Which changes in a product you’d liked have been the worst?

Fairy washing up liquid....its so weak now. I used to leave stuff to soak for 15-20 minutes and it was lovely and frothy. Now all the bubbles have gone after 5 minutes 😳😳
Also the size of the quality street and roses chocolate tins.... always used to get a tin of each for Christmas. Now they are so tiny its not worth bothering with 😔😔

When they stopped including the giblets with a chicken. EEC I think.

A few years ago Simple moisturiser changed it’s formula and I instantly came out in a burning rash.

Yes the chocolate is dry rather than that lovely taste you used to get

does Galaxy still exist because it was always nicer than DM imo

i don't tend to buy chocolate nowadays also the shrinkflation irritates me e.g. crunchy

Tonys is still nice

Yes it tastes crap now

Vimto, the non low sugar version still doesn't taste right. The taste of my childhood.

Rolos. Every packet I buy now has the powdery “bloom” of chocolate that’s been overheated.
Old fashioned Head and Shoulders. It was alkaline, I know, but my hair would actually do as it was told. Wilko had a replacement for a few years and now they’ve gone bust, too.

My grandma had dementia and accused my of poisoning her when I gave her Cadburys chocolate buttons.

Lee Stafford got lots of comments on Twitter and said he was also sad to lose the original fragrance but never explained why. I can’t put my finger on what it smelled like, another perfume or maybe play doh?!
They released a hair fragrance spray with their original fragrance not long ago. Not sure if it’s still available.

I hear you on Ribena. It's utter muck now with tons of shitty sweeteners.

I think nearly all soft drinks now have sweeteners. Only regular coke now that doesn't. Even regular pepsi now has sweeteners.

I don't even hate sweeteners, I eat protein bars and like them in coffee. But not in soda!

I am totally behind this idea!

Try the Tesco finest version, we prefer it!

In about 1986 they changed wagon wheel. They are smaller and less marshmallowy. I'm still grieving.

It's full of palm oil. Palm oil wrecks products, and plus it's very distructive to the environment (and poor orangutans)

Mitchum deodorant it the worst one for me as it set my armpits on fire. Chocolate, sweets etc are so disappointing and sad - it’s not like they’re actually ‘cheap’ anyway.

T gel shampoo for psoriasis. It used to be really effective in its sticky brown formula. It’s been changed now it’s feeling useless!

@Shineonyoucrazy you've got your math wrong, 30 years ago was the 1970's 😉 IYKYK

Huggies are probably like Johnson's wipes, I bought them for cleaning because they were so good. But wouldn't actually use them on my babies skin- if there's enough alcohol to remove thick make up the chances are it's overkill for a babies bum. Anyway, Johnson's removed all the alcohol and now they won't get wine out of a carpet anymore. But more parents probably buy them.

@SisterMargarettayou are right, “A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play” was 80s - we had a choc bar every Monday after school in the 70s and we were deprived compared to friends. Thirty years ago was 1995 not 1945!!!!

@fiorentinatry the Cauldron sosigs again - they changed the formula to vegan and they were awful, they’ve now changed back due to consumer pressure. The only veggie sos my kids would eat.

@ThisAmberOrca - DH and I both ate loads of sweets and chocolate as children 60 years ago. I remember going to the shop across the road, as a five year old and buying a Mars bar with my pocket money. We certainly didn’t eat the odd square as a rare treat! We didn’t regard it as expensive and we come from ordinary families, not the well off!

For me, ruined:

1. Black Magic - they took out the lemon one, the nut ones and replaced them with horrible truffle types. Nice British chocolate box was turned into a Continental box of truffles, which I never bought before!
2. Ribena as per pp
3. San Pellegrino - I don’t like the bitter aftertaste of sweeteners
4. Cadburys chocolate - Curly Wurlies are like a miniature of their original selves
5. All other soft drinks, which now have artificial sweeteners, but didn’t used to

We don’t eat UPFs at home much; but for a treat we have to drink full fat Coke or expensive cordials in dark green bottles (Belvoir or Bottle Green?). We buy chocolate from either Aldi or Lidl with no palm oil, and which still has proper cocoa butter.

I haven’t had Twiglets recently, but I’ll have to try those - they are one of my favourites!

I’d much prefer to pay more for things as they used to be, than inedible rubbish now!

It does seem to be taking out real substances and replacing them with chemically formed ones and palm oil. It's why everything we used to call a "treat" ends up tasting the same and burns your tongue now if you have more than 1. Maybe it's like Pavlov's dog where you get reconditioned by the bad taste and painful sweetners not to crave nice things?

I think the same thing that happened to quorn they used to have some dairy in them then all the vegans came along and they re did the recipe for a wider group.

Come to our house.

I agree about San Pellegrino, plus any fizzy drink that is now full of sweeteners, they all leave an awful aftertaste. Used to love SP, also Sprite, 7up etc, all horrible since they've reduced the sugar and added sweeteners. Same with Heinz tomato soup, absolutely vile now they've added sweeteners, it is really sickly sweet and nothing like it used to be. (Yet still really expensive for a tin of soup)