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Cheeselets. Ruined.

60 replies

FurForksSake · 02/05/2026 13:01

I need to inform you of a terrible, terrible thing. They’ve ruined cheeselets.

I bought a multipack with much excitement. Previously I’d bought multipacks in b&m or similar whenever I’d seen them. For a while they’ve been missing.

i often buy big bags but only Tesco appear to sell them. I am unsure if current stocks of big packs of old style cheeselets are available. In the home counties if you go and check and buy out the stock I will hunt you down.

New cheeselets are fake Doritos cheese type flavour. They are no longer slightly puffy and flaky. They are now hard and uniform.

if they fuck with treeselets we must riot.

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JoyLoveJoyInOrbitNsoul · 02/05/2026 23:28

Smarties have a weird outer shell and the chocolate is crap.
Not the same as the tubes with the letter inside the lid..70s.

ThisIsTheAge · 02/05/2026 23:38

Hotandbothered222 · 02/05/2026 20:40

They’ve taken the cheese out of twiglets so they are now vegan apparently. Now they’re just nasty bitter little twigs. I won’t buy them now, and I used to love a twiglet ☹️

Really? So it's not a blip and they are now what everyone used to tell me they were and that's dry, disgusting twigs 😞

ThisIsTheAge · 02/05/2026 23:39

blankcanvas3 · 02/05/2026 22:37

They’ve ruined salt and vinegar pringles as well. I used to go through a tube in one go sometimes but I can’t even bear to eat one anymore. I cried when I realised

I know! So boring, bland and weird.

Ithinkofawittyusernamethenforgetit · 02/05/2026 23:45

SwedishEdith · 02/05/2026 22:35

Had a Mars Bar I've cream tonight. Honestly, it's barely bigger than a fun size one now.

A finger of fudge is now a toe of fudge!

FurForksSake · 03/05/2026 07:01

id happily pay more and buy things slightly less frequently if they would just leave things the hell alone. Or publish the intense market research and customer and analysis that backs up the taste and design choices.

bunch of money grabbing, selfish, bureaucratic, Christmas ruining, snack stealing oafs.

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Booooooooom · 03/05/2026 12:44

They ruined Percy pigs too when they de pigged them

im sure they could make 2 versions - one ‘old style’ and one new fangled

a bit like classic coke, remember that? (Or am I too old 😂)

FurForksSake · 03/05/2026 14:09

De-pigged them 🤣

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evertonfc9 · 16/05/2026 20:35

FurForksSake · 02/05/2026 13:01

I need to inform you of a terrible, terrible thing. They’ve ruined cheeselets.

I bought a multipack with much excitement. Previously I’d bought multipacks in b&m or similar whenever I’d seen them. For a while they’ve been missing.

i often buy big bags but only Tesco appear to sell them. I am unsure if current stocks of big packs of old style cheeselets are available. In the home counties if you go and check and buy out the stock I will hunt you down.

New cheeselets are fake Doritos cheese type flavour. They are no longer slightly puffy and flaky. They are now hard and uniform.

if they fuck with treeselets we must riot.

I bought a bag expecting to taste the original taste of Cheeselets we I have enjoyed for years 50+ well not anymore this combo of a mini cheddar and a cheese let is bloody awful. I have wasted £2 buying a bag but never again, unless I see the original blue bag containing the real Cheeselet my enjoyment will end. Typical meddling with a well established product has been screwed up, so stick your new mini cheddar cheeselet d

FurForksSake · 16/05/2026 20:43

@evertonfc9 life is now divided into life with cheeselets and life after cheeselets. It is fractured. Broken.

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Petrolitis · 16/05/2026 20:47

ThisIsTheAge · 02/05/2026 13:02

Jacob's have also ruined Twiglets as of Christmas this year. I used to have a big bag a week. I've only had 1 big bag this year. Tasteless and pointless. Cost cutting so people notice is terrible for business. They were already expensive but I'd rather a smaller bag or higher price than lower quality.

I thought they tasted different!

ThisIsTheAge · 16/05/2026 20:50

Petrolitis · 16/05/2026 20:47

I thought they tasted different!

I tried one final time. Still awful. RIP Twiglets for good now 😭

FurForksSake · 16/05/2026 20:51

I am a mini cheddar addict. If Jacobs come for them next I’m not sure what I’ll do.

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Davros · 16/05/2026 20:53

M&S teacakes are not to my liking any more. They’re much softer and gooier, I like a little bit of resistance. They’re more like Tunnocks now, which is fine, but I like to have the choice of different styles. I wonder if they are now made by Tunnocks?

TY78910 · 16/05/2026 20:57

Bizarrely I stole a couple of my son’s quavers today and they had a different texture too? Definitely harder and less melty. What’s going on!

FurForksSake · 16/05/2026 21:05

Oh gosh. The shit-ification is creeping.

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TheNeedyBalonz · 16/05/2026 21:06

FurForksSake · 02/05/2026 13:01

I need to inform you of a terrible, terrible thing. They’ve ruined cheeselets.

I bought a multipack with much excitement. Previously I’d bought multipacks in b&m or similar whenever I’d seen them. For a while they’ve been missing.

i often buy big bags but only Tesco appear to sell them. I am unsure if current stocks of big packs of old style cheeselets are available. In the home counties if you go and check and buy out the stock I will hunt you down.

New cheeselets are fake Doritos cheese type flavour. They are no longer slightly puffy and flaky. They are now hard and uniform.

if they fuck with treeselets we must riot.

I've been munching on these since childhood, the snides have ruined everything, even adding sugar to these frauds,I am absolutely effin clucking for my old chums, bring them back ASAP!

Booooooooom · 17/05/2026 10:07

Coming back to this thread and I tried twiglets - they are like cardboard. I actually spat them out!

LauraIpsum · 17/05/2026 10:25

ChaosIsMyNorm · 02/05/2026 23:23

Mini eggs are dead to me now. I really fancied some a few weeks ago and nearly spat it out when hubs dutifully returned from the shop with some. Gone is the dusty crunchy shell, replaced with a waxy horrible coating :(

The M&S version of mini eggs - M&S Chocolate Speckled Eggs - are pretty nice. Especially the orange flavoured ones.

New Twiglets are grim, I loved the proper, old ones. There must be a substantial market for an 'As It Was' food range. I would absolutely pay a bit more to have snacks I actually want to eat. Someone should do this!

FurForksSake · 17/05/2026 11:44

I’ve just been reading the reviews on Ocado. People are pissed.

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Davros · 17/05/2026 11:48

@LauraIpsum has got a brilliant idea there. Come on snack magnates, make us happy!!

Hotandbothered222 · 17/05/2026 12:19

TY78910 · 16/05/2026 20:57

Bizarrely I stole a couple of my son’s quavers today and they had a different texture too? Definitely harder and less melty. What’s going on!

Certain flavours of Monster Munch are now made with added chickpea flour. I wonder if that’s happened to Quavers too. I mean, I like chickpeas, but not in crisps ffs!

SwedishEdith · 17/05/2026 12:44

FurForksSake · 16/05/2026 20:43

@evertonfc9 life is now divided into life with cheeselets and life after cheeselets. It is fractured. Broken.

Gives a new meaning to BC.

Jimboss · 20/05/2026 21:37

FurForksSake · 02/05/2026 13:01

I need to inform you of a terrible, terrible thing. They’ve ruined cheeselets.

I bought a multipack with much excitement. Previously I’d bought multipacks in b&m or similar whenever I’d seen them. For a while they’ve been missing.

i often buy big bags but only Tesco appear to sell them. I am unsure if current stocks of big packs of old style cheeselets are available. In the home counties if you go and check and buy out the stock I will hunt you down.

New cheeselets are fake Doritos cheese type flavour. They are no longer slightly puffy and flaky. They are now hard and uniform.

if they fuck with treeselets we must riot.

Some snide whizkid has changed a near century old recipe, and added SUGAR ffs! completely negating the cheesy/savoury deliciousness! I'm up for rioting, as an email I urgently sent has been blanked!👊

Hotandbothered222 · 21/05/2026 07:49

Has any one had Jacob’s Cornish wafers recently? They used to be flaky and buttery - this latest pack were hard and greasy. The ingredients don’t seem to have changed but they’ve definitely done something to them!

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