The Economy is so bad now, you can taste it!

Although lately the news as well as my google stock portfolio have been a little on the optimistic side lately with the dow closing much higher than it was before, it doesn't seem like the beverage companies have gotten the memo. You may have already noticed more and more food and drink companies are cutting back left and right, rather than lowering prices. There have already been optimistic studies showing these food and drink companies aren't being hit as hard as the other industries, because as you know we dumb, overweight americans are willing to pig out until we reach 'diabeeduz' heaven at any cost. What inspired me to make this post? Well...I recently bought a set of 12 pack Cactus Coolers, my favorite artificially flavored and colored carbonated sugar water. I have a sip and notice for some odd reason my fave pop just isn't tasting right for some reason. Almost to the point of tasting fairly nasty, it wasn't until I decided to shake the crap out of one of the cans and let it go flat that I realized what was going on. They are just watering the soda down and adding extra acid so you can't tell. Fail, even when not flat the latest batch was fairly nasty. It's not just Cactus Cooler either, you may have already noticed this with many other drinks and this soda is managed by the same people who bottle Snapple so a heads up to all the juice lovers out there. There's been some pretty lame cutbacks over at the ol' Hostess factory too it seems. Zinger lovers should notice how the frosting has gotten thinner over the last few months, and the latest batch with the new packaging has much less creme filling. Why is it that companies change packaging when they cut back, almost rubbing it in that the new changes suck. Going into a store and only finding older goods used to suck, but when it comes to your favorite snacks, you'll almost want to rush to your local convenience store that updates inventory once every six months. More for less if such an awful motto for the consumers, but unless people speak up we'll have to suck it down.

Have noticed some other products that have just lost some of their "zing", speak up in the comments section.

The Science Channel Is Dead!

*Sigh*.........So it's finally over, after already hearing about the new rebranding and reading an article about upcoming changes I saw this coming months ago. It seems like just about every channel that starts out with a nice, interesting niche always devolves into a general lifestyle channel no matter what the theme. There's been so many different channels of so many different varieties that despite the radically different themes, all arrive at the same general destination. Now with The Science Channel's marathon of "That's Gotta Hurt" they shamefully join the ranks. TSC was such a great network that I thought was generating decent ratings, but now here they are resorting to the same type of gory filth content that's on every other channel these days. If all networks resort to one similar standard of programming there's going to be nothing but over-saturation, when ratings go down people will remember why they made niche channels in the first place. The old gag used to be, 200 channels and there's nothing on. Now it's going to be, 200 channels and they are all the same. I sadly await, yet anticipate the day this channel pulls a full TLC and stops calling itself the The Science Channel altogether. You do remember TLC used to be an educational network called "The Learning Channel" right?