What things from your past arent as nice as you'd remembered

[notacooldad]

For me it is
Babysham I dont know if I have spelt it right

Angel delight especially Butterscotch which I used to love as a kid.

Vienetta
Cinzano bianco Admittedly I've not had this since I was 14 and my an would let me drink it ( probably to wind my mum up)

Vol au vonts 🤮

Frey bentos pies. I remember genuinely thinking how on earth isn't everyone eating these all the time, they're amazing. Now I know it's because, they're rank

My Mother.

but more in the spirit of the thread - walnut whips.

Campbell’s meatballs 😪

Blackpool I thought it was great when I was a kid took DC last year it was awful they loved it though

Oh - Calpol.

My older 3 used to be fine with a dose of calpol.

Big gap and then little no.4 is gagging at it. I taste it. It's now low sugar!

I mean who eats enough Calpol to warrant a more healthy recipe??

Spaghetti hoops are disgusting now. I used to live on them.

Crispy pancakes are horrible now, but probably as the changed from Findus to Birds Eye

Ribena is now horrible as it is full of sweeteners. It’s aftertaste is bollocks, whereas I used to drink proper full sugar, glass bottle Ribena (but had a shitload of fillings as a result).

Special K.
Very different in the 70s... like cork shavings now.

All squashes... just vile and leaves a nasty metallic aftertaste.

I agree that Crispy Pancakes have changed beyond recognition.

Bagpuss. Really boring. And yes, Ribena is a shadow of its former self.

WKD blue

Mars bars.

Used to take what felt like hours chewing the caramel side off the Milky-Wayesque interior. Now it's blink and you miss the entire thing. See also Creme Eggs and Chocolate bourbon biscuits.

I still absolutely love a vol au vent…the filling is what counts..Christmas is not complete without me dishing out vol au vents late Christmas Eve.!

Dream Topping. That stuff was amazing, better than cream, right? Wrong, it's like well-beaten margarine.

Caramac

Yes to crispy pancakes. I used to think the beef ones were the food of the Gods and would be so happy when mum produced them for tea (instead of liver and onions!) Tried one quite a few years ago now and it was rank - never again!

Pizza Hut salad bar - was amazing when I was a teen - or perhaps it just seemed amazing because it was still quite new in the 80's and eating out at all was A. Big. Deal! I still wistfully wonder if they will ever bring back the raw cauliflower which was gorgeous drenched in blue cheese sauce. Come to think of it, the blue cheese sauce isn't anything like as rich and tasty as it used to be!

Cadbury's chocolate of course - ugh! If there is a heaven, mine will have old style dairy milk and creme eggs in it!

Agree with any drink with aspartamene in. Please bring back sugar!
Also tunnocks tea cakes! They are now so sticky and yikky. You could get the marshmallow but off in one go before.
And ham. Why is it all slimy and tasteless now?!
And m and s chicken. So salty! Must be injected with brine? Yik.
Would love to do a taste test of food from 50 years ago and now!

Double Decker bars. What have they DONE to them?!

Pot noodles. Entirely bland and tasteless 😥

Double decker needs renamed single decker and what have they done to the filling? Tastes vile now.

Double decker needs renamed single decker
Have you seen the size of Wagon Wheels lately!?

My ex boyfriend, thought the sun shone out of his backside as a teenager, met up as adults, what an absolute arse, the thought of a few things and thought you actually were never nice, I just didn't see it.

square sausage, canned beef burgers, Findus french bread pizza (they used to be huge) frozen mousse,

Fry's orange cream bars. Used to taste like bitter chocolate and oranges now tastes like chocolate wax and sugar.

Crisps

I remember KP crisps and Golden Wonder and even Walkers when they were absolutely covered in the flavour powder and they tasted of potato.
Now, they barely taste of anything, regardless of what flavour it says on the packet.

Another Frey Bentos pie disappointment here.
I used to think the effort of wrangling the can opener was worth it. Never again.