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Kit Kats are dead to me

513 replies

whatausername · 25/04/2023 15:03

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

What other foods have turned to rubbish?

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ttcat37 · 25/04/2023 19:22

overthinkersanonnymus · 25/04/2023 17:52

Where are the ham & pickle!!?

I don’t need ham and pickle. Never had them. It’s the sheer burning heat of the beef and mustard I long for. And the actual crisps were so thick as well. I’ve actually emailed KP snacks and asked them how many signatures they would need to bring them back

ChiChaNaYubi · 25/04/2023 19:25

Ritter Sport honeyed almond chocolate is the tits.

TwoMonthsOff · 25/04/2023 19:26

@ttcat37 not gone back through thread but are you talking about Brannigans ?

MagicClawHasNoChildren · 25/04/2023 19:28

@Silentbarking

You can buy Golden Wonder from Amazon but usually in bulk (24 in a box).

You may have just changed my life. And my waistline.

AlwaysGinPlease · 25/04/2023 19:29

TooExtraImmatureCheddar · 25/04/2023 15:04

Ribena.

Oh yes, it's absolutely awful now.

Silentbarking · 25/04/2023 19:31

MagicClawHasNoChildren · 25/04/2023 19:28

@Silentbarking

You can buy Golden Wonder from Amazon but usually in bulk (24 in a box).

You may have just changed my life. And my waistline.

I feel guilty for both of us….just ordered a box and it’s a box of 32!

bendmeoverbackwards · 25/04/2023 19:34

I don’t get threads like this at all. I can’t taste the difference of anything.

I love Tony’s chocolate and Hotel Chocolat is lovely too but I also eat Cadbury’s and Mars bars.

Maybe it’s taste buds that change as you get older…..

BellePeppa · 25/04/2023 19:37

Chimneypotblues · 25/04/2023 16:48

Nearly everything's been switched to palm oil and sweeteners, it's horrible! Biscuits and pastry are mostly all palm oil filled rubbish now. It's not the same at all.

I wonder if that’s why I no longer seem to like biscuits? I’ve been a lifelong lover of biscuits and recently thought to myself I just don’t seem to like them anymore but couldn’t say why specifically.

SoDamnObvious · 25/04/2023 19:41

ttcat37 · 25/04/2023 19:22

I don’t need ham and pickle. Never had them. It’s the sheer burning heat of the beef and mustard I long for. And the actual crisps were so thick as well. I’ve actually emailed KP snacks and asked them how many signatures they would need to bring them back

I loved brannigans. So sad they are discontinued. How many signatures did KP say it would take? You can have mine! Grin

There are beef and mustard made by an Irish company @ttcat37 im going to see if I can track down a local stockists to try those.

https://www.armstrongcountryfoods.com/products/glens-of-antrim-roast-beef-and-mustard-crisps

Glens Of Antrim Roast Beef and Mustard Crisps

Thick Cut Jacket Potato Crisps | Roast Beef and Mustard Flavour 100g bag Ingredients: Potatoes, Sunflower Oil, Rice Flour, Yeast Extract Powder, Sugar, Onion Powder, Salt, Natural Flavourings (Including Natural Mustard Flavouring), Acid: Citric Acid, S...

https://www.armstrongcountryfoods.com/products/glens-of-antrim-roast-beef-and-mustard-crisps

ttcat37 · 25/04/2023 19:41

TwoMonthsOff · 25/04/2023 19:26

@ttcat37 not gone back through thread but are you talking about Brannigans ?

Yep. Beef and mustard.

BellePeppa · 25/04/2023 19:41

ChiChaNaYubi · 25/04/2023 19:25

Ritter Sport honeyed almond chocolate is the tits.

Does that mean it’s good or bad?

ttcat37 · 25/04/2023 19:42

SoDamnObvious · 25/04/2023 19:41

I loved brannigans. So sad they are discontinued. How many signatures did KP say it would take? You can have mine! Grin

There are beef and mustard made by an Irish company @ttcat37 im going to see if I can track down a local stockists to try those.

https://www.armstrongcountryfoods.com/products/glens-of-antrim-roast-beef-and-mustard-crisps

They haven’t got back to me yet but I’ll report back.

OldTinHat · 25/04/2023 19:43

Kettle chips, the original cheese ones from about 30yrs ago. They're horrid now.

TwoMonthsOff · 25/04/2023 19:43

@ttcat37 I forgot all about them, they had butcher illustration on the pack, they were so tasty…….real mustard kick to them, what happened to them ….

TwoMonthsOff · 25/04/2023 19:44

@ttcat37 as in a man in white uniform stood in front of a shop If I remember

Silentbarking · 25/04/2023 19:44

BellePeppa · 25/04/2023 19:37

I wonder if that’s why I no longer seem to like biscuits? I’ve been a lifelong lover of biscuits and recently thought to myself I just don’t seem to like them anymore but couldn’t say why specifically.

Same here, they’re so bland and tasteless.

ttcat37 · 25/04/2023 19:49

Discontinued! Gutted

thislittlebird · 25/04/2023 19:52

@TwoMonthsOff I really can’t work out what they did to make them so weird. You couldn’t even dunk them anymore because of the claggy texture. I even wrote to them (I really love digestive biscuits!) and there was some explanation about another factory because of covid supply issues or something and a voucher was sent. I don’t believe this explanation and I chose to use it for rich tea instead. I would bet it was a cost cutting exercise.

Wheresthebeach · 25/04/2023 19:54

EasyPeelersAreNotSatsumas · 25/04/2023 18:51

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

Thank you - will taste test tomorrow!

ChunkyCheese · 25/04/2023 19:59

Maynards wine gums also don’t taste how they used to. I used to love them.

MissDollyMix · 25/04/2023 20:12

IceCreamWithSprinkles · 25/04/2023 18:49

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 😊

So in other words you got a Yorkie 😂

JoeLovesGina · 25/04/2023 20:13

Milka chocolate is lovely.

Silentbarking · 25/04/2023 20:16

MissDollyMix · 25/04/2023 20:12

So in other words you got a Yorkie 😂

😁

ToHellBackAndBeyond · 25/04/2023 20:18

Snickers. Used to have full on roasted peanuts and decent chocolate. Not the nuts are tiny bits and the chocolate is thin, in fact the whole thing has shrunk!
Milky way is now sickly over sweet goop in the middle.
I miss Tab clear, Cadbury Secret, and Refreshers.

tobee · 25/04/2023 20:23

I want to buy locazade but I'm always taken back in a Proustian way to lying ill on the sofa as child and associate it with feeling feeble and queasy.

Frazzles no longer give you that bacony hit and seem all puffy.

Mcvities digestives I bought a packet on holiday and they were those horrible healthy ones by mistake. Specially bought the original style ones urrrgh still awful. Keep toying with the idea of having a go at making them myself. They need to be very short.

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