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Until the upper class gets worried, the US won't change. Thank you Europe, keep making the 1% sweat at their next board meeting.
How can we be sure Philadelphia cream cheese is from America?
Also how is philly cream cheese cheaper in germany than at my local stores right next to philly god this country is shit.
99% sure it's made in Germany when sold there. Would have to look on the backside.
As for the price, I am pretty sure US products tend to use larger sizes packing wise. These should be 250g - and the price is definitely one reason not to buy. The same product can be bought for half off-brand
The prices in the US are much higher in general.
Because every food item in the US is crazy expensive? When I was there in January, there were Chip-Bags for 4-8$. In Germany, a potato-chip bag starts at 1.10 and the national brands at 1.99. I love potato chips. But I do not buy 5$ bags. Thats crazy.
I want to get off Uncle Sam's Wild Ride.
Yeah its nuts a bag of Doritos at stop and shop near me is $5.99 like its fucking dried corn with some spices and preservatives. The price gouging has reached snap on tools level which in reality is just tje standard model for corporations. Aim for 500-1000% profit margins or even higher if possible
Though, German chips are generally terrible
They are the same Lays.
Really? 12โฌ/kg you could get some good cheese for that price. I rarely buy this as I considere it pricy.
It's probably produced in the EU, maybe not even by Mondelez itself but some license-taker, but it's still an American brand.
Also it's overpriced. Never came across any store-brand stuff that's worse in any way. The domestic name brand would be Exquisa.
Additionally to what others mentioned, Philadelphia 'cheese' is not from Philadelphia
Which group of pixels am I meant to be focusing on?
Edit: Came back to look at this later and the picture seems to be loading like normal now. Looked like a Community Crib Sheet the first time I saw it.
Philadelphia upside down.
the cheese is in distress
I investigated this. It seems that the image host does not play nicely with mobile clients.
Here is a dump of the post data
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"name": "Berliners have also joined the movement and are working hard",
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From this you can see there are two image URLs. The thumbnail (generated by the lemmy server):
And the original url:
It looks like loading the image from the original URL behaves differently based on the device, browser etc. On a Lemmy client it returns a tiny image which is why it's so pixelated for some users. It returns the same tiny image when loaded from mobile Chrome. However on desktop Firefox the image resolution is fine.
This is what it looks like on mobile:
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Hmmm I'm using Thunder and the image loads fine.
Thunder is probably loading the thumbnail link? Im not sure though.
Voyager on iPhone gave no problem.
Update: Ignore the rest of the comment. I just tried to request the image with any User-Agent and it's now always serving the full resolution image. It definitely wasn't returning the full resolution images the last time I tried even with different User-Agents for Chrome/Firefox/etc. My leading theory is this image host just sucks.
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This is very interesting. The story continues.
I see that two uses have reported that the image loads fine on two different Lemmy clients. This told me this is unlikely to be a coincidence. So I double checked the image in Thunder and like you've both reported the image loads as expected.
Then I figured out that Voyager and Thunder share one thing in common: they are both built using Flutter.
From my previous test I knew that the image host (postimg.cc) is using the user agent and other clues to serve different content to different browsers/apps. So my next theory is that the image host serves raws to flutter clients.
To test this theory I looked up the default user agent of Flutter apps which is just Flutter-version, then I looked up the latest version of flutter which is 3.71. Then I tried making a request to the url with User-Agent Dart/3.7.1 and boom the website returned the full 3.71MB raw for the image solving the mystery.
As a fix for clients (and this is a terrible terrible fix) any app that wants to get raws off this host needs to send their request with a Flutter user agent.
Thank you so much for all the work you do for us.
I saw a different picture with Philadelphia cheese. And I'm guessing it's about putting the cheese upside down.
Amerika Woche bei Lidl gecancelled
Ist das ein Wunch oder ein Fact?
Go Germany!
You're telling me that Philadelphia... is from the USA!?
Colour me shocked!
I wouldn't notice this at my local Penny. They're sometimes weird with their shelves.
Unless they were doing the same for Israel for the last year and a half, idgaf.