhatsis
(Addresss)
Does anyone remember when there were 10 hot dogs in a package? Twelve?
Terry, 230RN