Review: Edy's/Dryer's sucks sweaty yak balls
ray
::12 jun 2008 :: 12:11am
Right off the bat, I'm not criticizing the quality of the product. But, loathe as I may be to anger the ice cream gods (please, please don't cut me off! I need it!), I noticed something in my local freezer case that really chaps my ice-cream-enlarged ass. Behold.
Notice anything… odd, shall we say? Yes. Some of these containers are bigger than the others. It seems my good buddies at Edy's have found a new way to keep prices in control. That is: charge the same (notice the tags) for less ice cream. There are a lot of times when "less" is a good thing. Less pollution, for instance. Less crime. Less cancer.
Less ice cream is not one of those times.
Now, I figured I was already a pretty easy going guy, letting it slide that a "half gallon" of ice cream was somehow only 1.75 quarts. I got a degree in engineering and did some pretty far out math with differentials and such, but at no time did I ever find out how you make 2 directly equal 1.75. But did I lose my cool? Did I say "Yo! Where my other .25 quarts at, bitches?" Noooo. I didn't. But passing off one and a half quarts as a half gallon? It's time to throw down, motherfuckers. What's next? Shave off another quarter quart next summer? Shit, soon I'll be paying $4.39 for a novelty cup! I'll be telling my kids stories about them good ol' days when, yes, children, a half gallon really was 2 quarts.
This shit is simply … un-American! Everybody wants to know where bin Laden's hiding? I say check out Edy's HQ! I'm. So. Pissed. Right. Now.
If only there were some soothing, creamy confection to cool me off right now … ARGGGHHH!! YOU BROKE MY HEART!
And no, it's not a special price for a special product run. It seems every flavor is going over to this smaller container.
How much horror can one man be asked to take?
Oh Ray i'm so sorry I know how you ( and all the other members of our family) feel about ice cream. You should write them a letter and have them at least change the numbers on the container as to not falsly advertise. Then go out and get an ice cream maker and make your own 2 qt. then you can put whatever you want in it.
There was an article in USA Today about this today!
the consumerist has been running these stories as a theme for months — you'll be unhappily surprised to find that this is happening across the board:
http://consumerist.com/tag/grocery-shrink-ray/
ray, you should go by "grocery shrink ray" from now on. works on many levels.