Kit Kats are dead to me

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Good when I was a kid, a bit crap in recent years, awful now.

What other foods have turned to rubbish?

Lucozade should be called LOO-cozade because it tastes like fizzy piss.

So I've been told.

The raisins are the best bit!

Ruined creme eggs. Absolutely ruined them.

I could weep.

Agree that Twirls, Flakes and Buttons still taste about right but all other Cadburys chocolate is now horrible. Freddos we’re still fine until very recently but they’ve changed the shape of them and it tastes like they’ve changed the chocolate at the same time. Fuming.

No it's not. Doesn't even melt properly for a toastie.

I blame that interfering bumh*le Jamie Oliver for that, the sanctimonious, meddling git.

How do you know what whale semen tastes like? 😂
Terrys chocolate orange.. the actual orange shaped ones.. the segments are shiny and the segments arent whole segments

Once, about 20 years ago, I had a Kit Kat chunky on a train, and they had somehow forgotten to include the biscuit part, so it was just solid chocolate all the way through. That was the best surprise ever, I still dream about that Kit Kat!
No real relevance to the thread, sorry 😊

Try the Lidl fake Ritz. They taste like the originals used to.

Terrys chocolate orange is the thing that disappoints me these days. I loved it when it was chunky and you had to hit it on the wall to break it away from the stem.
Also I’m sure Toblerone tastes different. I used to love that too, but don’t like it at all anymore.

TUC biscuits. They break up too quickly when putting spread on.
Also they taste like cardboard - used to taste much better than they do now.

McVities Digestives. Had to swap to M&S ones mid-lockdown after Mcvities changed them, they became claggy and pale, very odd. Saw a few people on twitter complaining too, tried a couple more times since then but they were still grim.

Smell and taste can also disappear after Covid, sometimes permanently.
Following covid, my sense of smell returned quite quickly but nearly two years on I still can't taste some things, or they taste different.

Haribo tangfastics. Some bright spark decided to make them with fruit not synthetic goopy stuff. Now I’m allergic to them. THANKS A LOT HARIBO…. Don’t put fruit where it doesn’t need to be!

I quite liked the salted pretzel one, but Aldi do something very similar and it’s only £1.79 (I think) so you can get two instead of a Tony’s- it’s just as nice if not better.

He sounds like a good 'un 😉

Keep them in the freezer, the issue is largely a texture thing I think and eating them from the freezer makes nake crisp and crunchy again 😋

Most garlic baquettes are dead to me now….except to co op frozen ones. Hope they don’t change them 😥

This may be true, but I'm not having it as an explanation for shit ingredients. A good friend occasionally sends me beautiful chocolates from small fancy chocolatiers, and oh my God, they are still heavenly.

There was a thread a few months ago about cheese and I think the reason it's gone funny is because they are using vegetable rennet instead of animal rennet.

But agree with all other comments about how crap all these 'new and improved' products now taste.

Vegetable rennet isn't a new thing, though. It's been around for decades, and still isn't in all cheeses.

Kit kats taste the same to me. Especially kit kat chunkies

That all depends on the cheese but it is expensive…..for an exceptional cheddar I suggest Westcombe, they sell it in marks and Spencer’s but it’s specially made for them I suspect, as it is pasteurised milk, but still fantastic. you can get the raw milk one by mail order, I’m not exaggerating it is utterly beautiful, if you feel like a treat
https://westcombedairy.com/

Cheese is all about the milk, not the rennet, and milk is all about the pasture

Uuugh agree I remember when they were short, and salty, they taste artificially sweet now and of nothing else.