Facebook observations

I don’t know about all of their flavors, but Haagen Dazs still uses just the basics. Here is the ingredients list I just pulled for their strawberry ice cream:

Cream
Skim Milk
Strawberries
Cane Sugar
Egg Yolks

Just curious,

But have your Haagen Dazs flavours (pot) in the US also shrunk from 500ml to 460ml?

Ice cream in the U.S. used to be sold as pints or half gallons. The pints are now usually only 14 oz and the half gallons are now 1.5 quarts.

Haagen Dazs is currently sold in 14 oz containers.

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I’m like 99% sure they used to be 16oz and are now 14oz… I think that means 473ml to 414ml.

There are a few holdouts in the U.S. (usually smaller outfits) that still sell ice cream as pints or half gallons. Graeter’s (a Cincinnati ice creamery that Kroger-owned chains sometimes carry in other parts of the country) is one. Ben & Jerry’s still sells pints also.

Offhand I can’t think of any others, but I remember noticing another a year or two ago… just can’t recall which.

Just got a sponsored ad from… from… from… California Rai_SINS!!! !!! They had a recipe for… for… for… Pear Rai-SIN butter!!! :face_vomiting: :face_vomiting: :face_vomiting: :sob: :poop: :skull_and_crossbones: :man_zombie: :radioactive: :biohazard:

WTFluff, FB??? :unamused: :face_with_symbols_over_mouth: :face_with_symbols_over_mouth: :face_with_symbols_over_mouth:

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Obviously these are not targeted ads!!!

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Todays targeted ads were all about a new hangover remedy. Instead of the usual plus size lingerie ads. I might look into it!

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:popcorn:

I’ll save you some money. To avoid a hangover drink 8 oz of water before every beer / glass of wine / mixed drink.

Most commercial hangover remedies say drink 8 oz of water and take this pill… you don’t need the pill. Just the water.

What i did read of the ad, they claim hangovers are only about 1/3 dehydration. (Of course they are all due to excess consumptiom.) But they point out the other stuff their supplement might address

i am over hangover ads apparently. this week it was photos of young women where the photo centers on their underwear while they were bending their bodies into…jesus, who the f is assigning this to me?

I find that type of advertising belittling, honestly.
Facebook also does that to me. I have an account I use for work and marketplace, and FB keeps recommending me rows of artificially enhanced women, most of them looking to be about 20yo.

I keep getting FB ads for the most random things.

Some of it’s clearly ripped from my feed, like I posted pictures of our new shed, so I keep getting ads for sheds. I don’t need another.

Cleaning supplies. Uh, I get that at the store.

Sailing in Europe… Probably never, certainly not from a Facebook ad.

Chainmail lingerie… Okay, at least that’s one I could imagine buying, but no.

I must be very vanilla. The ads I get are mostly for nerdy t-shirts and wooden jigsaw puzzles.

Did you get the Cunard ad too???

I try to the best of my ability not to absorb any brands from ads, unless they’re obtrusive enough to make a note to never buy that thing. So, truly no idea. I try to mentally pass over ads and only was looking due to the thread.

Too hi klass and :poop: for the likes of me.

When AI figures out all the eeuphemisms you use for the item you hate are related to that one item, you will have to turn off the internet.

What’s a euphemism for “chainmail lingerie”?? :thinking: