Baby Back Ribs Rip Off

[buzzed bait]

It's for reasons like this that the crazy state of California makes retailers label EXACTLY what the product is.  

 

Cannot call it a gallon of paint, must say gallon size (there are roughly 126 oz in the can allowing enough room for up to 2 oz of color additive)

Cannot call it a 2x4 since the measurements are different, must call it a 1.88 x 3.74 or whatever the actual measurement is....

 

now before long they will say "Full Rack of Ribs (13 bones, 3.6 inches long)"

[Redlinerobert]

I saw a picture the other day of a McDonald's menu from the late 70's. A Big Mac was $.65! It probably actually had real beef in it back then too. Everything now days you get less for more it seems. 

 

Not to mention, the Big Macs back then were actually BIG. 

[Choporoz]

I'm with Scott here.  Inflation is a fact of life. 

(Speaking of McDonald's, I clearly remember a McD's commercial advertising a burger fries and a drink...and change back for your dollar.)

 

Compared to stagflation and deflation, it isn't a bad fact of life.  In moderation, it is a good thing.  But advertising a 'full rack' and delivering less than full rack is grounds for justifiable outrage, IMO. 

[deaknh03]

This is huge. Reason prices have gone up in everything is because of artificially trying to pump up the economy by inflating minimum wage. By doing that, the cost of the very minimal (McD's Burger for instance) goes up, and devalues things, including every one else's time. That's economics for ya. Inflation, inflation, inflation. Like when the Confederacy attempted to pump up their economy by printing substantial amounts of money. This caused money to be less rare, easier to obtain, and caused crazy amounts of inflation, eventually leading to economic collapse.

 

kinda like what is happening now..money being printed like crazy..

[Fishing Rhino]

I'm a big fan of baby back ribs, especially when they fall off the bone. A full slab of ribs, has 13 bones. I've noticed that the last 2 times I've ordered a full slab of ribs in a restaurant, the full slab only has 9 bones. I really feel ripped off. It's bad enough that a half gallon of ice cream is only 1.5 quarts these days and an 8 ounce package of cheese is now only 7 ounces. But when an establishment advertises a "full slab" and gives you 30% less, I get unhappy. Anybody else see this trend?

 

Sure, and it's been going on for years.  Dial soap is one of my pet peeves.  Once upon a time, it bulged out on all the surfaces.  Now the two largest surfaces are concave.  Not only are they hollowed, but on one side it is hollowed out lengthwise and on the other, the hollow runs across the bar.  This results in a bar of soap that is less than a half inch thick, probably not much more than a quarter inch thick in the middle.

 

But I get my satisfaction by throwing away none of it.  When it gets too small to use comfortably, the used bar fits nicely into the lengthwise groove.  When I break out a new bar of soap, after its first use, I place the remains of the prior bar into said groove.  When the water evaporates the old and new bar are nicely fused together.

 

Coffee?  Used to be a pound in a can.  Now it's less.  The same with orange juice and other juices in the waxed containers.  They are no longer a half gallon.  What used to be a five pound bag of sugar is now four pounds. 

 

It doesn't anger me that they do this foolishness rather than just raising the price.  It's that they insult our intelligence by these clever manipulations and not expecting us to notice.

 

I'm sure some of these have been mentioned but I replied after reading the original post.  Sorry for any duplications.

[Master Bait'r]

Uuuuh, not to break up the rage parade or anything but you buy ribs by weight, not bone count.  

 

 

 

If you got a "full rack" and a "9er" that both weigh the same, it's more than likely the 9er will have more meat.  

 

 

 

Aaaaand now back to your regularly scheduled freakout.  

[Scott F]

Uuuuh, not to break up the rage parade or anything but you buy ribs by weight, not bone count.  

 

 

 

If you got a "full rack" and a "9er" that both weigh the same, it's more than likely the 9er will have more meat.  

 

 

 

Aaaaand now back to your regularly scheduled freakout.

Well for me, the issue is that the restaurant doesn't sell them by weight, they sell them as a "full slab". A full slab by definition, has 13 bones. If the menu would have offered a full or half "portion" or some other equally ambiguous term, I could live with that. When the menu says 12 ounce steak, you expect a 12 ounce steak.

[halochef]

Well for me, the issue is that the restaurant doesn't sell them by weight, they sell them as a "full slab". A full slab by definition, has 13 bones. If the menu would have offered a full or half "portion" or some other equally ambiguous term, I could live with that. When the menu says 12 ounce steak, you expect a 12 ounce steak.

so i will cut the steak 12oz and then i trim 2oz of fat and gristle  off the steak.  i cut it 12oz  but one gets a 10oz steak.  but it was cut 12 oz.  but if i cut it 12oz w/ no trim then someone will complain  there is too much fat and gristle!  now i cut it 14oz trim the fat etc... not the house losses money!!!   just funnin with ya .  now on a filet mignon steak, basicly no fat or trim and its common to cut them to go 1/2 oz to 3/4 either side of weight.  

[HoosierHawgs]

Been going on for years.

Consumer Reports used to nail the manufacturers right and left but no longer do it as it the reduction in product and increase in price is happening in all aspects of the marketplace.

One time I returned to the counter at a Kentucky Fried Chicken and asked the lady behind the counter if my chicken sandwich looks like the one in the advertising poster in the store?

She took the sandwich back; went into the back of the restaurant where I heard a lot of talk; and returned it to me with more chicken on it.

Seems the posters and advertising are for advertising and the home office directs each outlet to put X amount of meat on your sandwich.

And just for your information, if you ever see an ice cream photo or commercial you are not looking at ice cream. You are looking at dyed mash potato's!!!

Pictures of cereal are generally done with glue rather than milk so it looks "more white"