Taking Crazy Pills

Shrinkflation — Jaysen’s rant on shrinkflation — half-corn gasoline, family-size cereal that’s now the old normal size, $7 cereal boxes. ‘I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.’ Universally relatable.

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something I’d say 20 years ago Maybe longer The thing that I find interesting is I go to Rich’s Sheets and I go to the end pumps now where the red handles are and where they have like the no ethanol mix Right That gas is like 6 a gallon Yeah And so it makes me wonder like is that just another way to hide all this inflation is we just give you poor quality products Just push methanol into it Have some gasoline for 4 50 and it’s half corn I mean I feel like I’m taking crazy pills I mean and that’s one thing that I will say about homebuyers I got one right now in particular that is wise to this where he’s like I don’t want a new build I don’t want a house that’s been slapped together with the cheapest possible lumber and the cheapest possible products We joke all the time about oh this is when wood was real wood You go to a house in German village and try and carry that lumber out of that house It’s extremely heavy versus today You can get a two by six and one person can carry it around on their shoulder It’s like I said I feel like I’m taking crazy pills We get the kids the cereal was it cocoa pebbles They call it chocolate pebbles And the family size is a normal size of cereal There is no more like jumbo boxes And it’s like 7 It’s crazy You need to go to Costco and get the mega box And then we look at prices on home sales and wonder why they’re all 450 000 So here’s a crazy madness crazy stat for you According to perplexity ethanol has been blended into a fuel in.