Food that doesn't taste the same as it used to

[BigJanette]

Ritz crackers.
What in the name of feck did they do to them?
Where are those crispy, crunchy, salty circles of deliciousness?
Instead we have slightly off, stale tasting discs of disappointment.

I know from others that McVitie's Chocolate Digestives are also on the gone downhill list.
Anything else?

Ohhh, I had one the other day and thought it might be out of date! I'd already chucked the wrapper.

Totally agree about fruit. Is there anywhere in the world that fruit tastes normal/like it used to? Is it just Britain or is it tasteless everywhere?

Findus Crispy Pancakes were the first thing that popped in my head!
They tasted amazing when I was a kid & bloody awful when I revisited them as an adult.

Thanks, I’ll look into that. Hope you’re ok.

Ritz crackers are deffo not moreish anymore, what did they do to them?!

i was contemplating getting another one as I thought maybe I just had a dodgy one. So glad I didn’t lol

At our old house we had apple trees producing huge amounts of fruit.

For the first time in thirty years I’m having to buy apples and I can’t believe how disappointing they taste.

Out of season strawberries always tasted of nothing though- if you look on the packaging, if they are the Elsanta variety. They are a variety of strawberry that produces big, impressive looking fruit that travels well, but have a bit of a bland flavour. In season, you get a range of varieties but this time of year you’re going to get elsanta, or other easy to grow but bland ones.

I do think it’s palm oil most of the time, and then salt reduction. I do think we need to vote with our wallets this Christmas!

(Perhaps we need a “tastes good /no palm oil” thread to drop recommendations that might not be the cheapest /best known brands but good flavours?)

I loved those - but they don’t make any non-meat ones now.

I agree its horrid stuff. I think it must go rank faster than other oils.

Another poster that misses the lovely, foiled Philadelphia of yesteryear.
And:
Grapefruit-if you can find it- always a thin sliver of flesh and a lot of pith. And always red. Where are the yellow ones?
Bernard Matthews turkey hamwich: Used to be a piece of turkey ham with a lovely melty layer of cheese on top, encased in breadcrumbs. Now it’s a fatty triangle of ‘meat’ with a few crumbs of cheese embedded in it.
Anything that doesn’t need sweetener but they bung a load in anyway.

Here in Australia, I eat seasonally, always Australian and notice that fresh food has changed over time. Strawberries can be got here all year round but the small summer ones are best, just as they are in the UK. They aren't as good as UK ones, possibly the Tassie ones - cool climate seems to be key.
I'm sad that Cox's Orange Pippins no longer have the distinctly yellow flesh of my youth. Oh, I forgot - plums are very hit and miss. Raspberries are excellent, they seem to be hard to screw up.
Peaches, nectarines, and cherries, citrus are good. Again seasonal and Australian only.

Tomatoes, as bland as in the UK when I got here, are a bugger, though buying them ripe but rock hard so kept in a bowl for a day or two works well. I've tracked down a tomato that tastes like the ones of my childhood, Doncasters, grown in proper soil and only available the summer. Fabulous.

I don't eat chocolate but the Cadbury's made here has no palm oil in it.

I so wish I could eat cheese.

Life is not the same without cheese.

Not the point of the thread I know, I’m sorry but ……. Cheese. I so want cheese.

Why can't you @breezyyy ?
Did you wake up craving cheese 😅

Every bleeding day, all the bleeding time BigJanette, I am so pissed off that I am allergic to cheese.

Aagh that's a bummer, I'm sorry to hear that @breezyyy x

Thank you sweetie. It really is a bummer. What is better than melted cheese?

Shitting allergies.