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They've been doing this from the start despite "rising costs." They're cheap. That's why.

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"You could bite into a Twix and feel your teeth travel through a heavy layer of caramel," another Redditor lamented, adding, "Now they snap in half and taste like a sugar cookie with some chocolate on it."

And journalists at The Guardian recently compiled a list of companies reducing the amounts of key ingredients in their products — avocado in guacamole, egg in mayonnaise, and olive oil in various spreads.

Edgar Dworsky, a lawyer and consumer advocate, has compiled examples of changed recipes like a cough syrup that contained half as much of its active ingredient as it did six years ago.

Many grocery stores and retailers worried about customers moving to discount chains will put pressure on manufacturers to keep prices low by threatening to delist their products and not display them on shelves.

This year the World Health Organization classified aspartame, a popular artificial sweetener used in things like ice cream, breakfast cereal, and soda, as a possible carcinogen, meaning it could cause cancer.

But when influential measures ostensibly meant to gauge Americans' standard of living don't capture how our favorite foods are changing, we end up buying goods that are not only more expensive but less enjoyable.

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Funny of them to use a silver dollar that doesn't change in actual value over time.