Once great brands ...... now junk.

foxy farmer · 30-11-2017 03:08PM

The motor vehicle trade is like a cartel. They're all connected.

whisky_galore · 30-11-2017 03:27PM

Halfords own brand. Sh*ttest bicycle inner tubes ever.

tooManyChoices · 30-11-2017 03:42PM

whisky_galore wrote: »

Halfords own brand. Sh*ttest bicycle inner tubes ever.

Halfords have always been awful at everything.

omb0wyn5ehpij9 · 30-11-2017 03:50PM

tooManyChoices wrote: »

Halfords have always been awful at everything.

Halfords professional range of tools are good. They come with a lifetime warranty too

ceadaoin. · 30-11-2017 06:07PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Looks like Kellogg’s Coco Pops and Rice Krispies are about be completely RUINED from January as the amount of sugar is cut by 40 and 20% respectively. They say it is for people’s health but it is to sell it to a more health conscious market, which is a very different thing. So that’s another former pleasure that was once available being removed from our lives. Soon you won’t be ALLOWED to eat anything that’s unhealthy anymore in this sterile world.

Are they going to be filled with synthetic sweeteners instead? Seems to be the way things are going now. Reduce sugar for alleged health reasons but replace it with a load of chemicals that are definitely not healthy and taste disgusting.

30-11-2017 06:11PM

ceadaoin. wrote: »

Are they going to be filled with synthetic sweeteners instead? Seems to be the way things are going now. Reduce sugar for alleged health reasons but replace it with a load of chemicals that are definitely not healthy and taste disgusting.

That's exactly what happened with Fanta last summer. They reduced the sugar content but replaced it with aspartame, so even the regular drink tastes like a diet drink. I've seen a couple of shops in Dublin stocking Danish Fanta, which still has the full sugar content.

Stephen15 · 30-11-2017 06:19PM

Karsini wrote: »

That's exactly what happened with Fanta last summer. They reduced the sugar content but replaced it with aspartame, so even the regular drink tastes like a diet drink. I've seen a couple of shops in Dublin stocking Danish Fanta, which still has the full sugar content.

Never liked Fanta myself always thought it had a very synthetic flavour. Not as nice as Club Orange which I'm not that mad keen on either.

30-11-2017 06:21PM

Stephen15 wrote: »

Never liked Fanta myself always thought it had a very synthetic flavour. Not as nice as Club Orange which I'm not that mad keen on either.

I always pick Club when given the choice but I've had places give me Fanta even if I specifically ask for Club.

blade1 · 30-11-2017 06:21PM

BDJW wrote: »

Halfords professional range of tools are good. They come with a lifetime warranty too

Not fully though.
The ratchet mechanisms are not covered.

red sean · 30-11-2017 06:40PM

blade1 wrote: »

Not fully though.
The ratchet mechanisms are not covered.

Still quality tools, not cheap though.

JohnBoy26 · 30-11-2017 08:25PM

foxy farmer wrote: »

The motor vehicle trade is like a cartel. They're all connected.

That chart is out of date.

foxy farmer · 30-11-2017 08:50PM

JohnBoy26 wrote: »

That chart is out of date.

No sh1t Sherlock :rolleyes:

JohnBoy26 · 30-11-2017 09:07PM

foxy farmer wrote: »

No sh1t Sherlock :rolleyes:

Just saying like, no need to get offended

arayess · 30-11-2017 09:20PM

i think it needs to be repeated how sh1te cadbury has become.

really just muck now.

pawdee · 30-11-2017 09:34PM

A washing machine repair man told me recently that the Indesit washer dryer I had just bought was a total heap of shyte. He was installing it for me (yes, I know what you're thinking but this was a non standard, awkward new installation and not a replacement and he did it for 60 euros). Anyhow he rattled off all of the brands that are rubbish and why. He summarised it as follows:

Really cheap brands (Beko etc)......shyte.
Middle of the road brands (he named so many I can't think, my head was melted)........shyte
Expensive brands (Miele etc) ....excellent quality, he said these are actually better than they used to be!

How true the above is I don't know. That's what the man said.

My brother in law's uncle's house was sold recently. There was a fridge in the house that was bought (second hand) in the early 1950s and it was still working. Now that's what you call quality! Don't know what brand it was...maybe Frigidaire or something like that.

lawred2 · 30-11-2017 09:40PM

blue note wrote: »

Waterford Crystal. Back in the day this was handcrafted, the best Crystal in the world. Now, machine made and the quality of materials used isn't a patch on what it was.

Never got the fascination with stuff like this..

It's expensive glass that gathers dust.

The crystal shelves and pottery shelves in people's houses give me the willies.

JohnBoy26 · 30-11-2017 09:43PM

I had an indesit washing machine that started leaking after only a couple of years. I decided to get a new washing machine and when dropping the old one off for recyling there was about 8-10 indesits the same or similar to mine there to be recycled.

JohnBoy26 · 30-11-2017 09:49PM

arayess wrote: »

i think it needs to be repeated how sh1te cadbury has become.

really just muck now.

In what way? The likes of the dairy milk to me tastes the same as it ever did although it probably is smaller than it used to be but that is pretty much the same across all brands.

blade1 · 30-11-2017 09:54PM

Hunky Dory.
Had a packet of the buffalo flavour the other night.
They tasted ok'ish but the quality of the crisp has gone down.

lawred2 · 30-11-2017 09:54PM

blade1 wrote: »

Hunky Dory.
Had a packet of the buffalo flavour the other night.
They tasted ok'ish but the quality of the crisp has gone down.

Nah might have been a bad pack.. but they are still good

blade1 · 30-11-2017 09:57PM

lawred2 wrote: »

Nah might have been a bad pack.. but they are still good

Nah,gone downhill from when they came out first.
You can nearly see through the crisp now.

red sean · 30-11-2017 09:58PM

JohnBoy26 wrote: »

I had an indesit washing machine that started leaking after only a couple of years. I decided to get a new washing machine and when dropping the old one off for recyling there was about 8-10 indesits the same or similar to mine there to be recycled.

Tbh Indesit was always shyte!
Fridges tend to last forever regardless of make. The technology is similar now to the '60's, an hermetically sealed compressor system and a thermostat, neither made by the fridge manufacturer usually.

Kuva · 30-11-2017 09:59PM

JohnBoy26 wrote: »

In what way? The likes of the dairy milk to me tastes the same as it ever did although it probably is smaller than it used to be but that is pretty much the same across all brands.

+1

No difference.

Johnnycanyon · 30-11-2017 10:06PM

greenttc wrote: »

Your pye telly would have been made in dundrum where the shopping centre now stands!

I worked there in the 70s when I was young and energetic assembling the TV's.
Got in trouble with the union's for working too fast and ended up in packaging.
But was a good place to work.

Stephen15 · 30-11-2017 10:19PM

Pringles used to quite nice espeically sour and onion, now they taste like cardboard and the sour cream onion flavouring leaves a revolting after taste. Salt and Vinegar is now their only flavour I can tolerate.

Stephen15 · 30-11-2017 10:21PM

JohnBoy26 wrote: »

I had an indesit washing machine that started leaking after only a couple of years. I decided to get a new washing machine and when dropping the old one off for recyling there was about 8-10 indesits the same or similar to mine there to be recycled.

Wasn't it an Indesit Fridge that caused the Grenfell Fire.

30-11-2017 10:24PM

Stephen15 wrote: »

Wasn't it an Indesit Fridge that caused the Grenfell Fire.

Hotpoint, but I believe Indesit owned the brand at the time so you're not wrong.

Are Am Eye · 30-11-2017 10:28PM

JohnBoy26 wrote: »

In what way? The likes of the dairy milk to me tastes the same as it ever did although it probably is smaller than it used to be but that is pretty much the same across all brands.

Cocoa has gone up in price in the last 30 years or something. It is
the main ingredient and main cost in making chocolate. There is also
a large element of keeping cost down, and glitzy packaging and
advertising up - and people will still buy it and not notice the taste.
Eventually a whole generation will never have tasted real chocolate so
won't miss it.

DivingDuck · 30-11-2017 10:42PM

Are Am Eye wrote: »

Cocoa has gone up in price in the last 30 years or something. It is
the main ingredient and main cost in making chocolate. There is also
a large element of keeping cost down, and glitzy packaging and
advertising up - and people will still buy it and not notice the taste.
Eventually a whole generation will never have tasted real chocolate so
won't miss it.

My aged ass can definitely taste the difference, so if anyone could recommend a brand currently on sale via normal channels (i.e., not online or one-off specialist stores) that's "real" chocolate, I'd appreciate it.

tooManyChoices · 30-11-2017 10:43PM

BDJW wrote: »

Halfords professional range of tools are good. They come with a lifetime warranty too

Which will have expired by the time someone actually comes to the counter to take your money.

( Am I being a bit ranty, unfair and absolutest? Yeah totally. I just really hate the place. Generally mediocre, over-priced stuff. Staff always completely useless.)

Once great brands ...... now junk.

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