This is a picture of Mission Soft Flour Tortillas (Medium size), which are the tortillas my husband has used for years for his Doggos. About a year ago, they were hit by the Grocery Shrink Ray - we were still paying for the 10-tortilla package, but it now came with only eight tortillas. It actually made my husband mad enough to try to find another brand, but none of them were exactly what he wanted - so we went back to them, grudgingly.
And look! Now they are generously providing us with *TWO* extra tortillas, bringing the total back up to 10! It's kind of like daylight savings, I guess - you're so happy to get the hour back you don't notice it was the same one that was stolen from you back in the Spring.
Oh well, at least they didn't call it a "super size" package and raise the price.
]]>And it will!
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As you can imagine, it requires that you leave your home computer up and running.
@Michael Belisle: My 'letter' to Breyer's said in so many words: I am no longer buying your product. Ok, so I didn't actually send them a letter. I just haven't bought their product ever since I discovered why a half-gallon didn't last as long as it used to last. And it wasn't because I was eating a larger quantity of it at every sitting, no, it was because the package shrunk to less than 64 ounces (and the price either stayed the same or even went up).
I also waiting for Utz & Wise to bring back their normal size bags of potato chips. I keep feeling like a glutton if I buy 2 bags of 3.75 or 4.0 ounces each just to get what was a normal amount of chips years ago. And that's one part of the GSR problem. Yeah, prices increase - we understand that. But, as has been said before, recipes & habits were developed that were based on a non-changing quantity for a given item - the 1/2 gallon & pints of ice cream being 2 perfect examples.
I've been neglecting my Futurama study sessions.
]]>"Fry, I know those cookies are freshalicious, but they produce an awful lot of trash"
Guerro is owned by Mission, a subsidiary of Gruma Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Gruma S.A. of which, Archer Daniels Midland owns a 27-29% share.
Archer Daniels Midland is the largest recipient of government credits and subsidies, and is basically responsible for ethanol being added to gasoline. If you think about it for even a couple minutes, huge conglomerate multinational agribusiness corporations will scare your pants off.
]]>"Fresqui-Ricas" is a combination of two words meaning fresh and delicious. Actually, I think you could translate it as "freshilicious."
Fun fact: Guerrero, which makes those freshilicious tortillas, is owned by none other than horrible-maker Mission Foods.
]]>You are deluded if you think that paying more will increase food safety or wages. Every cent will go to increasing profits, if not to lobby/bribe government to break unions and relax regulations.
]]>I can't tell you how many hours I spent making red sauces and pizza sauces using their canned tomato products with mediocre results. I made dozens of batches of sauce, tweaking ingredients, trying different recipes. I tried roasting them, modifying their acidity and pH, adding wine, balsamic vinegar, more fresh herbs, different olive oils. This went on for almost two years! I developed this complex - I thought I couldn't make a decent tomato sauce to save my life. I thought that I was doing something wrong and that my food suffered as a result, and I all but stopped making home-made pizza. Clearly, I take cooking far too seriously, but that's a whole other topic.
Finally, I went out and bought half a dozen other brands of tomatoes, and, as it turned out, it was all about the canned tomatoes I was using. It was an epiphany, nothing short of a life-changing moment. Stupid, I know, but I thought that with enough coaxing, and enough technique, I could get great results with any canned tomato. What I really needed was to upgrade my pantry.
So, TL:DR - Trader Joes Canned Tomatoes almost ruined my life. In reality, I'm still awesome.
]]>@yasth: something locally made, less than a week old, if possible.
]]>I hope they apply the "33% more!" magic to ice cream soon. I switched to the store brand because 1.5 quarts is a pathetic size. Perhaps it's time to send a nastygram letter to Breyer's.
]]>Though seriously, they have an edit button. AN EDIT BUTTON I TELL YOU!
]]>Seriously, though, it's horribly clunky and the greyed-out comments of non-cool-kids makes things amazingly difficult for myopic me to read. I like to read the comments more than the articles sometimes, and I know this will lead to fewer pageviews from me.
]]>Of all the things I'm paying more for than a year ago, the % increase in dog food price, plus the 20% product shrinkage, is the most outrageous.
]]>@MostlyHarmless: The comments are broken on Jezebel right now, so since these are working, I'm guessing no.
]]>(Only partly kidding.)
]]>Now there's even more to love about some of your favorite Mission tortillas. We've added two extra tortillas to each package of Medium Flour Tortillas, while packages of Small Flour Tortillas now include four extra tortillas. Customers in the North Central U.S. can also enjoy two extra tortillas in packages of Mission Caseras. These are just a few more ways we're helping you stretch your food dollar a little further.
]]>Wow... how did this delicacy elude me for so many years?? I love hot dogs and manwich... this could be the start of a wonderful, weight-gaining friendship. (with sour cream, of course....)
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Also, the Costcos around here (LA area) carry a "cook-it-yourself" tortilla. When my mom is feeling lazy, she uses those, and they taste really good.
]]>We also like them because they say "Fresqui-Ricas" on them, which we enjoy saying even though we don't know what it means. I usually get the mission brand 'paper towel' variety because they last forever in the fridge, but a "Fresqui-Ricas" tortilla quesadilla is hard to beat!
]]>@HIV 2 Elway: I'm in the same boat. No need to ruin Consumerist for me too!
]]>@MostlyHarmless: I hope not, after the upgrade my work pc now blocks comments on Deadspin. I don't want to lose another productivity hampering site.
]]>In order for things to get a little better, like people demand, we need to pay more. This is also ignoring that many companies are struggling to still exist in this economy, and in order to still make profit they have two choices: sacrifice quality, or quanitity. I'll take that latter. But I'm getting sick of people getting pissed that yes, they may have to pay more for less if they still want the items they know & love to even exist (especially since they were being spoiled with a great bounty of cheap food before).
]]>@Yoko Broke Up The Beatles: I guess it depends on if you want to have a fiesta in your mouth... or not.
]]>You have made some SAD grandkids. meany head
]]>You can get good flour tortillas at costco in the freezer. You just cook them yourself and they are great tasting. Or, even better, learn how to make your own corn tortillas out of masa. It's easy although it takes some time.
]]>Microwave ovens happened.
]]>People understand that prices rise over time, but will always be offended by attempts to trick them.
]]>Unfortunately for me, haven't found such a place in Central New York...
]]>Mission brand tortillas are not that good.
And I've had a "doggo" but I boil the hot dog instead of microwaving it.
]]>@MostlyHarmless: It's meta meta. MJ is on the Internet.
]]>Good thing there was a hyperlink on "Doggos" - since I had never heard of them before! (But, now, I want to go make myself some!)
Question: do Doggos get ketchup and mustard on them like regular hot dogs, or taco sauce like tacos?
]]>It is still being done. They already are fully cooked, after all!
]]>I need coffee.
]]>@yasth: exquisita tortillas or don pedro tortillas. i dont know if they are available in your area as they seem to be local companys even tho walmart and heb carry them.
those are the closest i can find to "homemade" but they still pale in comaparison to moms or grandmas
]]>@MostlyHarmless: Also off-topic: Michael Jackson is still dead.
]]>What say you?
]]>Eh? They're among the softest, most pliable tortillas you can buy in a supermarket. (Won't contest the flavorless part, though...they are pretty bland)
Try heating them in the microwave for 15-20 seconds.
]]>I have a favorite restaurant in the San Diego Mission District that I love hitting up on business trips. I could eat nothing but tortillas.
]]>i think they still do
]]>Let's discuss the fact that they are being used for "doggos". What ever happened to just eating cold hot dogs out of the package?
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