In this case, I don’t understand why it’s profitable to enshittify candy like this. The only reason to have it is for the good taste
I can’t believe I’m the only one who gave up on cheap candy because it just wasn’t good. While I don’t eat much good candy, I still eat some despite the higher price because it’s good. Aren’t people like this? Or do too many get stuck in then addiction and not realize it’s just no longer good enough to be worth it?
The point isn’t profit making through competitive better products, but rather taking existing products and making them as terrible as possible while gaslighting the public that it’s still a great product. That way we get worse of everything and the people making everything worse get richer via higher profit margins and the higher stock evaluations that buys them.
Basically, most people realize their product is no longer good, but participating in its consumption is more rewarding to our lizard brains than the product itself. So people buy crap products just to get the feeling of using them as they did in the past.
Unfortunately that’s just the way we’re wired. And every nepo baby with an MBA has driven a truck through that psychological loop hole, destroying anything of value that the US was capable of making best.
No joke. Everythings been in decline for over a decade, but we’re too in love with the ritual of consumption to care what we’re now consuming is no longer of any useful quality. Something our government now 100% reflects.
There will be a time when that ends. And it’s coming soon. As no one born into this mess gets joy from consuming something of so obvious low quality. They never got to enjoy the good product our rituals came from, just the corpse of what our rituals now lament.
Enshitification is the natural end result of treating companies as if they are sharks, that will die if they stop moving, instead of like people who have natural ups and downs. Our “anything other than growth is death” mindset by which companies are valued and run in spirit of is ridiculous. Its literally the societal equivalent of someone having a severe drug addiction. The underlying logic, or lack thereof, is the same: things cant always be better than they were five minutes ago. Refusing to accept that is how you end up destroying your body or destroying Americas favorite candy bar company or whatever else
Yep, fair warning if you see wording like chocolatey or chocolate flavored, it ain’t chocolate.
And even then, if it’s in the US, their definition of chocolate if fairly lax to begin with.
There was a certain type of malt ball I would buy for mom. You know how it is, if you’re someone with a good relationship with your parents. The maltballs disappeared from stores for several months and then suddenly reappeared. I bring her these maltballs again and she’s thrilled. She guiltily texts me later to say she threw them away because they wouldn’t melt in her mouth.
Weird. Chocolate that doesn’t melt at 98.6?
I bought them again to try them. I don’t know what it is, but it’s not chocolate. And it doesn’t melt in the mouth, she’s right. Sugar wax, devoid of flavor. I too trashed the malt balls.
I too trashed the malt balls.
Both verbally and literally.
So what brand? No need to hide that, shame them and do everyone a favor.
I dunno but I fucking hate milk duds because they suck. Maybe them.
Milk Duds aren’t malt balls, though. They’re chocolate covered caramels.
You might be thinking of Whoppers.
Whoppers taste like industrial waste, how that product still exists I cannot understand
Those suck too
Protien poweder my brother let me try from months if not more ago tasted like chocolate milk, got the same kind a few weeks ago and it tastes like tree bark.
If you have a body temperature of 98.6F it might b a mild fever.
Haha, yeah, I thought this for sure was on the list of things everyone just knows. That list is shrinking every day
Yeah I mean it’s one of the few things that’s a pretty universal part of the human experience
Yeah I mean it’s one of the few things that’s a pretty universal part of the human experience
My temperature is consistently 36.5-36.6 on waking. It only goes up to 37 when I’m sick or if it’s a hot day or I’ve had an intense workout
Check your temperature in the morning. I’d be shocked if it was 37C every day
I bought a bunch of Halloween candy like I do every year to get ready for the holiday. And like I do every year like an idiot, I start eating this junk.
The biggest thing I’ve noticed this year is just how sugary sweet all the chocolate candies are.
It doesn’t matter if it’s KitKat, Twix, coffee crisp, aero or mars … they almost all taste the same amount of sugar sweetness and hardly any chocolate flavor.
Of course it doesn’t help that they’re all owned by like three giant candy corporations.
Last year I went to my local chocolatier, but they didn’t have anything suitable for giving out for Halloween, like nothing individually wrapped. I’d love to support and advertise a local business, but alas.
That’s the other loss over the years. You can’t hand out your own home-packaged or custom packaged candy.
Years ago, I used to see several people in the neighbourhood who handed out little packettes of their own candies. I was starting to think of doing the same thing but never had the chance. You buy candy in bulk, then just package it all into small portions to hand out. Some people would also throw in an apple, orange, muffins, little cakes, or their own home made candies or cookies. All that is banned now and parents won’t accept them when they bring their kids to the door. All candies have to be commercial grade store bought ‘Halloween’ candies. Anything else is treated like poison … parents freak out that strangers might put razor blades in custom packaged candy … but no one ever thinks that a factory can leave metal parts inside a tiny candy.
What do you mean “ban”? Where is there some authority over Halloween? Do they cite you if you offer unapproved treats or wear unauthorized costumes?
You are right … it isn’t banned … it’s just not recommended.
Parents walking Halloween with their kids will refuse receiving anything that is custom packaged or homemade … most if not all parents will only accept store bought official ‘halloween’ candies and chocolates.
It is not banned in the formal sense, according to their comment to me above
omg freshly made carmel apples.
I used to get those when I was a kid in the 80s. There was always two or three people that would make them and give them out … definitely a Halloween treat that is lost to people today.
Haven’t seen or tried them in years.
cheap too. apples and sugar are cheap. being fancy and adding the nuts probably doubles the price but its well worth it. ooh and then chocalate dip mmmmmm
And they wonder why no one trusts each other any more.
BTW, what authority placed the ban? That’s incredibly authoritarian and pearl-clutchy. For everything wrong with my area we at least don’t do silly things like banning homemade treats (but only in the specific context of trick-or-treat on October 31st?)
Not officially banned … just a whole bunch of stuff from the 80s and 90s where everyone freaked out and thought strangers were putting razor blades, hyperdermic needles and metal scraps in food to poison kids … none of it was true (it might have happened in a few instances but not widely)
Since then, its recommended everywhere not to accept homemade treats unless you trust the people you get them from.
I don’t think that there’s any authority that “banned” it, but the whole “stranger danger” panic of the '80s has made sure that nobody will ever eat your homemade treats, and it might attract unwanted law enforcement attention if any kids do eat them and become sick (even if the sickness is unrelated). Too many tales of poison, razor blades, etc inserted into candy.
I do remember getting home with my Halloween haul, and my parents going through it, throwing out anything homemade and anything with a damaged wrapper.
Growing up in the 90s, I remember getting homemade treats. But then we also knew everyone on the street.
I also remember the “check the candy for drugs!” thing, as if anyone was giving away free ecstasy in Halloween candy. I think the only corroborated “razors in candy” story was the parent doing it to their own kids.
Oh my local chocolatier doesn’t do that kind of candy. I go for their nice thick cup of sipping cocoa
“Milk brown cocoa type product”
Next year:
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Milkbrowncocoatype product”Brown cow water
I will never get the whole candy bar bit. Candy means hard candy to me. I guess I can’t call them chocolate bars anymore given this story.
Where I’m at candy just means sugary things that aren’t cake/pie/cookies. Could be chocolatey and/or fruity.
