#nutrigrain

[tomthefanboy]

In my head again today…

[evvywevvy]

this is the first YouTube video I ever watched, in a friend's friend's office in the chem building

20 Years ago (In 2005), the very first YouTube video was uploaded titled Me at the Zoo

[wack-ashimself]

Not even 1/2 way thru the list, stopped what I was doing, and I said, out loud, "GOD DAMN IT!" Because first they said cheetos puffs KILL you in large amounts (paraphrasing), but, these foods are bad not just cuz of their ingredients, but, what their counterparts DO have. Like veggie straws are on here! WHAT!

You wondering when I said god damn it?

Cheez its. I have a box (extra big size. Not the box, the cheez it) 1 foot away from me. So you can see why out loud said it. Cuz if I'm not even 1/2 way, oh boy, is the rest of this list gonna suck.

But better to know than not...

[nukedsprite]

All I had to eat today was ONE nutrigrain bar and a pack of bees!

[ismagictomuchtoaskfor]

as an australian obsessed with how the australian olympics team brought their own barista. Like yes only good australian coffee for us!!!

[spacealiencafe]

been too nauseous to eat but not nauseous enough to throw up for like four days and it is getting on my nerves

[antimonyantigone]

once again

the food in my office is always available. i taped a sign to the bin that says "help yourself" for a reason. it's always there.

and yet, and yet, students always verbally ask and then apologize for taking it. it's for you. the sign says "students help yourself"

you cannot learn if you are hungry. i have more. there is a secret stash. pls relax.

[yappacadaver]

Chocolate covered nutrigrain bar is good!!!! Yummy!!

[vesperdae]

i get high and suddenly can’t stop eating fucking nutrigrain bars one after the other in rapid unending succession

[6qubed]

I see it, and I weep for the possibilities not realized

Pisses me off when some products are designed exclusively for children. like I'm not saying we should get RID of stuff designed for kids, but why can't there ALSO be fruit snacks for the working adult. You know. Squeezy apple sauce pouches that say "Yes Debra, I am twenty-six years old and eating an apple sauce pouch on the train as it is a convenient, spoonless, healthy snack, and I refuse to be ashamed of that, goddamnit." Popsicles that say on the stick "FUN FACT: Remember to renew your passport at least 7-9 months ahead of the expiry date, as many countries will not let you travel if you have less than 6 months of validity left." Do you see my vision.

[midnightskraptor]

Ooo yeah, now it feels like I'm at a hotel. <- (Had one (1) nutrigrain bar)

[0ct0pies]

in celebration of lesbian visibility week, please view this garden bed that i, a lesbian, have built this afternoon

[lemedy]

*looks up Solo* Okay the answer to your aside is this is not a thing we actually have in America so we don't have a name for it. If it showed up in front of me I'd probably call it "carbonated lemonade" I guess? Maybe "sparkling lemonade"?

thank you and it is genuinely funny how much this is surprising me - I was so sure it was owned by the Fanta or Coke companies so therefore obviously came from the States.

Three second google tells me that no, it is actually Australian in origin but also owned by Asahi breweries. The more you know.

The wikipedia entry also reminded me of how it's hilariously marketed as a Man's Drink for reasons I cannot explain:

[kawaiijohn]

This sort of thing is also really infuriating when you work in a kitchen or make bulk food for serving- in my field, everything is done by weight and calculated to the calorie (public school cafeteria) and all recipes need to be approved by a board before we can make them. They're standardized, by fucking law.

So we should know how many boxes of product it should take to make x amount of servings, right?

Tell me why for the last two years, every time we make mashed potatoes with the supposedly same dehydrated mix, we need more and more mix to reach our numbers? Supposedly, one carton should make 77 servings- it's made 77 servings for the last five years.

So why are we suddenly only getting 70 out of the box on average now? We're making it the exact same way every time. We make this recipe every other week. Why is it noticeably different.

We have to weigh everything to get accurate serving counts for governmental records and reimbursement from the government.

Why are the bags of frozen berries that say five pounds on every packags only weighing out to 4.3 pounds at best? We aren't draining them, they should weigh at least 4.9 because that's normal in the margin of error and the bags weigh nowhere near the difference to make it up. Now we won't have enough to make our target serving count bc we only ordered enough for about fifty extra servings like we always do.

Why is the chicken nugget brand we've been buying for years from the same brand suddenly way fucking smaller? The serving we use is 6 pieces bc legally we have to offer two grams of protein for a menued meal at the highschool level- so has our serving size changed without them telling us? The box doesn't say it's changed but we notice this sort of thing because we do the same menu every couple of weeks.

It's infuriating to have to make up the work because companies are trying to be fucking sneaky about this shit.

companies are delusional if they think consumers don't notice shrinkflation. less food in the package, less medicine in the jar, less whatever in the wherever, it doesn't matter where and it's almost always noticeable. like i just finished one box of medicine and we opened another allegedly identical one that we just bought and lo and behold, the four middle medicine segments were gone from the package. they took out four pills from the same sized box and sold it at the same price without any indication on the box other than the small number in the corner. ridiculous

[drakey-wakey]

adhd drugs go crazy tho is this really how everyone feels all the time

[spacealiencafe]

trying to trick my body out of being nauseous by saying "mmm delicious" every time i take a bite of food