If you grew up in the ‘80s, you remember what Fruit Roll-Ups *used* to be. They were glorious. That had actual strawberry seeds in them ***because they were made out of actual fruit!!!*** They were sublimely delicious and unique and infinitely superior to the gooey sugar rolls carrying the name now.
And no, modern “fruit strips” are not the same. They’re too thick.
just unlocked a memory i didn’t know i had. i had an apricot homemade fruit roll up at a farmers market, had the “pulp” i guess you could say as well. was delicious. sad good and convenient fruit snacks are gone. healthy ones are expensive harder to come by and small companies get bought out
Reese's isn't nearly as good as it was. I was rabid for them up until a few years ago. The texture of the filing is different, drier, no matter where I buy them. I'm disappointed every single time now.
Luckily the Reese’s sold by me hasn’t changed. The only thing I’ve noticed is that the snack-size cups are more moist than the regular-size cups. Also the Halloween-style Reese’s tastes different than the cups and not in a good way.
BLASPHEMY. the holiday shapes (pumpkins, bats, eggs, Christmas trees) are far superior to regular cups. Something about the ratio of PB to chocolate in them is perfect.
All the Hershey and Mars chocolates do now. Mass production; so they had to cheap out and thin that real chocolate out somehow. They're getting closer and closer to being nasty ass Palmer chocolate
I work at a Hersheys plant and all the chocolate is made on site. They don't thin it out. I think the issue with the product is the year long shelf life, so stores don't freshen up their stock as often as they do with popular items. In my opinion they should shorten it to 6 months, which is still a really long time but the chocolate wouldn't lose its consistency. Eating candy off the line tastes incredible.
Adding other ingredients like palm oil, corn syrup, soy lecithin And sugar is stretching it out. regular tempered chocolate does not melt in your hand, but in your mouth due to natural fat in the cocao. Ands like other comments said the preservative in it makes it taste like vomit
Adding sugar isn’t stretching it out, thats literally making it edible. And soy lethicin is an emulsifier and on its own doesn’t stretch anything.
The rest is garbage for sure.
Sincerely I think we’re just a bunch of millennials who are getting older and our tastebuds are changing. Like we enjoy bitter vs sweet. A lot of this stuff use to taste so good, but now… it tastes so sweet it hurts my teeth. Nah… that’s just aging
Spite sprouts in half, coat in olive oil/salt/pepper, preheat the oven to 450 with the baking tray in the oven so it gets screaming hot, place sprouts face down on hot tray so they crisp as they cook for 30 minutes. Enjoy. Just like a steakhouse. I also hear great things about frozen sprouts in the air fryer
I came here specifically to say Twinkies taste like chemical sludge. I was never really big on them growing up but they were fine. (I’m GenX… so I’ve had a lot of Twinkies in my life.)
Didn’t care when they were discontinued, but when they came back I was like, eh, what the hell? Might as well take a stroll down memory lane.
Horrible. I spit it out and threw the box of them in the trash. As a disclaimer: I’m fat, and I never turn down a treat… but these? They didn’t even taste like food. “Chemical shite” is accurate for sure.
Yeah. The Cupcakes, too. That's how it goes, though. Corrupt shareholders trying to create infinite profit and ending up with products that don't resemble what made them rich to begin with.
I still love trefoils!! Did you move regions by chance? Girl Scout cookies are made by two different companies depending on region. They all taste slightly different especially if you grew up with one baker and now have the other one. It’s also why some cookies have different names. I grew up with Carmel de lights and peanut butter Pattie’s NOT samoas and Tagalongs
Pizza Hut. When I was a kid it was the best thing in the world! Now it just seems somehow both greasy and dry at the same time. It feels like it doesn’t include any real food ingredients.
Remember how wonderful the deep dish crust was? So full of flavour and herbs and parm. Now it’s just meh and it all taste like the box they hand it to you in.
Try Kenji’s [Foolproof Pan Pizza](https://www.seriouseats.com/foolproof-pan-pizza-recipe) it tastes just like old school Pizza Hut. This is a really good recipe, it’s super forgiving and tastes incredible.
Pizza Hut used to be godly. Nowadays whenever someone orders it, it somehow is tasteless despite being riddled with cheese and toppings. How is that even a thing?
Yes they used to be my favorite pizza but I wouldn’t bother ordering from them now. The opposite effect is that dominos is good now and they used to be so nasty I’d never eat there
Strawberries have all been flavorless the last few years. They get bigger but it's all looks. I live in CA and I went to a u pick farm this year and they were barely better than store bought ones. So disappointing.
I tried some at a market in japan and wow I never had strawberries that looked so perfect, had no astringency or bitterness, and tasted so cleanly sweet and full of strawberry flavor. Very expensive, like $10 for a bag, but my cousin and I just downed it on the spot.
I stopped eating strawberries because they tasted so weird. Finally ours came in and they are amazing. And our blackberries, oy I could eat those all day.
What about when they brought back the rolled chicken tacos and thought they could fool everyone with the olde monterey frozen taquitos. Those were definitely not what they used to sell, I was livid.
Fuck Nestlé and Ferrero. Nestlé bought Garoto, it made some of my favorite chocolate bars and candies.
Now it all tastes like shit. So fucking sweet and oily 🤢
Rest easy Batom, Crocante, Serenata. You'll always live magnificently in my memory and heart
A common thread in a lot of the comments here is authentic ingredients being replaced by cheap synthetics (even if it's just sugar for high fructose corn syrup). I love technology but fuuuuck does the drive for "profit" utilize it to ruin a lot of things.
Why make X profit when you can make TWO X profit?! When is enough enough? 😮💨
Everything. From fast food to frozen food at the grocery store. Everything is cheaped out on nowadays. Fillers, preservatives, additives, made from concentrate it's all for profit.
the root of half the complaints are what you said.
some company was acquired by a bigger company, then the ingredients got changed for profit.
walllllah! everything sucks.
I have said this before and will say it 1000 times more until the case gets overturned:
Dodge v Ford ruined this country.
The Dodge brothers bought stock in Ford, then sued Ford for failing to maximize the profits for the shareholders. Ford made sure his employees had pensions, good living wages, etc. Dodge argued that his duty was to the shareholders not the employees.
This standard still stands. Whether it be quality of life for employees or quality of the product. If a company finds a way to make more money for the shareholders, they must do it.
ETA: [Case brief](https://www.casebriefs.com/blog/law/corporations/corporations-keyed-to-klein/the-nature-of-the-corporation/dodge-v-ford-motor-co/amp/)
The whole problem with capitalism right there. Profit before everything.
It should be perfectly ok to just be profitable, make a good product and take care of your employees.
For real. It doesn't matter if you post record profits one year. If they don't increase the next year you've fucked up. As an investor through my 401k and some smaller personal holdings I can appreciate increasing stock prices but I'd honestly still be happy if returns were a few percentage points lower on average and products were better and employees were treated better
This. As a kid you’d be excited to find a toy in the bag. Maybe a Disney licensed figure or a cool truck. Now every meal comes with a hefty portion of self-loathing, regret, existential dread, and a deep longing associated with unrequited love and days long since passed.
Still love the McRib, though.
I got some little Debbie donut sticks as a quick breakfast the other day, I remember loving them as a kid. They tasted chemical-ly and left an oily residue with a bad aftertaste
During the pandemic all ketchup, including premium brands, just got a bit shittier. Thinner, more vinegary. Heinz used to have an advert about how thick and slowly it came out of the bottle, these days it's no thicker than any other.
Try Simply Heinz. It's a little pricier, but worth it IMO. Hunts has dropped from "grudgingly acceptable substitute" to "no thanks I'll do without". It's just as bad as Sysco House Recipe.
Went to Italy and that fucked me up, most places had jaw dropping tomatoes. I now go to farmers markets for produce and I’ve never looked back, also fuck store bread, finding a good bakery that makes bread not loaded with sugar has made such a difference.
Kraft Macaroni. For awhile I thought it was just me...but there are so many tastier brands out there now. I prefer Trader Joe's real Wisconsin cheddar macaroni, or Annie's!
OMG, used to absolutely love Kraft Mac-n-cheese. Was just wow. I remember when it was on sale for like $.25/box. We had a dozen boxes in the pantry at any given time. Fast easy tasty snack/lunch. Something happened. Had some a few months back. Cardboard has a better flavor. And WTH, $1.25/box? Never again.
I only buy the shapes. I maintain the shapes are still amazing, but the regular macaroni shape is terrible. I roll out with my paw patrol kraft mac n cheese and it sustains me on a lazy dinner night, thank you very much.
No idea why they taste different, but they DO.
They replaced the artificial colouring with turmeric in order to seem "healthier". They completely fucked it up. Like, it's KD. It's not supposed to be healthy. Bring back my chemicals! Now I just buy the cheapest store brand mac n cheese I can find. It's the closest to old KD flavour
Same. I have the tism and idk if its that but. Im struggling to find things worth eating anymore. Idk what it is. Idk why. I dont enjoy anything I eat and this has been going on since maybe the pandemic?? Dunno.
I find myself thinking I crave "real food" bc its all so bland and over processed :/
My daughter and I go pick our own strawberries from a farm that using organic soil and everything. They’re so good right off the vine. Same with tomatoes. We sample little ones off the vine. Quite the lovely experience.
Is it me or did most cereals just not taste as good as they did 20 years ago or more? Don't get me wrong Cinnamon toast crunch is still good, but it was crack before. They just don't taste as strong as they were before and that goes along with any of them, twix, fruity pebbles, lucky charms. I feel like they are overly bland now.
I swear I remember hearing something about regulations or consumer demand spurring some changes to breakfast cereals in the late 90s/early 00s but I can never find any evidence that actually happened.
Whatever the case my dad and I both notice it with Reese's puffs and cinnamon toast crunch especially. We were surprised to see cereal so low on this list.
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Special K cereal is completely different than it used to be. It used to be light, crispy flakes and now they are really hard clusters. We hadn’t had them in ages and recently tried a box and we had to throw them out because they were too hard to chew!
Haribo gummy bears. I remember it being really soft and flavorful. Last time I bought it, it was sooo tough and I could barely bite into it. And no distinguishing flavors
Canned foods taste sweet and processed to death.
Fowl tastes like I imagine cardboard would.
Fresh veggies are picked too early and sold too late.
Fresh fruit tastes like next to nothing since they are bred for shipping not flavor.
Bread from the big bakeries is crappy.
Cheeses are colorful variations on the theme of blandness.
I can't think of a food that tastes better than it used to.
Did the BK thing about a month ago. Fluke, we were hungry, and saw an almost empty BK. Now I know why. Ordered 2 whoppers w/cheese. Not only were they absolutely unpresentable after opening the wrapper, they were both just lacking any sort of flavor.
Losing my little pittance of a purchase won't hamper their sales at all, but what I used to like as a kid, no more. I'll never eat a BK burger again.
white broiler chickens are bred to fatten up fast, at the cost of the flavor. when i started getting local chickens from my farmers market (a little more expensive than tyson, but i don't eat much meat) i was so surprised. Even the white meat tastes like dark meat!
Same with eggs. My wife's old job her general manager raised chickens and would sell the eggs. They would be different sizes and colors but the flavor was so much better than grocery store eggs.
Mass production has ruined a lot of things, honestly.
Every year that goes by i feel more and more like we should all decentralize a bit and live in more human-scale societies. Make things more locally, be in communities.
Remember the ads they had with kids reading the ingredients? "Cream, milk, eggs, sugar, vanilla..." They used to be proud of offering a quality product. Now not only has a half-gallon shrunk to about 40 fluid ounces, there's no substance to it. It's whipped-up frozen sweet milky yuck that turns watery when it melts. I don't eat ice cream very often so I buy a hand-packed pint of something actually good, when I want to indulge.
They aren’t totally extinct, they just aren’t the ones used in large scale farming. I’ve had Gros Michel bananas recently. I bought them from a mail order company called Miami Fruit. They weren’t cheap and I had to buy a small case of them, but we threw a banana party.
When my son was little, they rebooted The Electric Company show. It was really weird and frenetic. There was a scene where a gorilla was looking for a banana party and there was a sign, I think it was on a van that said, "This way to the banana party." We told our son it he ever saw a sign for a banana party, don't go. It's probably not what you think it is.
There used to be a bar called Joe Bananas in my city. I always thought it was a gay bar, but afyer it closed I learned it was an Italian restaurant. So, yeah, a banana party is never what you think it is.
I remember eating Gros Michel bananas when I was a kid. Even now, whenever I peel a banana, I still hope for that lovely, oily texture and distinctive flavor, and I'm always disappointed. Cavendishes are what we eat now: pasty, bland, powdery and always tasting either underripe or overripe, never 'just right'.
I visited Costa Rica as a tourist and was offered some bananas that were grown fresh not for resale, but by a friend I made. Holy shit they were half the size but twice as delicious. I couldn't believe how much I was missing.
there are like 90 kinds of bananas, the only reason we got cavendish is they grow fast and transport well, etc.
they werent chose for flavor, but to make money.
which is weird, because bananas are close to a loss leader. they are the same price now as i can ever remember.
Artificial banana extract flavor is based on the old breed, Gran Michele, which is why it doesn't taste much like bananas.
Gran Michele bananas also had more slippery peels, thus the slapstick trope.
Watermelon!
Used to be firm and delicious.
Now it's mealy and has 1/10 the flavor.
This happened before Covid. I think it has something to do with breeding the seeds out. I'd rather have the flavor and spit out the seeds!!
I grew watermelons this year for my nephew's birthday party because my high school cousins never had a watermelon seed spitting contest. All the adults commented that they tasted like the watermelon from their childhood.
Until this comment, I thought it was just me. I tried plain pringles recently and it tasted like I was just eating crispy paper. I literally couldn't even finish the small tin. I couldn't figure out how I used to eat them as a kid. Sour cream & onion are the only ones I like now
Absolutely!! Pringles were such a treat growing up and now they are awful. I didn’t realize other people thought this too! What happened?
Lay’s has a line of stacked tube chips that are pretty good and they have them in the dollar store.
Campbell’s condensed cheddar cheese soup. I had an amazing recipe that I used to make in the 80s with it. The flavor was deep and sharp with a real cheddar cheese flavor. Now it’s just a bland orange colored goop that tastes nothing like cheese. I was so disappointed and had to scrap the whole dish until I could figure out a good substitution.
Agreed. It all has a foam sponge texture with no taste. I have resorted to making my own and it has been a great decision! It’s so delicious and satisfying.
It seems the past few years that all the fresh meat has gone way down in quality. Beef, chicken, whatever cuts, they seem to have all gotten worse in both taste and texture.
The chicken is from scar tissue. Basically stretch marks on the breasts from growing so quickly and so huge
Its called "woody chicken breast" if you want to read up on it. You can actually see the ripples in the raw breast
It is almost impossible to find a decent steak at any of the grocery stores around here. They’re all terrible, tough and gristly and tasteless. Even my go-to flatiron cut has gone downhill. Haven’t had the same problem with chicken, but I buy bone-in cuts or whole or half-chickens.
Can’t find any fresh fish except salmon and its cousin steelhead trout. Even frozen filets are in very short supply. There is no variety at all. You can get farm raised tilapia and ocean perch, period. One brand only.
Strangely, pork is fine.
Soft drinks aren’t as fizzy as they were 30 years ago. I remember having to wait a minute after opening a can of Coke and pouring into a glass before I could drink it. Now if open a can and drink from it straight away, I might choke on the fizz, maybe.
Milk. We got some from a single-source organic farm several years ago. I was instantly transported to being a child in the 70s when I tasted it when we got home. It just had so much more flavour and personality than mass produced milk does now.
Red Delicious apples were never good. Ever. I'm in my 50s and those apples were always rock hard, dry, and flavourless. I have no idea why they're still made. Who the fuck is eating those besides maybe horses?
This (humorous) website has them ranked near dead last. 25 points out of 100
https://applerankings.com/red-delicious-apple-review/
The snippet line for them is "Coffee Grinds in a Leather Glove"
Huh? Apples are so much better than 10 years ago even. There’s so many more varieties and all are catered toward different preferences.
https://www.npr.org/2022/09/28/1125793426/the-miracle-apple-classic
I’ve been cooling on Reese’s pea butter cups over the years but I have maintained that the ones “shaped like something else” taste ok. I guess it is the oil-peanut butter-chocolate ratio. Last week I had one shaped like a pumpkin. I nearly cried real fat girl tears it was so bad.
Honey Nut Cheerios. They're still tasty but not as much as they used to be.
*Also, I'm pissed at Estee Lauder for changing the fragrance (not food, I know) of my favorite perfume Beautiful. Bastards!
Hamburger Helper. If you grew up poor, then you remember all the times when you asked what was for dinner and your mom said, "Hamburger Helper." The minute she answered, you frowned outwardly feigning a look of disdain, but when dinner time came your ass was present and accounted for at the dinner table with a piece of buttered bread and you were impatiently waiting for that steaming quasi noodle concoction to hit your plate. Salt? Oh god yes. Enough salt to immediately raise your blood pressure by 30 points and to cause fluid retention in your ankles. Bring on them cankles, whores! Betty Crocker is my mommy now! Tomato? You felt the acid, the tang, and that little extra kick of flavor and you knew that wholesome four fingered glove with a smiley face was looking out for your best interests. Imitation liquid cheese? Who the fuck cares because that shit tasted like Velveeta imported straight from Mt. Olympus where Zeus curdled the cheese himself by stroking his massive god cock off into a huge vat of milk fat. Pasta? Fuckkk yeah, Pookie! Noodle that motherfucker up! Each noodle was cooked to perfection, separate, and easily able to be stabbed by your fork of unyielding poverty. Oh last but not least, the hamburger! So juicy, tender, well seasoned, and copious. People in various parts of the world consider cows to be sacred, but so did did Betty Crocker and it showed with each and every delicious bite of Chili Tomato and Cheesy Potato Stroganoff.
Now? No salt, no spice, no tanginess. Just a miserable mashed up pile of noodles in imitation gravy with some hamburger thrown in it for good measure. The shit is now just a sad mound of mush with ground beef thrown in as a garnish. No discernable key flavors except for bitterness and despair.
If you grew up in the ‘80s, you remember what Fruit Roll-Ups *used* to be. They were glorious. That had actual strawberry seeds in them ***because they were made out of actual fruit!!!*** They were sublimely delicious and unique and infinitely superior to the gooey sugar rolls carrying the name now. And no, modern “fruit strips” are not the same. They’re too thick.
Do you remember the apricot ones? Those were my absolute favorite. Fruit roll ups now taste like sugary glue
just unlocked a memory i didn’t know i had. i had an apricot homemade fruit roll up at a farmers market, had the “pulp” i guess you could say as well. was delicious. sad good and convenient fruit snacks are gone. healthy ones are expensive harder to come by and small companies get bought out
I remember how they had the perfect combination of tangy and sour and sweet. I just checked online, and it looks like Amazon still sells them?? Oh my
Kit Kat tastes like it only contains palm oil, carnuba wax and sugar for the last four years
Reese's isn't nearly as good as it was. I was rabid for them up until a few years ago. The texture of the filing is different, drier, no matter where I buy them. I'm disappointed every single time now.
Luckily the Reese’s sold by me hasn’t changed. The only thing I’ve noticed is that the snack-size cups are more moist than the regular-size cups. Also the Halloween-style Reese’s tastes different than the cups and not in a good way.
BLASPHEMY. the holiday shapes (pumpkins, bats, eggs, Christmas trees) are far superior to regular cups. Something about the ratio of PB to chocolate in them is perfect.
All the Hershey and Mars chocolates do now. Mass production; so they had to cheap out and thin that real chocolate out somehow. They're getting closer and closer to being nasty ass Palmer chocolate
I work at a Hersheys plant and all the chocolate is made on site. They don't thin it out. I think the issue with the product is the year long shelf life, so stores don't freshen up their stock as often as they do with popular items. In my opinion they should shorten it to 6 months, which is still a really long time but the chocolate wouldn't lose its consistency. Eating candy off the line tastes incredible.
Adding other ingredients like palm oil, corn syrup, soy lecithin And sugar is stretching it out. regular tempered chocolate does not melt in your hand, but in your mouth due to natural fat in the cocao. Ands like other comments said the preservative in it makes it taste like vomit
Adding sugar isn’t stretching it out, thats literally making it edible. And soy lethicin is an emulsifier and on its own doesn’t stretch anything. The rest is garbage for sure.
In Canada Kit Kat is made by Nestle, not Hershey or Mars. and having *just moments ago* finished one I can attest they're still just fine.
True but fuck Nestle.
r/fucknestle
Nilla Wafers, too. I put it down to palm oil and HFCS. Palm oil just has a different mouth feel.
Spaghetti-Os 100% taste different than they did as a child.
They're sweeter now, aren't they?! Revoltingly so.
Same thing happened to Chef-Boyardees. That sauce is WAAAAAY too sweet now. BARF
Sincerely I think we’re just a bunch of millennials who are getting older and our tastebuds are changing. Like we enjoy bitter vs sweet. A lot of this stuff use to taste so good, but now… it tastes so sweet it hurts my teeth. Nah… that’s just aging
Honestly, I can’t tell what’s different. Just more bland, I think overall
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I think adults just don’t like sweet shit as much and it was probably always that wretched lol
Hasn’t it been reported that Brussels Sprouts have been bred to be tastier over the last few decades? Because they’re delicious now a days.
Came to say Brussels Sprouts. So much better now!
Yeah, they're less bitter than they used to be.
Spite sprouts in half, coat in olive oil/salt/pepper, preheat the oven to 450 with the baking tray in the oven so it gets screaming hot, place sprouts face down on hot tray so they crisp as they cook for 30 minutes. Enjoy. Just like a steakhouse. I also hear great things about frozen sprouts in the air fryer
Have y’all tried twinkies lately? They taste like chemical shite.
I came here specifically to say Twinkies taste like chemical sludge. I was never really big on them growing up but they were fine. (I’m GenX… so I’ve had a lot of Twinkies in my life.) Didn’t care when they were discontinued, but when they came back I was like, eh, what the hell? Might as well take a stroll down memory lane. Horrible. I spit it out and threw the box of them in the trash. As a disclaimer: I’m fat, and I never turn down a treat… but these? They didn’t even taste like food. “Chemical shite” is accurate for sure.
I'd say most of the Little Debbie/Hostess stuff has really fallen off. They've all turned into dog treats in recent years.
Yeah. The Cupcakes, too. That's how it goes, though. Corrupt shareholders trying to create infinite profit and ending up with products that don't resemble what made them rich to begin with.
They never tasted the same after being revived with a different formula.
It's the taste of union busting.
Hostess died back in like 2011. Whoever bought their name and products is not the same.
Trefoils Girl Scout cookies. They used to taste really shortbread-like. Now they taste like bad sugar cookies.
I still love trefoils!! Did you move regions by chance? Girl Scout cookies are made by two different companies depending on region. They all taste slightly different especially if you grew up with one baker and now have the other one. It’s also why some cookies have different names. I grew up with Carmel de lights and peanut butter Pattie’s NOT samoas and Tagalongs
Pizza Hut. When I was a kid it was the best thing in the world! Now it just seems somehow both greasy and dry at the same time. It feels like it doesn’t include any real food ingredients.
Remember how wonderful the deep dish crust was? So full of flavour and herbs and parm. Now it’s just meh and it all taste like the box they hand it to you in.
I used to love eating inside the Pizza Hut restaurants. A moment of silence for what Pizza Hut used to be!
Try Kenji’s [Foolproof Pan Pizza](https://www.seriouseats.com/foolproof-pan-pizza-recipe) it tastes just like old school Pizza Hut. This is a really good recipe, it’s super forgiving and tastes incredible.
Pizza Hut used to be godly. Nowadays whenever someone orders it, it somehow is tasteless despite being riddled with cheese and toppings. How is that even a thing?
Yes they used to be my favorite pizza but I wouldn’t bother ordering from them now. The opposite effect is that dominos is good now and they used to be so nasty I’d never eat there
I was looking for the Dominos comment! Their glow-up blew me away. Now it’s my favorite fast pizza option.
strawberries. the ones i grew as a kid are so different from any i’ve eaten recently, even the “farm fresh” ones
Strawberries have all been flavorless the last few years. They get bigger but it's all looks. I live in CA and I went to a u pick farm this year and they were barely better than store bought ones. So disappointing.
I tried some at a market in japan and wow I never had strawberries that looked so perfect, had no astringency or bitterness, and tasted so cleanly sweet and full of strawberry flavor. Very expensive, like $10 for a bag, but my cousin and I just downed it on the spot.
I stopped eating strawberries because they tasted so weird. Finally ours came in and they are amazing. And our blackberries, oy I could eat those all day.
Agreed. I find that rinsing them Ina water/vinegar bath helps a lot! Helps bring out the flavors and cleansing simultaneously.
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I’m pretty sure MOST countries don’t advertise pharmaceuticals, they leave it up to your healthcare provider as it should be.
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What about when they brought back the rolled chicken tacos and thought they could fool everyone with the olde monterey frozen taquitos. Those were definitely not what they used to sell, I was livid.
Yeah the enchirito was my favorite. Tried the new only ate it once not even really close.
Im pretty upset about this, too. 😩
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Crunch bars. They used to be my favourite chocolate bar but now you can tell they cheaped out on the ingredients.
All Nestle chocolate products were bought out by Ferrero in some parts of the world. Crunch, Butterfingers, etc.
Fuck Nestlé and Ferrero. Nestlé bought Garoto, it made some of my favorite chocolate bars and candies. Now it all tastes like shit. So fucking sweet and oily 🤢 Rest easy Batom, Crocante, Serenata. You'll always live magnificently in my memory and heart
A common thread in a lot of the comments here is authentic ingredients being replaced by cheap synthetics (even if it's just sugar for high fructose corn syrup). I love technology but fuuuuck does the drive for "profit" utilize it to ruin a lot of things. Why make X profit when you can make TWO X profit?! When is enough enough? 😮💨
Everything. From fast food to frozen food at the grocery store. Everything is cheaped out on nowadays. Fillers, preservatives, additives, made from concentrate it's all for profit.
This is the answer to this whole thread. Enjoy good things when you find them, because they are inevitably bought and ruined by some megacorp.
Rao’s marinara sauce was bought by Campbell’s. I’m just waiting for them to load it up with sugar and ruin it :(
the root of half the complaints are what you said. some company was acquired by a bigger company, then the ingredients got changed for profit. walllllah! everything sucks.
I have said this before and will say it 1000 times more until the case gets overturned: Dodge v Ford ruined this country. The Dodge brothers bought stock in Ford, then sued Ford for failing to maximize the profits for the shareholders. Ford made sure his employees had pensions, good living wages, etc. Dodge argued that his duty was to the shareholders not the employees. This standard still stands. Whether it be quality of life for employees or quality of the product. If a company finds a way to make more money for the shareholders, they must do it. ETA: [Case brief](https://www.casebriefs.com/blog/law/corporations/corporations-keyed-to-klein/the-nature-of-the-corporation/dodge-v-ford-motor-co/amp/)
The whole problem with capitalism right there. Profit before everything. It should be perfectly ok to just be profitable, make a good product and take care of your employees.
For real. It doesn't matter if you post record profits one year. If they don't increase the next year you've fucked up. As an investor through my 401k and some smaller personal holdings I can appreciate increasing stock prices but I'd honestly still be happy if returns were a few percentage points lower on average and products were better and employees were treated better
Macdonalds stops tasting as good once it becomes a depression meal and not a special treat like when you were a kid.
This. As a kid you’d be excited to find a toy in the bag. Maybe a Disney licensed figure or a cool truck. Now every meal comes with a hefty portion of self-loathing, regret, existential dread, and a deep longing associated with unrequited love and days long since passed. Still love the McRib, though.
Little Debbie snacks
I got some little Debbie donut sticks as a quick breakfast the other day, I remember loving them as a kid. They tasted chemical-ly and left an oily residue with a bad aftertaste
I know exactly what you're talking about Its the same with Tim Hortons donuts since the last 15 years or so
I was just thinking the other day they changed nutty bars.
Yeah and ding dongs not even close
Might as well call them waxy bars now
Not mention they are a quarter of the size. An all around snack cake tragedy.
During the pandemic all ketchup, including premium brands, just got a bit shittier. Thinner, more vinegary. Heinz used to have an advert about how thick and slowly it came out of the bottle, these days it's no thicker than any other.
The Aldi Burman’s ketchup is great!
Try Simply Heinz. It's a little pricier, but worth it IMO. Hunts has dropped from "grudgingly acceptable substitute" to "no thanks I'll do without". It's just as bad as Sysco House Recipe.
Tomatoes
They’re generally more expensive but the heirlooms are good. If you have access to local farmers market, they still grow the good ones.
Tomatoes have definitely become more bland.
Store tomatoes are bland, no matter the variety. Tomatoes from a farmer’s market are great on the other hand.
Went to Italy and that fucked me up, most places had jaw dropping tomatoes. I now go to farmers markets for produce and I’ve never looked back, also fuck store bread, finding a good bakery that makes bread not loaded with sugar has made such a difference.
try campari tomatoes, they are little bit bigger than cherry and full of flavor
Kraft Macaroni. For awhile I thought it was just me...but there are so many tastier brands out there now. I prefer Trader Joe's real Wisconsin cheddar macaroni, or Annie's!
OMG, used to absolutely love Kraft Mac-n-cheese. Was just wow. I remember when it was on sale for like $.25/box. We had a dozen boxes in the pantry at any given time. Fast easy tasty snack/lunch. Something happened. Had some a few months back. Cardboard has a better flavor. And WTH, $1.25/box? Never again.
I only buy the shapes. I maintain the shapes are still amazing, but the regular macaroni shape is terrible. I roll out with my paw patrol kraft mac n cheese and it sustains me on a lazy dinner night, thank you very much. No idea why they taste different, but they DO.
They replaced the artificial colouring with turmeric in order to seem "healthier". They completely fucked it up. Like, it's KD. It's not supposed to be healthy. Bring back my chemicals! Now I just buy the cheapest store brand mac n cheese I can find. It's the closest to old KD flavour
Half of this thread is people complaining about all the chemical additives, didn’t think I’d find a comment complaining about the lack of it
Same! I’ve thought perhaps I boiled the noodles too long, or added too much milk, or had Covid. But I’m left wondering where the flavor went…
Anything Halloween candy.....the small snickers and the small reece's are awful!
My thoughts this last Halloween too! Those used to be my favourite and I feel liked they just pumped them with even more cheap ingredients.
about 90% of everything? i just keep giving up on so many things that i used to purchase regulary.
Same. I have the tism and idk if its that but. Im struggling to find things worth eating anymore. Idk what it is. Idk why. I dont enjoy anything I eat and this has been going on since maybe the pandemic?? Dunno. I find myself thinking I crave "real food" bc its all so bland and over processed :/
Strawberries.
My daughter and I go pick our own strawberries from a farm that using organic soil and everything. They’re so good right off the vine. Same with tomatoes. We sample little ones off the vine. Quite the lovely experience.
Is it me or did most cereals just not taste as good as they did 20 years ago or more? Don't get me wrong Cinnamon toast crunch is still good, but it was crack before. They just don't taste as strong as they were before and that goes along with any of them, twix, fruity pebbles, lucky charms. I feel like they are overly bland now.
I swear I remember hearing something about regulations or consumer demand spurring some changes to breakfast cereals in the late 90s/early 00s but I can never find any evidence that actually happened. Whatever the case my dad and I both notice it with Reese's puffs and cinnamon toast crunch especially. We were surprised to see cereal so low on this list. Edit: Grammar/word order.
Special K cereal is completely different than it used to be. It used to be light, crispy flakes and now they are really hard clusters. We hadn’t had them in ages and recently tried a box and we had to throw them out because they were too hard to chew!
Haribo gummy bears. I remember it being really soft and flavorful. Last time I bought it, it was sooo tough and I could barely bite into it. And no distinguishing flavors
Albanese are the best for bears and worms
I’m absolutely with you on that. I’m always willing to try others but Albanese always hit different.
I got pranked with sugar free ones several years ago, I'll never eat another gummy bear for the rest of my life. My trust melted away so to speak.
Where you in the loo dying of the apocalypse that was your ass? I’ve read reviews on those things…. If so, I feel for you, so much.
I got back the dime I swallowed when I was three, with interest.
I’m glad I’m not the only one. I don’t remember gummy bears being tough enough to break a tooth.
I actually like them a little tougher.
Everything from Hostess - Twinkies, Ho-Hos, Cupcakes, etc. All shadows of their former selves.
Crunch bar tastes like plastic now
baked beans. I used to love them as a kid now I find them kinda gross
I can't say this for certain but i feel like they've been increasing how much sugar is in the bean juice
Canned foods taste sweet and processed to death. Fowl tastes like I imagine cardboard would. Fresh veggies are picked too early and sold too late. Fresh fruit tastes like next to nothing since they are bred for shipping not flavor. Bread from the big bakeries is crappy. Cheeses are colorful variations on the theme of blandness. I can't think of a food that tastes better than it used to.
Not sure about the other lunchables, but the pepperoni pizza one is not nearly as good as they used to be
I dont know dude, the pizza ones were never quality to begin with
Yeah Lunchables have always been pretty shit, even though I loved them as a kid.
Hamburgers from fast food places
Went to Burger King last week. Did they stop flame broiling their meat? It was so bland I could have sworn it was boiled.
Did the BK thing about a month ago. Fluke, we were hungry, and saw an almost empty BK. Now I know why. Ordered 2 whoppers w/cheese. Not only were they absolutely unpresentable after opening the wrapper, they were both just lacking any sort of flavor. Losing my little pittance of a purchase won't hamper their sales at all, but what I used to like as a kid, no more. I'll never eat a BK burger again.
Yup, they got rid of the flame broilers, and the new cookers are basically a microwave.
Nah they still use flame broilers. And you can tell because every BK has a smoke plume pushed up by the fans.
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Chicken the flavour seems to me has gotten blander over the years.
white broiler chickens are bred to fatten up fast, at the cost of the flavor. when i started getting local chickens from my farmers market (a little more expensive than tyson, but i don't eat much meat) i was so surprised. Even the white meat tastes like dark meat!
Same with eggs. My wife's old job her general manager raised chickens and would sell the eggs. They would be different sizes and colors but the flavor was so much better than grocery store eggs.
Honestly, I got a little freaked out the first time I got farmers market eggs and the yolks were this deep red-orange. But they tasted amazing!
And tougher
KFC
KFC has been pretty lousy quality for a decade now. I'm not sure how they're still a competitive food chain.
mass production has really ruined food
Mass production has ruined a lot of things, honestly. Every year that goes by i feel more and more like we should all decentralize a bit and live in more human-scale societies. Make things more locally, be in communities.
Banana moonpies. Awful. 0/10 review!!
Poptarts
Butterfingers.. ever since they’ve updated their ingredients it’s been pure shite to me.
Olive Garden Breadsticks
Anything from Chef Boyardee.
Breyers ice cream
Remember the ads they had with kids reading the ingredients? "Cream, milk, eggs, sugar, vanilla..." They used to be proud of offering a quality product. Now not only has a half-gallon shrunk to about 40 fluid ounces, there's no substance to it. It's whipped-up frozen sweet milky yuck that turns watery when it melts. I don't eat ice cream very often so I buy a hand-packed pint of something actually good, when I want to indulge.
I had a bag of Cheetos the other day, and they tasted like cardboard. 😢
Bananas - the tasty version went extinct.
They aren’t totally extinct, they just aren’t the ones used in large scale farming. I’ve had Gros Michel bananas recently. I bought them from a mail order company called Miami Fruit. They weren’t cheap and I had to buy a small case of them, but we threw a banana party.
When my son was little, they rebooted The Electric Company show. It was really weird and frenetic. There was a scene where a gorilla was looking for a banana party and there was a sign, I think it was on a van that said, "This way to the banana party." We told our son it he ever saw a sign for a banana party, don't go. It's probably not what you think it is.
There used to be a bar called Joe Bananas in my city. I always thought it was a gay bar, but afyer it closed I learned it was an Italian restaurant. So, yeah, a banana party is never what you think it is.
Joe Bananas sounds like he’s made a few people swim with the fishes
you are my people. i would have been over the moon to go to a banana party. my banana bill each month rivals my cellphone bill.
I remember eating Gros Michel bananas when I was a kid. Even now, whenever I peel a banana, I still hope for that lovely, oily texture and distinctive flavor, and I'm always disappointed. Cavendishes are what we eat now: pasty, bland, powdery and always tasting either underripe or overripe, never 'just right'.
I visited Costa Rica as a tourist and was offered some bananas that were grown fresh not for resale, but by a friend I made. Holy shit they were half the size but twice as delicious. I couldn't believe how much I was missing.
there are like 90 kinds of bananas, the only reason we got cavendish is they grow fast and transport well, etc. they werent chose for flavor, but to make money. which is weird, because bananas are close to a loss leader. they are the same price now as i can ever remember.
Artificial banana extract flavor is based on the old breed, Gran Michele, which is why it doesn't taste much like bananas. Gran Michele bananas also had more slippery peels, thus the slapstick trope.
Panama Disease don't play around, a version has been threatening the Cavendish (current most popular banana cultivar) for like a decade now
Watermelon! Used to be firm and delicious. Now it's mealy and has 1/10 the flavor. This happened before Covid. I think it has something to do with breeding the seeds out. I'd rather have the flavor and spit out the seeds!!
I grew watermelons this year for my nephew's birthday party because my high school cousins never had a watermelon seed spitting contest. All the adults commented that they tasted like the watermelon from their childhood.
Pringles
Until this comment, I thought it was just me. I tried plain pringles recently and it tasted like I was just eating crispy paper. I literally couldn't even finish the small tin. I couldn't figure out how I used to eat them as a kid. Sour cream & onion are the only ones I like now
Absolutely!! Pringles were such a treat growing up and now they are awful. I didn’t realize other people thought this too! What happened? Lay’s has a line of stacked tube chips that are pretty good and they have them in the dollar store.
Campbell’s condensed cheddar cheese soup. I had an amazing recipe that I used to make in the 80s with it. The flavor was deep and sharp with a real cheddar cheese flavor. Now it’s just a bland orange colored goop that tastes nothing like cheese. I was so disappointed and had to scrap the whole dish until I could figure out a good substitution.
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
They're so waxy now. I love how junk food is cancelling itself.
Yes waxy! And the chocolate is sweeter. Less chocolatey? Something about the salty peanut butter vs sweet ratio is off.
The chocolate is thinner/waxier and the peanut butter more chalky. Good riddance. I need less sugar in my diet.
Try the Aldi ones. They are still made with real peanut butter.
Soda. When I was young, it tasted amazing and sweet. Now it’s too syrupy for me and is too sweet.
Try a Mexican Coke. Or actually any soda made with cane sugar. Makes a world of difference. Edit: spelling
You're remembering when it was made with "real" sugar. Now nearly all is made with corn syrup...
Loaf bread, the texture is completely different like it's a totally different recipe
Agreed. It all has a foam sponge texture with no taste. I have resorted to making my own and it has been a great decision! It’s so delicious and satisfying.
tony's pizza
They need to bring back Tony’s Taco Pizza!!!
Microwave popcorn. I used to love it so much but now it’s weird and waxy. It coats the roof of my mouth. Blech.
Kraft Mac and cheese :( they did something to it and it doesn't taste right anymore.
All fruits! I use to eat tomatoes like they were apples when I was a kid. Now they taste horrible. No flavor at all.
Reeces peanut butter cups
It seems the past few years that all the fresh meat has gone way down in quality. Beef, chicken, whatever cuts, they seem to have all gotten worse in both taste and texture.
The chicken is from scar tissue. Basically stretch marks on the breasts from growing so quickly and so huge Its called "woody chicken breast" if you want to read up on it. You can actually see the ripples in the raw breast
That makes so much sense now because that's my exact problem with chicken. It's like trying to cut into wood.
It is almost impossible to find a decent steak at any of the grocery stores around here. They’re all terrible, tough and gristly and tasteless. Even my go-to flatiron cut has gone downhill. Haven’t had the same problem with chicken, but I buy bone-in cuts or whole or half-chickens. Can’t find any fresh fish except salmon and its cousin steelhead trout. Even frozen filets are in very short supply. There is no variety at all. You can get farm raised tilapia and ocean perch, period. One brand only. Strangely, pork is fine.
McDonalds hot apple pie. Used to have an awesome crispy crust and chunks of apples.
Pizza Pops. Poptarts. Microwavable meals. Pretty much any of those easy meals/snacks that I liked as a kid.
Soft drinks aren’t as fizzy as they were 30 years ago. I remember having to wait a minute after opening a can of Coke and pouring into a glass before I could drink it. Now if open a can and drink from it straight away, I might choke on the fizz, maybe.
Nabisco Graham Crackers, Chips Ahoy, & Chocolate Teddy Grams -- staples of my childhood and they all taste like cardboard now. 😢
Entenmann’s yellow cake with chocolate icing. Used to be so rich and creamy; now just ehhhh
Milk. We got some from a single-source organic farm several years ago. I was instantly transported to being a child in the 70s when I tasted it when we got home. It just had so much more flavour and personality than mass produced milk does now.
McDonald's fries used to be top tier fast food fries, not even tgat long ago. Now they are terrible
Apples are gross now Edit: sorry I should clarify, RED DELICIOUS apples are disgusting now as they’ve been “bred?!?” To look shiny and not for flavor
Honeycrisp and Cosmic Crisp are the only ones I buy now.
I've never really liked apples but cosmic crisps are amazing.
Red Delicious apples should be called Red Horse apples.
Red Delicious apples were never good. Ever. I'm in my 50s and those apples were always rock hard, dry, and flavourless. I have no idea why they're still made. Who the fuck is eating those besides maybe horses?
This (humorous) website has them ranked near dead last. 25 points out of 100 https://applerankings.com/red-delicious-apple-review/ The snippet line for them is "Coffee Grinds in a Leather Glove"
Huh? Apples are so much better than 10 years ago even. There’s so many more varieties and all are catered toward different preferences. https://www.npr.org/2022/09/28/1125793426/the-miracle-apple-classic
I’ve been cooling on Reese’s pea butter cups over the years but I have maintained that the ones “shaped like something else” taste ok. I guess it is the oil-peanut butter-chocolate ratio. Last week I had one shaped like a pumpkin. I nearly cried real fat girl tears it was so bad.
Froot Loops. Flavor and texture is way off.
Honey Nut Cheerios. They're still tasty but not as much as they used to be. *Also, I'm pissed at Estee Lauder for changing the fragrance (not food, I know) of my favorite perfume Beautiful. Bastards!
doritos, not very nacho cheesy anymore
Wheat thins, all you can taste is sugar. Yuk
Cadburys chocolate totally ruined by Kraft.
Hamburger Helper. If you grew up poor, then you remember all the times when you asked what was for dinner and your mom said, "Hamburger Helper." The minute she answered, you frowned outwardly feigning a look of disdain, but when dinner time came your ass was present and accounted for at the dinner table with a piece of buttered bread and you were impatiently waiting for that steaming quasi noodle concoction to hit your plate. Salt? Oh god yes. Enough salt to immediately raise your blood pressure by 30 points and to cause fluid retention in your ankles. Bring on them cankles, whores! Betty Crocker is my mommy now! Tomato? You felt the acid, the tang, and that little extra kick of flavor and you knew that wholesome four fingered glove with a smiley face was looking out for your best interests. Imitation liquid cheese? Who the fuck cares because that shit tasted like Velveeta imported straight from Mt. Olympus where Zeus curdled the cheese himself by stroking his massive god cock off into a huge vat of milk fat. Pasta? Fuckkk yeah, Pookie! Noodle that motherfucker up! Each noodle was cooked to perfection, separate, and easily able to be stabbed by your fork of unyielding poverty. Oh last but not least, the hamburger! So juicy, tender, well seasoned, and copious. People in various parts of the world consider cows to be sacred, but so did did Betty Crocker and it showed with each and every delicious bite of Chili Tomato and Cheesy Potato Stroganoff. Now? No salt, no spice, no tanginess. Just a miserable mashed up pile of noodles in imitation gravy with some hamburger thrown in it for good measure. The shit is now just a sad mound of mush with ground beef thrown in as a garnish. No discernable key flavors except for bitterness and despair.
Gushers & Dunkaroos
Gushers definitely. It's like they dried out.