What did he say on January 6th?
Edit: So I had seen clips and read lots of articles about what Trump said on January 6th, but I had never read the transcript. So I thought, why not? Let's see it without anyone else telling me what it says. Holy shit, it was so much worse than I thought.
"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."
Glad to see people supporting this guy on his GoFundMe page. He was fired, but has probably made more in the last few days than he would have in 2 years. Doing the right thing not only stopped the project, but also worked out well for him personally.
I just watched this episode 2 days ago! Strong Bad was my go to source of internet humor 20 years ago and still holds up.
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.
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.