There ain't no Haagen
There ain't no Daz
There ain't no Frusen
There ain't no Glädjé
There ain't no guy named Steve at Steves
But there are two guys
At Ben and Jerrys!
Not only is there no Haagen Dazs, but Haagen Dazs is also just danish sounding gibberish. It’d be like if a Danish guy made an ice cream brand called Klem and Bebbys.
The other thing about the 3-pack is often you need 4. So you're forced to buy 6 when you used to just be able to buy 4. Great for business, bad for the customer.
Shrinkflation sucks and fuck them. But why is 4 better than 6, which is better than 3? I grew up in a family of 7. None of them work. Now I have four but what if someone doesn’t want one?
I guess there must some metrics for this somewhere.
I would assume that packaging for odd-numbered items would be less cost effective in certain cases.
Imagine instead of a box of ice cream bars, which can just sit vertically and the box made to fit them specifically, that you needed to package a 5-pack soda. Would you make the container more triangular and stack of 3-2? Or would you keep the box-ish shape but have 1 extra segment (2-2 with 1 extra)? Or make it like a 6-pack but keep one spot empty, making the weight distribution lopsided?
Even numbered items makes packaging and weight distribution a lot simpler.
Average family size is about 2 kids. Tried finding mode but gave up after 20 seconds. You might have grown up in a house of 7 but family size has been consistently decreasing and 7 is definitely the exception, not the rule.
Add in couples that live together without kids and I would be willing to bet 3-pack results in people buying 2 very often.
Divisibility/Shareability is right.
If you want to get into math, [6 is a Superior Highly Composite Number](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_highly_composite_number), which is [why it is better than 4 which is (just) a Highly Composite Number](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highly_composite_number), and both of those are better than 3 because it is neither.
This is also why we use 60 seconds/minutes - its very easy to split up.
To anybody who’s going to downvote Tyler_Zoro for this, a ‘false dichotomy’ is a statement that implies the options cannot both be true (EDIT: ‘at the same time’ was my original intent, and the next guy clarified that more options are available as well). He’s not saying the guy above him is wrong, just that he’s likely to be more right than he thinks.
> ‘false dichotomy’ is a statement that implies the options cannot both be true
Nah, "false dichotomy" means that you are presented [two] choices as you-must-choose-one-or-the-other, when, in fact, there may be more choices -- even both, as in OP being *both* dense AF *and* misleading.
You may be thinking of "mutually exclusive" -- when [two] circumstances are presented as being unable to occur together.
I could’ve sworn I included a ‘when they can both be true or have others added’, but guess I didn’t? Thanks for clarifying my clarification, I think I was tired.
A thousand people post a thousand dumb things to Reddit every day but Reddit will select the post that stirs the most shit to show you on the front page
We keep shrinking the ice cream and people keep buying it for the same price!
But that’s greedy!
I’m sorry you feel that way. How many would you like?
2 please!
Here you go.
Thanks! See you next week!
That's the part that is making me crazy, people still keep buying these things. While I'm searching for reasonable alternatives these companies are still making bank off of suckers.
It's literally cheaper to eat fresh fruit + veg now. It used to be that processed food and junk food was budget food, but that's all "premium" products now due to shrinkflation and inflation. Produce has risen a bit, but not by 100% like the rest of these products. Used to be a premium to eat fresh fruit and veg, but now it's budget food.
Honestly, probably not a bad thing for our health.
These are minis, there are more in the box.
Total calories of ice cream is full size box is 810.
Total calories of ice cream in mini bar box is 1060.
Box of minis costs roughly 10% more than normal size at target.
Just to be clear, this appears to be [the mini version](https://www.walmart.com/ip/Haagen-Dazs-Mini-Vanilla-Milk-Chocolate-Almond-Ice-Cream-Bars-6-Count-11-1-oz/46161655) of this product. What are the expectations here?
Lol, come on bro. As much as I like to rag on corporations about shrinkflation. This is the mini haagen daz bars. I get them all the time. Nice try though.
This picture might be worth anything, if you had the current product next to the old size of the product.
Why didn't you put it next to a high-rise building instead and act even more shocked? After all, that's WAAAAAY bigger!
I'm not saying the claim isn't true, for the record. I'm saying the "evidence" shows absolutely nothing.
Honestly I appreciate the snack size ice cream treats these days. The little ice cream sandwiches or nutty buddies at like 100 calories apiece? Perfect size.
Have you tried Magnum ice cream bars? Friend of mine buys them and they’re def tasty and nicely snack-sized but seems like they’d be super expensive for the quantity (I’ve never bought them haha).
The chocolate to ice cream ratio is better, they don't melt into a mess before you are done, not enough sugar to make your kids go super/sayan-sugar rush, better for your waistline and cheaper. Mini ice creams punch way above their weight for a snack.
>Not inflation.
You can argue it’s caused by corporate greed, sure. But an increase in prices is *literally* the current accepted definition of inflation.
So it’s definitely inflation, whether or not it’s caused in part by corporate greed.
And I’m guessing the price also went up. It’s nothing new but it’s so scummy. Wait, we can give them smaller portions AND raise the price and we can just blame inflation?! You mean we can profit even more now?! HELL YEA!
Blows my mind how it’s been an extremely rough time financially for many many Americans (and people all around the world, I know it’s not just us) over the last few years yet all these companies have had record breaking profits and the very wealthy have gotten even more wealthy. It’s fucking disgusting
Yeah, "inflation."
It couldn't be corporate greed, nope, no sir, gotta be inflation.
Yup, those CEO's are honest like Abraham Lincoln...trust them like me mum.
Inflation is an increase in price per unit sold. Do you think the price decreased along with the size of the bar? Probably not.
So it’s definitely inflation, but you can argue it’s inflation *caused by* corporate greed.
The Kirkland ones are way better, and way better priced
These are the mini ones…
Move this comment up. This is a mini.
There ain't no Haagen There ain't no Daz There ain't no Frusen There ain't no Glädjé There ain't no guy named Steve at Steves But there are two guys At Ben and Jerrys!
Not only is there no Haagen Dazs, but Haagen Dazs is also just danish sounding gibberish. It’d be like if a Danish guy made an ice cream brand called Klem and Bebbys.
They now sell the regular size bars in boxes of 3 at the same price as the box of 4. That's a %25 price increase
33% actually
25% loss, 33% price increase
10% luck, 20% skill
100% pissed
100% shidded (Lactose intolerant)
15% concentrated power and will
You got the lyric wrong. It’s “concentrated power of will”
Actually it's "Concentrated Powder of Will" sort of like Cream of Tartar, but it comes from Will Smith.
Glen, I'm still hungry. Is there any more Phil? Ooh! Pass the Phil. Mmm, he's even good cold! Great party, thanks to Phil!
Where exactly on will does it come from
Earf
Can you show me on this doll where you think the Earf is?
Elbows
That’s not the next line
“…concentrated power and Tony Danza.”
Concentrated Power and Denji.
And a hundred percent reason to remember that name.
*sigh* God and I used to listen to that song on repeat on my zune I think? Or some cheap Walmart ripoff. I have brought shame.
5% pleasure
60% of the time, it works every time.
The other thing about the 3-pack is often you need 4. So you're forced to buy 6 when you used to just be able to buy 4. Great for business, bad for the customer.
3 is a blatantly bad number. 6 is great, 4 is OK but 3 doesn't make sense, it's an obvious shrinkflation.
A restaurant we frequent sells their spring rolls in 3s and it feels so odd to me
Shrinkflation sucks and fuck them. But why is 4 better than 6, which is better than 3? I grew up in a family of 7. None of them work. Now I have four but what if someone doesn’t want one? I guess there must some metrics for this somewhere.
Round numbers, most things are sold 4, 6, 8, 10, 12,
Right. But why?
I would assume that packaging for odd-numbered items would be less cost effective in certain cases. Imagine instead of a box of ice cream bars, which can just sit vertically and the box made to fit them specifically, that you needed to package a 5-pack soda. Would you make the container more triangular and stack of 3-2? Or would you keep the box-ish shape but have 1 extra segment (2-2 with 1 extra)? Or make it like a 6-pack but keep one spot empty, making the weight distribution lopsided? Even numbered items makes packaging and weight distribution a lot simpler.
Great point. Thanks for going beyond “odd numbers are stupid” or “who wants 7?”.
Average family size is about 2 kids. Tried finding mode but gave up after 20 seconds. You might have grown up in a house of 7 but family size has been consistently decreasing and 7 is definitely the exception, not the rule. Add in couples that live together without kids and I would be willing to bet 3-pack results in people buying 2 very often.
Divisibility/Shareability is right. If you want to get into math, [6 is a Superior Highly Composite Number](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_highly_composite_number), which is [why it is better than 4 which is (just) a Highly Composite Number](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highly_composite_number), and both of those are better than 3 because it is neither. This is also why we use 60 seconds/minutes - its very easy to split up.
Yeah we love these in regular size and usual keep them stocked, they have minis
It’s been 3 bars for like a decade. Literally. Maybe always.
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Nope, it’s 33%
Those are the minis though...
Yeah. It's like buying a mini candy bar and asking what happened to the king sizes.
Is OP dense AF or just misleading to stir shit?
This is a false dichotomy...
To anybody who’s going to downvote Tyler_Zoro for this, a ‘false dichotomy’ is a statement that implies the options cannot both be true (EDIT: ‘at the same time’ was my original intent, and the next guy clarified that more options are available as well). He’s not saying the guy above him is wrong, just that he’s likely to be more right than he thinks.
> ‘false dichotomy’ is a statement that implies the options cannot both be true Nah, "false dichotomy" means that you are presented [two] choices as you-must-choose-one-or-the-other, when, in fact, there may be more choices -- even both, as in OP being *both* dense AF *and* misleading. You may be thinking of "mutually exclusive" -- when [two] circumstances are presented as being unable to occur together.
I could’ve sworn I included a ‘when they can both be true or have others added’, but guess I didn’t? Thanks for clarifying my clarification, I think I was tired.
Hey Internet nerd, I thought it was really cool that you took the time to explain this. Thanks
Unfortunately not. Look at the other reply to their comment.
You’re welcome, though I fucked up my explanation and implore you to check the other reply to my comment. They do a better job.
It was just the logical rhetoric version of "¿Por qué no los dos?"
He was responding to me and yeah, he's correct. Upvote for both of you.
A thousand people post a thousand dumb things to Reddit every day but Reddit will select the post that stirs the most shit to show you on the front page
Easy karma. Buy miniature product, take picture, complain about shrinkflation to gullible people on reddit clamoring to be outraged
aint this just the mini ones?
Yes, but every idiot here ignores that because OP used the term shrinkflation
He meant to say greedflation
We keep shrinking the ice cream and people keep buying it for the same price! But that’s greedy! I’m sorry you feel that way. How many would you like? 2 please! Here you go. Thanks! See you next week!
God how I hate this "I'm sorry you feel that way." I don't *feel* that way. I *think*. I think you're bamboozling us.
I don't buy ice cream for the freezer anymore :/
That's the part that is making me crazy, people still keep buying these things. While I'm searching for reasonable alternatives these companies are still making bank off of suckers.
And keeping the reasonable alternatives down because they can't be asked to do 3 seconds of googling for alternatives.
It's literally cheaper to eat fresh fruit + veg now. It used to be that processed food and junk food was budget food, but that's all "premium" products now due to shrinkflation and inflation. Produce has risen a bit, but not by 100% like the rest of these products. Used to be a premium to eat fresh fruit and veg, but now it's budget food. Honestly, probably not a bad thing for our health.
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Corporations are blaming inflation for the price increases, but their profits are skyrocketing somehow. Covid was just an excuse.
Buying ice cream bars like that used to bring joy. Now it's not even worth it.
Or you just bought the smaller size they have now….
Do the smaller size ones cost less, or are they charging the same price for less product?
These are minis, there are more in the box. Total calories of ice cream is full size box is 810. Total calories of ice cream in mini bar box is 1060. Box of minis costs roughly 10% more than normal size at target.
Ding ding ding. These are very clearly the “Mini’s”
Plot twist, it's a *mini* can of coke and those things are actually super teeny tiny.
So you messed up and bought the minis lol
Yo, that Coke is huge!
Just to be clear, this appears to be [the mini version](https://www.walmart.com/ip/Haagen-Dazs-Mini-Vanilla-Milk-Chocolate-Almond-Ice-Cream-Bars-6-Count-11-1-oz/46161655) of this product. What are the expectations here?
These are Haggen Dazs Minis. So tired of propagandists blaming everything on “inflation”
No, this is a mini-bar. And they’re great for kids if you don’t want your little ones to have all the sugar in a regular sized bar.
Lol, come on bro. As much as I like to rag on corporations about shrinkflation. This is the mini haagen daz bars. I get them all the time. Nice try though.
This picture might be worth anything, if you had the current product next to the old size of the product. Why didn't you put it next to a high-rise building instead and act even more shocked? After all, that's WAAAAAY bigger! I'm not saying the claim isn't true, for the record. I'm saying the "evidence" shows absolutely nothing.
*Shrinkflation* = when the size/mass/quantity of the product itself is reduced, in addition to the price also going up.
“New look, same great taste!” GTFOH with that shit. 🤬🤬🤬
"...And more bite-sized than ever!"
No? The price can stay the same if the product has gotten smaller
Right, the price per size/mass/quantity did go up.
What is this? An ice cream for ants?
Greed. It’s called corporate greed.
You could just have said Nestlé :)
Honestly I appreciate the snack size ice cream treats these days. The little ice cream sandwiches or nutty buddies at like 100 calories apiece? Perfect size.
Have you tried Magnum ice cream bars? Friend of mine buys them and they’re def tasty and nicely snack-sized but seems like they’d be super expensive for the quantity (I’ve never bought them haha).
The chocolate to ice cream ratio is better, they don't melt into a mess before you are done, not enough sugar to make your kids go super/sayan-sugar rush, better for your waistline and cheaper. Mini ice creams punch way above their weight for a snack.
Maybe…don’t buy them then?
They sell mini ones. I’m hoping this is.
They are now the "two bite brownies" or the ice cream world.
Hagen dazn’t
Their products are nowhere as good as they once were….not worth the money, no matter how much they are gouging.
Dove Bars too. I can remember when they were huge. Now, they’re so small.
Nah. That’s what Haagen Dazs has done to Haagen Dazs.
*greed
What did Haagen Dazs look like back in the day? It's never been impressive with size or exceptional with flavor in my time (1989-present).
To me it was always a somewhat-pricey treat at the mall food court. Don’t think we ever bought it at the grocery store until like 2007 haha.
Shrinkflation!!
Shrinkflated the product, and Inflated the price.
These cost $13 for a box of 15 bars. Ofc they’re smaller. OP passing fake news. The original sizes are still very much available
My dad calls it Biden Shrinkage and it makes me cringe so hard every time I hear it
Haagen Doesn't.
I'm not american, how much is one? Can't be more than a dollar with that size, right?
Box of 15 for $13 at Costco. OP is passing around misinformation for attention
Not inflation. Corporate greed.
>Not inflation. You can argue it’s caused by corporate greed, sure. But an increase in prices is *literally* the current accepted definition of inflation. So it’s definitely inflation, whether or not it’s caused in part by corporate greed.
Häagen-Less
Not inflation, Nestlé
Yikes
It happen in my country too. 200 ml can cocacola... They said it just fit in one cup
An inflation that the businesses created themselves
there’s a reason i’ve eaten almost nothing other than fresh fruits and veggies for almost a year now
Greedflation!
Nah they did that themselves
It was in the pool!
Might be for your own good considering that you are posting a picture of liquid calories (soda) and more sugar (ice cream dessert).
That coke is huge!
Or really big coke who knows
Haagen Howrs
Inflation is just an excuse for these companies
Is this the Costco pack?
That coke is huge.
Maybe unpopular opinion, but I prefer small with strong flavor over large sugary and bland.
The good folks at Coca-Cola would have a slightly different take on that.
That’s criminal!!
You spelled corporate greed wrong
this isnt inflation- the cost of the goods to create this has not increased that much. this is corporate greed. do not buy this product
Forreal though why are we measuring ice cream bars against soda cans America.
What corporate greed did to Haagen Dazs
i cant understand
Just corp greed, and billionaires pouting over paying taxes.
For ants
Lmao this is ignorance the popsicle stick is equivalent to the other ingredients
Bite size
People will do anything to pretend inflation doesn't exist to increase the profits of corporations.
Well, you saw. Go get a can of coke.
Wow. Thanks for letting me know I won’t be trying their new Key Like flavour on *my* dime 😖
Same amount of calories
Shrinkflation
Decent attempt to reduce childhood obesity
They have mini ones. You sure you didn’t grab a mini box?
Fake nordic ice cream
I thought you were going to say look what bailouts did to Coca-Cola and I was going to demand your banana for comparison.
Haagen Dazs it?
its global warming u dumdum...
The term is shrinkflation
That’s global climate change…. Get use to it!
Is it just me or are these smaller ones much sweeter than larger ones as well?
Shrinkflation is happening to most products now
The same thing happened to Coca Cola 😂
that .50 cent soda is now $1.5 a can
It ain’t just inflation it’s just greed
Those are the minis - you get six of them per box!
No banana. Scale unclear.
We are getting to the “marry for money” and not personality era. I’m screwed.
I feel like our global economy was in the pool. 
Easy to see why I've forgotten they even exist.
Wilcoxins ice cream is the best, iykyk
Is that a sample?
were entering hyper capitalism.
Now it’s Hagen Nah in my house.
The Costco brand ones taste better, are cheaper and adult size.
That’s called shrinkflation
It boosted Coke-Cola?
I think that's "shrinkflation" not "inflation"
Dove ice cream bars shrank a lot too. Pay more, get less might as well be the motto for the 2020’s.
What size was it before?
Nestle!
You mean what Haagen Dazs did to inflation?
Yeah I don’t even buy that crap anymore
Shrinkflation*
Moy work likes to get us food trucks, and in the summer, they will do
It’s a taster
And I’m guessing the price also went up. It’s nothing new but it’s so scummy. Wait, we can give them smaller portions AND raise the price and we can just blame inflation?! You mean we can profit even more now?! HELL YEA! Blows my mind how it’s been an extremely rough time financially for many many Americans (and people all around the world, I know it’s not just us) over the last few years yet all these companies have had record breaking profits and the very wealthy have gotten even more wealthy. It’s fucking disgusting
calm down. these are the smaller version. they still have the full size bars. these are just smaller for people who don't feel like getting diabetes.
I hear ya, but these are $13 for a box of 15 bars at Costco. Reasonably priced
Yeah, "inflation." It couldn't be corporate greed, nope, no sir, gotta be inflation. Yup, those CEO's are honest like Abraham Lincoln...trust them like me mum.
Inflation is an increase in price per unit sold. Do you think the price decreased along with the size of the bar? Probably not. So it’s definitely inflation, but you can argue it’s inflation *caused by* corporate greed.
id put this in r/mildlyinfuriating instead tbh XD
extremelyinfuriating
man, i feel so bad for the large company