Classic sweets and drinks that used to be the nectar of the Gods taste like shіt now

Crock Rock

Lucozade used to be an elixor of life, like drinking from the bosom of God, but now it has a horrible chemically taste in my opinion. They're not the only culprits btw, other drinks have followed suit.


Even squash / cordial. You used to be able to get a sugared-version and a sugar-free version, now I only ever see sugar free.


Chocolate has also gone to the dogs. What used to be a delicious treat spreading Nutella on toast is now a hard unpleasant stuff. It used to be deliciously runny and spreadable, now it's polluted with palm oil and tastes vile in comparison to the way it used to in my opinion.


Since the sugar tax was introduced, sugary drinks have been decimated.


Subway used to have both diet and non-diet drinks, but instead of giving customers the choice to pay the sugar tax, they just axed sugary drinks completely.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Lucozade has always been mankaroo. It always had that bizarre medicinal taste. That’s why I disliked it as a kid.

I find soft drinks in Ireland too sweet generally. For example, the UK formulation of Fanta is more juicy and is far nicer. Fewer calories too.

Day Lewin

"MY name is Crock of Rocks and I'm a sugarholic" #brave

buried

Blueberries is where it's at. If you give up sugar and eat them yokes, they as good as the most bitter sprinkled cola bottle sweets. Not made of horse hooves neither.

gerrybbadd

Ah everything is shyte now. Even Wham bars are rotten now.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

buried wrote: »

Blueberries is where it's at. If you give up sugar and eat them yokes, they as good as the most bitter sprinkled cola bottle sweets. Not made of horse hooves neither.

Raw blueberries are very dull. The flavour only really comes out when they are cooked in some way.

Crock Rock

Proper sugar is where it's at. Let people do what they want and consume what they want. Christ.

JMNolan

Tyskie

Crock Rock

JMNolan wrote: »

Tyskie

The beer?

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Crock Rock wrote: »

Proper sugar is where it's at. Let people do what they want and consume what they want. Christ.

You... you know they sell bags of sugar in shops, right? And anyone is free to purchase them?

buried

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

Raw blueberries are very dull. The flavour only really comes out when they are cooked in some way.

Jayzus must try that. I dig them bigtime on they own. Stick em in fridge for a few hours and wallop em

JMNolan

Crock Rock wrote: »

The beer?

Yup, have had a few bottles occasionally over the last 10 years (ish). First it was 5.6% alcoholic content, then 5.5%, now 5%. Taste got worse each time.

o1s1n

Roses. Poor ****ing Roses.

Ruined Christmas so it did!

Markcheese

Pretty much all Cadburys chocolate... Its gone to ****e...

TheMilkyPirate

JMNolan wrote: »

Tyskie

Yeah Tyskie was the nicest beer around for a while but it's just not the same anymore.

Church on Tuesday

Welcome to the new bland and ultra PC world OP.

bassy

drink cider then ride errrrrrrrrrrrrrr

pablo128

Club Orange is a classic example of what the OP is on about. By jaysus you would guzzle the stuff down back in the day. Since Britvic took over from C&C it's gone to scutter.

Yer Da sells Avon

Crock Rock wrote: »

Chocolate has also gone to the dogs. What used to be a delicious treat spreading Nutella on toast is now a hard unpleasant stuff. It used to be deliciously runny and spreadable, now it's polluted with palm oil and tastes vile in comparison to the way it used to in my opinion.

Nutella used to be 5 on the Bristol Stool Chart. Now it's more like a 3. Awful stuff.

dxhound2005

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

Lucozade has always been mankaroo. It always had that bizarre medicinal taste. That’s why I disliked it as a kid.

I find soft drinks in Ireland too sweet generally. For example, the UK formulation of Fanta is more juicy and is far nicer. Fewer calories too.

Maybe UK Fanta is different now than in the year 2000? I remember Michael Winner condemning it back then and singing the praises of the Moroccan variety.

http://www.winnersdinners.com/reviews/2000/20001008.php

To top it all, the Fanta sold in Morocco is historic. Now, thanks to Jerry Judge, president of the Lowe Group, Frank Lowe's famous UK advertising agency, I get it in Kensington. I've written before of the difference between the pale, insipid Fanta sold in England and the full-bodied, marvellous orange colour and taste of the Moroccan variety. We have never received so many letters on any subject. Douglas N Daft, chairman and chief executive of the Coca-Cola Company, producer of Fanta, sent a particularly amusing one, followed by a crate of Moroccan Fanta. That ran out.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Monster munch. And freaky foot ice cream. They used to be like a size 8 now they’re like a size 3

Brego888

Football Special

racso1975

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

You... you know they sell bags of sugar in shops, right? And anyone is free to purchase them?

Out if interest is there a sugar tax on that?

racso1975

Brego888 wrote: »

Football Special

The dawgs bollix of a drink and such a shame it can only be got in donegal... One of the main reasons I holiday there for 2 weeks every year

spurshero

Not sure what they done to dairy milk but they have ruined it .,got one yesterday from shop . It will be a while before I have another

Subcomandante Marcos

Cadbury's Smiley bars were the the business. I loved them.
Basically a chomp bar but the caramel was orange flavoured.

They need to bring them back ASAP.

**** a wispa, bring back smiley bars.

J. Marston

Can anyone remember small blue packets of pretzels covered in chocolate? I think you could get them covered in white chocolate too.

I need to know if they're still available.

Subcomandante Marcos

J. Marston wrote: »

Can anyone remember small blue packets of pretzels covered in chocolate? I think you could get them covered in white chocolate too.

I need to know if they're still available.

pretzel flipz. They were nice, there are lots of similar products in the US.

Subcomandante Marcos

Brego888 wrote: »

Football Special

Still exists, even found outside of Donegal at times.

The banana one is horrendous though.

JupiterKid

HB Loop the Loop ice pops aren’t anywhere near as big or as tasty as they were in the days of yore. The ones you buy in the supermarkets as multipacks are tiny.

Yep, it looks like the sugar tax is having a big impact on fizzy drinks. Most in the supermarkets seem to be sugar free these days.

Diet Coke in particular is just rank.:mad:

The Princess Bride

Macaroon bars used be lovely.
Now they taste like cheap cooking chocolate.

On the other hand, I used hate wibbly wobbly wonders as a child.
Last time I had some, absolutely delicious.
Therefore they stopped making them.
Typical.

squawker

JupiterKid wrote: »

HB Loop the Loop ice pops aren’t anywhere near as big

nah your hands just got bigger

Ariadne

Jose Rotten Pocketknife wrote: »

Monster munch. And freaky foot ice cream. They used to be like a size 8 now they’re like a size 3

I mourn the loss of monster munch.

suicide_circus

soft drinks and dilute cordials have been destroyed. they now all contain artificial sweeteners and there's no way of disguising that awful taste. i think regular club orange, original coke and pepsi are the only pure sugar soft drinks still available.

gmisk

J. Marston wrote: »

Can anyone remember small blue packets of pretzels covered in chocolate? I think you could get them covered in white chocolate too.

I need to know if they're still available.

I think you can get them in dealz.

Cadburys has gone down the toilet taste wise since being bought by mondelez

I never liked sugar drinks except the odd lucozade orange. Haven't had it in a while

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Maybe UK Fanta is different now than in the year 2000? I remember Michael Winner condemning it back then and singing the praises of the Moroccan variety.

http://www.winnersdinners.com/reviews/2000/20001008.php

To top it all, the Fanta sold in Morocco is historic. Now, thanks to Jerry Judge, president of the Lowe Group, Frank Lowe's famous UK advertising agency, I get it in Kensington. I've written before of the difference between the pale, insipid Fanta sold in England and the full-bodied, marvellous orange colour and taste of the Moroccan variety. We have never received so many letters on any subject. Douglas N Daft, chairman and chief executive of the Coca-Cola Company, producer of Fanta, sent a particularly amusing one, followed by a crate of Moroccan Fanta. That ran out.

It depended in the UK, I found. Some shops sold a really sugary formulation but others sold the juicier, lighter, lower calorie one. Delish. Whereas it seems to me that all Irish soft drink formulations are far too sweet.

AbusesToilets

buried wrote: »

Blueberries is where it's at. If you give up sugar and eat them yokes, they as good as the most bitter sprinkled cola bottle sweets. Not made of horse hooves neither.

Frozen ones are tops, especially in porridge.

Sarac87

J. Marston wrote: »

Can anyone remember small blue packets of pretzels covered in chocolate? I think you could get them covered in white chocolate too.

I need to know if they're still available.

You can get these in dealz at the minute but like everything else they are not as nice as they used to be😣

E mac

Used to love lucozade orange but it's undrinkable now �� Only thing that comes close to that sugar hit now for me is club lemon. Supermarkets don't seem to stock as much lucozade orange anymore either.

suicide_circus

i assume soft drink companies have taken a massive hit in sales

E mac

But why can't they still produce the original albeit at a higher cost to the consumer? Is there a reason the consumer is denied a choice?

Brego888

Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »

Still exists, even found outside of Donegal at times.

The banana one is horrendous though.

Oh I know it still exists alright but it's not even a distant relative of its previous quality. Probably removed all the e numbers and the shovels of sugar, you know the good stuff.

JohnnyFlash

I've had this business idea for a while. Bring back classic sweets, ice-creams, and crisps. Let your customers know that 1) These will be expensive, 2) They will contain enormous amounts of sugar, fat, artificial colours and flavours.

So the Monster Munch will be huge, and leave lots of that amazing dust on your fingers. The sour sweets will be so sour they will cause your gob to pucker up like a tomcat's arséhole, I'm bringing back Crun-Chos Hot Dog flavoured corn snacks, Refresher bars that are full of sherbet like they used to be, a Lucozade clone in a glass bottle that's just sugar, water, and artificial colours. Hell, I'd even bring back chocolate cigarettes if I could.

Cienciano

The Princess Bride wrote: »

Macaroon bars used be lovely.
Now they taste like cheap cooking chocolate.

On the other hand, I used hate wibbly wobbly wonders as a child.
Last time I had some, absolutely delicious.
Therefore they stopped making them.
Typical.

Macaroon bars were always shíte. Brown wax that they called chocolate.

But hold on, they stopped making WWW? No way! They were amazing

Underground

Packet of skips used to be lovely back in the day. Like eating communion bread at mass now.

orourkeda1977

There are some people making skanky white bonbons.

Disgusting.

washiskin

100% agree on Lucozade. Used to be so different and refreshing but now it's like weak diluted orange.....
AND since HB was sold, the ice cream is awful....weird, chalky texture and fake dairy taste. Back in the 70s and 80s there would be a few different products every year but that's long gone by the wayside....

Lorelli!

gerrybbadd wrote: »

Ah everything is shyte now. Even Wham bars are rotten now.

I think with those kind of sweets it's your own tastes that change more than anything. I remember having an argument with my mam about it when I was a kid saying that when I got older I'd eat Refresher bars whenever I want and everyday and she said 'ye but by then you wont want to eat them' and I don't think I could stomach one of them now.

DaeryssaOne

washiskin wrote: »

AND since HB was sold, the ice cream is awful....weird, chalky texture and fake dairy taste. Back in the 70s and 80s there would be a few different products every year but that's long gone by the wayside....

The Sky ice cream bar is a very fond memory for me as child, it was like the inside of a wispa with ice cream around it and a chocolate shell on top.
It was only around for a couple of years and then disappeared again.

I'd say if you could taste compare a dairymilk from back in the 80s to one today the difference would be unbelievable

ANXIOUS

The old golden wrapper Yorkie, when they had one letter from the name on each piece. Had to stop that when they moved to a 5 piece bar.