Package sizes are a nice topic even for here. I don't recall anymore when that was - already a good couple of years ago, the EU abandoned a regulation for packaging sizes of food products which forced manufacturers to offer them in such round masses like 100g and 1kg. It came right out of the blue... But I remember it was something that the EU forced upon the enterprises. When it was abandoned, it opened up the path for manufacturers offering all kinds of weird packaging sizes such as, for example, 132 g or 3,001 l (all drinks packaged in bigger sizes than 3 liters here are free from deposit, but that's a purely German thing; not all EU countries do have bottle deposit systems, France, e.g. hasn't). I think what this weird doing was softened with is that they need to offer you an information on the price tags in the shops about the basic price (like "price per 100g" or "price per 1 kg" so that you can judge the expensiveness of the price for the product yourself by doing the maths). But, just to get to the main thing I wanted to drive at: Especially in some sweets you notice the playing around with price and mass that you get. Some sorts of the small Milka chocolate bars, e.g., only countain 90g, but are sold for the same price as those sorts which are offered with the old standard 100g size. A lot that is the case with newer variations, especially when they got some biscuit part on them. With the big bars they also offer, it is the same. They vary between 250g and 300g, but all cost the same price. Or - another thing that I know: Tuna cans. Doesn't matter if expensive brand or not; the smaller ones also appear used by expensive labels. There are two sizes of cans that are going round. One is 185 g (with a drip-off weight of 140 g) and the other is 195 g (with drip-off weight 150 g). One's gotta look pretry carefully. One shop has one size in its line of goods, another has the other one. But in both cases they can be sold under the store brand that's property of the chain that respectively sells them. So, in other words - be sold for the same price. Quality of the tuna pieces can also vary, the smaller cans tend to contain them more frayed, the bigger ones contain more pieces sticking very tightly together. (I really once had both versions on my hands and the can size really is different. Not much, but the size which says it's bigger, it's also a little higher.) The size thing can even appear with cans sold in the same store under the store's own brand name if you compare the sort "tuna in water and own juice" and "tuna in sunflower oil". Also seen that. (Those two sorts are always offered for the same price, so that you can pick whatever version you need or like better.) Expensive brand name I've tended to see using the small-sized can variation, but their price is different for the same product and they also tend to have other oil material used for theirs too which you don't get in the cans sold under the store's brand name (e.g. olive oil).
For the question of how you take notice of such crap? Well... If you're bored or if you study ingredient lists for certain purposes.
Yeah, looks like it is totally done to screw you over. People typically dont read the volume. And if the packaging is the same who will notice? Btw, i like Milka chocolate. Typically prefer super dark but this one tastes really good.
Like I said, it really came out of the blue as the EU abandoned the regulation many years ago. There was like zero talking about such matters before. Well, looking at it through the eye of the producers, it makes sense why this came.
Often you only notice the weight difference if you happen to have a package of the product bought half a year or even a year earlier, so that you got an item to compare. Strangely, some standard things whereas haven't changed their sizes since then Let's say... A liter of milk still is a liter, butter bar still is 250 g and standard yogurt cups also are the same as they always were (I think).
Boah, super dark chocolate... Think I once managed to get my hands on some Lindt's, one sort of chocolate bar I had was was 70% cocoa, the other was 99%. While eating I thought like "this feels a little bit like really strong coffee" (if I knew what coffee tastes like). Not my cup of tea. The only time when dark chocolate is pretty okay on the product is when it comes down to Halloren Kugeln. But I think, they also didn't do every mixture/variation with dark chocolate, they also did some with normal one...
I'm still angry with Mondelez (the brand owner of Milka) 'cause they seem to have abandoned a sort of Milkas which I always kept looking for whenever a store put them on sale. Haven't seen any bars with milk cream filling for like already quarter of a year or so (maybe more time)... And I'm starting to get to think, they're dropped that sort. Although I wouldn't guess that it sold incredibly bad all over the years.
I don't recall anymore when that was - already a good couple of years ago, the EU abandoned a regulation for packaging sizes of food products which forced manufacturers to offer them in such round masses like 100g and 1kg.
It came right out of the blue... But I remember it was something that the EU forced upon the enterprises.
When it was abandoned, it opened up the path for manufacturers offering all kinds of weird packaging sizes such as, for example, 132 g or 3,001 l (all drinks packaged in bigger sizes than 3 liters here are free from deposit, but that's a purely German thing; not all EU countries do have bottle deposit systems, France, e.g. hasn't).
I think what this weird doing was softened with is that they need to offer you an information on the price tags in the shops about the basic price (like "price per 100g" or "price per 1 kg" so that you can judge the expensiveness of the price for the product yourself by doing the maths).
But, just to get to the main thing I wanted to drive at: Especially in some sweets you notice the playing around with price and mass that you get.
Some sorts of the small Milka chocolate bars, e.g., only countain 90g, but are sold for the same price as those sorts which are offered with the old standard 100g size. A lot that is the case with newer variations, especially when they got some biscuit part on them.
With the big bars they also offer, it is the same. They vary between 250g and 300g, but all cost the same price.
Or - another thing that I know: Tuna cans. Doesn't matter if expensive brand or not; the smaller ones also appear used by expensive labels.
There are two sizes of cans that are going round. One is 185 g (with a drip-off weight of 140 g) and the other is 195 g (with drip-off weight 150 g).
One's gotta look pretry carefully. One shop has one size in its line of goods, another has the other one. But in both cases they can be sold under the store brand that's property of the chain that respectively sells them. So, in other words - be sold for the same price. Quality of the tuna pieces can also vary, the smaller cans tend to contain them more frayed, the bigger ones contain more pieces sticking very tightly together.
(I really once had both versions on my hands and the can size really is different. Not much, but the size which says it's bigger, it's also a little higher.)
The size thing can even appear with cans sold in the same store under the store's own brand name if you compare the sort "tuna in water and own juice" and "tuna in sunflower oil". Also seen that. (Those two sorts are always offered for the same price, so that you can pick whatever version you need or like better.)
Expensive brand name I've tended to see using the small-sized can variation, but their price is different for the same product and they also tend to have other oil material used for theirs too which you don't get in the cans sold under the store's brand name (e.g. olive oil).
For the question of how you take notice of such crap?
Well... If you're bored or if you study ingredient lists for certain purposes.
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Well, looking at it through the eye of the producers, it makes sense why this came.
Often you only notice the weight difference if you happen to have a package of the product bought half a year or even a year earlier, so that you got an item to compare.
Strangely, some standard things whereas haven't changed their sizes since then Let's say... A liter of milk still is a liter, butter bar still is 250 g and standard yogurt cups also are the same as they always were (I think).
Boah, super dark chocolate... Think I once managed to get my hands on some Lindt's, one sort of chocolate bar I had was was 70% cocoa, the other was 99%. While eating I thought like "this feels a little bit like really strong coffee" (if I knew what coffee tastes like). Not my cup of tea.
The only time when dark chocolate is pretty okay on the product is when it comes down to Halloren Kugeln. But I think, they also didn't do every mixture/variation with dark chocolate, they also did some with normal one...
I'm still angry with Mondelez (the brand owner of Milka) 'cause they seem to have abandoned a sort of Milkas which I always kept looking for whenever a store put them on sale.
Haven't seen any bars with milk cream filling for like already quarter of a year or so (maybe more time)... And I'm starting to get to think, they're dropped that sort. Although I wouldn't guess that it sold incredibly bad all over the years.
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