Everything that uses oil tastes like chemical wang now. I don’t know who to blame, the transfat nazis, the rapeseed lobby or just the usual buzzkill capitalist pigs, but everything from tortilla chips to french fries now tastes like something you clean house with. Look, assholes, I’ll pay more, I’ll sign a waiver, whatever, just give me the real stuff!
When frozen yogurt first appeared in the late 70’s, it had a wonderful, strong yogurt tartness and was usually paired with a berry flavor that would be strong enough to match that tartness. I remember “Danny” boysenberry as an absolute explosion of flavor in your mouth.
Then they started marketing frozen yogurt as a “healthier” alternative to ice cream, and in the process added enough sugar/corn syrup to cover the tartness and toned down the added flavorings to the level of typical ice cream flavors. So it went from being a distinctive frozen treat to just another set of boxes in the grocery ice cream section.
Yeah, most yogurt is just pudding. The greek yogurt or the stuff I get at the farmers’ market just blows the others away. (I’m talking about fresh, not frozen, but same difference).
Chili’s used to have curly fries? How long ago was this?
Yikes, I’m probably going back twelve years or so. The chili only started to suck about two years ago, though.
Yes, “Wheatbles” are still in the supermarket, but I don’t know why they bother.
We lived on those things in college. So good. Now so bland and ordinary and pointless.
Just for the record, so as not to confuse anyone, McDonald’s fries are still NOT vegetarian. Beef flavor is added in the initial process at the plant, before being frozen and shipped. Not that it makes much difference in flavor (compared to the old) since they still use vegetable oil for final frying. But just so vegetarians know, they’re still not edible for us, anyway.
Cheerios were made crunchier back in the early nineties I think. Now I just buy generic.
Another one here who misses the old Wheatables (not that old…I mean, they were like that until the late 90’s/early 2000’s.) But they decided to jump on that God-damn honey wheat bang wagon and never went back.
The old ones were so good! Salty, herby, and savory…the new ones are shit. If I want a honey wheat thing, and sometimes I do, I get the Rold Gold honey wheat pretzel sticks…just bring back the classic Wheatables! Hell, they can just make them a variety and keep the honey wheat ones someone executive has a hard-on for.
I like whole wheat pasta.
Not the product, but the package: Cherry Coke Zero bottles have been redesigned so that they no longer fit in the inside door of my refrigerator. Pisses me off.
I may be in the minority, but I always liked that watermelon had seeds. Improved the look, and it was actually fun to go around spitting them out. The seedless ones just have those pasty white bits that remind me of just how anemic and bland the rest of the fruit is. If I had more space, I’d like to find some old varieties and grow my own.
Curly fries! I like regular old straight fries. Curly fries are “spicy” - ugh. Arby’s stopped selling Homestyle fries completely, and only offer curly fries or potato cakes. Yuck.
I think Cheerios are one of those cereals that became a victim to the annoying “whole grain” trend.
Exactly this. If it’s not from a local farm, I mainly just don’t bother with fresh fruit, because nothing has any flavor any more. Strawberries and tomatoes are the most egregious examples. Just mushy red nothingness. Ew.
I don’t bother with that sort of thing often, because I bake at home as often as I can, but I wouldn’t mind an old-style Hostess fruit pie. They’re smaller, they’ve got less filling, the filling has less fruit, they changed the glaze and most egregiously, they’ve changed the best part, which was the corners, they’re folded differently. It’s a completely different snack.
traditional steak and kydney pie is steamed for 3 hours with the ingredients inside raw. now they usually slow cook the meat in a pot, add to a pie dish with crust, and bake.
steaming makes a superior gravy.
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