Consoomers / Consoomer Culture - Because if it has a recogniseable brand on it, I’d buy it!

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Vingle said:
Gluten and lactose-free options are usually more expensive than regular food. So it isn't even farfetched.
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while the reason for that is usually that things that contain gluten or lactose need to be replaced with other things that dont, whereas if youre sprinkling peanuts on say, an ice cream cone, you could just.... not do that....
on the other hand prices for alternative food choices ARE absurd.... a bag of gluten free flour might cost 10% more for the manufacturer, but theyll charge you 500% more for the final dish because they know damn well you have no choice if you have a legitimate allergy
so yeah, i can absolutely envision a shop charging you if you wanna OMIT the penuts on top of your dish

alt foods are a whole nother can of worms, and idk if its entirely consumerist, especially if you eat them out of necessity as opposed to some kinda trend, but the whole industry is a joke
hell, the peanut analogy isnt even far off, since some companies WILL add certain allergens to food for unnecessary reasons and then charge you more for a varient without that ingredient
a cereal manufacturer might add flour to otherwise gluten free cornflakes, just to give in a nicer appearance or make it slightly crunchier or something, alright fair enough... but then bring out an identical product without that final sprinkling of flour and charge you more for it, not for a version with a replacement for the ingredient, just a lack of it
 
Cuntspiracy Man said:
a cereal manufacturer might add flour to otherwise gluten free cornflakes, just to give in a nicer appearance or make it slightly crunchier or something, alright fair enough... but then bring out an identical product without that final sprinkling of flour and charge you more for it, not for a version with a replacement for the ingredient, just a lack of it
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A lot of this is down to equipment issues. In order to make gf cornflakes, the cornflake machine has to be stripped down and sanitised, and the amount of time it spends off-line is money down the drain for product not manufactured. Same reason it costs extra for a gf dish in a restaurant. Instead of just taking the meal from the bulk pot that's been sitting prepared since before opening, the kitchen bench has to be sterilised and a separate, small meal has to be made from scratch.
 
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I’m kind of surprised as to how they’re able to boast about this in an un-ironic way.
 
glass_houses said:
The Chinese are aggressive in buying out foreign companies, too. If the company is too small to be incorporated, they find the owner and just throw money at him until he suffocates under the pile.
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A good example of that is this - https://bridgecitytools.com/ He barley "designs" tools these days and was bought out by China a while ago production was moved from various places he outsourced production to in the US to China and the quality and QA have gone to shit (an where not all that great to begin with) but the prices stay the same for sub par tools.

This https://bridgecitytools.com/products/hp-12-smoothing-plane sells for when not on sale $1080 and requires a lot of work to get working correctly out the box - is very badly designed when it comes to Iron removal for sharpening (your supposed to tip it out onto your hand and it's dual edged too so it's begging slice you up).
 
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Sorry to bump this but my post above is related to this -


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I missed this but Rex Kruger has done a review of that exact plane, a plane costing that much even at a sale price should NOT require that much set up / fixing. You can find a new tool or even a old one for a fraction of the cost that will work without having to do that much set up. At most you should have to camber the iron to your own preferences or adjust the tote (the handle for the non rhykenologist), and maybe waxing the Sole but that's something you'd do with any plane.
 
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lol of course I had to know too, so I looked it up on duckduckgo, and found that Etsy sells dildos, and saw some Halloween themed dildos.

Womens sex toys have gotten fucking wild. This one is a cross made from the body of christ. This is actually kinda fun.

Some of these are jokes, like this vulvasaur and I dont know who is buying shit like this from etsy when theyre actually advertised as being usable, its kinda funny to look through all this shit.
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This is mostly not for natal women. Just FYI
 
Phalanges Mycologist said:
A good example of that is this - https://bridgecitytools.com/ He barley "designs" tools these days and was bought out by China a while ago production was moved from various places he outsourced production to in the US to China and the quality and QA have gone to shit (an where not all that great to begin with) but the prices stay the same for sub par tools.

This https://bridgecitytools.com/products/hp-12-smoothing-plane sells for when not on sale $1080 and requires a lot of work to get working correctly out the box - is very badly designed when it comes to Iron removal for sharpening (your supposed to tip it out onto your hand and it's dual edged too so it's begging slice you up).
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Wait, John Economaki's outfit? When the fuck did he sell out? We were still teasing him about his legendary casting burrs in 2008.
 
Shig O'nella said:
Wait, John Economaki's outfit? When the fuck did he sell out? We were still teasing him about his legendary casting burrs in 2008.
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2018 https://www.harveywoodworking.com/blogs/news/bridge-city-tool-works-joins-the-harvey-family he was outsourcing to them for a few years before as well - they made it as quiet as possible because people don't want more made in China and where willing to pay for Made in America and he himself played fast and loose with the definition as well before the sale.
 
Phalanges Mycologist said:
he himself played fast and loose with the definition as well before the sale.
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I hear this is pretty common, though I can't give specific examples. I believe in some cases all of the parts and pieces can be made elsewhere, but if its assembled in America they can put the "Built in the US" stamp on it, which isn't the same as Made in the US that has harder FTC regulations. I'm sure many who just put Made in America are playing loose with the definition but no ones made a fuss about it.
 
Yaks said:
I hear this is pretty common, though I can't give specific examples. I believe in some cases all of the parts and pieces can be made elsewhere, but if its assembled in America they can put the "Built in the US" stamp on it, which isn't the same as Made in the US that has harder FTC regulations. I'm sure many who just put Made in America are playing loose with the definition but no ones made a fuss about it.
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Happens everywhere but he was always trying to play up American / Heritige etc and he was farming out the work the Asia and not passing the slavings onto you.
 
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