Same brand of soup, but one soup package has a slightly different shape and a different folding.

  • @Psythik
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    3812 days ago

    I was so busy comparing the labels that I didn’t even notice.

  • @papalonian
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    3212 days ago

    My guess is it’s just a different lot/ facility that makes the one

    • wootz
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      3612 days ago

      Or they’re switching packaging, and one is selling less / more than the others so is from the older / new packaging.

      • @[email protected]
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        511 days ago

        You’re right.

        These soups are only produced in one place: Arla Foods Esbjerg, Denmark, and they’re only sold on the Swedish market.

        Arla works with both packaging manufacturers SIG and Tetra Pak from Switzerland and Sweden respectively.

        There’s been many changes to Arla’s packaging designs during the last few years, because they pledged to make 100% recycable packaging by 2025.

  • @RouxBru
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    1811 days ago

    Ah and so the SIG, Tetrapak war still wages on

    It’s actually a cost thing, SIG usually comes in to a much lower installation and running cost, where Tetrapak is aseptic and has a longer shelf life.

  • @whaleross
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    1412 days ago

    I’m just surprised that the colour theme of Forest Mushroom Soup is Concrete Garage by Fluorescent Light. Not really my association to forest mushroom.

        • @[email protected]
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          510 days ago

          Both have their place, and since they are so straight-forward to convert between, there’s no need to limit ourselves to one or the other.

          • @[email protected]
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            110 days ago

            True but if I have the option, I prefer ml. I find it more straightforward to convert between ml and l.
            To me it aint like mm, m and km

            • @AnUnusualRelic
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              110 days ago

              You have to move the decimal more. It can tire you faster.

    • @Snejp
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      311 days ago

      Very common with liquid food in Sweden. We also use hectogram for weighing solid food, e. g. if you’re buying meat.

      • @[email protected]
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        210 days ago

        Hg used to be the standard unit for buying candy by weight as well, but they switched around 20 years ago iirc

  • Rhynoplaz
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    512 days ago

    Took me way too long to find the difference.

  • wattanao
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    312 days ago

    Thought this was Mildly Annoying, and I would have agreed. As a retail stocker, the shelf expects them to all be the same, but the one that’s a slightly different shape usually doesn’t fit as many as the rest. It’s even worse when companies decide to change the packaging for the same product, like Stouffers, and I have to spend an extra five seconds determining if the items are the same or aren’t.

  • M137
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    211 days ago

    That thai soup is so good, got a nice kick of heat to it.

  • @Macaroni_ninja
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    111 days ago

    The oat milk I usually buy from Aldi does this. They change the packiging type every few months.

    • @[email protected]
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      110 days ago

      That’s probably because Aldi is buying it from several different producers (processors, packagers, or bottlers. Not sure the appropriate title) that apply Aldi’s branding (or whomever) to the package.