Food items that just don't taste the same as they used to

oppenheimer1 · 15-07-2013 07:50PM

Dravokivich wrote: »

Anything with "New and Improved Flavour"

"New and Improved flavour" means they found cheaper ingredients and tried their best to match the taste but couldn't get it exactly right.

The idea is that if you tell people that the change is better they will believe it.

Corvo · 15-07-2013 07:54PM

They used to taste so sour, so pineapple-ee.

*shakes fist at sky*

wotzgoingon · 15-07-2013 08:00PM

FatherLen wrote: »

chipsticks.....

ruined so they are

I'm eating a pack as I was reading this, and think they still taste the same.

xzanti · 15-07-2013 08:02PM

April O Neill wrote: »

Gawd, yes. And they're too heavily weighted towards the caramel/toffee spectrum now, presumable because it's cheaper. Bring back coffee creams and mini Bournvilles!

If I remember correctly, last year they dressed the Caramel Keg up as a yellow toffee the dirty hoors...

And there were about 5 blue toffees in my whole tin.. I'm boycotting Roses this year.. Quality Streets all the way..

At least you know where you stand with those badboys.

HeidiHeidi · 15-07-2013 08:03PM

wotzgoingon wrote: »

I'm eating a pack as I was reading this, and think they still taste the same.

I think so too... if anything they've got even saltier and vinegarier (although giving up smoking may have had something to do with that, I couldn't tolerate Tayto cheese and onion crisps for years after my taste buds came back to life

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Emerald chocolates would be my vote.... they used to be my favourites. I bought a packet recently, and they just tasted vaguely plasticky. Very disappointing.

King George VI · 15-07-2013 08:07PM

Has this anything to do with E numbers?

voz es · 15-07-2013 08:09PM

Iceberger icecream !
The taste changed after they changed the wrapper

hoodwinked · 15-07-2013 08:13PM

voz es wrote: »

Iceberger icecream !
The taste changed after they changed the wrapper

thats not all they changed, my 3 year old hid one once, found it weeks later, in the exact same condition, the biscuit and the ice cream looked like it did when we opened it!

:eek:

April O Neill · 15-07-2013 08:39PM

xzanti wrote: »

If I remember correctly, last year they dressed the Caramel Keg up as a yellow toffee the dirty hoors...

And there were about 5 blue toffees in my whole tin.. I'm boycotting Roses this year.. Quality Streets all the way..

At least you know where you stand with those badboys.

I was always a cheerleader for Quality Street, but nobody would listen! At least they offer variety.

EireIceMan · 15-07-2013 08:51PM

Remember Sour Cream and Onion Pringles had the bits of green on them and far more 'dusting'. You'd destroy your fingers.

MMMMMMmmmmm

Aineoil · 15-07-2013 08:53PM

Swiss Roll in the 1980's was delicious - but tastes just terrible in 2013. Maybe I am getting old?

the groutch · 15-07-2013 08:54PM

almost all confectionary is bland nowadays with any even mildly offensive additives removed, and are all starting to taste the same.

corklad12 · 15-07-2013 09:13PM

Loop the Loop is just not the same anymore!

kowloon · 15-07-2013 09:16PM

This health craze is annoying me, let me have my chemical rich goodies, I don't need those extra wheelchair years.

Ms. Pingui · 15-07-2013 09:36PM

Lucozade orange tastes completely different lately!

Fr_Dougal · 15-07-2013 09:40PM

Communion wafer, since they changed the main ingredient to 'I can't believe it's not Christ' it just doesn't taste the same.

Dravokivich · 15-07-2013 09:45PM

Aineoil wrote: »

Swiss Roll in the 1980's was delicious - but tastes just terrible in 2013. Maybe I am getting old?

Check out what's used for the "cream." Its ruined a lot of stuff.

Pandora2 · 15-07-2013 09:48PM

oldyouth wrote: »

Saw the thread and came on to say tomatoes. It only took 2 replies, so it must be true

Me too, have not kept tomatoes in the fridge for Years, they have some taste if you eat them at room temperature! Was on hols in US in 2006 and discovered their tomatoes....Heaven! Despite the veritable World Menu that was available to me, my fav was...a tomato sandwich!

Curly Wurly's too....a shadow of their former selves!

bgrizzley · 15-07-2013 10:04PM

Pandora2 wrote: »

Me too, have not kept tomatoes in the fridge for Years, they have some taste if you eat them at room temperature! Was on hols in US in 2006 and discovered their tomatoes....Heaven! Despite the veritable World Menu that was available to me, my fav was...a tomato sandwich!

Curly Wurly's too....a shadow of their former selves!

mmmmm, salty tomato sandwiches. i have about 10 tomato plants growing in the polytunnel.... roll on harvest

guttenberg · 15-07-2013 10:07PM

Them Donegal ones have wrecked Football Special, that drink was amazing up to a few years ago!

HeidiHeidi · 15-07-2013 10:11PM

guttenberg wrote: »

Them Donegal ones have wrecked Football Special, that drink was amazing up to a few years ago!

Oh my goodness, I haven't heard of Football Special in years and years!!! I remember it well from when we were kids - was guaranteed to put you right into orbit - liquid sugar! We found it about ten years ago in a local pub in the very north west of Donegal - but even they've stopped stocking it of late :mad:

kylith · 15-07-2013 10:24PM

Skips. They've gone horrible since they took out all the artificial colours and flavours.

PizzamanIRL · 15-07-2013 10:25PM

Crème eggs, well not the taste but I think they have gotten smaller over the years. Someone agree with me to prove I'm not going mad.

HeidiHeidi · 15-07-2013 10:27PM

There's a couple of recurring themes in this thread...

1. Stuff is getting smaller (instead of staying the same size and getting dearer)
2. Artifical stuff/chemicals/flavour enhancers were good (in small doses, obviously)

Are these good or bad things

gobnaitolunacy · 15-07-2013 10:37PM

Cadburys Roses have degenerated into crap with a waxy texture.

Ruudi_Mentari · 15-07-2013 10:53PM

Sma

Miss Lockhart · 15-07-2013 10:55PM

Dairy Milk. There's a weird aftertaste now.

byte · 15-07-2013 11:11PM

Pandora2 wrote: »

Me too, have not kept tomatoes in the fridge for Years, they have some taste if you eat them at room temperature! Was on hols in US in 2006 and discovered their tomatoes....Heaven! Despite the veritable World Menu that was available to me, my fav was...a tomato sandwich!

Curly Wurly's too....a shadow of their former selves!

Noticed on a 6 pack of tomatoes I got from Aldi, that it actually advises not to refrigerate them, but to keep them at room temperature to allow them to ripen.

It does help a bit by not chilling them, though maybe if I didn't buy the Super6 ones but got dearer ones on the vine or something...

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Funny I see the Brunch mentioned as I had one for the first time in years yesterday and was quite disappointed by the lack of crumby bits. Seemed a bit smaller too, but more annoyed by the sparse coloured crumbs on it.

jvc · 15-07-2013 11:16PM

Twister! What sadist decided to change them to pear flavour!

kylith · 15-07-2013 11:20PM

jvc wrote: »

Twister! What sadist decided to change them to pear flavour!

They've always been pear flavour, it's why I don't like them.

Food items that just don't taste the same as they used to

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