{"id":648,"date":"2011-09-10T02:53:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T02:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/09\/pardon-me-while-i-vent-a-little.html"},"modified":"2011-09-10T02:53:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-10T02:53:00","slug":"pardon-me-while-i-vent-a-little","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/09\/pardon-me-while-i-vent-a-little.html","title":{"rendered":"Pardon Me While I Vent a Little"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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The box on the right was purchased in mid-July.  I thought I needed two boxes of cake mix for something, but I only needed one.  The box on the left was purchased this morning.  Darned straight I took the box tops!  But note the size difference….did someone think we wouldn’t notice???<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

I’m baking Jacob’s birthday cake right now.  The final product is a surprise — even for me, since I don’t quite know what I’m doing yet — but I needed two boxes of cake mix for this.<\/p>\n

I had a box of mix in the pantry from a couple months ago (the one on the right), and I prepared it as on the back of the box.  1 1\/4 c. water, 1\/3 c. oil, 3 eggs. <\/p>\n

Just before I took the first cake out of the oven, I prepared the batter for the second part of the cake.  I was just about to add the same ingredient amounts as above, but I caught a glimpse of the instructions on the box on the left: 1 c. water, 1\/2 c. oil, 3 eggs.<\/p>\n

I fished the first box out of the recycling bin and placed them side-by-side: you see that photographed above.  Somewhere between July and now Betty Crocker decided to knock 3 oz (1\/6th!) from their cake mix.  And I didn’t see a difference in a price.<\/p>\n

Isn’t this the same thing that been happening with ice cream and salad dressing?<\/p>\n

RRRR! <\/p>\n

Thank you for letting me vent…time to get part 2 of the birthday cake out of the oven…yes, at 10pm!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The box on the right was purchased in mid-July.  I thought I needed two boxes of cake mix for something, but I only needed one.  The box on the left was purchased this morning.  Darned straight I took the box tops!  But note the size difference….did someone think we wouldn’t notice??? 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