• oce 🐆@jlai.lu
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    11 months ago

    Imagine a new kind of shrinkflation where instead of the portion reducing, it’s the taste of the food that becomes weaker.

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      11 months ago

      That’s what’s happening with bell peppers and giant strawberries, isn’t it?

      Or tomatoes. They don’t deliberately grow them bigger and more watery, but they did breed them for transport and automated harvest for decades. So now we have wooden, watery tomatoes that taste of nothing.

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        11 months ago

        Also for appearance, they look perfectly round and red so people buy them, instead of the retarded looking half green tomatoes from the farmers market that taste amazing.