# Product changes for the worse. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 18, 2003, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/product-changes-for-the-worse/149372 "2003-01-18T02:03:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/product-changes-for-the-worse/149372/61 "2003-01-21T21:18:37Z")
That doesn’t smell like gym socks or fruit! Arm and Hammer’s Powder Scent. I love several things about it. First of all, if I’m not sweating, it doesn’t smell. It smells a little when you sniff the whole bar of it, but on your skin it’s essentially scent-less. Until you start sweating. (you know, the point that you would stink if you were not wearing deoderant…) Then it kicks on with a light clean smell. Not flowery, not fruity, not “sporty” just clean. If A&H messes with my deoderant I will hunt them down and kill them. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/product-changes-for-the-worse/149372/62 "2003-01-21T23:49:32Z")
A) Captain Crunch with Crunchberries: Used to have crunchberries that were red and had a strong, vaguely berrylike flavor. Now they’ve added like four colors of crunchberrys that have no flavor other than “sugar” B) I don’t like deoderants: they feel…I dunno…sticky and yuk. I’ve been using Shower-To-Shower powder for a couple of decades. The regular stuff barely had any smell at all which was just fine with me. Now the bastards have gotten rid of the plain stuff and the only stuff left will make me smell like the aftermath of a catfight in a whorehouse. I am a burly, hairy guy. Unless I am _involved_ in the catfight at a whorehouse, I do not wish to smell like a catfight at a whorehouse. I’m trying to get used to Arm and Hammer unscented deoderant, with limited success. As far as I know, they’re the only unscented deoderant on the market. C) Clark Bars: You can’t get ‘em here anymore and recent scientific studies have shown that they’re 10,000,000,000,000 times better than yukky ol’ Butterfinger bars. Fenris ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/product-changes-for-the-worse/149372/63 "2003-01-21T23:53:17Z")
And I completely agree with **Medea’s Child** and will join her in the hunt if A&H messes with my deoderant ---
**Author:** ![Weird\_AL\_Einstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c67d28/32.png) [@Weird\_AL\_Einstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weird_AL_Einstein)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/product-changes-for-the-worse/149372/64 "2003-02-09T22:47:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fenris \* > \*\*I don’t like deoderants: they feel…I dunno…sticky and yuk. I’ve been using Shower-To-Shower powder for a couple of decades. The regular stuff barely had any smell at all which was just fine with me. Now the bastards have gotten rid of the plain stuff and the only stuff left will make me smell like the aftermath of a catfight in a whorehouse. \*\* My local Price Chopper carries a no frills version of that stuff, unscented. Look for no frills. ---
**Author:** ![occ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8c91f0/32.png) [@occ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/occ)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/product-changes-for-the-worse/149372/65 "2003-02-10T00:25:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Legomancer \* > \*\*I would like to add: keyboards in general. Does anyone use those dumbass Windows keys? Do those keys do anything EXCEPT yank you out of your game when you accidentally hit them? I see no purpose for them except to advertise Windows. I don’t know anyone that uses the stupid things. I’m not one of these “Microsoft is of the Debbil” people, but the keyboards get o n my nerves and nobody sells a keyboard without them. \*\* Exactly, those things are ridiculous. Think about the Start-button key; you’re going to be moving your mouse down to the Start-menu anyway, to make your selection (unless you really want to tab through it with a keyboard, in which case just hit Ctrl-Esc like the rest of the civilized world), so why have a damn button for it? Sheesh. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/product-changes-for-the-worse/149372.md?page=3)