Foods just not tasting the same anymore

How Soon Is Now · 01-02-2013 02:02AM #1

I keep mentioning this to people about certain stuff but i wonder what else people have come across no longer tastes the same weather its better or worse now ??

For example Pringles used to be MUCH stronger years ago i can remember as a kid feeling sick after eating a few hand fulls of the sour cream and onion ones :P. They where much stronger tasted much nicer to now there bland and a bit meh.

Had a pack of burger bites there other day dont taste same as did few years ago really bland and not as strong even look a bit different!!

Girlfriend said same to me there just a few minutes ago as well so i know its not just me :pac:

Anyone else notice stuff like this??

tan11ie · 01-02-2013 02:03AM

Yeah Monster Munch....just not as spicy any more.

1ZRed · 01-02-2013 02:03AM

Things just aren't as you remember them as a kid. Everything seems better

Ronnie Beck · 01-02-2013 02:05AM

Masturbation's not what it used to be either

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 01-02-2013 02:05AM

McDonald's isn't as nice as when I was a kid.

Budweiser tastes horrible. I used to like it and I know people always say it tastes like piss, but I had one a few days ago and... yecch. (This may have soemthing to do with four years in Germany)

How Soon Is Now · 01-02-2013 02:06AM

1ZRed wrote: »

Things just aren't as you remember them as a kid. Everything seems better

I always taught it was something along those lines but really stuff is much different now. Coke is the same the taste has changed over the years. I used to love how it tasted not near as much now.

Theres a clear taste difference in alot of stuff now compared to how it was.

MrJoeSoap · 01-02-2013 02:06AM

I vaguely remember going into sweet shops and buying sheets of paper and loving them. Bought a few hundred A4 sheets in Tesco last week and it's just not tasting the same.

Where To · 01-02-2013 02:06AM

As you get older, your food tastes blander and your farts get smellier, fact of life I'm afraid.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 01-02-2013 02:06AM

Ronnie Beck wrote: »

Masturbation's not what it used to be either

True... you're wasting your ****ign time there.

The Dagda · 01-02-2013 02:06AM

History's not what it used to be...

Boombastic · 01-02-2013 02:08AM

Where To wrote: »

As you get older, your food tastes blander and your farts get smellier, fact of life I'm afraid.

Your taste buds change and you lose some of your sense of smell as you get older, hence the smellier farts, nature balancing it out.

slim223 · 01-02-2013 02:08AM

I tried dansak in an Indian once. I should have known by the name not to order it.

Jacob T · 01-02-2013 02:10AM

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

I vaguely remember going into sweet shops and buying sheets of paper and loving them.

I think I can explain this one, did they have this picture printed on them?

http://bunkpolice.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Hoffman-blotter.jpg

TerrorFirmer · 01-02-2013 02:11AM

It is true that your tastes change, and obviously you have to accommodate for the rose tinted glasses aspect of it, but a lot of things have physically changed. Someone mentioned Burger Bites - the taste of these, and similar crisps like Hot Lips have changed completed, even the texture of them is completely different. They still taste grand, but they are completely different from what they were 10 or 15 years ago.

Czarcasm · 01-02-2013 02:14AM

angerfist2009 wrote: »

I keep mentioning this to people about certain stuff but i wonder what else people have come across no longer tastes the same weather its better or worse now ??

For example Pringles used to be MUCH stronger years ago i can remember as a kid feeling sick after eating a few hand fulls of the sour cream and onion ones :P. They where much stronger tasted much nicer to now there bland and a bit meh.

Had a pack of burger bites there other day dont taste same as did few years ago really bland and not as strong even look a bit different!!

Girlfriend said same to me there just a few minutes ago as well so i know its not just me :pac:

Anyone else notice stuff like this??

Same goes for salt and vinegar chipsticks- as a child they used leave me with white lips they were that strong, horribly bitter taste altogether, which is why I never took salt or vinegar on a bag of chips. But the other day I was offered some chipsticks, and they were distinctly mild!

I was left wanting for the horrible aftertaste that sent my salivary glands into overdrive... but, nothing

Boombastic · 01-02-2013 02:14AM

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

It is true that your tastes change, and obviously you have to accommodate for the rose tinted glasses aspect of it, but a lot of things have physically changed. Someone mentioned Burger Bites - the taste of these, and similar crisps like Hot Lips have changed completed, even the texture of them is completely different. They still taste grand, but they are completely different from what they were 10 or 15 years ago.

Maybe there was added horse in the burger bites:pac:

How Soon Is Now · 01-02-2013 02:14AM

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

It is true that your tastes change, and obviously you have to accommodate for the rose tinted glasses aspect of it, but a lot of things have physically changed. Someone mentioned Burger Bites - the taste of these, and similar crisps like Hot Lips have changed completed, even the texture of them is completely different. They still taste grand, but they are completely different from what they were 10 or 15 years ago.

The bag of them i had other night where totally different to how they used to be i remember not even that long ago them tasting much beefier and stronger.

Boombastic · 01-02-2013 02:16AM

angerfist2009 wrote: »

The bag of them i had other night where totally different to how they used to be i remember not even that long ago them tasting much beefier and stronger.

Were the ones back in the day sam spudz or mr. perri?

herisson · 01-02-2013 02:19AM

Rancheros aren't the same as they were when I was a kid. They aren't as strong as flavour as I remember and they are huge now.

DrumSteve · 01-02-2013 02:20AM

Pot Noodle went to ****e..no flavour at all. Koka noodles 4 lyf.

1ZRed · 01-02-2013 02:20AM

angerfist2009 wrote: »

I always taught it was something along those lines but really stuff is much different now. Coke is the same the taste has changed over the years. I used to love how it tasted not near as much now.

Theres a clear taste difference in alot of stuff now compared to how it was.

Actually giving it a bit more thought walkers are a lot blander tasting nowadays and chocolate isn't nearly as nice.

I'd say it has a lot to do with no more artificial colours, flavours and sweeteners. They were poison, but fuk it, they made shíte taste good.

Bad Santa · 01-02-2013 02:22AM

I'd give €50 for a single of Chips the way they used to be.

It's not just potatoes, carrots also taste bland and I have even bought organic ones in my search to find that old juicy sauteed carrot taste. Fried onions, same story. Cabbage, also the same. Everything is ruined.

For some reason, it all more or less looks the same but most fruit and veg (in particular) has lost something.

There was a TV show on a few months back where some guy was giving a reason for it and also explained why organic fruit and veg was no better but he was convinced pesticides and hybridization was at the root of it and he had some sort of mission to get his hands on seeds that have never been affected, as he was also convinced the reason Organic produce was no better was because their soil was depleted and poorly sourced seeds.

I hear there are some remote areas of Leitrim were the veg growing there tastes as it did once upon a time but the last three people that went looking to purchase seeds, disappeared and were never seen since.

DrumSteve · 01-02-2013 02:23AM

Bad Santa wrote: »

I'd give €50 for a single of Chips the way they used to be.

It's not just potatoes, carrots also taste bland and I have even bought organic ones in my search to find that old juicy sauteed carrot taste. Fried onions, same story. Cabbage, also the same. Everything is ruined.

For some reason, it all more or less looks the same but most fruit and veg (in particular) has lost something.

There was a TV show on a few months back where some guy was giving a reason for it and also explained why organic fruit and veg was no better but he was convinced pesticides and hybridization was at the root of it and he had some sort of mission to get his hands on seeds that have never been affected, as he was also convinced the reason Organic produce was no better was because their soil was depleted and poorly sourced seeds.

I hear there are some remote areas of Leitrim were the veg growing there tastes as it did once upon a time but the last three people that went looking to purchase seeds, disappeared and were never seen since.

Wasnt that the opening chapter of Jack and the Beanstalk.

Czarcasm · 01-02-2013 02:24AM

Boombastic wrote: »

Your taste buds change and you lose some of your sense of smell as you get older, hence the smellier farts, nature balancing it out.

Isn't it fascinating what you learn in AH? I didn't realise the above, but my child has a cold at the moment, and at dinner earlier he mentioned that the chicken had no flavor. I almost took it as a critique until I remembered that his nose being blocked up means he has no sense of taste either!

Although he dropped one earlier that as my old man used say "Fùck! You should've bottled that and given it to the Queen!", fcuking nuclear àrse! :pac:

slim223 · 01-02-2013 02:24AM

Beef burgers don't taste the same as before

How Soon Is Now · 01-02-2013 02:24AM

Boombastic wrote: »

Were the ones back in the day sam spudz or mr. perri?

Sam Spudz i think.....

KungPao · 01-02-2013 02:24AM

I'd hazard a guess that snacks like these aren't fried in delicious trans fats and covered in piles of salt and MSG like the good old days. Also, I'd say some of the original ingredients have since been banned or discouraged, like certain Es and the like.

Things like Wheelies, Chipsticks, Chickatees, Skips etc used to burst with flavour and washing them down with Coke was an incredible experience!

Nowadays they are just nice, nothing special.

KungPao · 01-02-2013 02:27AM

Wagon Wheels lost a lot of pazazz too

uch · 01-02-2013 02:34AM

Stop using illegal substances, then it taste's grand

Johro · 01-02-2013 02:34AM

I'd guess some of the flavourings that used to be in some of your favourite foods are probably banned now, and less salt is used. In a lot of cases the crap was the 'tasty' part. We're being weaned off the high levels of salt, which to be fair are ridiculous here in just about everything.

flanum · 01-02-2013 02:35AM

Rashers.. without sounding like an old fart (well i am in my 40's) but ye used be able to slap them on the pan without any lard/oil and they would fry in their own fat perfectly, now ye put them on and a watery salty foamy pish comes out of them that ye have to drain off before they will fry.. and no bacony taste of them!!

Foods just not tasting the same anymore

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