President Joe Biden is arguably America’s chief executive with the sweetest tooth since Ronald Reagan, who kept a bowl of jelly beans on his desk long before the Jelly Belly brand was de rigueur. Biden is also the snackiest president since Bill Clinton. So when he read reports that potato chip and candy bar manufacturers were skimping, he appeared to take that personally.
“Too many corporations raised prices to pad their profits, charging more and more for less and less,” Biden complained at this year’s State of the Union address before Congress. “In fact, the snack companies think you won’t notice if they change the size of the bag and put a hell of a lot fewer, same-size bag, put fewer chips in it. No, I’m not joking. It’s called shrinkflation. Pass [Sen.] Bobby Casey’s [D-PA] bill and stop this. [Laughter and cheers.] I really mean it!”
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