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Fed up with food price increase --- The snacking recession: Why Americans are buying fewer treats (www.axios.com)

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Americans are snacking less — and that's a problem for the packaged food industry.

Why it matters: After years of inflation, consumers are recoiling, fed up with food price increases and suddenly immersed in economic uncertainty.

Driving the news: General Mills on Wednesday became the latest food giant to sound the alarm about what CEO Jeff Harmening called a "slowdown in snacking."

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[–] MajorHavoc 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

"I don't understand it (pauses to pour various inedible compounds into another vat). There's no way to explain why Americans don't want to eat our delicious healthy snacks anymore. (Pauses to check with legal whether using the word "healthy" will hold up in court. Legal says it won't, but Sales says to use it anyway.)"

This is not an actual quote, but it's wild that they don't understand the road that got them here. It's just way too much trouble to read and research the package labels for basic safety, anymore. If there's four or more ingredients, I probably just won't buy it.

I fucking love snacks, but they took the fun out of it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I'm fond of saying food doesn't have ingredients it is an ingredient