Re: "Half-gallon"

On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:33:42 -0500, ZBicyclist wrote:

>Bill Turlock" <"Bill Turlock  wrote:
>> Remember when you could buy a half-gallon of ice cream? Then they
>> changed it to 1.75 qt. Most people probably never noticed it. I
>> bought a few packages of Bryers last week, on sale 2/$6. Oh, BTW,
>> now they're 1.5 qt. The container is now tapered, so you don't
>> quite notice it.
>
>This is one way to avoid a label price increase, at a time when milk
prices 
>are increasing.
>
>I've never understood why ice cream was sold by volume anyway. This
provides 
>a heavy incentive to put air in the product. For those who like the
texture 
>imparted by air, that's fine, but many do not. It makes much more sense
to 
>sell ice cream by weight.

No.  It makes much more sense to _buy_ ice cream by weight.

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