Not sweet enough.

[greenishfing]

It is rare that I eat commercially produced biscuits. I am generally not a fan of sweet stuff (other than galaxy chocolate, preferably with salted caramel).

Yesterday however I had a chocolate digestive biscuit while visiting a relative. It was a variety I used to eat reasonably regularly many years ago.

It was revolting and tasteless. I am guessing the makers have taken out all the fat and sugar for it to be so truly awful.

It just surprises me that anyone actually buys and eats these now. The same happened when they took the beef out of Bovril. (It tasted just as disgusting as Marmite).

I can understand that some people eat too much "junk food ", but it seems so unfair that the ones of us that fancy an occasional treat have to suffer too.

What foods have you noticed have changed ( for good or bad).

[Martin H]

Leave Marmite alone, it's still nice.

Pork pies have definitely changed for the worse. I've tried lots of kinds looking for one with moist crumbly pastry and enough jelly, no joy. The pastry is usually dry and powdery and the meat is grey and dry with no jelly.

[Thelma Sanders]

Cornish pasties! They're not supposed to have flaky, soggy pastry.... what they produce now wouldn't have lasted 5 minutes down a mine. Nowadays, I have to make a batch of my own and freeze them for that day when nothing else will fill the spot
Oxos don't taste of much now either, they've taken out most of the salt - so now I have to add salt as well as the cubes.
I used to love Sharwood's mango chutney but it's just sweet mush nowadays.

[greenishfing]

Leave Marmite alone, it's still nice.

Pork pies have definitely changed for the worse. I've tried lots of kinds looking for one with moist crumbly pastry and enough jelly, no joy. The pastry is usually dry and powdery and the meat is grey and dry with no jelly.

I completely agree about the pork pies. We used to go to a local butchers and buy them still warm. Amazing! We would sit in the car and eat them with the half-set jelly running down our chins.The last time I went they said they weren't allowed to sell them warm any more. Then they shut down. Now all we get locally are the grey, dry things like you get.

As for marmite. Uuuughhh! It has always been something my tastebuds couldn't cope with.

[chillithyme]

Cadburys chocolate do not taste of cadburys or chocolate anymore.
Quality streets and chocolates taste of palm oil
Bread is getting worse in the supermarkets. The decent bakeries are becoming fewer and fewer in number. Compared to the continent and anywhere else in the world where bread is tasty, bread in the uk supermarkets where most people get bread from is the opposite.. bulk produced blandness.
Packet sizes and quality have decreased, too much packaging and not enough content

It is unfair, as it is cheaper to buy junk than health quality ingredients, forcing the publics hand away from what is good i. e fruit and veg etc.

I love marmite

[burnie]

Not sure where you buy your food from, but mine for the most part is tasty, I have cut out sugar as much as possible, less than 6% was my guideline given. I soon got used to the idea and can now taste the product rather than just sugar sweetness. I do occasionally buy bread from a supermarket and have always found something tasty, though most of our shopping is now done at farmers markets or small shops. Salt is also now on a much reduced amount and my taste buds have got used to that too and my blood results are showing I'm a lot healthier than I was. What drives a lot of my purchases now is where does it come from, so eating out is done a lot less, I just don't fancy mechanical retrieved meat or chemically enhanced veggies any more.

[greenishfing]

The food we eat at home is tasty, but is mainly homemade and cooked from scratch with lots of our own fruit and vegetables and homemade bread, eggs from my neighbour, fish from the fishman and small portions of meat. The problem is when, on rare occasions, we fancy something when we are out. I find most of the things I enjoyed when I was young are now tasteless or just taste wrong. When we had a snack a couple of weeks ago, I had coleslaw as a side dish. It was just sweet, soggy and tasted of I'm not sure what. When I make my own I wouldn't dream of putting sugar in homemade mayonnaise and yet they take the sugar out of the things that need it, like chocolate biscuits.
I agree with the comments about cornish pasties. I love the ones I make and the ones I had in Cornwall as a child. I could buy pasties cheaper than the ones I make but they are not enjoyable.

[SarrissUK]

Cakes! Shop bought, especially supermarket cakes taste of nothing but sugar and air. Chocolate cake is just... brown. No chocolate flavour. Cream is all fake.

I also detest the cheap sausages, especially irish recipes - it's just pink rusk and fat. Yuck.

Dairy that is watery and taste of nothing. Yuck. There's nothing as good as some proper whipping cream and you can taste the natural fats in it. Yum.

[Thelma Sanders]

Dairy that is watery and taste of nothing. Yuck. There's nothing as good as some proper whipping cream and you can taste the natural fats in it. Yum.

I've even given up whipping cream as most of the time it simply isn't thick enough to whip. Double cream is thick enough, but if I want thick cream I have to buy EXTRA thick double cream - never heard of that years ago, when I used to make lots of scones for the cricket club teas.

[Babru]

My husband worked with two young French engineers, in Edinburgh for a placement as part of their degree. They took the mickey out of British supermarket groceries - low fat! low calorie! skimmed! Everyone here should be soooooo thin, but they're not!

A strange contradiction when you think about it.