Things That Have Gotten Worse as They’ve Gotten More Expensive

Inflation exists and items become more expensive over time. Most of the time, the quality stays the same – or even improves – which makes paying a bit more bearable (even if it still hurts).

When an item declines in quality but increases in price, inflation can be a bit harder to stomach – and that’s exactly the case with these 15 things.

15. You used to get what you paid for with these.

Scented candles.

Yankee Candle in particular used to be the candle that was considered premium. But while they’ve never been cheap at least a while ago it was worth the money.

But now they’re just exorbitant in price, they don’t smell like they used to, and they are not worth the money.

14. Which is weird, because the Quarter Pounder has definitely improved.

Big Macs.

That burger “patty” is a stones throw away from being a slice of roast beef.

13. Something that didn’t get better with time.

Photo booths!

Oh the old ones were so cool! Four different real photos for 1 dollar. – Now you pay $ 7 for four identical bad laser prints.

12. They only reward new customers.

Cable/ Internet providers.

Oh yes sorry your trial period was over, your bill went up 200 dollars.

Oh no we didn’t promise you 200mb/s download speed constantly, we said UP TO. read the fine print ?

11. Well if that’s not depressing…

My university education, specifically this year.

They are raising tuition AND fall semester has no in-person sessions.

10. Time to cut the cord!

Cable television.

More commercials, channels upon channels of crap, ridiculous bill.

9. You’ve gotta splurge for the Ben & Jerry’s.

Ice cream with fudge in it.

Used to get massive slabs of fudge now they just have tiny nuggets.

8. It’s a marketing ploy.

I swear that Reese’s peanut butter cups have gotten worse over the years. The peanut butter seems chalkier and the chocolate tastes blander.

Plus I can’t ever seem to pry them out of that little cup wrapper without leaving the bottom chocolate “skin” stuck to it…

I think the push to put them in the freezer and eat them chilled is a ploy to cover the declining quality

7. Hard not to agree with this assessment.

Smarties. Never been right since they got rid of all the artificial colors.

Better for you, I’m sure, but chemical blue was the best flavor.

6. I haven’t been there in a while but this makes me sad.

Buffalo Wild Wings.

I don’t know if it’s just me, but their prices have gone up and the quality has gone down.

5. Thrift stores are the obvious answer.

Clothes.

Even a sweater from the Gap is like $70 now even though the quality is about 10% better than Old Navy.

Goddamn it clothes retailers, settle down or I will go naked.

4. Real estate is not what it once was.

As someone shopping for a house, I have to say homes.

not only has the real estate market been ridiculously inflated (especially in NYC, my residence), I’m finding that the actual quality of a lot of these homes are absolute shit. Due to the ability to find and source cheap materials and labor, developers are able to make huge profits off high prices and low costs.

It’s making me really rethink if I want buy a house, or just use all that money to aggressively invest.

3. Did they used to be better tasting, too? Because…

I remember the donuts at dunkin donuts to be bigger and cheaper

2. Definitely not built to last these days.

Clothes.

Very few companies make clothes to last and fast fashion is rising while the cost of items continue to increase!

1. And who knows what’s in that chicken. *shudder*

I’m sure this will get overlooked but KFC. I remember growing up a whole family could eat there and it was great! Now it’s just garbage, super greasy, and will cost you an arm and a leg for a dang bucket of chicken.

They have gotten way worse and the price has went up.

Some of these are really appalling, but I never considered others!

Would you add something to this list? Tell me what in the comments!

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Products People Might Stop Buying If They Knew How They Were Made

Some things are just better off not knowing, if you ask me. For example, if you’re not interested in becoming a vegetarian, you probably don’t need to know how chickens are processed. Just don’t do it.

There are other things, like working conditions in factories that sell goods to American retailers like The Gap, that perhaps more people should be aware of so they can make the right choices when they’re out shopping.

Below are 16 products that people might stop buying if they knew how it was made, and I’ll be honest, the list contains a bit of each type.

16. Make sure to Google this one.

After I found out the story behind the palm plantations for production of palm oil I made it my personal mission to completely throw it our of my life (and that sh.t is in almost everything you eat).

Palm oil is the biggest reason for massive deforestation around the world. South America and Southeast Asia (Indonesia in particular) are producing the most. There are moratoriums on new palm oil plantations, but companies are skirting that issue by paying individuals to start forest fires so that the companies can then buy up the land that is no longer a forest.

The deforestation is destroying habitat for animals like orangutans and tigers. And all of the burning of the forest is also burning peat. Peat is essentially forest detritus that houses huge amounts of C02. By burning it we are quickly releasing all of thst C02 into the atmosphere. Worst of all, the plantations are only good for one or two cycles, then the land is essentially discarded, and new plantations are made.

In my opinion, palm oil production is the greatest ecological disaster in history. It is nearly everything, and essentially impossible to avoid. There are so many different names for it, so it can go unnoticed so easily. Even the supposedly sustainable palm oil production is extremely damaging to the environment it is grown in.

15. It’s all in the bottle.

Most low to mid tier vodkas. I work at an industrial distillery where we make millions of gallons of very high purity ethanol from corn.

We have customers in the beverage market that literally just dilute our product to 80 proof or so, run it through a filter, and bottle it to sell.

Those customers sell their products from anywhere from $8-$50+ for a liter. And you know what the main difference is? The more expensive vodka’s bottle is “fancier”.

It’s almost all brand perception with these corn based vodkas.

14. That’s less than appetizing.

I’ve work in 2 different meat departments in 2 separate grocery stores.

The meat in the case that has had work done, (marinated or like put into kabobs) are usually the old meat we didn’t sell that is about to go bad.

That marinade is hiding how shitty the meat looks.

13. Special doesn’t necessarily mean “special.”

Certain signed art work. Used to work at an art printing company that we did signature editions of certain pieces.

Guess who did the signing me and some coworkers, we were all design and art majors so they just had us learn all the artists signatures, we even had machines that could mimic the signatures too, I wish I had a picture of the devices they were pretty cool.

It was in the fine print that we were doing it and was approved by the artists but I guarantee most people would never buy the prints if they knew the signatures were forged. So always read the fine print when buying items, especially “special” editions of stuff.

12. Eight hours is kind of blowing my mind.

RVs.

They aren’t insulated fully. Nothing is sealed correctly. All the electronics that are “fancy and new” are outdated and inefficient.

The manufacturers use the cheapest materials possible AND all RVs are built in 8 hours. A vacation home. On wheels. In 8 hours!?

11. I never would have guessed.

This reminds me of a documentary series my dad once watched. Garlic. The garlic industry is a hell of a lot darker than most people would think.

I don’t remember everything, but apparently a lot of Chinese companies that sell to restaurants overseas use prison labor. These inmates have to peel the garlic completely by hand, no tools whatsoever.

There were a few inmates missing fingernails. If I recall correctly, one man said that he had a friend who had to resort to using his teeth because he didn’t have any nails left. They work unimaginably grueling shifts, in which they have to meet a quota for the day or face consequences. They get paid very little, if anything at all. They all seemed so miserable. The series is titled “Rotten”, you can find it on Netflix.

10. This one is hard to stomach.

Chocolate produced by child labor.

9. I guess it’s not so fresh.

“Fresh-squeezed” is marketing. You can deliver orange juice year-round in three ways:

1) buy fresh oranges and squeeze them yourself.
2) squeeze the oranges, remove most of the water and freeze the concentrate. This is sold as frozen concentrate.
3) squeeze the oranges, then separate all the components of the juice mechanically and chemically. Store the various components in huge tanks – sometimes for years. Then mix it with flavors and preservatives, bottle it, and sell it before it separates again. This is sold as fresh squeezed, because it’s never been frozen.

Unless you physically see method 1, method 2 is far, far fresher.

8. I’m going to have to use that.

“Anyone who enjoys sausage and respects the law should never find out how either are made.”

7. Of course they didn’t.

In high school, the girls in my class were horrified to find out what their Uggs were made of.

They had no idea.

6. I hope we’re on the way to fixing this one.

Most baby powder is made with talcum, which is potentially carcinogenic since it works via breaking down into some of the finest pieces we can make, fine enough to cause problems for your cells.

Use cornstarch, we have too much of it, it works by absorbing the moisture. The only caveat is that you have to make sure to shower if off of you regularly enough that it doesn’t mould on you, but that shouldn’t be a problem for someone that showers at least once a week.

5. What a jerk face.

My parents decided to build a house in another state. The builder did not know I lived in the neighborhood. The builder took this nice piece of land and spread about 2 feet of broken concrete over where the front yard and house would be. Not knowing much about construction practices, I took a picture and showed it to a construction engineer friend. He said that was messed up and there was no reason for that.

Hired a local third party engineer to visit the building site, and he said the builder was destroying the land. Parents had a lawyer send a letter to the builder. Builder’s lawyer wrote back, denied any wrong doing. Parents threatened to sue. Builder offered to refund deposit. Rather than waste time/money on a lawsuit, parents took back deposit and walked away. Wasted money on architect fees. Builder completed house.

The finished house was raised 3 feet above of where the natural ground was. Whoever bought that house either didn’t know or care that 6 inches below was tons of broken concrete debris. Fuck that guy and every builder like him.

4. It sounds cynical, but…

I really don’t think there is one. If it’s because the ingredients or preparation are disgusting, I think most people are perfectly happy to keep eating/using it because the finished product is fine.

If it’s a moral reason, I just don’t think most people would care enough to stop using or eating whatever the product is. We’ve known for years that Air Jordans are being made with child labor in sweatshops, and sales haven’t dipped one bit due to that.

And I don’t say this as a cynic, I think we should work to improve conditions for all humanity, but the proportion of consumers who would be bothered enough to stop buying a thing is vanishingly small.

3. Definitely awful.

Silk.

Bonus story: Had a friend who worked briefly in bridal and was fitting a woman who was boasting how vegan and eco friendly her wedding was going to be. No one was allowed to wear leather etc. All while wearing her dress with huge amounts of silk on it.

ETA: 17/07/20

A lot of people asking if my friend told the bride, so I asked her:

“No I didn’t. The bride and her friend started making fun of my disability when they thought I wasn’t in the room and couldn’t hear them. I would have also lost my job if I had lost the sale”.

2. Womp-womp.

Nothing. People know what goes into hot dogs and chicken nuggets, they still eat them. They’ve seen what the sweatshops look like, and they still buy stuff from there.

1. That is the sad truth.

I want to say sneakers by brands like Nike, who exploit, underpay and abuse their workers, but sadly most people already know how they are made and still buy them.

Well, I’m going to do some soul searching, how about you?

Is there something else that belongs on this list? Add it in the comments!

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The Quality of These Products Has Gone Down While the Price Has Gone Up

Pretty much everything increases in price, right? I remember being stunned when I first learned that my grandmother could go to lunch, a movie, and get ice cream with a single quarter!

We expect to have to pay more for those things, now, but we don’t expect to pay more for products that aren’t as good as they used to be – which is the case with these 12 things, according to savvy Redditors who have noticed.

12. We all need more space.

New homes.

Cookie cutter houses, built with cheap contractors who cut corners left and right, situated in neighborhoods with ever higher HOA fees: and the HOAs are getting more expensive too.

11. All of the razor burn.

Face razors. They had it perfected with double edge blades in a metal razor. Cheap and incredible shaves. Modern plastic disposable razors are worse on your skin, give a worse shave, and grotesquely expensive.

They are nothing more than monopolies controlling the availability and accessibility. When you go to the razor section at the store you can only choose from their garbage.

I give double edged metal razors to men and women loves ones as gifts and universally their minds are blown realizing how much better and less expensive they are.

10. Definitely applies to washers and dryers.

Certain house appliances.

My grandma has had the same fridge for 40 years. My parents recently had to replace theirs. It’s their third in 20 years.

9. Just a fact of life.

There used to be this burger joint called “Joe’s cablecar” near me. Great place. I miss it so much. A few months before it closed down, I was there and the owner, Joe, was having a heated conversation with one of his suppliers on the phone. After he hung up, he looked over at me and just said, “price goes up, quality goes down.”

It took me a while to realize that that wasn’t the particular supplier he was dealing with, just a fact of life. People like Joe can’t tolerate that. That’s why the truly great things never last. Only the mediocre things are able to endure long enough to degrade into the universally hated embodiment of entropy that the physical world allows for.

8. We can all agree Nestle is the worst.

Everything Nestle takes over.

In general, anything that ANY corporation takes over.

7. This one physically hurts.

Health Insurance.

It really is an ugly situation. We should have better care if the price increases.

Who’s making all that money?!

6. Capitalism rears its ugly head.

Any service ever.

Not gonna lie. Modern business is based on a model of cutting costs.

5. Those are some big words but I agree.

Almost everything.

Planned obsolescence and expediency has taken the place of quality and craftsmanship.

4. This makes me sad.

Disney Theme Parks. (Speaking pre Covid world)

They were better when you could do an entire park in a day, cost much less, like $40 vs whatever the insane price is now, and they limited who could get in.

Universal is the same way, specifically Halloween Horror nights. It was $15 the first time I went, they capped how many tickets they sold and you had time to do every house plus a couple of rides. It was my favorite and we would go every year.

Now? It’s like $70 for a ticket, you have to buy fast pass for another $30 or $40 just so you have a chance to do every house because the lines can literally be hours long because they don’t cap ticket sales and they recycle the same houses but pretend it’s a new theme. It’s so miserable we stopped going.

3. And it’s chock-full of preservatives and other stuff.

Food.

Unless you make it yourself.

Even then ingredient quality is lacking unless you’re dropping way too much money.

2. Ben & Jerry’s is the only ice cream.

Ice cream containers that were originally one-half gallon have been “shrinking.”

They went from 64 oz. to 56 oz and now 48 oz. – but the price hasn’t “shrunk” (it’s been increasing steadily) and the quality often isn’t as good as it used to be when containers were a true half-gallon.

1. Lots of people feel this way.

Reese’s peanut butter cups.

Their “Big Cup” is basically the size of their original cup for double the price.

Also it tastes different. I remember as a kid the original peanut butter cups came in those 4 packs and you could individually peel away the chocolate from the peanut butter. Like, part of the game for me was to try to peel back the chocolate so all I had was an intact peanut butter disc.

Can’t do that anymore. The chocolate is super thin and has no “snap” to it. It’s just mush.

I definitely have to agree with most of these.

What would you add to the list? Share with us in the comments!

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If Stores Sold Superpowers, What Would You Be Able to Buy From the Discount Bin?

Superheroes need to shop in the discount bin, too, sometimes…

It can’t all be flying, super strength, and the ability to disappear, right?

Folks were presented with this unusual question:

“If Stores Sold Superpowers, What Could You Buy From the Discount Bin?”

Here’s what AskReddit users had to say about this.

1. Wouldn’t that be something?

“Discount huh?

I’m imagining this amazing superpower that used to be super cool but is now hardly sold anymore.

“Automatically unscratch the surface of any old dvd or cd you touch” – Now with free set of dvds!”

2. A lot of people would like this.

“Grow your hair as fast as you want.

“Hmm time for a haircut. Might as well get my money’s worth”

Grows hair a mile long.”

3. Where am I now?

“You can teleport anywhere but it’s randomized.

99.9999999999% chance of death if you include the universe.

Hell, even on earth you could end up in the sky, underground or underwater.”

4. Might come in handy…

“Chill a beer by holding it.

No other freezing or cooling related powers.

And it only works on beer.”

5. Use it wisely.

“Heat vision, but it only gets hot enough to warm up your coffee.

Could get a job as a barista.”

6. This is HUGE.

“The ability to automatically agree on where to eat with my spouse.”

7. It is what it is.

“Invisibility but every meter of movement makes you fart.

This is an added bonus! Go invisible, run through a crowd, and watch the hilarity!”

8. A lot of thought went into this.

“Being able to float 1 inch but you can’t move around, not needing a remote to change the volume(just the volume, you still need it for everything else).

Turning your finger into a tiny vacuum to clean small crevices, being able to tell what someone’s emotion is but you don’t know why, good reflexes, Bluetooth connection to your phone so you can hear the music but no one else can and you don’t need headphones.”

9. Couch Woman!

“The amazing ability to turn into a couch!”

10. Useless!

“Walk through walls but fall through floors/ground when you do.

Run really fast but you get tired over a normal distance.

Turn into any animal you want, but permanently.”

11. Interested in any of these?

“You can turn invisible but you won’t be able to see anything either

You can run super fast but you slowly burn (friction)

You can fly but the g-force and lack of oxygen always catchup to you

You can teleport but every time you do so a little bit of your body is left behind.”

12. What the?!?!

“Telekinesis.

But it’s limited to 3 pounds and the object hovers a half inch above your palm.”

13. This is gonna get weird.

“The ability to elongate one part of your body, but you can’t choose which part.

Say hello to One Tube-shaped Eyeball Man!”

14. All this good stuff.

“10% invisibility, you are just slightly transparent

mood ring, your skin changes color based on your mood

ant command, the power to have a single ant do your bidding

superhyerpercondria, detect every microorganism on every surface all the time

fartparade, instead of being invisible, your farts come out as brightly colored gasses

allergy medusa, anyone who looks at you will sneeze uncontrollably as long as they can see you

midas’ pudding, every liquid you touch gets transformed into banana pudding

sandwhichsense, know exactly when and what kind of sandwich someone has most recently eaten

cat facts, infinite knowledge about the universe, but only topics about cats

megaphone, your voice is permanently as loud as a jet engine.”

How would you answer this question?

Tell us in the comments!

We look forward to hearing from you!

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Enjoy a Bunch of Photos of the Famous Chalkboard Joke From “The Simpsons”

Even people who aren’t necessarily fans of The Simpsons probably know by now that one of the running gags of the show is in the intro where Bart writes a different phrase on the chalkboard during detention during EVERY SINGLE EPISODE.

The show is in its 31st season, so you can do the math and figure out that Bart has written A TON of messages on that board.

And we’re here to show you a bunch of funny ones from the history of the show.

Are you ready to have some fun?

Eat my shorts, man!

1. Bart’s at it again!

You really shouldn’t fake rabies…

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2. He thought he could, though.

Or, at least that’s what he said.

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3. A little young to be drinkin’.

He probably stole it from Homer.

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4. Doesn’t taste like chicken.

The ONE thing that doesn’t taste like chicken.

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5. Marge would never cheat on Homer.

No way. Never!

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6. Oh, yes he will.

Dammit, Bart! What did I say?

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7. Love that script.

Bart has good penmanship.

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8. A big mistake.

What were you thinking, Mr. Simpson?

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9. Too late for that.

Wayyyyy too late.

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10. Now it’s Homer’s turn.

How many times has he strangled Bart over the years? Way too many to count.

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11. You little thief.

He’s definitely a juvenile delinquent.

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12. It’s not called Assbook.

But maybe someday. You never know…

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13. Open up your eyes!

You’re missing all the good stuff!

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14. That’s a cool one.

Getting very creative.

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15. I know exactly what Bart is referring to here.

Do you?

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Now we want you to sound off!

In the comments, share some of your favorite moments from The Simpsons with us and tell us about your favorite chalkboard gags from the show.

Please and thank you!

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Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Some of Disney’s Most Heartbreaking Moments

If there’s one thing it seems like Disney loves to do with their films, it’s to make the adults in the room cry. From Bambi to Up and too many in between to name, who among us hasn’t broken down in the fact of animated beauty and loss?

If you’re a big Disney fan, you’re not going to want to miss these fun (and sad) tidbits that helped shape some of their more heartbreaking moments.

14. Disney wasn’t willing to invest much in Lilo & Stitch.

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It wasn’t based on a fairy tale and included tough storylines, which in Disney’s mind made it a “gutsy” movie – and they invested much less in it as a result.

13. Many of the early films include parent death for a reason.

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They need the character to grow up, says executive producer Don Hahn.

“The movies are 80 or 90 minutes long, and Disney films are about growing up. They’re about that day in your life when you have to accept responsibility.”

12. Originally, Bing Bong’s death in Inside Out was more drawn out.

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It was “a lot sadder” and I, for one, and glad we didn’t get to see it.

11. They tried to make Mufasa “the greatest father that ever lived.”

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You know, so it would hurt more when he died. Jerks.

10. Actor Kaitlyn Dias imagined her cat dying in order to cry on cue.

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She’s the voice of Riley in Inside Out.

9. Kristen Bell inspired “The Next Right Thing.”

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It’s a personal mantra she uses to handle her own depression and anxiety.

8. The originally planned to reveal Nemo’s tragic beginnings slower.

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They were going to intercut Nemo in the net with the scenes of the barracuda.

7. Andy looking back at his toys one last time was inspired by director Lee Unkrich’s last moment with his grandmother.

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“I went back to visit her, and there was a moment during that visit that I had to say goodbye, and I knew I’d never be seeing her again. I looked at her and knew that I was looking at her for the last time. Taking that in before I turned away and left. Of course, that’s something that will stay with me for the rest of my life.”

6. Onward creator Dan Scanlon based the relationship on his own with his brother.

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His father died when he was a baby, and he knew he wanted the film to end with Ian realizing Barley was a perfect father figure.

5. Tadashi was always going to die.

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It was part of the initial pitch for Big Hero 6, and the rest of the story and moments were all built around that “emotional core.”

4. They originally left out the gory details at the beginning of Tarzan.

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Director Kevin Lima explained that not only did audiences not quite get it, but the impact was off, too.

“There is a yin and a yang to these pictures that is good. When these awful things happen, you can feel the joy later in the film all the more. It’s a savage world out there, even when you walk out your front door and out on the street, and kids realize that.”

3. They almost cut the moment in Up when Ellie learns she can’t have children.

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Some thought it was going “too far,” but others knew it was just what they needed to really make people care about them and their journey.

2. Tom Hanks and Tim Allen cried together watching Jessie get donated during Toy Story 2.

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Hanks said, “I was in tears, and we were looking at each other, going, ‘That’s some powerful stuff.’ To be reduced to that and to a level of emotion like that on a cartoon about talking toys and their adventures, it’s profound, there’s no other word for it.”

1. It took animators nearly a year to perfect the scene in The Little Mermaid where Eric almost dies.

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The final scene was only about 2 minutes long.

I’m tearing up again but it’s fine. I’m fine.

What’s the saddest moment in a Disney movie for you? Now that I’m a mom, it’s definitely Dumbo. 

I’m seriously never watching it again.

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Hilarious Reactions to Chuck E. Cheese Going Bankrupt

I know it’s not funny that the current state of the world is forcing companies to declare bankruptcy, and that our kids might grow up without all of the wonders of the world that we did, blah blah blah, but that doesn’t mean humor isn’t still one of the best ways to cope.

A fact you’ll surely agree with me on after reading through these 15 hilarious reactions to people learning that Chuck E. Cheese, childhood staple and bane of parents everywhere, is struggling financially.

15. Just reminiscing about the good old days.

I mean, they weren’t great but they were better than this.

14. When you think about it that way, maybe this is for the best.

I mean. Who thought this branding was great?

13. It would be nice if we could be sure there were better days ahead.

Something tells me that’s just not true, though.

12. Perhaps this is truly when things went downhill.

Although kids love all “monies” it doesn’t matter the color.

11. Only $1? I thought it would be more, because no one eats the salad bar.

Salad bars are gross at the BEST of places, y’all.

10. Back in the 80s we ate creepy characters for breakfast.

This new rat looks too nice. He’s probably hiding something.

9. We reap what we sow, people.

But I mean, I think it’s clear Chuck E. Cheese doesn’t have a bangup marketing team.

8. Everyone already assumes it’s full of germs so there’s that.

He’s just saving America, one disgusting business at a time.

7. 2020 is determined to take it all away.

They can’t have Betty White. They just can’t.

6. They just might be the currency of our impending dystopia.

I mean, you never know.

5. No one in their right mind over the age of 11, anyway.

Which is maybe redundant?

4. This animatronic band was terrifying.

And also it plays at a local bowling alley so come to Kansas City.

3. Now there’s a rat-owned business I could get behind!

I’ll take the specialty, please.

2. American rats are always looking for handouts.

It’s sort of pathetic looking, isn’t it.

1. There’s nowhere to go but up.

I’m sure there will some day be another restaurant looking for a rat representative. Ahem.

Listen, I hate Chuck E. Cheese (although the addition of alcohol lessons my ire), but I still hope they pull through and I can teach my kids to play skeeball.

Parenting is one big contradiction after another, isn’t it?

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This is How Starbucks Changed the Coffee Industry by Turning ‘Small’ Into ‘Tall’

Do you remember the first time you ever glanced at a Starbucks menu? Immediately, you probably wished you learned Italian in high school. After all, what exactly is a venti or a grande?

Even after years of drinking their delicious coffee, it can still be confusing to figure out what order those unique sizes come in. Wouldn’t small, medium, or large suffice?

So what’s the secret behind Starbucks’ unique cup-size names?

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To better understand the origin of the company’s coffee offerings, you have to dial the clock back to 1986. That year, Howard Schultz opened Il Giornale. Of course, he would later launch Starbucks.

However, Il Giornale offered just three sizes: short, tall, and grande.

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Shultz took a trip to Italy three years prior, which provided the inspiration for the distinctive names for each cup size.

He used cups in a variety of sizes and even carried over the Italian inspiration to other items on his menu, including doppiomacchiato, and misto.

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Of course, the biggest impact on the coffee game came with replacing “small” with “tall.”

According to Starbucks blogger Melody Overton, the secret is actually stunningly simple. It all came down to space on the menu board. And everything changed once venti came into play.

Overton says.

“When venti was added, short dropped off the menu boards.

Starbucks decided that there wasn’t room for four sizes.

So short got the boot and tall became the new short, or small.”

Years later, “short” has made a reappearance…sort of. You can order hot drinks in the eight-ounce size.

In addition, Starbucks offers a fifth size for cold drinks. The “trenta” checks in at 31 ounces and will surely leave you satisfied.

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What’s your favorite Starbucks drink? Do you have a go-to size? How much is too much coffee?

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This is How Starbucks Changed the Coffee Industry by Turning ‘Small’ Into ‘Tall’

Do you remember the first time you ever glanced at a Starbucks menu? Immediately, you probably wished you learned Italian in high school. After all, what exactly is a venti or a grande?

Even after years of drinking their delicious coffee, it can still be confusing to figure out what order those unique sizes come in. Wouldn’t small, medium, or large suffice?

So what’s the secret behind Starbucks’ unique cup-size names?

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To better understand the origin of the company’s coffee offerings, you have to dial the clock back to 1986. That year, Howard Schultz opened Il Giornale. Of course, he would later launch Starbucks.

However, Il Giornale offered just three sizes: short, tall, and grande.

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Shultz took a trip to Italy three years prior, which provided the inspiration for the distinctive names for each cup size.

He used cups in a variety of sizes and even carried over the Italian inspiration to other items on his menu, including doppiomacchiato, and misto.

Photo Credit: Pixabay

Of course, the biggest impact on the coffee game came with replacing “small” with “tall.”

According to Starbucks blogger Melody Overton, the secret is actually stunningly simple. It all came down to space on the menu board. And everything changed once venti came into play.

Overton says.

“When venti was added, short dropped off the menu boards.

Starbucks decided that there wasn’t room for four sizes.

So short got the boot and tall became the new short, or small.”

Years later, “short” has made a reappearance…sort of. You can order hot drinks in the eight-ounce size.

In addition, Starbucks offers a fifth size for cold drinks. The “trenta” checks in at 31 ounces and will surely leave you satisfied.

Photo Credit: Pixabay

What’s your favorite Starbucks drink? Do you have a go-to size? How much is too much coffee?

Tell us your thoughts in the comments below!

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Dairy Queen Blizzards Don’t Actually Contain Real Ice Cream

There isn’t a better treat on a hot summer day than a tasty Blizzard from Dairy Queen. The legendary creamy confection packed with sugary, crunchy toppings is the ideal way to satisfy your sweet tooth in the blazing summer sun.

But secretly, the famous fast-food offering has hidden behind the guise of calling itself ice cream.

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But according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Dairy Queen doesn’t actually sell ice cream. At least, not technically.

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According to FDA regulations, any product categorized as “ice cream” must contain “not less than 10 percent milkfat, nor less than 10 percent nonfat milk solids.”

Unfortunately for DQ diehards, this means the tasty treat you have long referred to as ice cream does not meet FDA standards to earn that title.

However, while that may be news to most people, the company itself has cleverly referred to its product as “soft serve” to avoid any hiccups with the FDA.

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In fact, on Dairy Queen’s website, you can find a full explanation of why the company cannot use the term “ice cream” on its menu.

“To be categorized as ice cream, the minimum butterfat content must be 10 percent, and our soft serve has only 5 percent butterfat content.”

Additionally, DQ says that despite the five percent butterfat content, its product sadly is not 95 percent fat-free.

Plus, when you consider all the toppings, cones, and drizzles most consumers typically add on top, who’s really counting calories anyway?

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At the end of the day, whether the FDA calls Dairy Queen’s product “ice cream” or not, that Blizzard hits the spot every time.

What’s your favorite treat from Dairy Queen? Tell us your top Blizzard choice in the comments below!

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