{"id":374183,"date":"2010-02-28T18:00:08","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T23:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10002673"},"modified":"2010-02-28T19:39:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T00:39:39","slug":"why-does-spicy-hormel-pepperoni-cost-more-than-original-flavor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/374183","title":{"rendered":"Why Does Spicy Hormel Pepperoni Cost More Than Original Flavor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/both%20pepperoni-thumb-300x191-37563.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/8oz-thumb-400x300-37561.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/5oz-thumb-400x300-37559.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>The blogger known as HolyJuan made a horrible discovery after purchasing some Hormel brand pepperoni. By purchasing  the &#8220;Hot &#038; Spicy&#8221; pepperoni, he paid the same price per bag for three fewer ounces of pepperoni goodness than the original flavor. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holyjuan.com\/2010\/02\/hormel-pepperoni-hot-spicy-smaller-by.html\">What is this nonsense?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nI love pepperoni. I usually buy Hormel, even though it can be a little more expensive. Last shopping trip, I bought 2\/$6.00. In an attempt to spice things up, I purchased the Hot &#038; Spicy flavor. From the photo below, you can see the packages are exactly the same except for where I had torn the top off the Hot &#038; Spicy variety.<\/p>\n<p>\nOnce I got in the bag, I immediately noticed that something was not right. The bag seemed half empty. I looked at the size on the bag:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"5oz.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/5oz-thumb-400x300-37559.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p>5oz (note the easy to read black on red)<\/p>\n<p>I pulled the other bag out and looked at it:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"8oz.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/02\/28\/8oz.JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p>8oz!<\/p>\n<p>I was getting screwed out of 3oz because of flavoring? It&#8217;s a different between $.60 and ounce and $.38 an ounce. I just don&#8217;t get it. It would be like getting charged double for Salt and Vinegar potato chips over regular potato chips just because it is a different flavor.<\/p>\n<p>The packaging is completely misleading. It&#8217;s exactly the same size! I will not make the same mistake next time.<\/p>\n<p>Shame on you Hormel!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Next time, just buy a bag of regular flavor pepperoni and throw some Tabasco sauce on it. Done!<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"http:\/\/static.polldaddy.com\/p\/2772412.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<noscript><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/answers.polldaddy.com\/poll\/2772412\/\">Is it fair to charge this much more for spicy pepperoni?<\/a><span style=\"font-size:9px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/answers.polldaddy.com\">answers<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/noscript><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.holyjuan.com\/2010\/02\/hormel-pepperoni-hot-spicy-smaller-by.html\">Hormel Pepperoni: Hot &#038; Spicy &#038; Smaller by Almost Half.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blogger known as HolyJuan made a horrible discovery after purchasing some Hormel brand pepperoni. By purchasing the &#8220;Hot &#038; Spicy&#8221; pepperoni, he paid the same price per bag for three fewer ounces of pepperoni goodness than the original flavor. What is this nonsense? I love pepperoni. I usually buy Hormel, even though it can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}