Gateaux Swiss roll... What have they done.

buried · 07-05-2018 09:43PM

padd b1975 wrote: »

Don't forget the loons going around offering cigarettes off a dinner plate.

Tzardine · 07-05-2018 09:46PM

My wife is Spanish. Apparently in Spain the Swiss roll is called a gypsy's arm.

Capt'n Midnight · 07-05-2018 11:12PM

The Gateaux Guarantee
We want you to enjoy this cake at its best, just as it left the bakery. If it is not in perfect condition please return it to us, with the carton, and please state when and where it was purchased. We will gladly replace the product and refund the postage. Your statutory rights are not affected.
Customer Care Manager,
Gateaux,
79 Broomhill Road,
Tallaght,
Dublin 24.
T: 01-4047300
www.gateaux.ie

just as it left the bakery.... :pac:

Valeo Foods Group own the brand now and lots of your old favourites.

storker · 07-05-2018 11:22PM

Harry Palmr wrote: »

If someone tells us that Ferrero Rocher isn't what it used to I'll be very disappointed.

Well the way they've been spoiling us couldn't last forever.

FREDNISMO · 07-05-2018 11:46PM

Love a bit of swiss roll to wash down the tomato sangwich.

flossy1 · 08-05-2018 12:00AM

The Gateaux ,Silvermints Fruitfield are names that were bought.The goods are made elsewhere

Sofiztikated · 08-05-2018 12:04AM

Atoms for Peace wrote: »

I think I have gateux cake PTSD from being force fed them and sugary tea when visiting the granmother.

That'd be diabetes, not PTSD.

punisher5112 · 08-05-2018 08:08AM

I've emailed valeo foods so will see what answer I get.

I feel there is near zero cocoa in the new recipe.

Tastes like paper to be honest.

Chancer3001 · 08-05-2018 08:27AM

Been shocking bad for years.

Pike eating plastic and sugar

Graces7 · 08-05-2018 09:06AM

I never liked the look of those. Prefer the LIDl foil wrapped etc.. That artificial gunk looks very yukk

whisky_galore · 08-05-2018 10:10AM

flossy1 wrote: »

The Gateaux ,Silvermints Fruitfield are names that were bought.The goods are made elsewhere

Fake Irish brands, 'Old Time Irish Marmalade' not made here. Some joke.

gerrybbadd · 08-05-2018 11:58AM

I used to love the Raspberry (or was it strawberry?) swizz roll, but now, all I ever see is those ones with a layer of that mank, disgusting cream included.

c68zapdsm5i1ru · 08-05-2018 12:56PM

I bought one of their jam swiss rolls recently and was really disappointed. Not like I remember them at all.

The M&S ones are much nicer.

Ubbquittious · 08-05-2018 01:43PM

Every decade or so the parent company behind these types of foods gets gobbled up by an even bigger supermassive pensions and investment conglohommerate or gets new management that send out their suited henchmen to factory floor in order to look for cost savings.

The problem with this mass production is that there is too much to be gained by tiny per-unit cost savings. 0.1 of a cent saved over millions of units = thousands of quids saved for the owners to shove into their pockets instead.

08-05-2018 02:35PM

I was thinking of making cinnamon rolls lately but maybe I'll just make a swiss roll...

Ubbquittious · 08-05-2018 02:38PM

whisky_galore wrote: »

Fake Irish brands, 'Old Time Irish Marmalade' not made here. Some joke.

Ah but that's the way things are now. The global economy and all of that, we should embrace it because it creates a few jobs for tech hipsters to put everyone else out of a job.

So a few multinationals with skyscrapers can suck all the money out of the rest of the world as if it were a bag of capri sun.

Cee-Jay-Cee · 08-05-2018 03:21PM

It went to sh many years ago...haven't bought it in a long time and not likely to ever buy it again either.

freshpopcorn · 08-05-2018 09:15PM

They've being like that for well over a decade now!

punisher5112 · 08-05-2018 09:24PM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

They've being like that for well over a decade now!

You want to try it now it's lost any closenes to the original.

I understand what everyone has said but I couldn't believe the difference in a very bad way the other day from the original packaging to the new font and style on box.

seachto7 · 08-05-2018 09:30PM

palm oil in everything. stop eating food with palm oil.

09-05-2018 12:12AM

pineapple swiss roll, fresh cream and a cup of tea:pac:

Franz Von Peppercorn · 09-05-2018 12:28AM

They have been horrible for years. Question is why people still buy them? Nostalgia?

badtoro · 09-05-2018 08:00AM

Swiss rolls used to be only ok a lot of years ago. Now, and for quite some time really, they're a mix of sugary gritty fake tasting white paste and dark brown compressed dehydrated sawdust.

About as tasty & tempting as Supermacs to be honest.

Mrcaramelchoc · 09-05-2018 08:02AM

Its all a load of bolleaux.

mloc123 · 13-07-2018 01:06PM

I bought one today and just tasted it.... it is disgusting, what have they done?

_Kaiser_ · 13-07-2018 01:24PM

This is what happens when cost savings are everything and on the other side, you have lots of stuff now being seen as unhealthy or unfit for consumption

Result is a bland, tasteless mess that often tries to overcompensate with things that just don't suit, and/or reduced in size so much (most chocolate bars and now bottles of Coke) so much that it's just a blatant rip-off on top of it.

Irish_rat · 13-07-2018 01:29PM

It taste like the icing on top of a cake and a little chocolate

Cienciano · 13-07-2018 01:32PM

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Valeo Foods Group own the brand now and lots of your old favourites.

Who the fúck buys Robert Roberts tea? Seriously, how hasn't "big tea" (lyons and barrys) swallowed them up?

whiskeyman · 13-07-2018 02:30PM

Cienciano wrote: »

Who the fúck buys Robert Roberts tea? Seriously, how hasn't "big tea" (lyons and barrys) swallowed them up?

Think they make most own brand labels.
Probably for catering trade too.

Good to stir up the market...

corner of hells · 13-07-2018 03:31PM

I worked in the original Gateaux factory many years ago , you could eat as much as you wanted in the factory but you would experience a fate worse than death should you try leave the factory with anything.

My waistline is a tribute to all the old staff , Flycatcher , hippity hop, Gringo etc

I think it closed about 1994 after a strike.

Gateaux Swiss roll... What have they done.

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