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The word lox was one of the clues that eventually led linguists to discover who the Proto-Indo-Europeans were, and where they lived.Photograph by Helen Cook / Flickr One of my favorite words is lox,” says Gregory Guy, a professor of linguistics at New York University. There is hardly a more quintessential New York food than […]
Or the newest. I definitely talk about shrinkflation a lot more than I imagine they did in 1530
Ehh, you might want to read about the origins of the bakers dozen.
Shrinkflation has been a feature of humanity for a long time, probably ever since we started trading goods.
It’s just easier to give less when your buyer would prefer that to paying a higher price.
They didn’t call it that though