This means they’ve either taken something out or added something manky or both
Ribena, other fruit juices like it. Let me have my sugar damnit!
Blue WKD
Patak’s Hot Lime Pickle’s recipe changed four times! To a chemically taste for years, then back to its old recipe, then to a saucy consistency for a short while, now it’s back to the old recipe, but with less oil. Oil keeps the pickle fresh.
Fentimens
New Recipe = We found a way to make it cheaper, we hope you don’t notice.
Everything
Everything I like they “improve” and ruin it.
Heinz scotch broth. New recipe, and all I can taste in it is pepper. They lost a customer that day, and I’m sure they’re missing me dreadfully. Not.
Flora. Something changed in the formulation and now it’s always rock hard straight out of my fridge. I’ve had to switch to Clover.
Shaken Udder milkshakes
Maybe they’ve made them even more watery.
Twiglets! Totally inedible now.
Scampi and Lemon Nik Naks.
Not only did they make the flavour less fishy, they messed with the actual crisps too to make them puffier too.
Bastards.
Pataks slime pickle
They saw sense eventually and changed it back to lime pickle
Bourneville and Fry’s adding milk. Fry’s is the the oldest chocolate bar (as we know it) in the world and they changed the recipe just recently… So disappointing and unnecessary.
NEW RECIPE, so you added water to the beans, added more sugar and took out some of the sauce, eh?
Phileas Fogg spicy tortilla chips used to be the tastiest crisp ever. Then they changed the flavour and my childhood died.
Anything that’s had sugar content removed and replaced with sweeteners. Sweeteners taste awful, give me my sugar back.
Twiglets.
They used to have 10% cheese in them. They were delicious.
Then the cheese was removed (presumably to make them healthier?) and now they just taste burnt. Every now and then I forget and buy some. Instant regret.
Linda McCartney vegetarian sausages – used to be genuinely great and then they took all the flavour out. This happened 5+ years ago and I remain pissed off.
Full fat coke. My partner and I recently found an off license near us that sells imported coke, it’s changed my life and now regular UK coke tastes off.
They mostly sell Nigerian coke, but we once got actual Mexican coke and I could have cried. The Nigerian coke tastes like 90’s coke, but the Mexican coke tastes like 90’s coke does in my dreams.
Asda’s Chicken & Bacon Pasta Bake and Spaghetti Carbonara ready meals both had onions added to them recently, making them completely inedible for me. They were fine as they were. But at least it’s helped me cut them out and turbocharge my diet.
Tizer. Used to be so good.
Never got over the loss of lucozade.
This was years ago, but Im still bitter about it! When I was a kid, Tizer (the red drink, advertised with the severed head lol) had this wonderfully unique RED flavour. No idea what it was supposed to be (strawb, rasp, cherry? No clue) but it had its own totally individual taste. Now, it’s almost orangey/citrussy… Its bad. They never should have changed it. We have plenty of orangey/citrussy flavoured drinks. Original Red flavour Tizer was the best!!!
Sunny D. Tastes really bland now compared to back in the day
Every fizzy drink except Coke. Can’t stand the taste of sweeteners. I’d like the choice.
The kitkat chunky white chocolate changed, to the point where they have to call the coating “white flavoured coating”
It tastes like sour milk now, as opposed to the creamy taste of the white chocolate before 🙁
Kellogg’s Honey Loops (née Honey Nut Loops).
They’ve been discontinued for ages now, but for the last couple years of their life, the recipe had changed from the original, denser-than-cheerios consistency, to this really light, airy texture with an almost artificial honey taste.
Absolutely terrible ending to what had been my favourite cereal since I was little.
I was on holiday in Germany a couple of years ago and found them in a supermarket with the same classic recipe I used to love, which was a really beautiful moment!
As a kid autism wasn’t something we knew about at all in the 80s. Basically, my entire diet was Heinz Lentil Soup and buttered toast – then Heinz in their infinite wisdom ‘improved’ the recipe (which is code for ‘we found cheaper ingredients’). Talk about shitstorm, and 40 years later I still haven’t touched a Heinz product.
Ribena. I will never forgive them for putting sweeteners in the version that used to be full sugar.
Perfumes! They introduce them with high-end ingredients then reformulate them to cheaper versions. Opium and Samsara smell nothing like how they used to!
Pot Noodles when they took out all the bad shit (aka the flavour)
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I’ll be the first to say cadburys chocolate.
This means they’ve either taken something out or added something manky or both
Ribena, other fruit juices like it. Let me have my sugar damnit!
Blue WKD
Patak’s Hot Lime Pickle’s recipe changed four times! To a chemically taste for years, then back to its old recipe, then to a saucy consistency for a short while, now it’s back to the old recipe, but with less oil. Oil keeps the pickle fresh.
Fentimens
New Recipe = We found a way to make it cheaper, we hope you don’t notice.
Everything
Everything I like they “improve” and ruin it.
Heinz scotch broth. New recipe, and all I can taste in it is pepper. They lost a customer that day, and I’m sure they’re missing me dreadfully. Not.
Flora. Something changed in the formulation and now it’s always rock hard straight out of my fridge. I’ve had to switch to Clover.
Shaken Udder milkshakes
Maybe they’ve made them even more watery.
Twiglets! Totally inedible now.
Scampi and Lemon Nik Naks.
Not only did they make the flavour less fishy, they messed with the actual crisps too to make them puffier too.
Bastards.
Pataks slime pickle
They saw sense eventually and changed it back to lime pickle
Bourneville and Fry’s adding milk. Fry’s is the the oldest chocolate bar (as we know it) in the world and they changed the recipe just recently… So disappointing and unnecessary.
NEW RECIPE, so you added water to the beans, added more sugar and took out some of the sauce, eh?
Phileas Fogg spicy tortilla chips used to be the tastiest crisp ever. Then they changed the flavour and my childhood died.
Anything that’s had sugar content removed and replaced with sweeteners. Sweeteners taste awful, give me my sugar back.
Twiglets.
They used to have 10% cheese in them. They were delicious.
Then the cheese was removed (presumably to make them healthier?) and now they just taste burnt. Every now and then I forget and buy some. Instant regret.
Linda McCartney vegetarian sausages – used to be genuinely great and then they took all the flavour out. This happened 5+ years ago and I remain pissed off.
Full fat coke. My partner and I recently found an off license near us that sells imported coke, it’s changed my life and now regular UK coke tastes off.
They mostly sell Nigerian coke, but we once got actual Mexican coke and I could have cried. The Nigerian coke tastes like 90’s coke, but the Mexican coke tastes like 90’s coke does in my dreams.
Asda’s Chicken & Bacon Pasta Bake and Spaghetti Carbonara ready meals both had onions added to them recently, making them completely inedible for me. They were fine as they were. But at least it’s helped me cut them out and turbocharge my diet.
Tizer. Used to be so good.
Never got over the loss of lucozade.
This was years ago, but Im still bitter about it! When I was a kid, Tizer (the red drink, advertised with the severed head lol) had this wonderfully unique RED flavour. No idea what it was supposed to be (strawb, rasp, cherry? No clue) but it had its own totally individual taste. Now, it’s almost orangey/citrussy… Its bad. They never should have changed it. We have plenty of orangey/citrussy flavoured drinks. Original Red flavour Tizer was the best!!!
Sunny D. Tastes really bland now compared to back in the day
Every fizzy drink except Coke. Can’t stand the taste of sweeteners. I’d like the choice.
The kitkat chunky white chocolate changed, to the point where they have to call the coating “white flavoured coating”
It tastes like sour milk now, as opposed to the creamy taste of the white chocolate before 🙁
Kellogg’s Honey Loops (née Honey Nut Loops).
They’ve been discontinued for ages now, but for the last couple years of their life, the recipe had changed from the original, denser-than-cheerios consistency, to this really light, airy texture with an almost artificial honey taste.
Absolutely terrible ending to what had been my favourite cereal since I was little.
I was on holiday in Germany a couple of years ago and found them in a supermarket with the same classic recipe I used to love, which was a really beautiful moment!
As a kid autism wasn’t something we knew about at all in the 80s. Basically, my entire diet was Heinz Lentil Soup and buttered toast – then Heinz in their infinite wisdom ‘improved’ the recipe (which is code for ‘we found cheaper ingredients’). Talk about shitstorm, and 40 years later I still haven’t touched a Heinz product.
Ribena. I will never forgive them for putting sweeteners in the version that used to be full sugar.
Perfumes! They introduce them with high-end ingredients then reformulate them to cheaper versions. Opium and Samsara smell nothing like how they used to!
Pot Noodles when they took out all the bad shit (aka the flavour)