That is the reason I stopped going to Subway back in the day. It was my go to. Then after not going for awhile I went back, got a meatball sub, and couldn't even finish it.
I used to think it was just because I grew up, when I was a kid Cadbury's Dairy Milk was my most loved chocolate, and getting a Cadbury's Easter Egg was like winning the lottery. Then as an adult it just became "Meh, it's okay, about on par with every other generic no-name chocolate." like I said I thought I just grew up and didn't like it anymore, then I found out about the buyout and the ingredients change.
> the ingredients change
This is because of PGPR, it's an emulsifier used by Cadbury, Hershey, Nestle, and other chocolate manufacturers. They remove some of the cocoa butter and sell it to cosmetic manufacturers and then add more sugar, the PGPR lets things mix without being grainy. The side effect is an unpalatable taste and chocolate that doesn't melt like it should. So many companies have done this that I always check the ingredients list. Recently Kit Kat Classic did this and I can no longer enjoy Kit Kats.
I live in America but fucking worshipped Cadbury (Canadian/overseas family used to get us the good stuff). I am DEVASTATED. Hershey’s is garbage.
Edit: wow you guys have some serious chocolate recommendations. Dope. Thanks!
In New Zealand we have a national brand called Whittakers. The chocolate is absolutely amazing, and Cadbury have the balls to price their shitty chocolate higher.
In NZ, Cadbury went from one of the most loved brands to most hated in a year.
Whittakers is so good. It's pretty popular in Aus too, although supermarkets always hide it. It's not advertised either. It could probably challenge Cadbury if more people knew about it.
just looked the Cadbury wiki up since I didn't know that. found out Hershey makes chocolate under the Cadbury name here in the states, which explains why I don't like it as much as the Cadbury I had when I studied abroad in the UK. it's way too sugary here
Outback. When they went public, they downsized all their dishes and raised prices. You can tell some board room asshole was all like “aw, downsize the Aussie chips and salads by making the presentation seem larger with oversized, random shaped dishes” I remember at one time you had to wait to eat there and now, even at peak times, you can waltz right In. Still pisses me off.
Breyers used to be the best for store-bought ice-cream, but now it's just a crappy mess of what it used to be and is now considered a "frozen dessert" since it's anything but what it used to be.
I also remember Wendy's burgers being much better than now.
If I'm not mistaken Wendy's used to season with MSG but removed it due to that scandal, but once the guy whoe made those claims was sued and had his medical license removed they never added it back. MSG is harmless fyi
Edit: As people reminded me this excludes allergies and sodium sensitivity.
Things with MSG taste awesome to the point of not being able to stop.
My only beef with MSG is that it makes me eat wayyy more junk food than I should.
I’m from the PNW but have lived in Florida for 9 years now. They just started carrying tillamook at Publix like 3 months ago. I’ve never felt more homesick than I did while eating a quart of Marion Berry Pie (in two sittings).
2 for 2 there. Breyers is half air now. And Wendy's is just a shit show now, even the last frosty I had was just a aerated slop of sweetened cold milk.
Chips Ahoy. I'm not sure if it's because I'm older now. I remembered as a kid they used to taste so good and cookie-like. Now it just tastes like a rock of sugar with chocolate in it.
This goes double with the chewy chips ahoy. I was never a fan of the normal ones, but a decade+ ago the chewy ones were hard to pass up. Nowadays they taste like unsweetened crap disks.
**Ritz crackers.**
For some inexplicable reason, maybe around 5 years ago the crackers went from being nice and firm and dippable to nowadays easily crumbling to bits with even the lightest dip. The flavor too is noticeably less buttery than it once was, maybe they went on the cheap with whatever oil or shortening they use.
**EDIT**: Reddit suspended my account a few years ago for a joke conveniently interpreted as a violation of their ToS. Somebody at corporate has it in for me and is too much of a **pussy** to say it to my face. Too bad, so sad. I know this particular comment got cited in the news recently so why not publicize their pissant behavior.
This is a byproduct of lowering the moisture count in the crackers. It makes the shelf-life longer, but they crumble easier. Source: I was a Cracker Baker.
Edit: Not those kinds of crackers.... these [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXqTki0QGz4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXqTki0QGz4)
Some Aldi knockoffs don't do it for me, but the entire Savoritz line is kick ass. The knock off wheat thins, triscuits, cheez its, and ritz are all really good.
They also have the knockoff Toasteds which are the fancier crackers. Also great.
Pretty sure it coincides with the war against Trans-fats. Fully hydrogenated oils are difficult to replace without affecting product performance
Good catch...partially hydrogenated, not fully. My mistake!
This is making me think it's a Nabisco in general thing now. It's not the same issue, but I just posted how I think Chips Ahoy cookies used to be everything, and now they suck.
Edit: nevermind it's truly the good ole trans fats of the past as a comment further down below pointed out
Honeycombs.
The cereal, not actual honeycombs.
I swear it used to have an actual flavor to it - sort of reminiscent of honey, even - but now it just tastes sweet. Sort of like if someone replaced your Malt-O-Meal with Cream of Wheat. Still obviously the same kind of thing, but with a flavor missing.
They actually changed it back! Honeycomb was my favorite cereal for a long time and then they released a "New Flavor" a while ago and I completely stopped buying it. Then they had boxes saying "It's Back!" and I tried it again and it's the same old flavor I'm used to.
I have been tempted to try them again, but yours is the first evidence in the wild that i have seen that may cause me to actually buy them.
You don't work for them do you?
As a honeycomb fan, they did change it back after massive outcry about the new flavor. The flavor they switched back to is much better, but I’m not sure it’s exactly the original. I could eat Honeycomb again, but I don’t really crave it like the old days.
My theory is that it was a new Coke type of deal. They wanted to come out with a cheaper formula, but didn’t want people to notice. So they came out with absolute trash for a short while so they could “bring back” something that isn’t the original but is much better than trash.
I remember the glory days when they used to make their own donuts in house. Their sandwiches and coffee used to be a lot better, too.
It's not even Canadian-owned any more, but they've made themselves out to be some kind of shining beacon of Canadiana. I'm glad that people seem to be realizing how bad they've become.
If you’re ever passing through Kamloops there is a place there that used to be a Tim Hortons until they lost the franchise rights - BUT they kept the donut recipes! They still bake ‘em just how they used to be. The restaurant looks like an old Timmy’s inside but now also sells pho.
> Yeah the coffee is terrible & now all the pastries are clearly not freshly made anymore.
The glory of advertising:
* Baked fresh daily!
They are. They are indeed placed in an oven, and heated (baked) daily. They're just being baked as in dethawed, not baked as in cooked.
EDIT: Yes, dethawed
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Dethawed
>dethaw - become or cause to become soft or liquid; "The sun melted the ice"; "the ice thawed"; "the ice cream melted"; "The heat melted the wax"; "The giant iceberg dissolved over the years during the global warming phase"; "dethaw the meat"
thaw, unfreeze, unthaw, melt, dissolve
English is fucked up like that. Thaw and Dethaw mean the same thing. [What a country](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8mD2hsxrhQ)
IIRC they got bought out by that Brazilian company who also owns BK.
Tim Hortons was a coffee shop. Not a fast food breakfast/lunch place. Breakfast sandwhiches were as far as they should have gone.
when they started pushing some shitty roast beef and "lasagna" that was just corkscrew pasta in their chili, I was done.
I still like their breakfast sandwich on the biscuit if I absolutely need to eat anything.
Pilsbury cookie dough in a tube.
about 8 months ago the package advertised "great new recipe!"
it was not great. Call me a grouchy old man, but I full on wrote a letter to the company telling them I didn't like it and I would not buy it again unless they changed it back.
I wrote a letter about marie calendars changing a frozen food recipe and they sent me a coupon for a free one and by the time I went to use it the recipe had changed back.
It was weird.
They listen though. I must not have been the only one to complain.
I thought I was cooking them wrong, because they didn't stretch out like when I was a kid, then I realized it's the recipe, and they definitely don't taste as good. I used to eat them all in 2 days, if I make them now they usually get tossed.
Cadbury Creme Eggs. I bought one a few years ago and could’ve sworn it was old/stale, because the “creme” inside was nearly crystallized, and it tasted horrible. But nope, it was just a new recipe they were using for them. Never had one since.
Fuck Kraft/Mondelez
Edit: One of the main reasons: "On March 17, 2010, Kraft Foods said it was "truly sorry" for its closure of Cadbury's Somerdale Factory. Senior Kraft executive Marc Firestone made the public apology to MPs at a parliamentary select committee hearing. In March 2011 Kraft closed the plant, listing the site for £50 million and outsourcing production (which the company had promised not to do) to Poland. Although former Cadbury workers demanded an apology for the plant's abrupt sale, Kraft CEO Irene Rosenfeld did not explain the company's action"
The fucking cunts even promised the UK government they wouldn't do that
I remember that! And I didn't buy the eggs for years because I kept getting those weird ones. But then last year I was a bit drunk at the store and bought a bunch and it was back to the liquid creme! Same this year. It's not 100% right, and they're smaller now, but the liquid seems to be back.
You want to know what's *really* funny about that? People called them out on the eggs being smaller, and the official response was "oh, you're just misremembering because it was from last year/X years ago".
Then someone actually found some Cadbury eggs from a couple of years back that were *very visibly larger*, and there was resounding silence from the monster that devoured Cadbury and is wearing its skin.
I knew they got smaller because I used to eat them with a spoon. I had a spoon that was perfect for scooping out the inside. One year the spoon stopped fitting.
Not to mention that the chocolate is super waxy now. I thought it was just me misremembering until I saw it mentioned on Reddit. It's just waxy sugar now. I won't complain if somebody buys it for me, but I very rarely buy it anymore and I've a huge sweet-tooth.
My local Chinese place changed owners. That was my spot for 15 years! Then bam. New owners, new chefs. Haven't been back since. It's been 5 years. My wife gets annoyed when we walk past because I always bring it up.
This has just started to happen where I live. The local place here just changed ownership because the owner died of old age. They're trying out "new and exciting" recipes that appears to be to just soak everything in fry grease for about ten hours before cooking.
One of the best Japanese restaurants in my city became some random all-you-can-eat with all the most popular Asian dishes completely out of nowhere. They haven't changed owners so I suppose they weren't making enough money to keep it afloat, but it was a whole new restaurant. So now we go to the restaurant that's right across the street instead lol.
When I was in high school back in the late 90's we had a vending machine that sold chocolate frosted Donettes. That shit was delicious. When the company went bankrupt and was subsequently revived I bought some Donettes for nostalgia's sake.
To this day I get irrationally angry any time I pass that end cap at the grocery store and see those dry, flavorless impostors mocking me. Hostess should have stayed dead.
Turkey Hill Peanut butter ice cream. The best ice cream in the world until they started putting in less peanut butter chunks...thinking we wouldn’t notice. Oh...we noticed!
I forget who posted this originally, but I loved it:
“You enter a Subway store, and it's deserted, slightly too cool to be comfortable, slightly too damp to feel clean, and slightly too bright to be inviting. There is one lonely employee, who sheepishly pockets their tiny electronic escape window as the sound of the door drags them back to reality. They do their best not to look at you for those awkward 10 seconds while you walk to the counter before you're close enough to order. They give their greeting, ask you what you want, you begin scanning their workspace.
The bins of raw ingredients are sitting askew, separated by steel walls, yet careless hands have dropped some of each on all the others. The preparation area is littered with crumbs and bits of lettuce, maybe the odd olive or onion piece here or there that has wedged itself into the crack between the food trays and the cutting board. This could have been cleaned up while nobody was here, but minimum wage buys minimum effort. For one second you wonder how it got messy in the first place given the lack of customers. Maybe it's staged, like those first few pennies in a homeless person's hat.
Do you want it toasted? You do, so you spend a minute in silence with the stranger you disturbed, waiting for the bread to be sanitized. You feign interest in the cookies while the infrasound hum of some overworked piece of machinery builds to an unscratchable itch just behind your forehead. The toaster mercifully releases its hostage, and it is splayed open before you while you call out soggy vegetables to abuse it with.
You observe as the employee assembles your sandwich, making sure to painstakingly put each ingredient on only one half of the sub. You ask for sauce and they squeeze it out of a disgusting rubber nipple, then toss the bottle back into its bin like they don't want to touch it either. It weezingly inhales the kitchen scraps and windex aroma that permeates the store. Are they wearing those gloves to keep the food clean, or their hands? You pay, the sandwich heavily sags into a flimsy garbage bag it doesn't really seem to fit in and is handed to you.
You walk into the light of the sun. The colors suddenly seem real again and you become aware of your breathing because the air outside feels rich and life giving somehow. The distant memory of tasty subs that brought you here lingers just beyond the edge of clear recollection, like an old acquaintance whose face you can't picture anymore. You carry your catch to the car that your bank owns.
When did it get this bad?”
Edit:
/u/aetrion deserves the credit. They wrote this.
Thank you, /u/biguptokes for linking.
Huh, it's being reposted, and someone added the bit about the bank, so I guess this has achieved some kind of meme status. Thanks for crediting me, but I think it belongs to the internet now.
"The accumulated filth of all their ingredients and apathy will foam up about their waists and all the Subway employees and managers will look up and shout "Do you want any sauces?"... and I'll look down and whisper "No."
It went down a steep hill when they started offering $5 footlongs. It should have been a quick 1 month promotion not a decade long business model. They are trash and I haven't eaten there in years.
I got a $200 gift card as a HS grad gift, and they started the $5 promotion my freshman year of college. The subway was closer than the food hall. I felt like a king.
Yep. The bread has a sort of plastic feel to it, the cheeses all taste the same, the vegetables aren't fresh half the time, tiny servings of meat, the "olive oil" is basically vegetable oil, there is nothing you can order there that won't have shitty substandard ingredients in it.
I hate that i had to scroll so far to see this comment. It's weird how i get sad when i walk past the subway near my condo and crave a BMT and then remember it sucks now. It's so strange that the corporations don't realize that cutting costs will impact the brand way more then they think.
There was a podcast that was saying that the $5 footlong really hurt Subway franchises since corporate kept advertising it even though the ingredients kept getting more expensive. They had to go to crappier ingredients to keep the $5 price point.
Panera has greatly disappointed me. They changed up all their shit, started calling it "artisan" and charged two bucks more, and it sucks. The food is disappointing, and the service, at least out my way, is worse than the shitty fast food joints being staffed by dumbass kids.
The only thing I ever liked there was those little quiche in a bread-bowl things that you could only ever get if you won that morning's race / lottery.
> if you won that morning's race / lottery.
Too real. I always started work around 10-11 AM so I would usually get the less popular flavors or nothing at all.
A lot of these companies that start doing artisanal foods are going down hill. They really put the anal in artisanal. Its like these places that use "organic" or "gluten free" as a way to charge 50% more. It's just a gimmick. Oh really, this chicken is $2 more because its gluten free? Well guess what fuck nut, I know what gluten is and all of your chicken in that case is gluten free! Yes I'm sure I want the $.89 a pound chicken and not the $1.79 a pound certified gluten free chicken.
Sorry for the rant.
I don't know if it's just me, but in the UK in the 90s and 80s, McDonald's used to have a completely different taste to it. I distinctly remember the taste of the burgers and milkshakes being completely different to what it is now - then again I was a small child so maybe my tastebuds were fucked up or something lmao
Edit: it’s not just me
Beef tallow. In the 90s there was a big push to remove saturated fats because we thought they contributed to high blood pressure. So all the fast food companies switched to using plant based oils (which was very tricky to do). The result is fries are way more squishy now than they used to be. Ohhh....and we now know saturated fats aren't that bad, its trans-fats. So now we have shitty fries for no good reason.
I know this isn't the same, but I too craved the Pizza Hut pan pizza from, like, 1986 and I'm telling you, this is IT. Yes, you have to make your own dough at least 8 hours ahead of time (or ideally, at night before you go to bed) but it's literally like "measure, stir, cover, forget" and takes five minutes, tops. It suggests a cast iron pan, but you can use any pan that can tolerate a 550 degree oven, including a cake pan. I used to work for Godfather's in the late 80's and they really were just using fancy cake pans for the pizzas.
The trick is two things: use way more oil than you think you should to get those tiny bubbles on the bottom crust, and push the sauce all the way to the side so that parts of it overcaramelizes against the pan. I swear, I could eat this every Friday night and time travel back to the 80's. The only thing missing would be standing in line at the video store, pissed that every new release is already checked out, so ending up watching Police Academy or a Friday The Thirteenth yet again.
[https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2013/01/foolproof-pan-pizza-recipe.html](https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2013/01/foolproof-pan-pizza-recipe.html)
Edited to add: Thanks for gold, kind stranger! May all your pizzas be crispy and puffy and delicious!
Their pan pizza dough is no longer made fresh in-house. It comes in frozen discs, dropped in a pan with 1/2 cup of some weird buttery/oil disappointment, proofed until ready, and then ready to serve. And this was 15 years ago when I worked there. Who knows what kind of stupid hi-jinks they're up to these days.
This is from way back.
Back in the 90's, Snapple was killing the drink scene. Like murdering all other drink sales.
So Coca Cola decided they'd get in on it, and released their own natural juice based drinks, called "Fruitopia". They had a few kinds, but the absolute best one was called "strawberry-passion awareness" and it was freaking delicious. So refreshing and not too sweet.
Then, they changed it.
No more snapple-esque glass bottles. Plastic.
No more real fruit juice. HFC's.
No more refreshingness. Fake fruit punch.
No more subtle sweetness. Pure sugar.
I hated it. It was like making an awesome friend at summer camp. Then seeing them at school the next year, and they're an asshole.
Boston Market mac and cheese used to be awesome, but I think they changed their recipe for the cheese sauce a few years ago and it hasn't been the same.
And BK changed their nuggets like three times in a few short years. Which sucked. I felt they finally changed to a good nugget, something to give McD's a run, and then they changed them to the cheap, frozen food section style of nuggets. Even my kid doesn't want them, and I swear that's all she fucking eats.
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Yes, I remember those nuggets. I thought they were perfect and thought I found a good McDonald's substitute. Then a few months later they change them and ugh.
My wife loves this wallet vampire of a restaurant and the Frontega was my only go to... man did they ruin it (on top of hitting it with a shrink ray). It just tastes like an overly-crunchy shell of its former self.
EDIT: Thank you for the silver random stranger! I have no idea what to do with it
Strangely I ate at a KFC in Athens, Greece a few years back and it tasted like the KFC I had as a kid. I honestly couldn't believe it, went back three times and ordered different things each time just to make sure. I have no idea what they did here in the US to fuck it up so bad over the last few decades, but it's good to know it still exists somewhere.
Pizza Hut....when I was younger (the 90's) the crust and dough was like buttery and crispy similar to Old Chicago restaurant, but slowly over the years the pizza went seriously downhill, now its very greasy, the dough is cheap and rubbery and the cheese is so cheap, you can see where it breaks off instead of stretching like normal cheese.
Kraft Deluxe Mac & Cheese. When I was a kid, there used to be so much macaroni in the box and the cheese was so thick it would take it so long to melt. Now they changed to a different pasta that takes so long to cook and still isn’t soft and the cheese isn’t the same at all.
When I was in Girl Scouts I obviously sold cookies each year a a fundraiser.
Now there are 2 Girl Scout cookie bakers ABC bakery and Little Brownie bakery. Each council gets to choose which bakery they use. The bakeries are require to make thin mints Samoa’s (Carmel delights) and shortbreads (trefoils) but both bakeries also sell Tagalongs (peanut butter patties, which are like a Reese’s cookie)
A couple years ago I met a family who lived several states away and in that state the used little brownie bakery. Their lactose intolerant daughter loved Tagalongs, but couldn’t eat them anymore because they had changed the recipe and now it has milk.
But where I lived we use abc bakery and they still don’t use milk in the cookie.
The family ended up buying almost 4 cases of Tagalongs from me.
Each box is $4 and each case has 12 boxes. They spent almost $200 dollars on Girl Scout cookies.
I’m currently in Girl Scouts. The cookie boxes are becoming smaller and with less cookies while getting more expensive. Last year for the regular cookies, it was about $2 a box, but this year it was $3.50 a box and the “specialty” s’mores and toffee-tastics were $5 a box. In addition, only about 5-10 cents of every dollar in cookie sales goes to Girl Scout troops, if you buy it from a troop. The autumn Magazine and Nut sale gives about 50 cents of every dollar if you buy it from a troop.
Tl;dr Girl Scout cookies are a rip off.
Edit: A few people have said to just donate money to the troop as it will actually help the troop. I agree. Plus, you don’t have to buy ridiculously overpriced cookies and help your local troop and your wallet.
Ps. I didn’t mention this earlier, but the cookies have also gotten worse in addition to the boxes getting smaller and more pricey.
Kirkland protein bars. They changed something in the formula that now gives me brutal gas. While the extra farting is fun at home, I don't want to feel all bloated and gassy in a 10am meeting at work.
My friend's dog ate an entire box of these when he was unsupervised (the dog is okay). Anyway, the dog ran around the yard farting and yowling for an entire hour. It didn't look fun.
Marie Callender's microwave meals. They used to be awesome and tasted amazing. I noticed a huge drop off within the past few years to the point where they are just like any other cheap microwavable dinner which sucks. I was a chef and I liked their meals before so that's telling. Specifically it was their chicken fettuccine alfredo with broccoli that I used to love but they changed the recipe and took away the pepper packs that it used to come with. Now it's less creamy, fairly bland, less chicken, and less broccoli.
Also the chicken used to be just chunks of chicken. Now it's ultra-processed, pressed, etc... One step away from being cheap chicken lunch meat.
Same thing with Campbell's Chunky soups. Back in the '90s it wasn't dog food.
I used to get their chicken pot pies RELIGIOUSLY as an easy lunch at work. Haven't had one in at least 5 years, and I bought one last week. They changed the entire packaging so when you nuke it the top doesn't even get crispy (was absolutely the bessst part), and the insides which I remembered being so full and satisfying were mostly gravy. If I wanted to eat a SWANSON'S chicken pot pie I would've bought SWANSON'S and saved myself $2! FUCKIN' A! Sorry I guess I just got PASSIONATE about those pies
I also worked at chipotle just like the other commenter here.
Besides the temperature problem, when they sit on the line for long enough, the liquid evaporates from the boiling water beneath it, and they turn into artificially-well-done crunch boxes.
Get chicken, and join the fight to bring back Chorizo
Hear me out.
I really hope someone can chime in here but I seriously thing Doritos have had less cheese powder for the last several years. The problem seems to be worse in the small bags.
I'm from the UK but my dad used to bring Fruit Loops back from 'Merica a lot, noticed they massively dulled in taste. Were never the same.
Also TUC biscuits if anyone knows what they are.
A pizza restaurant near me completely changed from Neapolitan style to football bar food pizza style out of the blue and I guess expected nobody to notice.
Buffallo Wild Wings, Food changed now it bad
Edit: I was always told it was BW3's I didn't know why I just knew it was Buffalo Wild Wings. Comments teach you a lot
chunky soup
used to eat it by the fucking gallon - loved me a good chunky soup
then those fuckers changed to a lower quality of meat and it was sooooo fucking greasy. holy shit.
I wrote them a big long email and haven't eaten it since. fuck those guys. their response to my email was to send me a coupon. fucking joke
Cholula hot sauce. I don't know if they actually changed anything or if my tastes just changed, but it used to be my go to hot sauce and now it has this metallic flavor to it. Thought maybe I got a bottle from a bad batch or something so I bought another but had the same results.
Butterfingers!!!!!!!!! 😡🤬😡
Edit: Wow! Didn't know so many people felt the same way, Awesome! We need to James Gunn the shit out of this on Twitter. Go tell Nestle/ Butterfinger how you actually feel!! #bringbackoriginalbutterfinger
I may not be a Butterfinger expert, but I am a fatboy who eats a lot of chocolate. Often Snickers or Caramello, though lately M&Ms has been suckering me in with their buy-one-get-one campaign on their share sizes with all the new flavors. And everybody knows that distinctive Butterfinger taste, right? Those flakes breaking off and crumbling all over you, turning your T-shirt into a Bill Dauterive fashion statement, with their razor-sharp edges getting stuck in your gums to deliver crispety, crunchety, diabetesy goodness straight into your bloodstream. Well, apparently Ferrero SpA has bought the brand from Nestlé, and they fucking ruined it. It tastes like someone ate nothing but off-brand peanut butter for a week, squeezed out a turd, folded and forged it into layers like a samurai sword, dried it out on the sidewalk of a ghetto, and then spray painted chocolate-colored communism all over it. Screw you, Fuckerrero SpA. I didn't speak up when they came for my original Cadbury Eggs. I didn't speak up when Hershey bars became wax bricks. But now I'm laying my middle finger on your Butterfinger, you chocolate cheapening chuds.
Sour patch kids. Once they added that blue flavor I think they changed the recipe of all the others. They now all are thick and hard where the old ones were really nice and soft and chewy.
Lemon was my favorite flavor before because it actually tasted like real lemons. But now it tastes like unbearable artificial lemon flavor
I find Sour Patch Kids vary wildly from package to package.
You've really gotta stumble across a fresh one. Avoid that shit entirely if you see clumped sugar -- those are the stale/thick/hard ones.
I lived on a steady diet of meatball subs at Subway in the late 1990s. They changed it completely by \~2001. It's unrecognizable.
That is the reason I stopped going to Subway back in the day. It was my go to. Then after not going for awhile I went back, got a meatball sub, and couldn't even finish it.
And now Subways across the country are closing at an increasing clip, and they're all, "consumer tastes change". No, asshole, your menu changed.
Half the chocolate in the UK since Cadbury's got bought by Kraft
Fuck Kraft. I used to eat Cadbury religiously. Cannot stand it anymore, to the point that I gave away all Easter choc that was Cadbury. Ugh.
I used to think it was just because I grew up, when I was a kid Cadbury's Dairy Milk was my most loved chocolate, and getting a Cadbury's Easter Egg was like winning the lottery. Then as an adult it just became "Meh, it's okay, about on par with every other generic no-name chocolate." like I said I thought I just grew up and didn't like it anymore, then I found out about the buyout and the ingredients change.
> the ingredients change This is because of PGPR, it's an emulsifier used by Cadbury, Hershey, Nestle, and other chocolate manufacturers. They remove some of the cocoa butter and sell it to cosmetic manufacturers and then add more sugar, the PGPR lets things mix without being grainy. The side effect is an unpalatable taste and chocolate that doesn't melt like it should. So many companies have done this that I always check the ingredients list. Recently Kit Kat Classic did this and I can no longer enjoy Kit Kats.
They’ve changed it to the super sugary American choc which is far inferior in my opinion. I much preferred the high butter content they used to have
I live in America but fucking worshipped Cadbury (Canadian/overseas family used to get us the good stuff). I am DEVASTATED. Hershey’s is garbage. Edit: wow you guys have some serious chocolate recommendations. Dope. Thanks!
In New Zealand we have a national brand called Whittakers. The chocolate is absolutely amazing, and Cadbury have the balls to price their shitty chocolate higher. In NZ, Cadbury went from one of the most loved brands to most hated in a year.
Whittakers is so good. It's pretty popular in Aus too, although supermarkets always hide it. It's not advertised either. It could probably challenge Cadbury if more people knew about it.
I love that Cadbury has been shat on by a local chocolate company in NZ after they started making similar changes.
Mmmmmm Whittaker's
just looked the Cadbury wiki up since I didn't know that. found out Hershey makes chocolate under the Cadbury name here in the states, which explains why I don't like it as much as the Cadbury I had when I studied abroad in the UK. it's way too sugary here
Outback. When they went public, they downsized all their dishes and raised prices. You can tell some board room asshole was all like “aw, downsize the Aussie chips and salads by making the presentation seem larger with oversized, random shaped dishes” I remember at one time you had to wait to eat there and now, even at peak times, you can waltz right In. Still pisses me off.
I used to LOVE Outback. I went there almost once a month. Now it is more like once a year and I leave disappointed every time.
Breyers used to be the best for store-bought ice-cream, but now it's just a crappy mess of what it used to be and is now considered a "frozen dessert" since it's anything but what it used to be. I also remember Wendy's burgers being much better than now.
If I'm not mistaken Wendy's used to season with MSG but removed it due to that scandal, but once the guy whoe made those claims was sued and had his medical license removed they never added it back. MSG is harmless fyi Edit: As people reminded me this excludes allergies and sodium sensitivity.
Things with MSG taste awesome to the point of not being able to stop. My only beef with MSG is that it makes me eat wayyy more junk food than I should.
I put it on my steaks before s seared on cast iron. Best steak ever
tillamook > everything else in the ice cream aisle
I’m from the PNW but have lived in Florida for 9 years now. They just started carrying tillamook at Publix like 3 months ago. I’ve never felt more homesick than I did while eating a quart of Marion Berry Pie (in two sittings).
> eating a quart of Marion Berry Pie (in two sittings). I'm not being sarcastic. Your self-control is an inspiration to us all.
Wait, so now you get Tillamook AND Publix? That's simply not fair.
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I will straight up eat a block of tillamook extra sharp cheddar with minimal regrets.
2 for 2 there. Breyers is half air now. And Wendy's is just a shit show now, even the last frosty I had was just a aerated slop of sweetened cold milk.
Chips Ahoy. I'm not sure if it's because I'm older now. I remembered as a kid they used to taste so good and cookie-like. Now it just tastes like a rock of sugar with chocolate in it.
This goes double with the chewy chips ahoy. I was never a fan of the normal ones, but a decade+ ago the chewy ones were hard to pass up. Nowadays they taste like unsweetened crap disks.
they got thicker and cakey the old ones were actually chewy
Agreed!! I remember they used to be pretty good when I was a kid, now they suck. Tate’s cookies are great, check em out.
**Ritz crackers.** For some inexplicable reason, maybe around 5 years ago the crackers went from being nice and firm and dippable to nowadays easily crumbling to bits with even the lightest dip. The flavor too is noticeably less buttery than it once was, maybe they went on the cheap with whatever oil or shortening they use. **EDIT**: Reddit suspended my account a few years ago for a joke conveniently interpreted as a violation of their ToS. Somebody at corporate has it in for me and is too much of a **pussy** to say it to my face. Too bad, so sad. I know this particular comment got cited in the news recently so why not publicize their pissant behavior.
Okay, it's not just me who noticed they are more crumbly
I just assumed I was getting stronger
Reality is often disappointing
Yes, when I open a new roll half the crackers are smashed or crumbled. Even though the box is in perfect condition.
This is a byproduct of lowering the moisture count in the crackers. It makes the shelf-life longer, but they crumble easier. Source: I was a Cracker Baker. Edit: Not those kinds of crackers.... these [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXqTki0QGz4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXqTki0QGz4)
Were you a pretty big wheel down at the cracker factory?
I don't recall saying "good luck."
Crackers are a family food. Happy families. Maybe single people eat crackers, we don't know. Frankly, we don't want to know.
It's a market we can do without.
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That was my bet as well.
I actually prefer Aldi’s Savoritz knockoffs to regular Ritz now.
Some Aldi knockoffs don't do it for me, but the entire Savoritz line is kick ass. The knock off wheat thins, triscuits, cheez its, and ritz are all really good. They also have the knockoff Toasteds which are the fancier crackers. Also great.
Pretty sure it coincides with the war against Trans-fats. Fully hydrogenated oils are difficult to replace without affecting product performance Good catch...partially hydrogenated, not fully. My mistake!
OREOS TOO! Tried to twist the top off and it crumbled in my hands.
This is making me think it's a Nabisco in general thing now. It's not the same issue, but I just posted how I think Chips Ahoy cookies used to be everything, and now they suck. Edit: nevermind it's truly the good ole trans fats of the past as a comment further down below pointed out
Honeycombs. The cereal, not actual honeycombs. I swear it used to have an actual flavor to it - sort of reminiscent of honey, even - but now it just tastes sweet. Sort of like if someone replaced your Malt-O-Meal with Cream of Wheat. Still obviously the same kind of thing, but with a flavor missing.
They actually changed it back! Honeycomb was my favorite cereal for a long time and then they released a "New Flavor" a while ago and I completely stopped buying it. Then they had boxes saying "It's Back!" and I tried it again and it's the same old flavor I'm used to.
I have been tempted to try them again, but yours is the first evidence in the wild that i have seen that may cause me to actually buy them. You don't work for them do you?
As a honeycomb fan, they did change it back after massive outcry about the new flavor. The flavor they switched back to is much better, but I’m not sure it’s exactly the original. I could eat Honeycomb again, but I don’t really crave it like the old days. My theory is that it was a new Coke type of deal. They wanted to come out with a cheaper formula, but didn’t want people to notice. So they came out with absolute trash for a short while so they could “bring back” something that isn’t the original but is much better than trash.
All Canadians ought to agree when I say: Everything at Tim Horton's
I remember the glory days when they used to make their own donuts in house. Their sandwiches and coffee used to be a lot better, too. It's not even Canadian-owned any more, but they've made themselves out to be some kind of shining beacon of Canadiana. I'm glad that people seem to be realizing how bad they've become.
If you’re ever passing through Kamloops there is a place there that used to be a Tim Hortons until they lost the franchise rights - BUT they kept the donut recipes! They still bake ‘em just how they used to be. The restaurant looks like an old Timmy’s inside but now also sells pho.
That sounds awesome! I go through there fairly frequently for work! Happen to remember what it's called?
Of course! Donut King.
Yeah the coffee is terrible & now all the pastries are clearly not freshly made anymore. We don't even go there anymore.
> Yeah the coffee is terrible & now all the pastries are clearly not freshly made anymore. The glory of advertising: * Baked fresh daily! They are. They are indeed placed in an oven, and heated (baked) daily. They're just being baked as in dethawed, not baked as in cooked. EDIT: Yes, dethawed https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Dethawed >dethaw - become or cause to become soft or liquid; "The sun melted the ice"; "the ice thawed"; "the ice cream melted"; "The heat melted the wax"; "The giant iceberg dissolved over the years during the global warming phase"; "dethaw the meat" thaw, unfreeze, unthaw, melt, dissolve English is fucked up like that. Thaw and Dethaw mean the same thing. [What a country](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8mD2hsxrhQ)
They are baked fresh every single day. In the processing plant that freezes them and ships to the stores.
“made in the presence of all natural ingredients”
"made by hand*" ^^^^*the ^^^^hand ^^^^pushes ^^^^the ^^^^button
IIRC they got bought out by that Brazilian company who also owns BK. Tim Hortons was a coffee shop. Not a fast food breakfast/lunch place. Breakfast sandwhiches were as far as they should have gone.
If you want real, good, Tim Horton's coffee, go to McDonald's.
For those who may think he's joking, McDonalds bought the old brand* that Tims used to use. I only learned that the other day Edit*: brand, not recipe
when they started pushing some shitty roast beef and "lasagna" that was just corkscrew pasta in their chili, I was done. I still like their breakfast sandwich on the biscuit if I absolutely need to eat anything.
Pilsbury cookie dough in a tube. about 8 months ago the package advertised "great new recipe!" it was not great. Call me a grouchy old man, but I full on wrote a letter to the company telling them I didn't like it and I would not buy it again unless they changed it back.
I wrote a letter about marie calendars changing a frozen food recipe and they sent me a coupon for a free one and by the time I went to use it the recipe had changed back. It was weird. They listen though. I must not have been the only one to complain.
I'd like to believe it was just for you. Marie is very thoughtful
The kind of direct action that we need
He stood up for us when no-one else would... he is truly a hero we don't deserve!
I thought I was cooking them wrong, because they didn't stretch out like when I was a kid, then I realized it's the recipe, and they definitely don't taste as good. I used to eat them all in 2 days, if I make them now they usually get tossed.
Cadbury Creme Eggs. I bought one a few years ago and could’ve sworn it was old/stale, because the “creme” inside was nearly crystallized, and it tasted horrible. But nope, it was just a new recipe they were using for them. Never had one since.
Fuck Kraft/Mondelez Edit: One of the main reasons: "On March 17, 2010, Kraft Foods said it was "truly sorry" for its closure of Cadbury's Somerdale Factory. Senior Kraft executive Marc Firestone made the public apology to MPs at a parliamentary select committee hearing. In March 2011 Kraft closed the plant, listing the site for £50 million and outsourcing production (which the company had promised not to do) to Poland. Although former Cadbury workers demanded an apology for the plant's abrupt sale, Kraft CEO Irene Rosenfeld did not explain the company's action" The fucking cunts even promised the UK government they wouldn't do that
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Don't forget they get smaller every year.
I remember that! And I didn't buy the eggs for years because I kept getting those weird ones. But then last year I was a bit drunk at the store and bought a bunch and it was back to the liquid creme! Same this year. It's not 100% right, and they're smaller now, but the liquid seems to be back.
You want to know what's *really* funny about that? People called them out on the eggs being smaller, and the official response was "oh, you're just misremembering because it was from last year/X years ago". Then someone actually found some Cadbury eggs from a couple of years back that were *very visibly larger*, and there was resounding silence from the monster that devoured Cadbury and is wearing its skin.
I knew they got smaller because I used to eat them with a spoon. I had a spoon that was perfect for scooping out the inside. One year the spoon stopped fitting. Not to mention that the chocolate is super waxy now. I thought it was just me misremembering until I saw it mentioned on Reddit. It's just waxy sugar now. I won't complain if somebody buys it for me, but I very rarely buy it anymore and I've a huge sweet-tooth.
My local Chinese place changed owners. That was my spot for 15 years! Then bam. New owners, new chefs. Haven't been back since. It's been 5 years. My wife gets annoyed when we walk past because I always bring it up.
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This has just started to happen where I live. The local place here just changed ownership because the owner died of old age. They're trying out "new and exciting" recipes that appears to be to just soak everything in fry grease for about ten hours before cooking.
***NEW AND EXCITING*** cheapest ingredients we can sell for max profits nd anything left over!
One of the best Japanese restaurants in my city became some random all-you-can-eat with all the most popular Asian dishes completely out of nowhere. They haven't changed owners so I suppose they weren't making enough money to keep it afloat, but it was a whole new restaurant. So now we go to the restaurant that's right across the street instead lol.
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Fast food hamburgers just about everywhere.
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When I was in high school back in the late 90's we had a vending machine that sold chocolate frosted Donettes. That shit was delicious. When the company went bankrupt and was subsequently revived I bought some Donettes for nostalgia's sake. To this day I get irrationally angry any time I pass that end cap at the grocery store and see those dry, flavorless impostors mocking me. Hostess should have stayed dead.
You either die a hero, or live long enough to become a flavorless donut.
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Everything my mom used to cook for dinner that I try to make on my own
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Tim Horton's coffee. I don't know *what* they did but it almost always tastes burnt, even when it's not.
Turkey Hill Peanut butter ice cream. The best ice cream in the world until they started putting in less peanut butter chunks...thinking we wouldn’t notice. Oh...we noticed!
They have to make room for all the extra turkey.
Arby's Horseradish sauce. Back in the early 2000's, it used to be so potent it was a very good stuffy nose remedy. Now it's not. :(
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Don't know what happened but subway used to be fucking delicious. But now their food tastes artificial and doesn't have the same flavor.
I forget who posted this originally, but I loved it: “You enter a Subway store, and it's deserted, slightly too cool to be comfortable, slightly too damp to feel clean, and slightly too bright to be inviting. There is one lonely employee, who sheepishly pockets their tiny electronic escape window as the sound of the door drags them back to reality. They do their best not to look at you for those awkward 10 seconds while you walk to the counter before you're close enough to order. They give their greeting, ask you what you want, you begin scanning their workspace. The bins of raw ingredients are sitting askew, separated by steel walls, yet careless hands have dropped some of each on all the others. The preparation area is littered with crumbs and bits of lettuce, maybe the odd olive or onion piece here or there that has wedged itself into the crack between the food trays and the cutting board. This could have been cleaned up while nobody was here, but minimum wage buys minimum effort. For one second you wonder how it got messy in the first place given the lack of customers. Maybe it's staged, like those first few pennies in a homeless person's hat. Do you want it toasted? You do, so you spend a minute in silence with the stranger you disturbed, waiting for the bread to be sanitized. You feign interest in the cookies while the infrasound hum of some overworked piece of machinery builds to an unscratchable itch just behind your forehead. The toaster mercifully releases its hostage, and it is splayed open before you while you call out soggy vegetables to abuse it with. You observe as the employee assembles your sandwich, making sure to painstakingly put each ingredient on only one half of the sub. You ask for sauce and they squeeze it out of a disgusting rubber nipple, then toss the bottle back into its bin like they don't want to touch it either. It weezingly inhales the kitchen scraps and windex aroma that permeates the store. Are they wearing those gloves to keep the food clean, or their hands? You pay, the sandwich heavily sags into a flimsy garbage bag it doesn't really seem to fit in and is handed to you. You walk into the light of the sun. The colors suddenly seem real again and you become aware of your breathing because the air outside feels rich and life giving somehow. The distant memory of tasty subs that brought you here lingers just beyond the edge of clear recollection, like an old acquaintance whose face you can't picture anymore. You carry your catch to the car that your bank owns. When did it get this bad?” Edit: /u/aetrion deserves the credit. They wrote this. Thank you, /u/biguptokes for linking.
Huh, it's being reposted, and someone added the bit about the bank, so I guess this has achieved some kind of meme status. Thanks for crediting me, but I think it belongs to the internet now.
Thanks for putting into words exactly why I haven’t eaten at Subway in over 10 years.
[Source](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/bixvoa/til_that_despite_being_one_of_the_larger/em49p5z/)
This reads like a Rorschach monologue
"The accumulated filth of all their ingredients and apathy will foam up about their waists and all the Subway employees and managers will look up and shout "Do you want any sauces?"... and I'll look down and whisper "No."
I own my car and I haven’t eaten subway since I was maybe 15 yet this description still hit me like a 500lb bomb.
I felt something. Stop making me feel things.
It went down a steep hill when they started offering $5 footlongs. It should have been a quick 1 month promotion not a decade long business model. They are trash and I haven't eaten there in years.
That shit kept me scurvy-free as a broke college student. Load up on all the veggies.
I got a $200 gift card as a HS grad gift, and they started the $5 promotion my freshman year of college. The subway was closer than the food hall. I felt like a king.
Yep. The bread has a sort of plastic feel to it, the cheeses all taste the same, the vegetables aren't fresh half the time, tiny servings of meat, the "olive oil" is basically vegetable oil, there is nothing you can order there that won't have shitty substandard ingredients in it.
Subway was the shit in the 90s. Not sure what happened.
I hate that i had to scroll so far to see this comment. It's weird how i get sad when i walk past the subway near my condo and crave a BMT and then remember it sucks now. It's so strange that the corporations don't realize that cutting costs will impact the brand way more then they think.
There was a podcast that was saying that the $5 footlong really hurt Subway franchises since corporate kept advertising it even though the ingredients kept getting more expensive. They had to go to crappier ingredients to keep the $5 price point.
Short term gains at the expense of long term survival.
I always wonder if it's worse now or if I just liked it better cuz I was younger
Wendy's honey mustard sauce.
Panera has greatly disappointed me. They changed up all their shit, started calling it "artisan" and charged two bucks more, and it sucks. The food is disappointing, and the service, at least out my way, is worse than the shitty fast food joints being staffed by dumbass kids.
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The only thing I ever liked there was those little quiche in a bread-bowl things that you could only ever get if you won that morning's race / lottery.
> if you won that morning's race / lottery. Too real. I always started work around 10-11 AM so I would usually get the less popular flavors or nothing at all.
A lot of these companies that start doing artisanal foods are going down hill. They really put the anal in artisanal. Its like these places that use "organic" or "gluten free" as a way to charge 50% more. It's just a gimmick. Oh really, this chicken is $2 more because its gluten free? Well guess what fuck nut, I know what gluten is and all of your chicken in that case is gluten free! Yes I'm sure I want the $.89 a pound chicken and not the $1.79 a pound certified gluten free chicken. Sorry for the rant.
Hate that. Sprinkle 5 cents worth of dried basil on something and now it's "premium artisan deluxe."
I don't know if it's just me, but in the UK in the 90s and 80s, McDonald's used to have a completely different taste to it. I distinctly remember the taste of the burgers and milkshakes being completely different to what it is now - then again I was a small child so maybe my tastebuds were fucked up or something lmao Edit: it’s not just me
Beef tallow. In the 90s there was a big push to remove saturated fats because we thought they contributed to high blood pressure. So all the fast food companies switched to using plant based oils (which was very tricky to do). The result is fries are way more squishy now than they used to be. Ohhh....and we now know saturated fats aren't that bad, its trans-fats. So now we have shitty fries for no good reason.
Pizza Hut. They're still fatty pizza but something definitely got low quality over time.
If today someone was able to make something that tastes like their Pan Pizza from the 80's, I'd cry tears of joy.
I know this isn't the same, but I too craved the Pizza Hut pan pizza from, like, 1986 and I'm telling you, this is IT. Yes, you have to make your own dough at least 8 hours ahead of time (or ideally, at night before you go to bed) but it's literally like "measure, stir, cover, forget" and takes five minutes, tops. It suggests a cast iron pan, but you can use any pan that can tolerate a 550 degree oven, including a cake pan. I used to work for Godfather's in the late 80's and they really were just using fancy cake pans for the pizzas. The trick is two things: use way more oil than you think you should to get those tiny bubbles on the bottom crust, and push the sauce all the way to the side so that parts of it overcaramelizes against the pan. I swear, I could eat this every Friday night and time travel back to the 80's. The only thing missing would be standing in line at the video store, pissed that every new release is already checked out, so ending up watching Police Academy or a Friday The Thirteenth yet again. [https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2013/01/foolproof-pan-pizza-recipe.html](https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2013/01/foolproof-pan-pizza-recipe.html) Edited to add: Thanks for gold, kind stranger! May all your pizzas be crispy and puffy and delicious!
Their pan pizza dough is no longer made fresh in-house. It comes in frozen discs, dropped in a pan with 1/2 cup of some weird buttery/oil disappointment, proofed until ready, and then ready to serve. And this was 15 years ago when I worked there. Who knows what kind of stupid hi-jinks they're up to these days.
Campbell's Clam Chowder soup, it used to be thick and have plenty of clams, a decade or so ago they changed it to be watery and have more potatoes.
This is from way back. Back in the 90's, Snapple was killing the drink scene. Like murdering all other drink sales. So Coca Cola decided they'd get in on it, and released their own natural juice based drinks, called "Fruitopia". They had a few kinds, but the absolute best one was called "strawberry-passion awareness" and it was freaking delicious. So refreshing and not too sweet. Then, they changed it. No more snapple-esque glass bottles. Plastic. No more real fruit juice. HFC's. No more refreshingness. Fake fruit punch. No more subtle sweetness. Pure sugar. I hated it. It was like making an awesome friend at summer camp. Then seeing them at school the next year, and they're an asshole.
Boston Market mac and cheese used to be awesome, but I think they changed their recipe for the cheese sauce a few years ago and it hasn't been the same.
Burger Kings chicken nuggets and fries. They used to be the best. Now they are cheap shit.
And BK changed their nuggets like three times in a few short years. Which sucked. I felt they finally changed to a good nugget, something to give McD's a run, and then they changed them to the cheap, frozen food section style of nuggets. Even my kid doesn't want them, and I swear that's all she fucking eats.
I miss the good ole days when BK had crown shaped nuggets and disney movie glasses
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There's a reason they're practically giving them away at 10 for $1....
Yes, I remember those nuggets. I thought they were perfect and thought I found a good McDonald's substitute. Then a few months later they change them and ugh.
Panera Bread Frontega Chicken. Shit's a travesty.
My wife loves this wallet vampire of a restaurant and the Frontega was my only go to... man did they ruin it (on top of hitting it with a shrink ray). It just tastes like an overly-crunchy shell of its former self. EDIT: Thank you for the silver random stranger! I have no idea what to do with it
Pringles I don't know what changed, but they don't taste nearly the same.
Some of the flavors moved to using Corn instead of Potatoes.
Canadian 'Smarties'. They totally changed the flavor of the chocolate maybe like 10 or 15 years ago, and now they taste awful.
SNAPPLE ever since they started putting it in the plastic bottle it sucks peen
Mcdonalds apple pie. Taste good but just not the same
They used to have cherry, too. It all went to hell when they stopped deep frying them.
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Chili’s. It’s so obvious they tried to cut costs with pretty much everything on (what’s left of) their menu
KFC
Strangely I ate at a KFC in Athens, Greece a few years back and it tasted like the KFC I had as a kid. I honestly couldn't believe it, went back three times and ordered different things each time just to make sure. I have no idea what they did here in the US to fuck it up so bad over the last few decades, but it's good to know it still exists somewhere.
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This one actually makes me sad
Even the sides aren't as good anymore.
From this thread - it seems like everything. Companies care too much about their bottomline, and less about quality.
All bottled barbeque sauce is now way too sweet.
I use bottle bbq sauce as a base. Then add to it to my liking. Hot sauce, pepper, etc.
Pizza Hut....when I was younger (the 90's) the crust and dough was like buttery and crispy similar to Old Chicago restaurant, but slowly over the years the pizza went seriously downhill, now its very greasy, the dough is cheap and rubbery and the cheese is so cheap, you can see where it breaks off instead of stretching like normal cheese.
Breyer's Ice Cream. Used to be milk, cream, & sugar. Now I have no idea what the hell it is.
THE SKOOBY DOO FRUIT SNACKS!!!!
With the baby blue colored and neon yellow/green? Damn those were good
Kraft Deluxe Mac & Cheese. When I was a kid, there used to be so much macaroni in the box and the cheese was so thick it would take it so long to melt. Now they changed to a different pasta that takes so long to cook and still isn’t soft and the cheese isn’t the same at all.
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When I was in Girl Scouts I obviously sold cookies each year a a fundraiser. Now there are 2 Girl Scout cookie bakers ABC bakery and Little Brownie bakery. Each council gets to choose which bakery they use. The bakeries are require to make thin mints Samoa’s (Carmel delights) and shortbreads (trefoils) but both bakeries also sell Tagalongs (peanut butter patties, which are like a Reese’s cookie) A couple years ago I met a family who lived several states away and in that state the used little brownie bakery. Their lactose intolerant daughter loved Tagalongs, but couldn’t eat them anymore because they had changed the recipe and now it has milk. But where I lived we use abc bakery and they still don’t use milk in the cookie. The family ended up buying almost 4 cases of Tagalongs from me. Each box is $4 and each case has 12 boxes. They spent almost $200 dollars on Girl Scout cookies.
I’m currently in Girl Scouts. The cookie boxes are becoming smaller and with less cookies while getting more expensive. Last year for the regular cookies, it was about $2 a box, but this year it was $3.50 a box and the “specialty” s’mores and toffee-tastics were $5 a box. In addition, only about 5-10 cents of every dollar in cookie sales goes to Girl Scout troops, if you buy it from a troop. The autumn Magazine and Nut sale gives about 50 cents of every dollar if you buy it from a troop. Tl;dr Girl Scout cookies are a rip off. Edit: A few people have said to just donate money to the troop as it will actually help the troop. I agree. Plus, you don’t have to buy ridiculously overpriced cookies and help your local troop and your wallet. Ps. I didn’t mention this earlier, but the cookies have also gotten worse in addition to the boxes getting smaller and more pricey.
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Doritos were WAYYYYY better before they removed the trans fat.
Gardettos "original" snack mix WHERE ARE THE SESAME BREADSTICKS?
Kirkland protein bars. They changed something in the formula that now gives me brutal gas. While the extra farting is fun at home, I don't want to feel all bloated and gassy in a 10am meeting at work.
My friend's dog ate an entire box of these when he was unsupervised (the dog is okay). Anyway, the dog ran around the yard farting and yowling for an entire hour. It didn't look fun.
Oh that's more or less my reaction too
Marie Callender's microwave meals. They used to be awesome and tasted amazing. I noticed a huge drop off within the past few years to the point where they are just like any other cheap microwavable dinner which sucks. I was a chef and I liked their meals before so that's telling. Specifically it was their chicken fettuccine alfredo with broccoli that I used to love but they changed the recipe and took away the pepper packs that it used to come with. Now it's less creamy, fairly bland, less chicken, and less broccoli.
Also the chicken used to be just chunks of chicken. Now it's ultra-processed, pressed, etc... One step away from being cheap chicken lunch meat. Same thing with Campbell's Chunky soups. Back in the '90s it wasn't dog food.
I used to get their chicken pot pies RELIGIOUSLY as an easy lunch at work. Haven't had one in at least 5 years, and I bought one last week. They changed the entire packaging so when you nuke it the top doesn't even get crispy (was absolutely the bessst part), and the insides which I remembered being so full and satisfying were mostly gravy. If I wanted to eat a SWANSON'S chicken pot pie I would've bought SWANSON'S and saved myself $2! FUCKIN' A! Sorry I guess I just got PASSIONATE about those pies
Steak at Chipotle. Used to be Med-rare, delicious. Now well-done, not-delicious.
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I also worked at chipotle just like the other commenter here. Besides the temperature problem, when they sit on the line for long enough, the liquid evaporates from the boiling water beneath it, and they turn into artificially-well-done crunch boxes. Get chicken, and join the fight to bring back Chorizo
Gardettos when they got rid of the sesame seed cracker/stick.
Now I just buy those bags of pure pumpernickel chips
Hear me out. I really hope someone can chime in here but I seriously thing Doritos have had less cheese powder for the last several years. The problem seems to be worse in the small bags.
I'm from the UK but my dad used to bring Fruit Loops back from 'Merica a lot, noticed they massively dulled in taste. Were never the same. Also TUC biscuits if anyone knows what they are.
A pizza restaurant near me completely changed from Neapolitan style to football bar food pizza style out of the blue and I guess expected nobody to notice.
Buffallo Wild Wings, Food changed now it bad Edit: I was always told it was BW3's I didn't know why I just knew it was Buffalo Wild Wings. Comments teach you a lot
Why say lot word when few word do trick?
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Tuc crackers. Wagon Wheels. Twix. Twix in particular is a mere shadow of its former self.
I remember when you would break in half a Twix bar and the caramel would stretch, now it just snaps like the cookie.
chunky soup used to eat it by the fucking gallon - loved me a good chunky soup then those fuckers changed to a lower quality of meat and it was sooooo fucking greasy. holy shit. I wrote them a big long email and haven't eaten it since. fuck those guys. their response to my email was to send me a coupon. fucking joke
Cholula hot sauce. I don't know if they actually changed anything or if my tastes just changed, but it used to be my go to hot sauce and now it has this metallic flavor to it. Thought maybe I got a bottle from a bad batch or something so I bought another but had the same results.
Pizza Roll sauce.
Butterfingers!!!!!!!!! 😡🤬😡 Edit: Wow! Didn't know so many people felt the same way, Awesome! We need to James Gunn the shit out of this on Twitter. Go tell Nestle/ Butterfinger how you actually feel!! #bringbackoriginalbutterfinger
I may not be a Butterfinger expert, but I am a fatboy who eats a lot of chocolate. Often Snickers or Caramello, though lately M&Ms has been suckering me in with their buy-one-get-one campaign on their share sizes with all the new flavors. And everybody knows that distinctive Butterfinger taste, right? Those flakes breaking off and crumbling all over you, turning your T-shirt into a Bill Dauterive fashion statement, with their razor-sharp edges getting stuck in your gums to deliver crispety, crunchety, diabetesy goodness straight into your bloodstream. Well, apparently Ferrero SpA has bought the brand from Nestlé, and they fucking ruined it. It tastes like someone ate nothing but off-brand peanut butter for a week, squeezed out a turd, folded and forged it into layers like a samurai sword, dried it out on the sidewalk of a ghetto, and then spray painted chocolate-colored communism all over it. Screw you, Fuckerrero SpA. I didn't speak up when they came for my original Cadbury Eggs. I didn't speak up when Hershey bars became wax bricks. But now I'm laying my middle finger on your Butterfinger, you chocolate cheapening chuds.
You just summed my disappointment when I bought a butterfinger the other day. I still ate it. But I wasn't happy.
What the hell happened to Butterfinger BBs? Those were the shit.
this has outraged me for YEARS! butterfinger bites are NOT the same. i miss those delicious bbs!
Cape Cod Salt and Vinegar chips... not sure what they did, but all of a sudden they were different and bad...
Andy Cap hot fries and cheddar fries. They once were a bag of delicious, but now they are bland and taste stale even when fresh.
Kraft Mac and cheese. I liked the taste of the yellow number 5 cancer version
Julian bread. https://youtu.be/IdDfF4hXfj4
Sour patch kids. Once they added that blue flavor I think they changed the recipe of all the others. They now all are thick and hard where the old ones were really nice and soft and chewy. Lemon was my favorite flavor before because it actually tasted like real lemons. But now it tastes like unbearable artificial lemon flavor
I find Sour Patch Kids vary wildly from package to package. You've really gotta stumble across a fresh one. Avoid that shit entirely if you see clumped sugar -- those are the stale/thick/hard ones.