If the press started doing that, believe me he d be calling himself Prince again in a heartbeat. If you don t eat it right away, the stuff starts to take on a rancid odor. What originally was a one pound can of coffee became 13 ounces, then 12 ounces, and now I m starting to see 11 ounces on many cans. It s a pretty sneaky way of raising coffee prices without actually raising the price per can. Everybody is dressing like Regis Philbin dresses on Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
Nothing looks as clean and crisp.
If you really want a rude awakening, next time you pull into a gas station, take a look at the pump and check out how much of the price per gallon is government tax. It may surprise you. Researching something on the Internet, finally locating what you re after, then getting kicked off line for no reason and realizing that you ll never, ever find that web site again. That, my friends, is called cyber-aggrevation. And when this happens after you ve invested half a day on the computer, it doesn t exactly feel like small stuff.