Anyone bought their favourite food and have it suddenly taste like crap?

wotzgoingon · 10-08-2017 01:07AM

What???

Noveight · 10-08-2017 01:12AM

KingJamsie wrote: »

The new recipe, after taste of ass

I assume they've gone and fúcked Lucozade Orange too? Love that drink, has been a while since I've purchased though.

-=al=- · 10-08-2017 01:21AM

mustang shelly wrote: »

Whenever I see "New And Improved Recipe" I tend to roll my eyes because although it may be a new recipe, it sure as hell ain't improved.

I loathe seeing those words on the packaging of anything that I use to like.

It's such a ruse and it's never better!

It would be great to see "The old and dangerous recipe" onto labels and packaging... I bet sales would go through the roof

Confectionary in particular has gone down the tubes. The taste and texture of some chocolate is totally different than what it used to be

Widdershins · 10-08-2017 02:33AM

The new thing is to discontinue every food product I like, even the new ones that have only been on the market for five minutes. What doesn't get discontinued gets watered down or is padded out with..I don't know what...cornish pasties are more cubes of potatoes than anything else (not that I've tried any since turning vegetarian) and Barry's tea now seems to be composed mainly of floor sweepings.

I used to like Dolmio stir-in pasta sauce when I was a child but I noticed when they took Anna, Luigi and Guiseppe off the label it really went downhill.

AllForIt · 10-08-2017 03:35AM

If your talking about junk food then for me then all junk is nowhere near as nice for me as I get older. I've become intolerant to crap food such that I feel sick after eating it. Not a bad thing really.

10-08-2017 04:00AM

Bit off topic but this happened to my brother a few years ago and the many doctors he went to never worked it out. Pretty much everything started to taste and smell bad. He says it's slowly coming back to normal thankfully, or he's just getting used to it.

manutd83 · 10-08-2017 05:27AM

Lucozade here 2,pure muck now,when they do taste tests they must of all stood around and said, well this is awful but the public are idiots and will buy it anyway,will never buy another bottle,rant over

ToddyDoody · 10-08-2017 07:46AM

Cadburys Roses obviously aren't up to much these days. (Worth a mention as Christmas slowly creeps in)

neonsofa · 10-08-2017 07:49AM

KFC gravy. Used to love the stuff, now it's tasteless. (I know how it's made, don't care, still loved it)

razorblunt · 10-08-2017 08:02AM

Freddos.

Bought one yesterday, was some chalky imitation of the once legendary bar.
30p too. Get in the fócking sea.

Frank O. Pinion · 10-08-2017 09:28AM

Phuck Phenylalanine.

Now, I have no conspiracy theories about phenylalanine, I just don't like the way stuff tastes with it. For years, you only had to worry about phenylalanine in diet drinks. No problem, if like me, you don't drink diet stuff. Dr. Pepper was my favourite soft drink (should be available in restaurants like America, but whatever), but they added phenylalanine to it and now it tastes like crap. I begrudgingly went back to the Irish staple of Lucozade, which regular drinkers of it will know, has also added phenylalanine recently. It's gross now.

So, I'm drinking Irn Bru instead, which is probably turning my insides orange, but at least it doesn't have phenylalanine...yet.

Steve F · 10-08-2017 09:36AM

ToddyDoody wrote: »

Cadburys Roses obviously aren't up to much these days. (Worth a mention as Christmas slowly creeps in)

You are dead to me. It's AUGUST FFS!!

Steve F · 10-08-2017 09:40AM

This problem of crap tasting food is also compounded by the fact that as we age we lose taste buds so we cant taste as well as we did when we were say,12
How depressing

ILikeBoats · 10-08-2017 09:45AM

Lucozade is rotten now.
It's all to do with this new sugar tax so they have to reformulate all the drinks to contain less than 5% sugar or else they get shafted

topper75 · 10-08-2017 10:12AM

I find that is only a problem with psuedo-food and processed rubbish, basically everything mentioned so far in the thread.

*faint smug smile creeps across face*

Colser · 10-08-2017 10:17AM

topper75 wrote: »

I find that is only a problem with psuedo-food and processed rubbish, basically everything mentioned so far in the thread.

*faint smug smile creeps across face*

Now maybe it's my aging taste buds but fruit doesn't taste as good either nowadays in my elderly opinion.ðŸ˜In particular pears..I remember you could buy them individually wrapped and they were big,soft and juicy but I find them tasteless now and usually like rocks .

kylith · 10-08-2017 10:23AM

Skips are horrible since they took all the artificial flavourings out.

KungPao · 10-08-2017 10:27AM

Even chipper food ain't the same. Used to be an explosion of flavour in the 90s. now it's just okay. Sure, the taste buds are older but they probably used to fry in pure delicious trans fats back then.

Richard Hillman · 10-08-2017 11:11AM

Brunch Ice Creams. Feck all spinkles on it anymore.

MilesMorales1 · 10-08-2017 12:34PM

Cadburys chocolate definitely tastes worse recently actually, since krafts took over. Also the ****ing obsession with putting oreos in everything needs to end.

Ol' Donie · 10-08-2017 12:42PM

AllForIt wrote: »

If your talking about junk food then for me then all junk is nowhere near as nice for me as I get older. I've become intolerant to crap food such that I feel sick after eating it. Not a bad thing really.

It's so true.

I realised a while back I feel ****e after eating crisps.

Not to overstate the impact this has had, but it's literally ruined my life.

Faith+1 · 10-08-2017 12:42PM

TK Red Lemonade for me. They took the sunset yellow sweetener out and since then it tastes like sh*te.

Red Eyes · 10-08-2017 12:48PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFWlqvu0rDQ

10-08-2017 01:00PM

KungPao wrote: »

Even chipper food ain't the same. Used to be an explosion of flavour in the 90s. now it's just okay. Sure, the taste buds are older but they probably used to fry in pure delicious trans fats back then.

Maybe you just eat it more often than you did 20 years ago when you were presumably a child/teenager, so it tastes less nice? I would agree with you but I'd imagine it's a combination of food formerly being fried in nicer-tasting animal fat and also your subjective experience of pleasure becoming more blunted as you age.

10-08-2017 01:04PM

All cadburys chocolate except Boosts and Starbars (nothing else immediately springs to mind) tastes much worse than 10 years ago, and certainly compared to the chocolate in the 90s.

Cheerios are way less sweet than they used to be = bad.

A small one too, but the cream crackers which tesco used to sell for 26 cent were delicious about a year ago, tasted exactly like Jacobs. Now they taste terrible in comparison - Jacobs must have realised they were losing money!

Faith+1 · 10-08-2017 01:29PM

Deleted User wrote: »

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A small one too, but the cream crackers which tesco used to sell for 26 cent were delicious about a year ago, tasted exactly like Jacobs. Now they taste terrible in comparison - Jacobs must have realised they were losing money!

Thank you!! I thought it was just me that noticed they taste like dry cardboard now! If you dipped them in melted butter they'd still be as dry as fcuk.

10-08-2017 01:46PM

Faith+1 wrote: »

Thank you!! I thought it was just me that noticed they taste like dry cardboard now! If you dipped them in melted butter they'd still be as dry as fcuk.

Yeah I used to love them, then they disappeared for a while and when I saw they had returned I just knew before opening them that they would taste worse! They were just too high of quality for the price they were selling for I suppose.

10-08-2017 01:56PM

Deleted User wrote: »

All cadburys chocolate except Boosts and Starbars (nothing else immediately springs to mind) tastes much worse than 10 years ago, and certainly compared to the chocolate in the 90s.

Cadburys is awful now, Galaxy chocolate tastes so much better. Lindt is still my favourite though, that hasn't changed.

Most yogurts taste waterier and sweeter than they did a few years ago.

I can't touch box cereal anymore, it all tastes like sugary cardboard.

10-08-2017 02:10PM

Candie wrote: »

Cadburys is awful now, Galaxy chocolate tastes so much better. Lindt is still my favourite though, that hasn't changed.
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I find that Lindt Lindor are one of the few chocolates remaining that taste as nice as I remember chocolate in general to taste when I was younger. Very rich mind you but really nice!

Ms Doubtfire1 · 10-08-2017 02:12PM

It started with Tuna for me..all of the sudden my tuna salad tasted really fishy. I thought the tuna had gone off and threw it out. Ever since all kinds of fish taste rotten.And I love fish....:unsure:

Anyone bought their favourite food and have it suddenly taste like crap?

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