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We were able to get a refund from the grocery store and Breyers was a completely dead brand in our family when it originally was the only brand they had bought even before I was born.
3000 words which can be distilled down to 10: "Cream and egg yolk are expensive; industry tightens its belt."
3000 words which can be distilled down to 10: "Cream and egg yolk are expensive; industry tightens its belt."
Prose that reads as artificial as the 'dairy dessert' it describes.
3000 words which can be distilled down to 10: "Cream and egg yolk are expensive; industry tightens its belt."
The article is specific in the mechanisms by which the industry has changed formulae -- adding air, gums, and stabilizers. It also includes information about who the offending companies are (Unilever). It includes information about how many calories per cup indicate a high quality ice cream, as well as the legally required labeling you can use to recognize not-quite-ice cream.
It also specifically addresses the "cream is expensive" concern, and discusses dairy prices which have fluctuated but not spiked.
No, this is greed and "the customer is a fool who won't notice". The products of capitalism run to a point where there's basically no recourse (short of, I suppose, manufacturing the ice cream yourself) because everything's become one giant megacorp who knows you don't really have much of a choice in brands.
Setting aside the fact this was written by an LLM, I think this line of thought (which wasn't invented by the LLM, I mean it's something people actually think) is the very origin of this problem.
The 4 year olds don't know better, but it's because they are learning what ice cream (and everything) is. And if you're feeding them shit, that will set their base level for ice cream for the rest of their life.
IMO young kids should be given quality products as much as possible exactly because they don't know the difference. Unless you want them to grow into adults that still don't know the difference.