Re: "Half-gallon"

Lee Ayrton <layrton@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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> On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, 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.
> 
> Just to put too fine a point in it, it makes better sense to the
> seller to sell ice cream by volume and it makes better sense to the
> buyer to buy ice cream by weight.
> 
> 

When I am shopping for ice cream for yummy content, I buy it based on 
calorie count. Most brands use the same 1/2 cup serving size, and the 
denser brands have many more calories per serving.

Ice cream for shakes, I buy that by the 5 quart container, which doesn't 
seem to have changed size.

Sean


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