GOYA conspiracy uncovered

[MichaelSoE]

It has come to light that Goya has conspired to manipulate market share and force consumers to purchase more of their product.

If you look at the recipe printed on the back of the package it explicitly calls for 1 pound of split peas.
The package of split peas only contains 14 ounces

There are 16 ounces in a pound and therefore Goya has blatantly created a no win situation forcing consumers to either purchase more split peas or try to make soup that will not be satisfying as it will lack 2 ounces of peas.

Attorney General Barr has gone on the record stating, "there would be no investigation as there is aconflict of interest and it is too close to the election."

Minutes after the news broke, Trump tweeted, "Antifa HUGE problem on DU. FAKE POST!! text 666 to make a donation"



This needs to go big! We need 200 Rec's in 1 hour!

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Agreed. Most consumers would buy the second 14 oz bag to make the recipe.

Even if you do your math and adjust the measurements (like I do) by multiplying the original measurements by 0.875, you are faced with having to estimate measurements that don't exist, such as 0.65 of a teaspoon for example. It's possible to modify but too difficult for ideal outcomes.

[Maraya1969]

2. Trump tweeted that there is a problem at DU and said to text 666? I find that hard to believe

[Fla Dem]

3. Goya does need to rejigger their recipe to comply with the 14oz bags. Totally manipulating customers

OTOH, many canned and bagged products have dropped from 16 oz to 14-15 oz. While that doesn't appear to be a big deal, after all, what's 1 or 2 oz less you say. However, if you're selling a million of those products in a year, that's 1 million -2 million extra oz of product. So in the case of a 15oz can, that's 67,000 extra cans/bags you get to sell without increasing your inventory.


I really hate that companies are doing this and in many cases raising their prices on the smaller size product as well.

[customerserviceguy]

4. I strongly doubt

that most consumers would even notice that the amount called for in the recipe and the amount in the bag were slightly different. And if they did notice, they really wouldn't care, at least not enough to buy another bag of dried peas.

I think that the OP's contention that skipping the extra peas will "make soup that will not be satisfying" was used in lieu of the sarcasm tag. For me, I've sworn off of pea soup since watching "The Exorcist" back in 1973.