{"id":78,"date":"2009-02-03T14:24:26","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T14:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailyfork.com\/dont_be_shortin_me_my_treats\/"},"modified":"2021-04-22T19:45:49","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T19:45:49","slug":"dont_be_shortin_me_my_treats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/dont_be_shortin_me_my_treats\/","title":{"rendered":"Dont be shortin me my treats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After yesterday&#8217;s news that <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/2009\/02\/food_roundup_for_feb_2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chipotle might be skimping on the meat with their burritos<\/a>, I kind of thought life couldn&#8217;t get much worse. But, then I saw a couple more food items that are apparently now offering smaller portions despite charging consumers the same price. What the hell?<\/p>\n<p>The first culprit is the special <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/5143812\/mms-valentines-day-cupids-mix-is-10-lighter-than-regular-mm-packs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Valentine&#8217;s Day packaging of M&M;&#8217;s<\/a>, which offers 1.5 fewer ounces of melt in your mouth goodness than the regular packages. And although you might come to expect this sort of cheap ploy from a major corporation, the second offender is far more disturbing. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/fea\/taste\/stories\/012309dnmetgirlscoutcookies.1c01e735.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Girl Scouts of America are reducing the number of cookies in each package<\/a>, citing rising costs and a poor economy. <\/p>\n<p>This is entirely unacceptable. In a tough economy the Girl Scouts should be working twice as hard to earn my business, not trying to cheat me out of a few extra Thin Mints. It looks like this year I&#8217;m going to have to take my business elsewhere, and instead of spending thousands of dollars on Tagalongs and Do-si-dos like I usually do, I might just take a vacation instead. Take that Girl Scouts of America!<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><\/p>\n<table class=\"image center\" border=\"0\" width=\"317\">\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"caption\">Thanks, but no thanks.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After yesterday&#8217;s news that Chipotle might be skimping on the meat with their burritos, I kind of thought life couldn&#8217;t get much worse. But, then I saw a couple more food items that are apparently now offering smaller portions despite charging consumers the same price. What the hell? The first culprit is the special Valentine&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-general"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Daily Fork - Don&#039;t Be Shortin&#039; Me My Treats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Daily Fork - Don&#039;t Be Shortin&#039; Me My Treats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"After yesterday&#8217;s news that Chipotle might be skimping on the meat with their burritos, I kind of thought life couldn&#8217;t get much worse. But, then I saw a couple more food items that are apparently now offering smaller portions despite charging consumers the same price. What the hell? The first culprit is the special Valentine&#8217;s [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/dont_be_shortin_me_my_treats\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Daily Fork - Food News, Restaurant Reviews, Dining Tips and Delicious Distractions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-02-03T14:24:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-04-22T19:45:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\">\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/\",\"name\":\"Daily Fork - Food News, Restaurant Reviews, Dining Tips and Delicious Distractions\",\"description\":\"Just another WordPress site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/dont_be_shortin_me_my_treats\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/dont_be_shortin_me_my_treats\/\",\"name\":\"Daily Fork - Don't Be Shortin' Me My Treats\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2009-02-03T14:24:26+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-04-22T19:45:49+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/#\/schema\/person\/344a3d021c122c2f5e35e6451886fc42\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/dont_be_shortin_me_my_treats\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/dont_be_shortin_me_my_treats\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/dont_be_shortin_me_my_treats\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"item\":{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/dont_be_shortin_me_my_treats\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/dont_be_shortin_me_my_treats\/\",\"name\":\"Dont be shortin me my treats\"}}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/#\/schema\/person\/344a3d021c122c2f5e35e6451886fc42\",\"name\":\"admin37109\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/18e3cee52837ed0ac10348afc09abb3f726121fe9d7082c4c6d3210d0d96a3c2?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"admin37109\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/dailyfork.com\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2779,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/2779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfork.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}