11966 Supermarket Tins and Bottles are shrinking.

You are quite right JC but this is not new. My previous existence was in food retail in England. This size shrinking has been going on for years. The UK food industry is adept at sneaking in price increases. BOGOFs are very effective, particularly regarding fruit and veg, where a seasonal glut USED to mean price drops for the customer Not special offers but natural market fluctuations.
Incidently, a friend gave me a tin of Asda ravioli which I have just eaten. What AM I going to do with the other one? I like my dog, he's naughty at times but doesn't deserve that!:eeeek:
Happy shopping.

[quote=DavidUno;114187]..............Incidently, a friend gave me a tin of Asda ravioli which I have just eaten. What AM I going to do with the other one? I like my dog, he's naughty at times but doesn't deserve that!:eeeek:
Happy shopping.[/quote]

You used the word friend in the same sentence as being gven a tin of ASDA ravioli - do they belong together? Just joking sure they meant well!

Quite agree about the buy one get one free offers in the UK - wish they would just do half price!

If it's any consolation the "shrinking" is happening everywhere. I started noticing some changes in Italy last October. Because I live permanently in a city close to the French/Spanish border is use to shop in both countries and it has also been happening. So it is not that prices are going down but that we are getting less for our money. Clever!

It's ok Eglefino. That particular friend knows the score....next time I cook for her, who knows what fiendish concoction I'll rustle up? Being a polite guest, she'll have to eat it all up. Ha ha hAAA!
Gala Placida. Correct. If we all buy only the few genuine offers from the big boys, and the rest locally, then maybe they'll have to rethink their joint strategy, giving us decent prices for decent food. No chance of that. The descent in quality caused by these behemoths of the retail trade has been too great. To an extent in Marche we are insulated, probably as is all of rural Italy from much of the rubbish in the superstores. The local shops and markets know the importance of quality. With Italy still having an enormous rural population, people know what real food tastes like. (ranting emoticon). For me, that was part of the appeal of this area in the first . I like good natural food that doesn't need disguising. OK the tinned ravioli will haunt me for a while. Thanks pal!

If I had a tin of Ravoli (heaven forbid), I would put it in the liquidiser. Add a tin of tomatoes and liquidise it. Then I'd make some stock and put the lot in a sauce pan,. Stir well and call it zuppa! Bit of cheese sprinkled on top ......

I assume you mean the [B]entire[/B] tin? What I'll probably do is put it in the car and then when the supermarkets are doing one of their collections for the poor, I'll make a donation. How generous to give up my last ever tin of ravioli!:yes:

The POOR What....??? Make soup and disguise that disgusting ravioli!

Moved to [url=http://www.italiauncovered.co.uk]Italia Uncovered[/url]

Tinned ravioli should be a gift for any sailing friends, as sometimes all you want are some warm, easy-to-heat-in-a-lumpy-sea-carbohydrates..... but at least add some freshly ground pepper and a splash of Worcester...

[quote=sueflauto;114360]Tinned ravioli should be a gift for any sailing friends, as sometimes all you want are some warm, easy-to-heat-in-a-lumpy-sea-carbohydrates..... but at least add some freshly ground pepper and a splash of Worcester...[/quote]

True - but what can one do with tinned spaghetti?

We took two tins to our Italian friends who used to live in UK, to see whether it was still their son's favourite food [as it was a few years before, when in UK] - it wasn't - never found out what happened to the other tin.

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When we moved back to the UK for the first time in the late 70's DH spotted tinned ravioli on the supermarket shelf - threw up his hands in delight (fool....) and shouted "Oooo LOOK - ravioli - yum!" and despite my telling him it [I]wasn't[/I] a good idea, he put [U]two[/U] tins into the trolley (one of which I carefully discarded on the washing up liquid shelf).

Back home he said "I know - let's try that ravioli for lunch" you can guess what I said, shaking my head..."You won't like it!", while I feigned surprise that we couldn't find the second tin, and magnanimously told him that as the tins really were only one portion, I would forego the pleasure this time :rollingeyes:.

Well, heated and served, I waited for him to taste it, guessing what was going to happen. He took a mouthful started to chew - stopped - opened his eyes wide :eeeek: and rushed off to the loo to throw up!
Hahahaha - served him right - he wouldn't listen !

QUOTE. I waited for him to taste it, guessing what was going to happen. He took a mouthful started to chew - stopped - opened his eyes wide and rushed off to the loo to throw up!

Yep and if you took that tinned ravioli on a sea voyage you could throw that up too...best place for it!

The ravioli were only 2 tins of a box of survival goodies brought out to me. Much appreciated, not requested but the milk of human kindness. I'm glad the ravioli has done a good turn and provided mirth and recipe ideas (it only cost 20p as well).
There was also a Fray Bentos pie which I thoroughly enjoyed.
Has anybody had the courage to try the tinned tripe that is widely available here?

Probably David, there is alot of it on this forum.:bigergrin:
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Mutley laughing emoticon.

Anyway - back to these evil multinationals shrinking their tins. A friend bought a can of Coke to drink with our sarnies, and it was the fashionable slim tall tin - 250ml. We debated the sort of aesthetic/perceptional/practical considerations of why Coca Cola should have changed the shape - assuming (as we did) that the slim tin contained the same amount of cola as did the old squatter tin. Please - anybody who is still buying the trad 'squat' Coke - does it contain 250ml or did/does it contain 300ml?

In Belgium the squat Coke tins are still 330ml. You get the fashionable 250ml tins in "trendy" restaurants.

Annamaria

Well I think the supermarkets are being very responsible and the shrinkage is all part of an effort to reduce obesity.

Tongue firmly in cheek smilie emotion!

Possibly Nielo. Perhaps you know about that extremely fat English family that live on benefits because they can't get a job being the size they are? ....Well here there would be no benefits, so perhaps that's a way of reducing obesity too? Any how yesterday at an Italian lunch party, the cheap sweet fizz was handed around. The bottle had been restyled and yes, contained less!