Did foods taste nicer with E numbers and what not?

Daithi McGee · 30-01-2009 12:32AM #1

So I put on an Oxtail soup this evening, by Baxters I might add, and it tasted sh1t. No additives and no E numbers it proclaimed. Clever marketing in these days.

I was so upset by the lack of bread dipping taste that I poured it down the sink and tried a Cambles condensed version. Better but just not the same as I remembered back in the 80's.

Did food really taste better back then and was it down to E numbers? Or has my taste buds just given up

I keep buying packets of scampi fries every now and then hoping they will be like little angels on my tongue, like they were... but sadly it has not happened in years. Back in the day you could tell someone had a packet of scampi from 10 feet*

Does food taste less due to certain ingrediants being pulled or is it just me?

*may vary from person to person

mike65 · 30-01-2009 12:35AM

I know what you mean, but beware cos as your older taste buds give up and are less sensitive.

Slidey · 30-01-2009 12:39AM

Scampi fries....

Smells like gee in a packet...

Blush_01 · 30-01-2009 12:40AM

They've fu(ked with everything. Where did the freaky feet go, huh?

AlmightyCushion · 30-01-2009 12:42AM

Monster munch don't taste the same any more.

jester77 · 30-01-2009 12:44AM

Meanies ftw, still the same

m5ex9oqjawdg2i · 30-01-2009 12:54AM

slideways wrote: »

Scampi fries....

Smells like gee in a packet...

Tastes great though. I love scampi fries. Yet hardly anywhere sell them

Wholeseller for 25 quid or something...

Terry · 30-01-2009 12:58AM

Mercury tastes slightly different.

If you're a smoker, then everything tastes different.

Biggins · 30-01-2009 12:59AM

Your getting old LOL.
Your taste buds are becoming less sensitive.

Just wait for the fun part when your 80 and sucking delicious semolina through a straw from a bowl.
O' the fun!

On a serious side, in some products the "E" contents are still there but in order to get around the EU laws of having to name all the "E's" they re-word the internal stuff for looking good reasons.
Remember the Mars/Snickers bars that used to have a heap of "E's" listed on the side of the wrapper - read it today and you will see things listed like "Soya Lecithin", an "E" re-worded and another nice collective term called "Emulsifiers"! Same crap!

Still the same product and taste, still the same contents in most cases.

The_Minister · 30-01-2009 02:31AM

Blush_01 wrote: »

Where did the freaky feet go, huh?

Those were amazing.

But they always had one ****ed up toe.:mad:

Damn Lidl, importing Chernobyl Ice-cream

Biggins · 30-01-2009 02:33AM

The_Minister wrote: »

But they always had one ****ed up toe.:mad:

You dated Naomi Campbell? :eek:

admiralofthefleet · 30-01-2009 02:42AM

slideways wrote: »

Scampi fries....

Smells like gee in a packet...

wrong, just wrong. wash your mouth out with oxo cubes in hot water

Thrill · 30-01-2009 02:46AM

I always prefer my grub with a number of e's in it. Tastes much better

BraziliaNZ · 30-01-2009 05:30AM

Has anyone ever had "Cheese Flavoured Moments", as advertised on the back of Scampi/Bacon fries? They've eluded me to this day

Tar.Aldarion · 30-01-2009 06:17AM

You ate **** soup from a packet, that's why it tasts bad. Make good soup and it tastes fantastic. Do you think chefs add E numbers?

brendansmith · 30-01-2009 06:24AM

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

Make good soup and it tastes fantastic.

The OP did! Thats how you make soup! Pour satchet into mug and add boiling water.

That is how you make soup!!

Whos this wan lads ay?:rolleyes:

S.I.R · 30-01-2009 11:17AM

i think all food tastes better on E, but why stick it in a food ??

like jigsaw whos too lasy to walk down the street to get skins ? :rolleyes:

TPD · 30-01-2009 11:24AM

E numbers are not inherrintly a bad thing. Without E948 we'd all be dead. Remember that.

Actually that reminds me of a Penn and Teller episode where they got hundreds of signatures in aid of banning Dihydrogen Monoxide from bottled watter. Some people are idiots.

Daithi McGee · 30-01-2009 11:36AM

julep wrote: »

Mercury tastes slightly different.

If you're a smoker, then everything tastes different.

Anything with Mercury in it is usually nasty. Best staying away from all that tbh.

I'd say me being a very heavy smoker has a lot to do with the aul buds for the tasting not being fully operational but I am sure that there has still been some sort of diminishing taste returns over the years from the manufactures themselves via all these modern laws removing E such and such.

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

You ate **** soup from a packet, that's why it tasts bad. Make good soup and it tastes fantastic. Do you think chefs add E numbers?

Tar me old china plate! Not seen you about in a while. Twas the tinned stuff

I know it is just a step up from the packet ****e but during these creditcrunchtastic recessionary times a man has to go that extra lenght at work to make sure there is food on the table for the McGee clan and as such there is no time for fancy soup making activities when you come in from work at 8 or 9 in the evning

Cheerilee · 30-01-2009 12:28PM

E numbers were such a buzz word in the 80's

Examining packets of sweets and counting how many E numbers were in the ingredients.. can't remember the really scary one that was in Fanta Orange and Skittles that made kids go hyper and stick forks in the furniture

Irish Halo · 30-01-2009 01:18PM

E numbers are not inherrintly a bad thing. Without E948 we'd all be dead. Remember that.

Actually that reminds me of a Penn and Teller episode where they got hundreds of signatures in aid of banning Dihydrogen Monoxide from bottled watter. Some people are idiots.

Sense.

E numbers are just a way of easily identifying chemical compounds used in the manufacture of food.

As someone said it's just a "scary" buzz word from the 80s and 90s that means nothing.

Also if things which you perceived as having e numbers like children's snacks and sweets taste worse now it is because you have grown up probably and theoretically eating a load of junk food aimed at a child's palate isn't suited for you.

Most of the food we buy in the shops has e numbers from salt to ready cooked meals, they just may not say contains E###.

The problem could have been the fact it is only 3% Beef and 1% Cooked Oxtail Meat.

Wagon · 30-01-2009 01:33PM

I think if you stuck enough Es in anything it would taste good.

seamus · 30-01-2009 01:44PM

The whole e-numbers debate started because manufacturers started putting E-numbers in the ingredients on foods, so one or two conspiracy lunatics decided, "OMG, they're using sekrit codes to describe what they're putting in our so that they can poison us and use mind-control drugs".

This reached fever pitch and I can remember teachers ranting on in school about the dangers of eating E numbers.

So companies didn't change their recipies, instead they just dropped the E-numbers from the packets.

So for example, back in the 80s, the ingredients on a pack of crisps may have read like this:

Potatoes, Sunflower Oil, Whey Powder (from Milk),Dextrose, Flavour Enhancer: E621,
Wheat Flour, Garlic Powder, Anti-caking Agent: E551

Now they just write:

Potatoes, Sunflower Oil, Whey Powder (from Milk),Dextrose, Flavour Enhancer: Monosodium Glutamate,
Wheat Flour, Garlic Powder, Anti-caking Agent: Silicon Dioxide.

And for some reason nobody cares :rolleyes:

javaboy · 30-01-2009 01:46PM

seamus wrote: »

So for example, back in the 80s, the ingredients on a pack of crisps may have read like this:

Potatoes, Sunflower Oil, Whey Powder (from Milk),Dextrose, Flavour Enhancer: E621,
Wheat Flour, Garlic Powder, Anti-caking Agent: E551

Now they just write:

Potatoes, Sunflower Oil, Whey Powder (from Milk),Dextrose, Flavour Enhancer: Monosodium Glutamate,
Wheat Flour, Garlic Powder, Anti-caking Agent: Silicon Dioxide.

And for some reason nobody cares :rolleyes:

Actually the hysteria over MSG>hysteria over E numbers at the moment so they would probably leave it as E621.

seamus · 30-01-2009 01:48PM

javaboy wrote: »

Actually the hysteria over MSG>hysteria over E numbers at the moment so they would probably leave it as E621.

I severely doubt that most people who are hysterical about MSG even know what it stands for , so they wouldn't pick it out of a line-up

pablomakaveli · 30-01-2009 01:54PM

Anyone else think Smarties now taste horrible with the natural colourings in them. I just can't stand to eat them anymore.:(

TPD · 30-01-2009 03:11PM

seamus wrote: »

I severely doubt that most people who are hysterical about MSG even know what it stands for , so they wouldn't pick it out of a line-up

I view MSG as Chinese salt. If pressed I'd say theyre about as bad as each other for your system. Anyone know where MSG can be bought in this country? Need some for spring rolls but I'd feel a bit weird buying food from ebay.

Rovi · 30-01-2009 03:19PM

TPD wrote: »

Actually that reminds me of a Penn and Teller episode where they got hundreds of signatures in aid of banning Dihydrogen Monoxide from bottled watter. Some people are idiots.

Here we go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzLs60ZaNW4

Alun · 30-01-2009 03:19PM

TPD wrote: »

I view MSG as Chinese salt. If pressed I'd say theyre about as bad as each other for your system. Anyone know where MSG can be bought in this country? Need some for spring rolls but I'd feel a bit weird buying food from ebay.

You can easily get it in any of the Asian stores.

Blisterman · 30-01-2009 03:19PM

Chinese supermarkets are your friend. You can buy a big sack of MSG goodness for next to nothing.

TPD · 30-01-2009 03:24PM

Must take a trip into one soon. I'd have thought it would be banned by now.

Did foods taste nicer with E numbers and what not?

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