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What happened to Rancheros?

  • 29-10-2014 03:41PM
    #1
    Quin_Dub
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    I bought a 6-pack of Rancheros at the week-end.

    First time in years that I've had them... Maybe it's my memory being a bit weird , but these "new" Rancheros didn't taste anything like I remember..

    They just seem to have way less flavour , they've lost their "Ranchero-ness"- With the old Rancheros , you ate them on a Monday then if you belched on a Thursday you'd still taste them !!

    I was very disappointed that they've changed so much..just very bland now...

    Anyone else notice this , or indeed any other childhood sweets/snacks that are around today that they've "improved" (or ruined!!) since you first tasted them??


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  • #2
    Generic Dreadhead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,870 ✭✭✭✭Generic Dreadhead


    They did worse with SNAX :mad:


  • #3
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    I blame Jamie Oliver and his healthy food crap.


    Meanies are ****e too.


  • #4
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,816 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Skips are still just as nice. Burger bites are healthier because they're baked, but they feel drier.

    To answer the OP, I didn't notice much difference with the Rancheros.


  • #5
    fedor.2.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,944 ✭✭✭fedor.2.


    Seen the size of Mars bars these days. Were they bigger in the past or were my hands smaller, I dunno.


  • #6
    Guy:Incognito
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    Pretty much all crisps are gone to ****.

    That's what happens when you can't put cancer in anymore.:-)


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  • #7
    BoJack Horseman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,248 ✭✭✭✭BoJack Horseman


    New rancheros ain't what they used to be.

    It isn't false nostalgia, they are genuinely worse.


  • #8
    Joe Duffy..
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 280 ✭✭Joe Duffy..


    Monster Munch are pure s***e now as well.


  • #9
    Quin_Dub
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    fedor.2. wrote: »
    Seen the size of Mars bars these days. Were they bigger in the past or were my hands smaller, I dunno.

    All chocolates are getting smaller..

    Read an article recently (Pricewatch in the Irish Times I think) where Cadbury and others were saying that they'd shrunk the package sizes to keep the prices the same...

    Still a bit sneaky though.... The Christmas box of Roses is getting smaller every year too... Used to be 1kg , then 950g and so on... This years one has started to appear in the shops in the last few weeks - 780g now!

    I mean , How many less Brazilian Darkness in the box does that mean?

    Not cool!


  • #10
    [Deleted User]
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    The Christmas confectionery is absolutely ridiculous. Really hits home when ya come across an old tin from a few years ago.


  • #11
    Saipanne
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    Chickatees have been ruined.


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  • #12
    SEPT 23 1989
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    at least Rancheros taste vaguely like Rancheros used to

    Snax on the other hand dont even taste like crisps anymore


  • #13
    Celly Smunt
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    Saipanne wrote: »
    Chickatees have been ruined.

    True,they used to be a very important staple in many a scumbags diet. Suprised they haven't been up in arms.


  • #14
    endacl
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    Quin_Dub wrote: »
    First time in years that I've had them...

    There's your problem.

    You're now a grown up, and your grown up palate is grown up too.


  • #15
    Quin_Dub
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,788 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quin_Dub


    Celly Smunt wrote: »
    True,they used to be a very important staple in many a scumbags diet. Suprised they haven't been up in arms.

    That was the great thing about them- For days after you ate them, if you put your fingers in your mouth....there they were , Chickatees!!!!!

    That could keep you going for ages!!


  • #16
    salamanca22
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,179 ✭✭✭salamanca22


    If I had a time machine I would go back and get all my favorite crisps.

    Banshee bones, space raiders, funyuns, meanies and all the other crisps from my childhood which are now baked :(


  • #17
    Dr. Mantis Toboggan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,278 ✭✭✭Dr. Mantis Toboggan


    salamanca22 wrote: »
    If I had a time machine I would go back and get all my favorite crisps.

    Banshee bones, space raiders, funyuns, meanies and all the other crisps from my childhood which are now baked :(

    And monster munch, before they made an absolute balls of them.


  • #18
    hoodwinked
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    The Christmas confectionery is absolutely ridiculous. Really hits home when ya come across an old tin from a few years ago.

    still have one of the old roses tin's,

    penguins have gotten remarkably small. used to love the chocolate cream inside them too but now they have ruined that,


    luckily (or unluckily depends on your outlook at sweets) for me, my aunt is over and back from the states often enough so she gets me nerds/tic tac's/sour jellies from over there that still taste delicious and full of e's,

    also american chocolate tastes horrible, i had heard great things about Hersey's kisses, and i swear chocolate gems circa 1999 taste better!


  • #19
    Quin_Dub
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    endacl wrote: »
    There's your problem.

    You're now a grown up, and your grown up palate is grown up too.

    Nah.. That covers Broccoli , hated it as a kid , like it now...

    Rancheros on the other hand.....It's the lack of after-taste that's the change...

    They taste like Rancheros , but with the flavour dialled down massively...

    It's like Rancheros-lite.... Just not right...


  • #20
    The Strawman Argument
    Closed Accounts Posts: 477 ✭✭The Strawman Argument


    Rancheros had a "NEW AND IMPROVED FLAVOUR" brought in a good while back.

    Do Perry crisps still exist? The basic cheese and onion, salt and vinegar, etc ones?



    RE: the Christmas tins, the roses ones are a bit laughable at this stage, used to be a nice round tub then they started narrowing the base. They've narrowed the base so far now that the angle of the edges has gone as far as it can go before looking awful, so they've redesigned the shape to give the illusion of a wider base. I'd pay an extra 3 euro for one that doesn't look like ****.


  • #21
    Ruu
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    Anytime I see a 'new and improved' flavour sticker, causes me to scoff! Chickatees are like a bag of air, barely a crisp anymore.


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  • #22
    hoodwinked
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    Ruu wrote: »
    Anytime I see a 'new and improved' flavour sticker, causes me to scoff! .

    that or "suger free" on sweets!?!? if i wanted sugar free i'd eat eggs!


  • #23
    Quin_Dub
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    hoodwinked wrote: »
    still have one of the old roses tin's,

    penguins have gotten remarkably small. used to love the chocolate cream inside them too but now they have ruined that,


    luckily (or unluckily depends on your outlook at sweets) for me, my aunt is over and back from the states often enough so she gets me nerds/tic tac's/sour jellies from over there that still taste delicious and full of e's,

    also american chocolate tastes horrible, i had heard great things about Hersey's kisses, and i swear chocolate gems circa 1999 taste better!

    Oh yeah.. American chocolate is rank.....gritty or something...

    Having said that , they still do full on Crisps - Frito's are a great alternative to Rancheros.. They still have that great after-taste...

    Check out a Frito Pie - Oh my God... Not for the faint hearted... But amazing once in a very long while!


  • #24
    Saipanne
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    Celly Smunt wrote: »
    True,they used to be a very important staple in many a scumbags diet. Suprised they haven't been up in arms.

    I always thought Banshee Bones were the knacker crisp gold standard


  • #25
    hoodwinked
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    Saipanne wrote: »
    I always thought Banshee Bones were the knacker crisp gold standard

    nope they were for if you didn't want to feel your lips for a few hours, the sting off the salt and vinegar used last for ages! :D


  • #26
    salamanca22
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    hoodwinked wrote: »
    nope they were for if you didn't want to feel your lips for a few hours, the sting off the salt and vinegar used last for ages! :D

    And that's the way I liked em'!


  • #27
    Augmerson
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    hoodwinked wrote: »
    still have one of the old roses tin's,

    penguins have gotten remarkably small. used to love the chocolate cream inside them too but now they have ruined that,


    luckily (or unluckily depends on your outlook at sweets) for me, my aunt is over and back from the states often enough so she gets me nerds/tic tac's/sour jellies from over there that still taste delicious and full of e's,

    also american chocolate tastes horrible, i had heard great things about Hersey's kisses, and i swear chocolate gems circa 1999 taste better!

    Yeah? What's your aunt's number.....can she pick me up some stuff?


  • #28
    fedor.2.
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    Do they still make Burger bites?


  • #29
    Quin_Dub
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    hoodwinked wrote: »
    nope they were for if you didn't want to feel your lips for a few hours, the sting off the salt and vinegar used last for ages! :D

    Chipstix used to be like that too...but again..not anymore...

    They've just weakened/softened the flavours on everything it seems...

    Crisps/Sweets are not meant to be healthy , they're supposed to be bad for you - but they are supposed to taste great...

    Now , they're "healthier" , but taste crap.......

    Defeats the bloody purpose...


  • #30
    WoollyRedHat
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    Penguin bars, they ain't what they used to be. Once a staple of the Irish childhood, now just pure muck and long forgotten.


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  • #31
    messrs
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    fedor.2. wrote: »
    Do they still make Burger bites?

    ive seen multipacks in dunnes/Tesco's recently, don't know about single packs.


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