BrianKrebs
So the Smart Chicken people apparently think I'm dumb and won't notice that there are now just three bone-in chicken thighs in each package, down from four and costing even more.
Oct 26 at 11:16pmWeb
Show threadVissOct 26
@briankrebs literal chickenization
Show threadBrianKrebsOct 26
@Viss enchickification
Show threadRachel RawlingsOct 26
@briankrebs @Viss I think you've been on the Fediverse long enough to know enchickification means something entirely else, usually involving progesterone and cute outfits.
Show threadBrianKrebsOct 26
@LinuxAndYarn @Viss Sorry, I'm just wingin it here.
Show threadRachel RawlingsOct 26
@briankrebs @Viss Three wings to a pack, from what I hear.
Show threadBrianKrebsOct 26
@LinuxAndYarn @Viss 3 wings?? What is this, a Boeing scrapyard?
Show threadVissOct 26
@briankrebs @LinuxAndYarn only door prizes in the boeing graveyard, im afraid
Show threadRachel RawlingsOct 26
@Viss @briankrebs I still remember the most visceral example of shrinkflation (and austerity programs, and fake bonuses) is from 1984, when Winston Smith has to adjust the historical numbers when the chocolate ration is cut from 20 grams to 5, and later write a story about the party doubling the chocoration to 10 grams.
Show threadBrianKrebsOct 26
@LinuxAndYarn @Viss Yes I too recall the Chocolate Wars. We had to sell chocolates to the nuns...oh wait, nevermind that was a book I read in 6th grade in 1984.
Show threadJohn TimaeusOct 27

@Viss @briankrebs @LinuxAndYarn

No door prizes at the Boeing grave yard. They all fell out over the ocean.

Show threadVissOct 27
@johntimaeus @briankrebs @LinuxAndYarn see now.youre just fishing
Show threadOkunaOct 27
@LinuxAndYarn @briankrebs @Viss East Wing, West Wing and…… I am lost for the third… But the wings get less everywhere
Show threadPhil Stevens Oct 27
@briankrebs @LinuxAndYarn @Viss I'd give you a rimshot for that, but I'll need a drumstick. 🍗🥁
Show threadBrianKrebsOct 27
@phil_stevens @LinuxAndYarn @Viss Aw, now you're just pulling my leg.
Show threadFritz AdalisOct 26
@briankrebs @Viss
Hi, I'm Nicole! But you can call me the Fediverse Enchickificationizer.  
Show threadCat WestOct 27
@FritzAdalis @briankrebs @Viss And we have a winner!🏆
Show threadjustmichelleOct 27

@Catawu @FritzAdalis @briankrebs @Viss

As in "winner, winner, chicken dinner"?

Show threadCat WestOct 27
@justmichelle @FritzAdalis @briankrebs @Viss It was just too perfect to pass up, wasn’t it. You had to go that extra block!🤣 You only get one trophy. Oh, and Chicken tacos for dinner.
Show threadOrb 2069Oct 27

@FritzAdalis @briankrebs @Viss

Bold of you to think I can call ANYBODY that - just looking at it makes my tongue hurt.

Show threadJohn Francis 🇨🇦🦫🍁💪⬆️Oct 27
@briankrebs @Viss enchickification sounds like a disease where one's flesh is gradually transforming to chicken. At least it's not painful.
Show threadSeán FenianOct 26
@briankrebs But prices are down. Trump keeps telling us so. Right?
Show threadBrianKrebsOct 26
@zakalwe this chicken doesn't make me feel any smarter lol
Show threadArniepixOct 26

@briankrebs
That's paltry poultry.

Big chicken is treating us like small frye.

Show threadBrianKrebsOct 26
@arniepix You're right. We gotta call fowl on this one. Those turkeys!
Show threadCat WestOct 27
@arniepix @briankrebs *Narrator* And with that comment, the pun-a-thon is off and running. (You saw chicken legs running when I said that, didn’t you). Will this end gracefully? Or will punsters compete ad nauseum to see who lays the biggest egg. Stay tuned.
Show threadHarlemSquirrelOct 26
@briankrebs you should be happy to be thrown a bone
Show threadBill ZaumenOct 27
@briankrebs The "Smart Chicken" people probably think everyone is as dumb as the people running Rishi Kumar's campaign for assessor in Santa Clara County. They pissed me off by sending me a text where you supposedly had to type Stop2End (hard to type on a flip phone) to get them to stop. So I typed the damn thing (and voted for someone else). Then yesterday, they sent me another text. I reported that one as spam.
Show threadSpaceLifeFormOct 27

@briankrebs

The employee gets to eat one per order.

Show threadargonautOct 27
@briankrebs shrinkflation is how they call it. wonder if the smart economists take it into account when they tell us it’s “all quiet on the american economy front”
Show threadTom HeadOct 27
@briankrebs what the cluck?
Show threadMichael ☕️Oct 27

@briankrebs
So, where are they getting all the three-legged chickens?

Chernobyl?

No, it has to be Three Mile Island.

Show threadThomas LobigOct 27
@mcpinson with Three-Mile-Boots still attached?
Also just more shrinkflation, it used to be seven miles back in the old days
@briankrebs
Show threadVessOnSecurityOct 27
@briankrebs
Q: Why is inflation low but the prices keep going up?
A: Because nobody checks the CPI at the grocery store.
Show threadCrispy Gnome ChomskyOct 27
@briankrebs Setting aside for the moment the question of how smart a chicken really is that gets its legs removed and jacked into a plastic tray, all the marketing materials on the web yet show 4 chicken thighs... and a copyright of 2023.
Show threadPhill WolfOct 28
@briankrebs The fourth leg in the package may have been some kind of bonus, but bone-in chickens have never actually had more than three thighs