How can there be so many fat ****s in Australia when you get this shidt all the time
has to be the healthiest health bar of all time
A waste of space if ever I seen it, 5 in a box that'd fit 10 at ease

Well the packaging worked....you bought it?

I have some in my cupboard, I opened/emptied the box and put it in recycling.

Not all good things come in small boxes

they are sooooo yummy

I remember Milo used to have much much much bigger tin for a 1 Kg deal. When you opened it, it seemed to have shrunk. There was only about 3/4 full. They claimed it was due to natural movements during transportation. I say it is movements alright.

Anyway, the new packaging for the 1 Kg tin is much much much smaller, and inside is filled almost to the top. Deception ?

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Jupiter said..
I remember Milo used to have much much much bigger tin for a 1 Kg deal. When you opened it, it seemed to have shrunk. There was only about 3/4 full. They claimed it was due to natural movements during transportation. I say it is movements alright.

Anyway, the new packaging for the 1 Kg tin is much much much smaller, and inside is filled almost to the top. Deception ?

You are right, and wrong.....due to improvements in the process they can now guarantee that the crystal size is more consistent and they do not now have to allow for the bulker crystals any more. (they fill by weight anyway)

The Packaging industry is very much a volume related industry.....choose a high volume packaging size, and the cost will be low...go slightly out of the "standard" the cost can double or more. The "marketer" may choose this so their product does not look the same as all the others, but they pay premium for this

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Agent nods said..
Well the packaging worked....you bought it?

Same with your missus

What **s me is all the plastic that everything is wrapped in all the time.

I thought we were drowning in the stuff, time for a solution.......

I have the "natural bircher muesli" from same brand on my desk, just here. Now.'

It has, for a 100g serving, ....................... 16 grams of sugar.

That's insane.

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Agent nods said..

You are right, and wrong.....due to improvements in the process they can now guarantee that the crystal size is more consistent and they do not now have to allow for the bulker crystals any more. (they fill by weight anyway)

I am not familiar with the internal working process on packaging. So you could be right about that. However, if what you said is right, shouldn't and wouldn't Milo simply give the buggers a good solid fair dinkum shake to make them settle down first ?

Being ever a cynical bastard, I have always thought that using a larger tin made buyers believe they are getting more

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Chris_M said..
What **s me is all the plastic that everything is wrapped in all the time.

I thought we were drowning in the stuff, time for a solution.......

I am with you. I can never understand why a teeny weeny bunch of lettuce needs a big sheet of plastic to cover it. I believe new-age mobs are getting out of hand. They are too lazy to wash the vegetables themselves, or do not want to see any dirt on the stuff they bought, despite the fact that vegetables are grown mostly from soil. A sad statement of a modern society.

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Jupiter said..

However, if what you said is right, shouldn't and wouldn't Milo simply give the buggers a good solid fair dinkum shake to make them settle down first ?

Being ever a cynical bastard, I have always thought that using a larger tin made buyers believe they are getting more

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Professional Milo tin shaker.....

My main concern at present is that after next year you can send your young son to school wearing a skirt. I'm now no longer worried about healthy food , packaging,recycling or North Korea.

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Jupiter said..
I am not familiar with the internal working process on packaging. So you could be right about that. However, if what you said is right, shouldn't and wouldn't Milo simply give the buggers a good solid fair dinkum shake to make them settle down first ?

Being ever a cynical bastard, I have always thought that using a larger tin made buyers believe they are getting more

It's more difficult than you think.

Nestle probably has(had?) 20 plus sites around the that manufacture Milo. As Milo is a fairly old product line, the manufacturing lines are old mechanical automation. These are made to suit one size, and take a lot of time, effort and tooling costs to change to a new size, multiplied by all the sites around the world - as they want the same product look globally, it would be a very hefty bill.

These production lines may also be used to fill another products that Nestle makes, and they may need the full volume of the can.

Manufacturing globally has moved to more centralised manufacturing, closing more regional sites and replacing them with mega sites running at high speeds, computer controlled with robotics etc - some of these lines now change from size/product at the press of a button. This now gives them more flexibility for the packaging used.

I don't like the overuse of packaging especially plastic - all the crap plastic wrap vegies - comes from the consumer to a big degree.

At self service the consumer can't be trusted to enter strawberries at $10/kg, they enter carrots at $2/kg. So the supermarkets wrap it and barcode it, so you can't steal.

Consumers are all so "busy" now they don't like queuing at normal checkouts - if most vegies are barcoded it is quicker than finding all the individual products and weighing them.

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southace said..
My main concern at present is that after next year you can send your young son to school wearing a skirt. I'm now no longer worried about healthy food , packaging,recycling or North Korea.

Slip one in ? How about starting a new thread of your own ? I don't care about what you cared about, really !

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Agent nods said..

I don't like the overuse of packaging especially plastic - all the crap plastic wrap vegies - comes from the consumer to a big degree.

At self service the consumer can't be trusted to enter strawberries at $10/kg, they enter carrots at $2/kg. So the supermarkets wrap it and barcode it, so you can't steal.

Consumers are all so "busy" now they don't like queuing at normal checkouts - if most vegies are barcoded it is quicker than finding all the individual products and weighing them.

I am not talking about tiny fiddly things like strawberries which obviously needed to be wrapped and secured. I am talking about a whole head of lettuce, kale, and cut-up celery. These are washed and bundled up, ready to be use without having to be washed again ! Perhaps we will have robots cook and feed those lazy idiots.

Vegetables wrapped un-necessarily in plastic were around long before the self-service in existence.

Wrappers and such like are the least of our pollution worries...all beauty products including shampoo + conditioner hair gel etc.
Contain tiny particles called micro beads made out of...wait for it...PLASTIC!!!!!
Most beauty products end up in drainage into the environment predominantly the Ocean!!! (Yay)
Said micro beads are allready found in the food chain of humans namely the fish we eat!
I am a firm believer humans will bring on their own destruction by destroying their habitat( some will survive)and the tipping point is not too far around the corner.

Have a lovely night

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Jupiter said..

Agent nods said..

I don't like the overuse of packaging especially plastic - all the crap plastic wrap vegies - comes from the consumer to a big degree.

At self service the consumer can't be trusted to enter strawberries at $10/kg, they enter carrots at $2/kg. So the supermarkets wrap it and barcode it, so you can't steal.

Consumers are all so "busy" now they don't like queuing at normal checkouts - if most vegies are barcoded it is quicker than finding all the individual products and weighing them.

I am not talking about tiny fiddly things like strawberries which obviously needed to be wrapped and secured. I am talking about a whole head of lettuce, kale, and cut-up celery. These are washed and bundled up, ready to be use without having to be washed again ! Perhaps we will have robots cook and feed those lazy idiots.

Vegetables wrapped un-necessarily in plastic were around long before the self-service in existence.

Self service is just cost cutting by the mudda pharkers who own the stores. So chuck everything in plastic because who gives a crap about the planet when there's profit to be made huh?

Homo erectus was the longest lived (so arguably the most successful) hominin species - over a million years existence.

We are sitting at just over 100,000 years of Homo sapiens, chances of reaching the million year milestone are looking pretty slim if you ask me

Topic needs to me moved to heavy weather

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southace said..
My main concern at present is that after next year you can send your young son to school wearing a skirt. I'm now no longer worried about healthy food , packaging,recycling or North Korea.

He will struggle to hide his package

I bought some drill bits the other day. Surrounded in plastic packaging so tough I had to use tin snips to get the buggers out. I hate that.

The ladies say i have a lovely package

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Shifu said..
I bought some drill bits the other day. Surrounded in plastic packaging so tough I had to use tin snips to get the buggers out. I hate that.

Once on holidays I need some scissors, it came in a blister package, as I was flying I had no sharp implements. So I had to borrow some scissors to open the scissors. There was more cutting the scissors out of the package, than the original task.

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Shifu said..
I bought some drill bits the other day. Surrounded in plastic packaging so tough I had to use tin snips to get the buggers out. I hate that.

Not as bad as buying a Stanley knife that's got 2 thick plastic ties securing it to its package that you Carnt cut as the Stanley knifes secured, defeats the object of buying Stanley knife

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Jupiter said..
I remember Milo used to have much much much bigger tin for a 1 Kg deal. When you opened it, it seemed to have shrunk. There was only about 3/4 full. They claimed it was due to natural movements during transportation. I say it is movements alright.

Anyway, the new packaging for the 1 Kg tin is much much much smaller, and inside is filled almost to the top. Deception ?

you drink Milo... you should slap yourself.
do you or your offspring have any teeth?

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Cobra said..

you drink Milo... you should slap yourself.
do you or your offspring have any teeth?

I know...it has lots of sugar in it But I only drink it once in a while, when i remember I still have it in the cupboard

By the way, I wonder if people do this. Rinse your mouth well after eating/drinking sweet stuff will eliminate most of the harmful effects of sugar on teeth.

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Chris_M said..

Self service is just cost cutting by the mudda pharkers who own the stores. So chuck everything in plastic because who gives a crap about the planet when there's profit to be made huh?

Homo erectus was the longest lived (so arguably the most successful) hominin species - over a million years existence.

We are sitting at just over 100,000 years of Homo sapiens, chances of reaching the million year milestone are looking pretty slim if you ask me

Interesting fact about self -checkout. I read a report a while back that supermarkets are losing money from thefts in the self-checkout areas. SO it may be self defeating for them.

I do agree with you on the self destructive ways we created for ourselves. We like to have things presented in a shinny fancy pant package. As soon as we opened it, the packaging goes straight into the bin. It costs the manufacturers much money to design and wrap the bloody thing up, and we pay for the packaging which we throw away soon after. So in effect, we threw money into the bin !

But that what we are, we like shinny fancy pant stuff.

A f3former bunnings employee told me that a lot of packaging is meant as a theft deterent. The products are purposely difficult to remove from bulky packaging as this stops people from putting things in their pockets. I seems like we are paying the price for rampant boganistical theft.

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Cobra said..

you drink Milo... you should slap yourself.
do you or your offspring have any teeth?

I drink Milo because I wanted to be like Ricky Ponting...A top cricket player. Unfortunately, I am hopeless at it despite drinking tonnes of the stuff. Now I am obese and have no teeth