Which changes in a product you’d liked have been the worst?

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Just bought some Huggies wet wipes for the first time in a while. I use them to take makeup off, and they are the only wet wipe that are really effective. They’re thick and somehow really remove the dirt well. But they’ve changed and are now utterly, utterly shite. They’re thin and remove nothing. Why oh why do they do this? Do they not test the product in manufacturing and think ‘this is obviously a shit move’? So frustrating.

See also Ribena. Used to be a great occasional drink to soothe a sore throat, now it tastes of nothing but chemicals. Why do that?

Surely no one will buy the new Huggies Wet wipes? Surely only 10% of the old Ribena buyers still buy. What is the sense in this commercially?

@SisterMargarettayou are right, “A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play” was 80s - we had a choc bar every Monday after school in the 70s and we were deprived compared to friends. Thirty years ago was 1995 not 1945!!!!

Huggies are probably like Johnson's wipes, I bought them for cleaning because they were so good. But wouldn't actually use them on my babies skin- if there's enough alcohol to remove thick make up the chances are it's overkill for a babies bum. Anyway, Johnson's removed all the alcohol and now they won't get wine out of a carpet anymore. But more parents probably buy them.

@Shineonyoucrazy you've got your math wrong, 30 years ago was the 1970's 😉 IYKYK

T gel shampoo for psoriasis. It used to be really effective in its sticky brown formula. It’s been changed now it’s feeling useless!

Mitchum deodorant it the worst one for me as it set my armpits on fire. Chocolate, sweets etc are so disappointing and sad - it’s not like they’re actually ‘cheap’ anyway.

It's full of palm oil. Palm oil wrecks products, and plus it's very distructive to the environment (and poor orangutans)

In about 1986 they changed wagon wheel. They are smaller and less marshmallowy. I'm still grieving.

Try the Tesco finest version, we prefer it!

I am totally behind this idea!

I hear you on Ribena. It's utter muck now with tons of shitty sweeteners.

I think nearly all soft drinks now have sweeteners. Only regular coke now that doesn't. Even regular pepsi now has sweeteners.

I don't even hate sweeteners, I eat protein bars and like them in coffee. But not in soda!

Lee Stafford got lots of comments on Twitter and said he was also sad to lose the original fragrance but never explained why. I can’t put my finger on what it smelled like, another perfume or maybe play doh?!
They released a hair fragrance spray with their original fragrance not long ago. Not sure if it’s still available.

My grandma had dementia and accused my of poisoning her when I gave her Cadburys chocolate buttons.

Rolos. Every packet I buy now has the powdery “bloom” of chocolate that’s been overheated.
Old fashioned Head and Shoulders. It was alkaline, I know, but my hair would actually do as it was told. Wilko had a replacement for a few years and now they’ve gone bust, too.

Vimto, the non low sugar version still doesn't taste right. The taste of my childhood.

Yes it tastes crap now

Yes the chocolate is dry rather than that lovely taste you used to get

does Galaxy still exist because it was always nicer than DM imo

i don't tend to buy chocolate nowadays also the shrinkflation irritates me e.g. crunchy

Tonys is still nice

A few years ago Simple moisturiser changed it’s formula and I instantly came out in a burning rash.

When they stopped including the giblets with a chicken. EEC I think.

Fairy washing up liquid....its so weak now. I used to leave stuff to soak for 15-20 minutes and it was lovely and frothy. Now all the bubbles have gone after 5 minutes 😳😳
Also the size of the quality street and roses chocolate tins.... always used to get a tin of each for Christmas. Now they are so tiny its not worth bothering with 😔😔

Lucozade is the biggest one tastes nothing like it used to do !

I bought a packet of rolos a couple of years ago and when I tasted it I turned the packet over thinking I’d been duped by a lookalike brand. I hadn’t had a rolo since the early 1980s and what I had in my mouth didn’t come close.

It was a weird twist on a Proust’s Madeleine moment and I felt so sad about never being able to experience a rolo ever again, that I just went off chocolate completely.

Then I got off sugar, and I’m now low upf, so it’s been helpful really. Of course I’d noticed cadburys turning to shite, and the loss of quality street and chocolate orange but that rolo was the last straw.

San Pellegrino for me. I used to have an aranciata as a treat on a cafe or whatever and the last time I one it tasted like it had been concocted in a lab. Disgusting.

I really miss the dairy milk that came in the paper and purple foil wrapper.

Nina perfume. The original was beautiful, I used it as my something borrowed on my wedding day. The new version smells horrible.

Yes, totally agree

Sainsbury's Hearty Vegetable Soup.

It used to not have sugar or potatoes in it, the two things I was avoiding. And it was the only one locally which didn't include them.

Then it did and became like every other veg soup which I don't want to eat.