Not as nice as they used to be!

Mr E

What chocolate/crisps/sweets aren't as nice as they used to be when you were a kid?

Some examples -

Monster Munch. I don't know what they did to the flavouring, but they used to be MUCH nicer.

Malteesers. Used to have sweeter chocolate, as far as I can remember.

Loop The Loop (ice pops). Chocolate was sweeter, yellow bit was nicer.

Ruu_Old

Monster Munch were alot nicer years ago, but they made them more spicey

tSubh Dearg

I agree about the Monster Munch they did use to be much nicer (ugh bad grammer)

I also think Cadbury's Creme Eggs have changed I used to like them when I was younger but now they taste much sweeter and not as nice. They're also not as big as they used to be. I remember them being able to fit into an egg cup!

grimloch

i think taytos cheese and onion have changed
i agree about loop the loops aswell too
unless its just me getting older most ice cream tastes different to me

trotter_inc

Macaroon bars aren't the same at all!!

cashback

Has anybody else noticed that Mars bars are slightly smaller than they used to be? Once the chocolate on top was nice and thick, and you could sort of grab it off the top. Not any more...

fade2black

You all just got older people. Everything is better when your 12.

ARGINITE

I like Monster Munch the way it is these days it turns your tongue blue.

Zombienosh

ARGINITE wrote:

I like Monster Munch the way it is these days it turns your tongue blue.

blue?!?!?

what the........


maybe monster munch thats 12 years old and has gone a funny colour?

Genghis

Yorkie bars used to have Y-O-R-K-I-E written across the top of the bar, one letter per chunk. But since the company took away one chunk, they have to write the whole word across every chunk. Remarkably, they simultaneously embarked on an advertsing campaign to tell us that Yorkie was now 'chunkier', failing to mention that it was also 'smaller'.

ARGINITE

No they sell them is the college shop and they turn your tongue a blue\green colour. Im not pulling the pi**! there dead cool!

Dr. Loon

All bars and sweets have either been made smaller or less tasty for some reason. I remember mars bars being alot chunkier. Monster munch being nicer. I recently had a bag of burger bites, and they weren't the same either.

matrim

Monster munch changed company. I think mighty munch are the same as the old monster munch.

It had something to do with the rights to the name expring and it not being renewed.

dudara

Tayto used to manufacture Monster Munch under license from Walkers. When Walkers entered the Irish market, Tayto had to stop making them and instead came up with their own version Mighty Munch, which to be honest, just isn't the same. Most shops still sell the Tayto versions and it's hard to find the Walkers Monster Munch.

Stalfos

I dont Monster Munch has changed that much, maybe you did. but ice-creams like brunch and cornetto have changed.

trotter_inc

Waffles (crisps) arent half as flavoured as they used to be :mad:

AlienGav

CURLY WURLEYS!

They used to be HUGE! Like the lenght of me bleedin' arm!
Now they're tiny and break ur teeth when u bite them

Chomp bars also

trotter_inc

AlienGav wrote:

CURLY WURLEYS!

They used to be HUGE! Like the lenght of me bleedin' arm!
Now they're tiny and break ur teeth when u bite them

Maybe you just grew Just jokin!

I eat one curly wurly a year and thats the one in my selection boz at xmas They're nice though - would never think of buying one.

thafitz

TmB wrote:

Loop The Loop (ice pops). Chocolate was sweeter, yellow bit was nicer.

ive been thinking that myself for a while now. i think they changed the texture of the yellow bit or something.

cajun_tiger

trotter_inc wrote:

Macaroon bars aren't the same at all!!

i felt that way too until i found one in a shop beside the irish life mall lower abbey street dublin. it was the old type of rapper and was perfect!

cajun_tiger

thafitz wrote:

ive been thinking that myself for a while now. i think they changed the texture of the yellow bit or something.

its not creamy it grainy cornettos seem to have less chocolate in the cone...

monster much don't like them anymore...

7-up?? did it use to be alot different? or is it just me.

the one thing that is for sure the same is rockshandy by club

rainglow

The bar of chocolate in the middle of Feast ice-creams gets smaller every single year - I remember when it used to be about 80% of the whole thing! And it's the yummiest chocolate ever.

Creme eggs also get smaller every time they reappear

The Fitz

Pop Tarts used to be nicer

byte

Stuff that ain't the same, for me, would include Stingers, Wham, Refreshers, Chickatees (not same flavour), Ghosties, Pringles Sour Cream & Onion (bit blander) and Curly Wurlys.

Why must they destroy the good stuff in bad foods?

Bright Smile

when they brought out "chunk chocs" (ice creams ) last yr the chocolate on them was as thin as a wafer but before it used to be chunky-wunky fat frogs are different since they came back. moro's are after getting very tacky tasting (the middle part tastes as if its made out of Scotbar/Wonderbar chocolate and butter).... instead of Sparkles theeres those Capri's-not half as good...god damn monosodium gluthamate is taking over the world too- peanuts are filled wit it and its a carcinagenic ppl....the horrors

Shrimp

Loop the Loops.. tut tut tut.. not as good as they used to be..

Vikings

Prawn cocktail flavoured crisps, especially ones you get in a multi pack, they just dont have the ......... tang ... that they used to have. I used to love them, now its buffalo hunkys for me.

Agent Smith

cream eggs arent as nice, and there a rip off, i went to buy one yesterday, and 80C, i remember them being less then 30p

deedee lepoopoo

What about Johnny (f8ckin) Onion Rings? They used to be huge and not so orange lookingand more onioney.

I am always suspicious when they change the name of a product. Snickers, starburst, silk cut purple anyone?

Conorea

Remember when they changed twisters to, like, pineapple or some other ungodly fruit that should never have been mixed with ice-cream? bad idea. has anyone noticed rolo's steady decline and dissapearance from the shelves and also from tv? fat frogs were also nicer the first time round. bigger too.

Blisterman

What did silk cut purple used to be called?

tSubh Dearg

refresher bars are definately smaller and not just cause i got bigger!
I wish snickers was still Marathon...they tasted nicer then.

Didn't there used to be more chocolate buttons in a packet too?

deedee lepoopoo

What did silk cut purple used to be called?

Silk cut purple are now just called 'silk cut'

Downtime

agent smith wrote:

cream eggs arent as nice, and there a rip off, i went to buy one yesterday, and 80C, i remember them being less then 30p

Got four in Tesco for €1.20 the other day as they wouldn't scan and the guy didn't know the price - great.

curliq

is it just me or are aeros getting shorter?! they just dont last anymore

LoneGunM@n

cajun_tiger wrote:

i felt that way too until i found one in a shop beside the irish life mall lower abbey street dublin. it was the old type of rapper and was perfect!

About 3 years ago I was walking around the pound shop for some reason @ chrimbo time & spied a box of macaroon bars for sale ... bought them & was in great form when I opened the box and found that they were the proper 80s style ones ... I ate the lot of them ... I'm a fat b@stard now ... go figure

Plus, I remember that Double Deckers were much nicer when I was a kid ... my choccie bar of choice when watching a video on a saturday night!!

OLDYELLAR

burger bites used be way better years ago , they were more flavoured and not as dry as they are now

joe.

Monster Munch
Malteesers
Loop The Loop

OLDYELLAR

Yea monster munchs used to be waaay nicer!more flavour on em , they were just betet

Stench Blossoms

ice-burgers arent the same as they used to be, they changed the chocolate on them or something.

OLDYELLAR

oh yea your right , ice bergers have definetely changed for the worst

Stench Blossoms

the spongy bit is too thick i think..

OLDYELLAR

yea plus it tastes kinda different , they used be wayyy better years ago anyway .

irlirishkev

LoneGunM@n wrote:

About 3 years ago I was walking around the pound shop for some reason @ chrimbo time & spied a box of macaroon bars for sale ... bought them & was in great form when I opened the box and found that they were the proper 80s style ones ... I ate the lot of them ... I'm a fat b@stard now ... go figure

Plus, I remember that Double Deckers were much nicer when I was a kid ... my choccie bar of choice when watching a video on a saturday night!!

How much did you pay for this box of Macaroons??
The old wrapper.. was it that kinda 'rippable' paper, with 'macaroon' written in red on white backing, over and over again?

I used to love macaroons when I was younger..
I might go on a quest to find some this weekend.

K.

Zombienosh

I was somewhere the other day and they had them....... im sure it was in town somewhere around the temple bar area i think.....

hmm

Abdiel

I saw Macaroons in the shop beside Judge Roy Beans last week I think it was - looked like they were the old style ones too.

Chickatees just dont taste the way they used to either. Although sometimes I wonder if I just remembered them tasting better.

I wonder how many of these things that dont taste the same are because they have had additives that were deemed harmful at some stage removed.

joe.

your tastebuds change as you get older. i used to love frosties sweets when i was younger. nicest sweets ever. can't stand them now

OLDYELLAR

eeww i hate frosties sweets , but yeah wheelies were so much better years back , way nicer .

kinkstr

I love frosties but one of the ingredients gives me palputations

OLDYELLAR

ive always hated frosties since childhood , they were the only sweets the milkman brought and i could never get the wrapper off and ended up swallowing loads of silver bits , yoch!

billy the squid

alot of the corn snacks of old (burger bites, meanies, monster munch, wheelies, etc) have more air in them. nowadays you put one of them in your mouth and it disappears before you even get to crunch on it.

Yorkies are smaller and not as hard as they used to be

Curley Wurleys are way way smaller