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Artificial fucκing sweeteners in everything everything tastes like shıt now.

Eleven Benevolent Elephants

I got breakfast out in a local pub. I took a taste of the beans, grimaced, forced myself to swallow them and didn't eat the rest. My family, the rest of whom were eating a breakfast not including beans asked me what was wrong and accused me of being a "sugar addict". The beans didn't taste crap because of the lack of sugar, they tasted rubbish because of the dreadful artificial sweeteners. Sugar free seems to be the standard nowadays.Give customers the choice and don't assume. The girl who served us had very broken English so I didn't bother saying anything.

I tried to find a nice bottle of squash, haven't had one in years, ALL have sweeteners.

Even bastard mouthwash has sweeteners. I like the antiseptic taste of traditional mouthwash but corsydyl, a very expensive brand is the only brand like that now. All others are polluted with sweeteners.

The only soft drinks with real sugar are Pepsi, Club Orange and Coca Cola - all others have aspartame, sucralose etc.

Sweeteners can suck my left one. Just because Jacinta the local fatso can't keep the Snickers and Coke out of her gob for five minutes normal healthy people can no longer enjoy an occasional treat.

Anyone have a time machine to take me back to my childhood in the 90's?

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the purple tin

Eleven Benevolent Elephants wrote: »

I messaged Robinson's about their "no artificial flavours" label.

Maybe someone can edit my post for me and embed the images. I don't know how.

Aspartame is classed as a natural flavouring. They don't always list it in the ingredients.

Beanntraigheach

Kilboor wrote: »

Fanta is ruined. It's half aspartame and half sugar now. Horrible chemical after taste from the aspartame

Aspartame comes out of the divil's arse!

kenmm

Eleven Benevolent Elephants wrote: »

I messaged Robinson's about their "no artificial flavours" label.

Maybe someone can edit my post for me and embed the images. I don't know how.

ha - ye - never thought about it before - but no artificial flavours and using artificial sweetener does seem a bit of a contradiction alright.

Kilboor

Fanta is ruined. It's half aspartame and half sugar now. Horrible chemical after taste from the aspartame

Alejandro68

Using the artificial sweeteners is how companies get pass the sugar taxes, or so I was told. But yes it has ruined a lot of things taste wise.

Cee-Jay-Cee

[Deleted User] wrote: »

The cúnts ruined Lucozade :mad:

Yeah that was the biggest crime yet! I know diabetics that used lucozade when their blood sugars went low and now it’s useless and not only that it tastes like shiite too.

Eleven Benevolent Elephants

Eleven Benevolent Elephants wrote: »

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Eleven Benevolent Elephants

I messaged Robinson's about their "no artificial flavours" label.

Maybe someone can edit my post for me and embed the images. I don't know how.

Eleven Benevolent Elephants

iguana wrote: »

A couple of the M&S brand squashes have no artificial sweeteners.

They probably have Stevia though :mad:

Feisar

Deleted User wrote: »

The cúnts ruined Lucozade :mad:

Lucozade, an energy drink. Um... so where does this magical energy come from if it is zero calorie? Because you can rest assurred some "natural Jojoba extracts" ain't going to get me there!

Grrrr

suicide_circus

The baked beans in the OP is a particularly egregious example. Whatever about soft drinks, diet coke was around before i was born but putting it in foods is a step too far. How many people are obese from eating beans?

Tails142

kenmm wrote: »

Ye, I think sine drinks are actually ok, it's more the other cheap fillers and crap they out in bars masquerading as 'chocolate'.. they are the wettest and it's not really artificial sweeteners fault there

Agreed, have always drank Pepsi Max/Regular Coke just based on taste and whichever is available.

Since the sugar tax though everything has gone to hell and a lot of drinks taste pure muck now, lucozade is ruined, I got a free bottle of Club Zero that I couldn't even bring myself to finish. I would worry that stevia/aspartame will be found to have detrimental effects in the future when the damage has been done, oh well, will keep guzzling the pepsi max until then.

kenmm

Homelander wrote: »

Just to counter the outrage on the thread, I have no issue with artificial sweeteners and my favorite drink is Pepsi Max. Was never a fan of the sugary drinks, found them way too syrupy and sweet.

Companies use them because optics of being healthier, whilst saving them money. But they wouldn't abandon sugar if they thought it'd hurt sales....most people I know drink Coke Zero/Pepsi Max over Coke/Pepsi at this point anyway.

I drink the sugar free Sprite and 7UP on occasion and find them perfectly fine as well. The only one I don't like is Club Zero.

Ye, I think sine drinks are actually ok, it's more the other cheap fillers and crap they out in bars masquerading as 'chocolate'.. they are the wettest and it's not really artificial sweeteners fault there

kenmm

Lara Wrong Self-reliance wrote: »

Nice work, space man

Homelander

Just to counter the outrage on the thread, I have no issue with artificial sweeteners and my favorite drink is Pepsi Max. Was never a fan of the sugary drinks, found them way too syrupy and sweet.

Companies use them because optics of being healthier, whilst saving them money. But they wouldn't abandon sugar if they thought it'd hurt sales....most people I know drink Coke Zero/Pepsi Max over Coke/Pepsi at this point anyway.

I drink the sugar free Sprite and 7UP on occasion and find them perfectly fine as well. The only one I don't like is Club Zero.

i57dwun4yb1pt8

Nice work, space man

kenmm

Richard Hillman wrote: »

They want every to taste the same. They also want to get rid of individual packaging labels too.

They want to turn you off the sweet food and have you living off the ground.

We are being prepped for Green Communism.

I think it's more likely to be a bad combination of trying to do something about the general sugar intake and big business try to maximize profits at every turn (cheaper ingredients, lower taxes etc).

It's funny - you use communism as the enemy here, but really its the big companies/capitalist model trying to cheap out that's got us on this one.

I have stopped buying most bars and drinks as a result of the rank taste. Still eat my fair share of crap - I just buy things like lindt bars or make stuff when I can be arsed.

Richard Hillman

They want every to taste the same. They also want to get rid of individual packaging labels too.

They want to turn you off the sweet food and have you living off the ground.

We are being prepped for Green Communism.

Church on Tuesday

kenmm wrote: »

Just looked him up..

Wow - I am not sure what to say...

Is he crazy? Am I crazy? I cant stop watching. How is he alive? Wtf is going on there?

He seems like a genuinely nice lad but I'm not sure he's quite all there.

kenmm

ronano wrote: »

Bit dramatic

User name checks out :-D

ronano

PsychoPete wrote: »

A few weeks ago I bought some lucozade for the first time in years, I took one mouth full out of the bottle and I launched the bottle across the yard in absolute disgust

Bit dramatic

suicide_circus

I can instantly taste artificial sweetener in anything and i find the aftertaste in particular absolutely vile. So many foods and drinks ruined forever.

kenmm

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

There's a guy on YouTube, steve1989MRE, who eats old and very old MRE rations. He always comments how the Wrigleys gum in, say, a 1942 WW2 ration is miles above what we have now and the coffee too.

The risk of botulism on the other hand...

Just looked him up..

Wow - I am not sure what to say...

Is he crazy? Am I crazy? I cant stop watching. How is he alive? Wtf is going on there?

Dubl07

Plain soda water, a home-made or local organic cordial, and you'll be way happier. Even a bit of sugar syrup and a squeeze each of lemon and lime juice. I hate the way sweeteners taste, but my gut refuses to tolerate them and protests in extreme ways if I inadvertently ingest them.
I posted a recipe for lime cordial at one point in the Roses' Lime Cordial thread. (Food forum, I think.)

BuboBubo

Cheap, mass produced crap, the food processing industry is gone to sh1te.

Sweeteners are added, sugar reduced = cheaper to make, less sugar tax, less calories, and less flavour. Great cure for constipation though!

Bring back the 80s stuff, was everything bigger then? (wagon wheels?) Or were my hands and gob smaller?

Church on Tuesday

There's a guy on YouTube, steve1989MRE, who eats old and very old MRE rations. He always comments how the Wrigleys gum in, say, a 1942 WW2 ration is miles above what we have now and the coffee too.

The risk of botulism on the other hand...

HBC08

893bet wrote: »

One of the reasons I no longer go to subway with their no options but sweetened drinks.

Same as that,i haven't set foot in a subway since they only have sugar free drinks.

4068ac1elhodqr

the purple tin wrote: »

As someone said already Tayto have gone mank as well. Horrible overpowering taste of them now. It started when the began using E621 in the recipe.
Used to love a bag of cheese and onion but I wouldn't touch them anymore.
The supermarket own brand 'deluxe' type crisps in the larger bag are much nicer.

It's not the E621 (Monosodium glutamate) to be concerned about, it's the varying levels of Acrylamide, common with crisps (another junk food).

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/acrylamide-chemical-linked-to-cancer-found-in-crisps-29212032.html

the purple tin

As someone said already Tayto have gone mank as well. Horrible overpowering taste of them now. It started when the began using E621 in the recipe.
Used to love a bag of cheese and onion but I wouldn't touch them anymore.
The supermarket own brand 'deluxe' type crisps in the larger bag are much nicer.