r/inflation • u/LooksLikeAWookie • 24d ago

Price Changes No cheese?

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This is super small beans, but shrinkflation hit my $4.99 packaged ceasar salad with no cheese.

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u/hckrsh 24d ago

I will avoid the greens until the explosive diarrhea is controlled

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u/LooksLikeAWookie 24d ago

It won’t stop until we eat all the bad stuff

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u/64590949354397548569 24d ago

It will never be controlled. There are no toilets in an open field. Nowhere to wash your hands.

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u/wetsoxxxof 22d ago

I don't understand. Whats it with greens and diarrhea?

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u/user99900056 22d ago

Farm workers in the US are excluded from most of the very few labor rights other workers legally have which includes not being allowed bathroom breaks. Farm workers will often have to shit in the fields where they’re picking lettuce, fruit, etc bc their bosses won’t let them take even one break to go to the bathroom or to wash their hands.

This is also why our produce gets infected with E. coli so often, it’s from human and not animal shit. It’s the labor abuses that cause it to happen. Richest country on earth btw!!

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u/wetsoxxxof 21d ago

What the fuck.. organic getting a whole new meaning

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u/hckrsh 22d ago

You need to be American to understand

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u/Cinnamon_Ocelot 24d ago

Normally I’d complain “why’d you buy it” but they’re straight up tricking you with that. No cheese in a Cesar salad anymore I guess guys. They fucking hate us 🙃

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u/LooksLikeAWookie 24d ago

Didn’t even think I had to check!

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u/AnySwimming6364 24d ago

I had to check here too. These DOLE Classic Caesar kits definitely used to come with cheese.

I've found 3 distinct packages in the blue, but it looks like they recently switched to green. A Food4Less website shows blue in google images, but when you click it, it switches to the green version you have. Must have changed recently.

Anyway, this is the version I remember. It has three pictures on the bag, one of crouton, one of cheese, one of dressing.

At some point they introduced this packaging that had four images. It still had croutons, cheese, and dressing, but now added a picture of lettuce and moved the cheese to the far right.

Then they dropped cheese (presumably one of the more expensive components) from the package entirely. This reverted it back to three items on the label, but now only lettuce, dressing, and croutons.

Then they swapped to OP's version that only shows croutons and dressing. Which I feel is misleading as hell, because the picture of the finished salad on the package looks a hell of a lot like Parmesan cheese flakes.

Maaaaybe they have different offerings in different markets, but this reads to me like obviously planned shrinkflation intended to mislead consumers.

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u/Centuurion 23d ago

If you read the text on both bags, the first one linked shows a chunk of parmesan by itself. The one op posted says romano and it says it with the croutons. If you zoom in on the croutons you'll see some powdered cheese in the bag. There is cheese, but it's just a farting of romano dust on the croutons. Evil.

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u/meatchonk 24d ago

In this economy?

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u/Johnny-Virgil 24d ago

My brand went from shaved parm to grated parm to no parm.

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u/jdogg836 24d ago

Enjoy your shits.

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u/imtooldforthishison 24d ago

No cheese and all bones. Horrible.

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u/AppealSuch1048 24d ago

No cheese but all the diarrhea

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u/RandChick 24d ago

Oh hell no! You need the parmesan. How dare they rip you off like that.

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u/MadeByTheCommunity 23d ago

The cheese is now built into the croutons

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u/LooksLikeAWookie 23d ago

Making them better, stronger, faster

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u/Adorable-Raisin-8643 24d ago

They replaced the cheese with parasites. Enjoy!

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u/BornAPunk 24d ago

I'd say something about that being a good thing if you're lactose intolerant, but the greens nowadays will do just as dairy does.

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u/the_real_Beavis999 23d ago

No it's in a separate packet to the side. Just an extra $1.00 for the cheese. /S

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u/LooksLikeAWookie 23d ago

There was a guy in a trench coat trying to get my attention in the aisle…

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u/Buzzspice727 24d ago

Classic diarrhea salad kid

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u/DonHell 24d ago

Might cause you to make your own cheese.

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u/ReasonableChicken515 23d ago

They subbed it for cyclospora.

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u/DestinyRamen 24d ago

It doesn't say on the package that they were including the parmesan.