Artificial fucκing sweeteners in everything everything tastes like shıt now.

Eleven Benevolent Elephants · 13-09-2020 2:35pm #1

I got breakfast out in a local pub. I took a taste of the beans, grimaced, forced myself to swallow them and didn't eat the rest. My family, the rest of whom were eating a breakfast not including beans asked me what was wrong and accused me of being a "sugar addict". The beans didn't taste crap because of the lack of sugar, they tasted rubbish because of the dreadful artificial sweeteners. Sugar free seems to be the standard nowadays.Give customers the choice and don't assume. The girl who served us had very broken English so I didn't bother saying anything.

I tried to find a nice bottle of squash, haven't had one in years, ALL have sweeteners.

Even bastard mouthwash has sweeteners. I like the antiseptic taste of traditional mouthwash but corsydyl, a very expensive brand is the only brand like that now. All others are polluted with sweeteners.

The only soft drinks with real sugar are Pepsi, Club Orange and Coca Cola - all others have aspartame, sucralose etc.

Sweeteners can suck my left one. Just because Jacinta the local fatso can't keep the Snickers and Coke out of her gob for five minutes normal healthy people can no longer enjoy an occasional treat.

Anyone have a time machine to take me back to my childhood in the 90's?

iguana · 13-09-2020 2:39pm

Eleven Benevolent Elephants wrote: »

I tried to find a nice bottle of squash, haven't had one in years, ALL have sweeteners.

A couple of the M&S brand squashes have no artificial sweeteners.

[Deleted User] · 13-09-2020 2:40pm

The cúnts ruined Lucozade :mad:

[Deleted User] · 13-09-2020 2:40pm

Yeah I agree, would be a food libertarian also - if you’re obese don’t go guzzling fizzy drinks by the litre. There really is no excuse nowadays with so much information out there, nobody isn’t aware sweets and soft drinks etc are unhealthy.

Eleven Benevolent Elephants · 13-09-2020 2:41pm

iguana wrote: »

A couple of the M&S brand squashes have no artificial sweeteners.

Whilst Stevia is a "natural sweetener" it still doesn't cut it. Let me have my proper white gold.

Errashareesh · 13-09-2020 3:15pm

Yep EBE - this is a gripe of mine too. Used to love the very occasional Ribena or San Pellegrino orange. Both awful now.

AND... that sweetener crap makes me really hungry.

TheValeyard · 13-09-2020 3:18pm

Are these the same guys who ruined Monster Munch?

Sandor Clegane · 13-09-2020 3:56pm

Thats nanny state Ireland for ya.

Jayesdiem · 13-09-2020 3:56pm

Eleven Benevolent Elephants wrote: »

I got breakfast out in a local pub. I took a taste of the beans, grimaced, forced myself to swallow them and didn't eat the rest. My family, the rest of whom were eating a breakfast not including beans asked me what was wrong and accused me of being a "sugar addict". The beans didn't taste crap because of the lack of sugar, they tasted rubbish because of the dreadful artificial sweeteners. Sugar free seems to be the standard nowadays.Give customers the choice and don't assume. The girl who served us had very broken English so I didn't bother saying anything.

I tried to find a nice bottle of squash, haven't had one in years, ALL have sweeteners.

Even bastard mouthwash has sweeteners. I like the antiseptic taste of traditional mouthwash but corsydyl, a very expensive brand is the only brand like that now. All others are polluted with sweeteners.

The only soft drinks with real sugar are Pepsi, Club Orange and Coca Cola - all others have aspartame, sucralose etc.

Sweeteners can suck my left one. Just because Jacinta the local fatso can't keep the Snickers and Coke out of her gob for five minutes normal healthy people can no longer enjoy an occasional treat.

Anyone have a time machine to take me back to my childhood in the 90's?

This pisses me off too. Sweeteners give me extreme cramping, bloating and diarrhoea. It means I have to avoid anything and everything with them in it which has become a minefield and a nightmare to eat out. You’d think most foods have no reason to be artificially sweetened but if there is something untoward in the dish, my stomach tells me straight away and it lasts for days. It means I have to be really careful anywhere and everywhere I go and if I do choose to “go mad” by having a pizza or a burger (which shouldn’t have that crap in them), I need to brace myself for a five day rollercoaster. The only solution I’ve found to this is preparing all my own foods from scratch. If I don’t, something, somewhere, always catches me out.

PsychoPete · 13-09-2020 3:58pm

It's because people are stupid and can't be trusted to not shovel mars bars into their mouths

Rodney Bathgate · 13-09-2020 3:59pm

Could you have asked for sachets of real sugar, then stirred the contents into the baked beans?

iguana · 13-09-2020 4:01pm

Eleven Benevolent Elephants wrote: »

Whilst Stevia is a "natural sweetener" it still doesn't cut it. Let me have my proper white gold.

Stevia is manky shïte too. It's ruined 7up. The M&S Orange and Apple&Mango squashes are sugar sweetened only afair.

daheff · 13-09-2020 4:06pm

I can see artificial sweeteners being the next health issue in 10 years time.

Rodney Bathgate · 13-09-2020 4:08pm

Stevia is rubbish. Tropicana has/had a 50/50 juice. 50% regular OJ then the remainder water and Stevia. RRP was more expensive than the regular Tropicana OJ.

Kintarō Hattori · 13-09-2020 4:09pm

Completely agree. A lot of soft drinks amongst other things really do taste dreadful now.

[Deleted User] · 13-09-2020 4:09pm

You'll get used to it after a while. I wouldn't worry too much about it.

Montage of Feck · 13-09-2020 4:11pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

The cúnts ruined Lucozade :mad:

Hairy japanese bastards.

Rodney Bathgate · 13-09-2020 4:12pm

Is Lilt still good?

Here comes the Lilt man....Lilt!

13-09-2020 4:28pm

daheff wrote: »

I can see artificial sweeteners being the next health issue in 10 years time.

Agree, but think it may be sooner than that, Aspartame's been in use under numerous names for almost 40 years so lots of evidence on its damaging effect, much worse than the sugar it replaces.

How it ever got approved is beyond me, though does makes for interesting reading.
But sure the US FDA approved it, so must be safe for everyone else to approve too.

Thespoofer · 13-09-2020 4:31pm

Could you not just buy a sugar free version and lob in a few teaspoons yourself ?

Pkiernan · 13-09-2020 4:32pm

OP sounds bitter...

Fakediamond · 13-09-2020 4:40pm

Rodney Bathgate wrote: »

Could you have asked for sachets of real sugar, then stirred the contents into the baked beans?

How is that going to remove the vile taste/aftertaste of artificial sweeteners?

Dtp1979 · 13-09-2020 4:53pm

Rodney Bathgate wrote: »

Is Lilt still good?

Here comes the Lilt man....Lilt!

Nah. Not a totally tropical taste anymore man

Eleven Benevolent Elephants · 13-09-2020 5:01pm

Thespoofer wrote: »

Could you not just buy a sugar free version and lob in a few teaspoons yourself ?

:rolleyes:

Rodney Bathgate · 13-09-2020 6:39pm

Dtp1979 wrote: »

Nah. Not a totally tropical taste anymore man

Bastards

JohnnyFlash · 13-09-2020 6:59pm

TheValeyard wrote: »

Are these the same guys who ruined Monster Munch?

Foot scientists - shower of absolute bastards.

Even though to answer the OP, beans have always been disgusting. Gross.

blinding · 13-09-2020 7:30pm

This is a good enough a reason to Start a War, Not a Great Reason but Good Enough ! !

bb1234567 · 13-09-2020 7:38pm

daheff wrote: »

I can see artificial sweeteners being the next health issue in 10 years time.

What do you mean? Anything put in our food pases rigorous human testing, there won't be any surprises there. Safety profile of most sweeteners is very good and is for sure much healthier than consuming obscene amouns of sugar

nullzero · 13-09-2020 8:12pm

I'd be hard pressed to buy anything containing sweeteners. They've been around a long time but I just can't develop a taste for them at all.

Cordials without sweeteners are difficult to come by, I used to enjoy an occasional lemon barley water but that's gone by the wayside now.

As for people guzzling down sugar, I see a girl in one of the local supermarkets working at the self service checkouts, probably weighs 20 stone and always has a Coke or a club orange in her hand. Much like taxing cigarettes, people who want to ingest crap will pay any price for the privilege.

appledrop · 13-09-2020 8:16pm

7up is ruined forever.

Used to be a classic Irish staple now its disgusting because they have 'improved it with sweenters'

If I want a frizzy drink, I want a full fat one.

Not my problem if other people csnr limit their intake of sugar, I can.

Beanntraigheach · 13-09-2020 8:32pm

The 'diet'/sugar-free version of most soft drinks has been available for decades now, so those who want that option have long been catered for.
The replacement of sugar with artificial sweeteners has feck all to do with concerns about health and everything to do with the fact that the artificial sweeteners are cheaper for the manufacturer - so they charge the consumer the same price for a product which now costs them less to produce.
Bastards!

Artificial fucκing sweeteners in everything everything tastes like shıt now.

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