I stopped buying a lot of mass produced food because I wasn’t cheerful with the varying quality.
It’s either a factor of moveation and storage or bad manufacturing in the first site if a batch of cookies a single month tastes fresh and the next month tastes already expired.
In that case, I had two batches with the exact same expiration date on them as well. I just don’t understand these kinds of inconsistencies, but I think that’s par for the course with new manufacturing standards. The historic inflation levels make it even worse because companies are always looking for ways to lower production costs to boost profits and prevent themselves from raising their prices higher. A price increase is inevitable in today’s economy, but various companies are looking for ways to keep these price increases as minimal as possible even if the opposite seems to be the case. When my last two batches of store obtained honey started crystallizing under the lid before opening them, I decided to get honey locally for better consistency. I found an amazing local honey farm that also works as a bee relocation service. They take problemsome honey bees from residences and bring them to the honey farm to live and thrive instead of exterminating them. Lately they’ve had new batches of honey for sale from some of the relocation hives, and the honey is just as delicious as the batches from their older hives. Regardless, I like the products from the local honey farm, I just wish they were cheaper. It’s taxing to afford the honey when the cost of everything else is going up at the same time.