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Artificial fucκing sweeteners in everything everything tastes like shıt now.

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    #62
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭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.


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    #63
    4068ac1elhodqr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭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


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    #64
    HBC08
    Registered Users Posts: 3,286 ✭✭✭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.


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    #65
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭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...


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    #66
    BuboBubo
    Registered Users Posts: 927 ✭✭✭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?


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    #67
    Dubl07
    Registered Users Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭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.)


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    #68
    kenmm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭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?


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    #69
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭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.


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    #70
    ronano
    Registered Users Posts: 3,131 ✭✭✭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


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    #71
    kenmm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭kenmm


    ronano wrote: »
    Bit dramatic

    User name checks out :-D


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    #72
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭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.


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    #73
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭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.


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    #74
    kenmm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭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.


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    #75
    i57dwun4yb1pt8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,655 ✭✭✭i57dwun4yb1pt8


    Nice work, space man ;)


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    #76
    Homelander
    Registered Users Posts: 4,345 ✭✭✭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.


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    #77
    kenmm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭kenmm


    Lara Wrong Self-reliance wrote: »
    Nice work, space man ;)

    ?


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    #78
    kenmm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭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


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    #79
    Tails142
    Registered Users Posts: 2,103 ✭✭✭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.


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    #80
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭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?


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    #81
    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,597 ✭✭✭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

    First they came for the socialists...



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    #82
    Eleven Benevolent Elephants
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 426 ✭✭Eleven Benevolent Elephants


    iguana wrote: »
    A couple of the M&S brand squashes have no artificial sweeteners.

    They probably have Stevia though :mad:


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    #83
    Eleven Benevolent Elephants
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 426 ✭✭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.


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    Eleven Benevolent Elephants
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    Eleven Benevolent Elephants
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    Eleven Benevolent Elephants wrote: »
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    #86
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭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.


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    #87
    Alejandro68
    Closed Accounts Posts: 412 ✭✭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.


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    #88
    Kilboor
    Registered Users Posts: 1,224 ✭✭✭Kilboor


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


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    #89
    kenmm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭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.


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    #90
    Beanntraigheach
    Registered Users Posts: 789 ✭✭✭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!


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    #91
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭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.


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