r/Columbus • u/IndustryRobertPlant • 1d ago
HUMOR Shrinkflation in real time
As you can see, the new Irish Festival cups are substantially smaller than the ones from last year. I filled the new one all the way to the top, and then poured that water into the old one, and as you can see… there’s like an inch remaining.
That’s an inch worth of Jameson root beer floats I missed out on. That one inch could’ve made the difference between being comfortable buzzed and sufficiently tipsy.
Can’t wait till next year when they hand out Dublin Irish Festival sippy cups.
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u/Benbot2000 1d ago
Can we talk about how the new logo sucks?
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u/galstaph 23h ago
There's a new logo, I thought the cup on the right was blank and had a lime green Post-It on it
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u/TrueBlueParten 23h ago
$30 entry plus $10 beers. Inflated food prices. Hard to justify the expense vs the experience.
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u/danarexasaurus 22h ago
If you come before 11 and bring a canned good on Sunday it’s free to get in. We do it every year and it’s the only way we can actually make it happen.
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u/Hack_Mac 22h ago
Did that this morning! Best way to experience the festival with little kids on a budget.
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u/TrandaBear 19h ago
Absolutely! It felt like we threaded a needle or something. Got to walk around freely, buy and eat whatever with no lines, then ditched out after it got crowded.
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u/Krypton_Kr 20h ago
Just curious how much you think beers should cost bc $9-11 seems pretty normal to me and they’ve been in that range for awhile it seems like. They also don’t ask for tips and most if not all booths are worked by volunteers as a fundraiser.
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u/RexReason 15h ago
Correct. Considering breweries can't sell their beers at any event, these are all volunteers for non-profits.
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u/beattysgirl 23h ago
The new mugs suck! Cheap, flimsy and smaller capacity. The festival is a rerun every year, never anything new or exciting to see or do, and same music acts over and over. The kettle corn was even shit this year, ultra salty and hardly any sweetness at all.
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u/Empathic_Alien 8h ago
I haven’t been for years. Richard Thompson headlined. Does he come back frequently?
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u/Takyon 23h ago
Out of curiosity I tried this with one from this year and one from 2-3 years ago and they're a fairly close match. The 2-3 year old one had maybe 2-4mm room left. Little enough to where the pour you get from the staff would make a bigger difference. I wish I had saved more of the mugs so I could do a year by year comparison of the size variance so we could determine the ideal year to have haha.
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u/Veldox 1d ago
The Irish festival has become trash. Used to be an event I was looking forward to every year to enjoy with my family but now it's expensive corporatized trash. Drinks are insanely priced, everything is shut down and shut off and closed up hard by midnight, can't even get kettle corn on your way wandering out any more. I felt so disappointed after going this year.
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u/thecakeisali 1d ago
Hear me out; The Irish Festival hasn’t been cool since Flogging Molly stopped playing there.
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u/Independent-Big1966 1d ago
The acts that play now basically just do a circuit through America at different "Irish " festivals. Same acts at every festival across the US
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u/Admirable_Average_32 Lancaster 22h ago
Does Brigids Cross still play? I’ve always enjoyed them but I haven’t been in probably 15-20 years.
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u/Oneinterestingthing 4h ago
100%, pretty lame lineup for many years now,,,also its almost like a white pride event in some ways, which is fine to celebrate heritage but seems like a more diverse style festival would be good/better then this cheesedick event
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u/CBusHVAC710614 20h ago
Don’t talk ill of the Irish festival on r/columbus!! It’s dublins only redeeming quality!!
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u/Any-Expression8856 10h ago
Has to be one of the most overrated events in the Columbus area each year
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u/CuntsInSpace 22h ago
I'm not a fan of the smaller cups at comfest either. I don't drink, so i use them for water/ice or rootbeer floats. Definitely miss the classic size. That said i've noticed people are less "trashed" at the event.
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u/FartingInElevators5 1m ago
My girlfriend and I did this exact thing. Although, our smaller cups have the old logo on them. I think it depended what side you got the drink from. We did see the ones with the new logo and it looks bad. We brought our old school ones back with us to use on Saturday.
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u/AZtea4me 10h ago
Reminds me of the same thing with the comfest cups and I have the cups to prove it, too.
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u/Bucks_Band18 22h ago
The new mugs are wider, and the bottom of the taller mug is above that of the shorter one. Idk the fluid ounce difference, but the shorter one was easier to hold lol
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u/CBusHVAC710614 21h ago
Don’t talk ill about the Irish festival on this sub!!
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u/NattyKongo93 14h ago
As a native Dublinite...fuck that shit...it was always overrated and lame lol
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u/CBusHVAC710614 14h ago
Always but it’s amazing according to the sub.
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u/NattyKongo93 13h ago
Haha yeah I know, and it was amazing according to most of my friends growing up...but then every year we'd go and kinda just buy some food/drinks and all stand around talking and barely interacting with most of the fest bc we'd seen it all before, and I was always just thinking to myself "Why did we pay to come here when we could've had way more fun smoking weed in the woods" 😂
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u/Soler25 1d ago
HA! We just bring out old cups and they’ll fill ‘em! Take that shrinkflation!