What brand hurt when it failed you?

Fanta.
When they changed the formula, a little of my childhood died.

cadburys creme eggs and most of their products are pale shadows of their former quality, also loop the loop ice pops by hb ice cream , when they were a fully irish brand they were long lasting and gorgeous , when bought out by Walls or whatever they shrunk and became tasteless.

Pacers.*

Really liked them, and then they weren't there any more


*Veiled Boardsie vintage check.

Edit: Also, spice burgers. Remember the panic a couple of years ago when there was a threat that the humble spice burger was to be retired? I'd never had one. So, to support this bastion of Irish late night cholesterol shots, I tried one. One bite and in the bin. Feckin' rank. I felt very very let down, given the fuss that was being made at the time.

kowloon wrote: »

It's the Creme Egg that got changed to ****ty chocolate, the Dairy Milk is fine, right?

It's all different..... the normal Dairy Milk is alright, but the Golden Crisp is gone to the dogs, same for Turkish.

But yeah they really screwed the Creme Egg.

jester77 wrote: »

Windows, it just went continually downhill after XP.

Definitely

http://nerdclub-uk.blogspot.ie/2015/12/congratulations-microsoft-you-finally.html

ibFoxer wrote: »

It's all different..... the normal Dairy Milk is alright, but the Golden Crisp is gone to the dogs, same for Turkish.

But yeah they really screwed the Creme Egg.

+1 they're Gank now.
Sour cream and onion Pringles have changed too, rotten now. Not that they were great to begin with (Tayto ftw) but certainly more edible....

seconded on Creme Eggs Mc Donald's Shamrock Shakes. As child a St Patrick's treat was being allowed to have a shamrock shake for breakfast, minty ice cream deliciousness. I bought one recently it was disgusting. Mc D's had changed the recipe and it tasted awful.

Cadbury's, first it was replacing the foil on the Dairy Milks, then gradually the chocolate in the Dairy Milk itself was changed (long after their chocolate in other bars was changed). It's now awful.

Brunch ice creams. There's absolutely no coating nowadays.

Aston Villa

You pick a team after Italy '90, one with a good few Irish players, a great history but not as arrogant or divisive as Utd or Liverpool. A nice sensible team, like Spurs or Everton that's always in the Premiership, so you've something to talk about, with occasional moments of glory (a cup win or final now or then) but without the real pressure of needing to win everything.

Then big money comes in and promises glory days are here but instead gets bored and you watch the team you've invested decades in get worse and worse, with 4 years if death by a thousand cuts; always hoping that the clear warning signs will be realised and a fix found.

But no they're relegated, a despite new hope this year still are winning shag all. And now when you're out with your friends and chatting football there's that awkward, embarrassed moment when 'the team you support ' is mentioned.

Oops69 wrote: »

also loop the loop ice pops by hb ice cream , when they were a fully irish brand they were long lasting and gorgeous , when bought out by Walls or whatever they shrunk and became tasteless.

Brunch have gone way downhill too. There's hardly any biscuit on them anymore and it tastes crap.

So dissapointed I treated myself to a cadbury's caramel bar . It was horrible. waxy and yuck