It really is infuriating. Especially when you get threatening reminders like ‘be sure to be here exactly on time or we’ll bill you/yell at you’.

I show up for everything at least 20 minutes early at the latest. Meanwhile I’ve had scheduled appointments run 45 minutes late.

Clearly they expect me respect THEIR time, while completely disrespecting mine.

In the Netherlands and a few other countries we have the Nutri-Score

https://www.rivm.nl/en/food-and-nutrition/nutri-score

This ranks a food from A (best) to E (worst) based on how well it fits into the dietary guidelines.

Important thing to note: it’s a ranking that compares foods in that same group. So it’s not ‘vegetables are A, pizza is E’, but rather ‘this Doritos has less salt than this bag of Lay’s’.

Now, this effectively caused companies to make their products blander in order to avoid a worse score. It also happened to save them money - you use fewer ingredients.

End result: chips now appear healthier because they have a better score… while also tasting like cardboard.

And how did that go over with consumers? See article. And you can read numerous complaints about it on social media.

Ironically, this also means that the Nutri-Score sorta works. Why eat chips when they are tasteless? 😂

The article doesn’t mention it, but at least here in Europe, one big issue is that they changed all their products to be tasteless.

Because of the ‘healthy foods’ grading we have here, they took out a lot of what made their chips tasty. Resulting in very bland products. We personally haven’t bought any of those brands for a few years now because of it. Because I don’t want a ‘healthy’ chip - I want a tasty snack.

It’s definitely noticeable in Dutch supermarkets that many people are ditching those brands because of the lack of taste. And the price increases just accelerate that.

I have one of those at work 😀 6’2” / 190 cm. Black hair, skinny, looks like a tall forest elf.

Poor girl is on her third girlfriend in as many months. No doubt she’s just a tad intimidating to other lesbians. It’d be like climbing a tree.

I’ve had success finding nice matches for some of my LGBTQ friends, but there most certainly is a challenge in finding ‘tall attractive lesbians’ as a category 😂