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Title: Coke, Pepsi, pledge to shrink can and bottle sizes to cut calories
Category: Business
Posted By: Regina
Date: 2014-09-24 07:13:59
Canadian

[Regina]

I call Bull Shit. Price will stay the same. They're getting this from the chip industry.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

IF they wanna cut calories all they have to do is back off the amount of fucking sugar they add. Coke used to have a short-lived product called C2. It was original formula Coke but with only half the added sugar. After a few sips I couldn't tell the difference. When I had company over, none of them could tell they were drinking Coke with only half the sugar.

[bootlegga]

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:

IF they wanna cut calories all they have to do is back off the amount of fucking sugar they add. Coke used to have a short-lived product called C2. It was original formula Coke but with only half the added sugar. After a few sips I couldn't tell the difference. When I had company over, none of them could tell they were drinking Coke with only half the sugar.

Yep.

It might also help if they used real sugar instead of HFCS, which our bodies have a difficult time recognizing as sugar.

[BartSimpson]

Regina Regina:

I call Bull Shit. Price will stay the same. They're getting this from the chip industry.

This is an old trend.

I first noticed it abour 20 years ago when Hershey's downsized their one pound (16 ounce) bag of Kisses to 14 ounces. Then it shrunk to 11 ounces. And now it's 9 ounces.

But the price has always increased.

Needless to say, I don't buy Hershey's Kisses anymore. But that's also in part due to Hershey's moving their production from Oakdale, California to Mexico and then they replaced the cocoa oil with soybean oil.

[Delwin]

If it was this simple I'd just pour half my drink out. What a joke!

The size of my drink is based on my degree of thirst. Now, if I'm really thirsty I guess I have to buy 2 bottles. How is this helping anyone ?

[Canadian_Mind]

If they shrink the size of the bottle, I'll just buy two bottles.

[wildrosegirl]

$1:

Coke, Pepsi, pledge to shrink can and bottle sizes to increase profits

Now it reads correctly.

[Xort]

bootlegga bootlegga:

It might also help if they used real sugar instead of HFCS, which our bodies have a difficult time recognizing as sugar.

Sucrose and fructose are metabolized in the same way, the only difference is that sucrose is most often found bound with glucose which is metabolized and stored in a different manner.

Smaller sizes are just a cash grab.

[herbie]

Here they change the size of the cartons. This week it was
NEW! 15 can packs.
They were $1 more than 24 can packs were last week.
They did bring out smaller plastic bottles and advertise them for less last fall. That's cuz they boosted the size they always made to $2.69

[andyt]

Xort Xort:

Sucrose and fructose are metabolized in the same way, the only difference is that sucrose is most often found bound with glucose which is metabolized and stored in a different manner.

Not true at all. You may want to read up on it. Fructose and glucose are both monosaccharides, but are processed much differently in the body. Glucose is blood sugar, it is immediately taken up by the body and stimulates insulin release. IT is the primary nutrient of the brain. Fructose is only converted in the liver, and because it doesn't stimulate insulin production, acts much more like a fat than glucose. sucrose is a disaccharide: one molecule fructose, one glucose. Sounds like we should be using glucose = dextrose to sweeten stuff, (problematic for diabetics tho) wonder why we don't?

[herbie]

Politics. Cane sugar vs corn syrup.
Cane sugar from the evil empire of Cuba vs. corn syrup's 10,000 lobbyists.

[N_Fiddledog]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Regina Regina:

I call Bull Shit. Price will stay the same. They're getting this from the chip industry.

This is an old trend.

Is it my faulty memory or was there a period where Campbell's soup shrank the tin, raised the price, then put "New and Improved" on the label?

I don't remember anything other than the smaller cans, or the higher price as being new though, and improved for whom?

Must have been when they went Halal.

[raydan]

Harvest crunch... then and now... 25% reduction.

[Thanos]

A Brazzers label on those might help boost sales.