I'm so disappointed with my revisited childhood memory

[IJustWantFiveMinutesAlone]

I bought some piccalilli in last week and I had this memory of having corned beef sandwiches and piccalilli as a child. In my memory it was the best sandwich ever.
I've just had some as an early lunch and I'm so sad. They weren't good. They weren't awful either but they just weren't what I remembered! I kind of wish I had left it in my memory now
Anyone else disappointed like this?

Randall & Hopkirk. My brother and I loved it. Had the chance to see the original again. Utter cardboard acting shite! Ditto Hawaii 5 -0..

Jamie and the Magic Torch

Also, Trio biscuits. I bought some recently and I can't believe that they used to taste like that. They used to be amazing, I can still almost taste them when I really try hard. Now they're just rank!

@BarkandCheese blimey I've got a copy upstairs somewhere, think I need to get it on Ebay!

Has anyone watched the original Narnia tv series recently. Utter magic as a child. Utterly crap now!

@moreofthegreenstuff

raspberry ripple frozen mousses OMG do they still make them? I haven't had one for about 40 years...

Yep. In every supermarket. And the ingredients proudly boast that they contain palm oil amongst other unpalatable shite. They're not good. Very sweet and disappointing.

The Famous Five books. I loved them growing up! I read them all so many times. I thought I'd read them again as an adult for a bit of cosy nostalgia. I couldn't finish the first one!
I couldn't stand those kids! 😂

Angel delight, yeah. Bleurgh.

I still like my dairy milk though. I didn't notice any change to it...

Yes Sandwich spread! I had a yearning for the tangy sandwich spread of my childhood the other day and DP brought home a jar. To our disappointment, they have changed the recipe and it is now too sweet for our taste.

Secret Seven, too. Just awful. I’ve decided not to show them to my son. In fact, pretty much all Enid Blyton.

Strawberry shoelaces, I used to really like them - the ones that were quite thick and twisty but the last ones I had just nasty chemical tasting stringy crap.

@fascinated

Angel delight, yeah. Bleurgh.

I still like my dairy milk though. I didn't notice any change to it...

Not notice any change?!

It's completely different. Texture, taste, ingredients etc. Decent Fruit and Nut used to be a solid, thick, milky, properly melting treat. It is now greasy, melts oddly and is shiny and oily. Galaxy is the same.

I've had this with so many things, as I remember childhood very vividly. Some of these things have been:

Watching the Crystal Maze on YouTube: when I binge watch it, I notice how scripted it is, even with Richard o' Brien. I was also really disappointed to learn (from comments by former contestants) that it wasn't filmed in real time, and they were often told what to say. However I loved the Crystal Maze experience in London.

Playgrounds now have much "safer" equipment than they did in the 1980s: no tall slides and climbing frames.

The Tower Bridge museum. It used to have fantastic exhibits that you walked through, with "Harry the painter" telling the story of the bridge. Now it's just the overhead walkways, and nothing else.

I used to eat slabs of Dairy Milk every day. No meal was complete without a bit of chocolate afterwards.
I realised that I was overdoing it and stopped eating it.

Tried it again and it was barely edible. The texture was wrong, the mouthfeel was wrong and the taste was wrong.

Same goes for many brands.

The more expensive chocolate is still good.

Yes, dh and I used to eat Findus Crispy pancakes when we were first married. We were broke. I used to quite enjoy them. Ditto Angel Delight and Cadbury's smash which my eccentric aunt would also serve me for dinner. I never feel the need to go back there nor revisit Fray Bentos with its chunky filling of fat and undercooked pastry.

But I do like Branston Pickle. I served it to my 17 yr old grandson this week in a cheese sandwich. After asking what the hell it was, He said it was the taste of old people. Like going into the care home over the road and if he licked the faces of the elderly, it would taste of branston pickle. Don't judge me. His words not mine.

The Breakfast Club.

I LOVED this film. It was like they got me, they understood me! Their parents didnt understand them either....it was such a defining film.

I am now 47 and watched it last year. Oh. My. God. What a whiny bunch of little shits. I wanted to put my foot through the screen. Fucking get over yourselves your spoilt self obsessed arseholes. No wonder my mother was fucking sick of me if I was like that!

@Emmapeeler1 It was his heads all lined up that did it for me, it was bizarre! Mind you, Pipkins was fucking weird too, Hartley Hare wasnt exactly top quality puppet making was he?! Its no wonder my generation all ended up on drugs..... :o

l was recently given some Black Jack and Fruit Salad chews in a sweet bag from a friend.
l was really looking forward to them as l used to love they when l was little. They were disgusting! l tried two of each and put them in the bin!

Findus crisy pancakes.

One of my happiest childhood memories is when a family member convinced me that I had flown from one end of the garden to the other in a hot air balloon, by lifting me into the air in a basket. I couldn't see because I was blindfolded, but they told me about the tiny scenery below, and when I was allowed to see again, I found that I was at the other end of the garden from where I had started. I so believed it at the age of six, and can recall the sense of wonder, but I feel sad that I'll never be able to truly recreate that feeling, if only because I now know how the trick was done! I could do it for my nieces, but that's not the same.

@katseyes7

I agree they are all chewy and soft and rubbish! I loved the old ones that were hard as nails and stuck your teeth together as they softened, they lasted ages.....probably why they changed them thinking about it...

Chew nuts. Those little round toffees covered with chocolate. I loved them as a kid. Now they just taste of bad quality toffee and cheap chocolate.

@katseyes7 - oh yeah. Black Jacks & Fruit Salads are vile now.

@Emmapeeler1

Try it with Branston pickle instead. Lovely. Well, it was in 1992

Was it as good as in 1972? God, I am soooooo old 😂

Arctic roll. I had really gone overboard to the dc about how amazing it was, especially with chocolate sauce. It was a disappointment. Also Ivor the Engine, loved it as a child, so dull as an adult.

Vesta curry. Box stored at ambient temperature, add boiling water, was bloody lovely when M&D went out when I was ??? years old.

Surprised to find one in a cheapie store recently, so bought it & it was disgusting.

Toffee (well, it's all salted caramel now isn't it, but the same applies). Does not have the buttery creamy taste of toffee (or caramel), it's just hard and greasy and then pulls out your fillings.