There are videos of people reacting to hearing Megadeth’s Holy Wars… the Punishment Due for the first time. I enjoy the song, but I first heard it when I was probably like 10 and don’t really remember the first time. Would be fun to hear it with a fresh pair of ears.

Example reaction video: https://youtu.be/sh8wxc4tctE

That was a really fun book to listen to. He narrates the second one as well, but it didn’t capture lightning in a bottle the same way.

Probably shouldn’t mention that if you get asked about how you got started at your kid’s school career day.

Yeah you’re right. I stuck to the old askreddit rule of not adding clarifying text and put it in my comment instead. That kind of gets buried though. My bad.

I like that name. Deformulation definitely implies that the change was not made for the benefit of the consumer.

Well said. Skimpflation describes exactly what I’m talking about. It’s subtle, because they’re banking on the fact that people won’t notice immediately and then will gradually accept the new recipe. Probably the same reason that people remember Cadbury Cream Eggs being better when they were kids - and a million other tiny things.

“Hey boss, we took the fish out of our fish sticks like you asked.”

“Great job, Johnson. Slap a “Great new taste” sticker on it and call it a day.”

I think it’s different enough from shrinkflation that it needs its own name. My gripe specifically was with Naked Juice, where if it was just being sold in a smaller bottle, I would buy more. But the recipe has actually changed to a point where I don’t want to drink it at all now, because it’s just not the same.

From an article linked above, my emphasis added, this is different because consumers are less able to protect themselves from it by being informed:

“We have long observed shrinkflation and bad value for money maxi packs,” Laura Clays, spokesperson for consumer protection organisation Test Achats, told The Brussels Times. “However, these tactics were mainly dubious from a financial point of view. This is still unacceptable, but consumers were able to protect themselves by keeping an eye on the price per unit.”

She stressed that in the case of “cheapflation”, the consumer is left more or less powerless. “This tactic is really about what people are ingesting, which is even more sneaky. While this will likely not have major health effects, eating less fishy fish sticks is definitely not a healthier meal option, so that’s not ideal.”

Yeah. I was having trouble finding exactly what I was looking for by googling “Naked Juice watered-down”. I did find something else that suggested specifically what I was seeing with Naked Juice described as Applejuiceification. But that doesn’t seem as versatile to describe other food products.

“Cheapflation” sounds exactly like what I was thinking of. https://www.brusselstimes.com/1021212/not-so-fishy-fish-sticks-what-is-cheapflation-and-what-to-pay-attention-to

In Albert Heijn’s fish sticks, the fish content dropped from 75% to 55%.

Eeewwww

That’s what I originally thought, but I’ve only seen that term for tech stuff. Wikipedia describes it as “a pattern in which online products and services decline in quality”.

Enshitification is what I thought at first, but I’ve only seen that for tech. The wiki starts with “a pattern in which online products and services decline in quality”, so it didn’t seem quite right.

Haha I originally planned on writing “shittier” in the title, but then read it as “shit tier” and backed it out.

The reason I ask, is I noticed that Naked brand Strawberry Banana drinks now taste like regular juice, instead of having a thick smoothie taste. They used to advertise that each small bottle contained 22 strawberries, also listing the primary ingredient as strawberry puree. They now say each bottle is 6 and 3/4 strawberries, with the primary ingredient being apple juice. Strawberry puree is now listed as the 3rd ingredient.

Is there a term for when a manufacturer changes ingredients so drastically that it just ruins the original product? I’ve heard “enshitification” before, but always associated that with tech.

In before someone says Naked is all sugar and isn’t worth drinking in the first place.

Made at a time where video game rentals were popular so they had to make games impossible to beat in 2 or 3 days.

That’s my back up plan after Top 12 hours on Everything gets stale.

Gonna be a while. They sent a list of available dates going out a few months. It feels like booking a theater ticket. Probably will be looking to go in September.

Casa Bonita - before Trey Parker and Matt Stone buying it. The atmosphere was great, but the food was like prison grade Taco Bell. Except for the sopapillas. Those are dope.

But yeah, the food was so bad that you were forced to order before you could get in. Because they knew otherwise people wouldn’t eat.

With that being said, now that they’ve redone the restaurant, I’ve been on the wait list for 2 years now and just got picked today. So hopefully it’s better now. Will know shortly.

This is going to make politics so much more insufferable.

Well… that shit’s crazy.