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Flavor changes - 6/5/2011 11:50:24 AM   
GreedyTop


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Status: offline 		The other day I bought a couple of cans of Hormel's Chili.  This, mixed with Kraft mac n cheese, was a comfort food for me as a child (and long into my adulthood!).

So.. I make up a batch of it... the mac n cheese tasted the same// then I added the chili.. it tastes all wrong now!!

I know that many companies are altering their formulas in order to meet some sort of guidelines..

have there been foods/drinks that you have had lately that have noticably changed in taste and/or texture?

edited to add a couple of wayward words

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RE: Flavor changes - 6/5/2011 11:56:26 AM   
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Status: offline 		Several. My favourite spam is something I stopped buying since a couple years now, due to a taste change

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RE: Flavor changes - 6/5/2011 11:58:21 AM   
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Status: offline 		There's two that immediately come to mind.....

My absolute favorite Ceasar Salad dressing was Applebee's until several years go.   They changed it and made it sweeter.  I still like it, but it's not s good.

Way back in the old days, Coca Cola introduced "new coke" and changed the recipe.   People disliked it so much that they went back to "original coke" but it wasn't the same recipe.

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RE: Flavor changes - 6/5/2011 12:10:33 PM   
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Status: offline 		mentioning coke, I find coke zero closer to the old coke taste

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RE: Flavor changes - 6/5/2011 12:26:44 PM   
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Status: offline 		Now I'm wondering what this "old coke" tasted like. 

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RE: Flavor changes - 6/5/2011 12:30:49 PM   
GreedyTop


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actually, fountain coke is close to old coke....

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RE: Flavor changes - 6/5/2011 1:02:34 PM   
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try coke zero ;)

actually, fountain coke is close to old coke....



I'm with the tackle hug babe.

Fountain coke is pretty close to what I remember.

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RE: Flavor changes - 6/5/2011 1:04:08 PM   
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RE: Flavor changes - 6/5/2011 1:12:08 PM   
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Status: offline 		I can't think of any food off-hand that I feel the taste had changed, but my tastes have changed over the years.  There are things I used to love as a child that I cannot stand now.  Applebutter is one.  So is graham crackers with frosting.  (A treat my mother used to make for me.)

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RE: Flavor changes - 6/5/2011 1:55:57 PM   
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ORIGINAL: GreedyTop

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Off topic, but drop me a message when you get a chance dear.  We haven't talked in a while and I would like to catch up.

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RE: Flavor changes - 6/5/2011 2:18:52 PM   
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I can't think of any food off-hand that I feel the taste had changed, but my tastes have changed over the years.  There are things I used to love as a child that I cannot stand now.  Applebutter is one.  So is graham crackers with frosting.  (A treat my mother used to make for me.)



This could be something... I've not really thought about it, but you have a point... are the products changing, or our personal taste...

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RE: Flavor changes - 6/5/2011 2:23:51 PM   
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Status: offline 		I havent noticed any changes lately.. but one that really pissed me off several years ago..was when they changed Doritos formula.

My friends and i used to eat them by the bagful.. but when they switched to Nacho CHEESIER.. that was the end of them for me

For awhile... they switched back..but apparently a large enough cunsumer base liked the new nacho cheesier recipe..that they went to that and remain with it to this day.

Since then..ive been trying off name brands in effort to find something that might have come close to that old flavor... no such luck!



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RE: Flavor changes - 6/5/2011 2:41:19 PM   
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Now I'm wondering what this "old coke" tasted like. 


It was really good....

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RE: Flavor changes - 6/5/2011 2:53:26 PM   
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Now I'm wondering what this "old coke" tasted like. 


If you or anyone else really wants to know what it was like, look for Coca-Cola imported from Mexico. It is typically more expensive and (to my knowledge) always in glass bottles. The big secret here is that the imported stuff is still made with REAL cane sugar and NO HFCS!

Many markets have it, I buy some for a treat every once in a while. Trust me on this one....you WILL notice a difference in taste. If you can't find it at your usual grocer, try some of your local ethnic food stores.

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RE: Flavor changes - 6/5/2011 3:03:29 PM   
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Way back in the old days, Coca Cola introduced "new coke" and changed the recipe.   People disliked it so much that they went back to "original coke" but it wasn't the same recipe.


As a side note, I'd like to point out that nearly all of their taste tests and such before releasing New Coke showed that vast majority of subjects greatly preferred the the new formula.  But after releasing it to the general population the general outcry wasn't about the flavor, but "How dare you change such a beloved American institution?!?!"


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RE: Flavor changes - 6/5/2011 3:03:31 PM   
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Status: offline 		Coke or Pepsi, cannot remember which one.  I used to love it and then...blech.  I thought it was because I had grown up until a friend of mine who had visited Mexico brought back some bottles of Coke (Pepsi?) in glass bottles, made the old fashioned way with sugar and no corn syrup.  OMG, it was wonderful...

As for other things, yes, I have noticed changes that make me turn my nose up in the air.  All that synthetic weirdness mixing together might not be intended to be mixed with other flavor enhancers (imagine two perfumes mixing, both fine on their own but nasty when mixed together). 

I used to eat a breakfast bar that had fruit in it...until one day one of the fiber particles...cellulose...yeah, it was more like a SPLINTER, got lodged in the roof of my mouth. 

Ice milk and ice cream.  I used to be able to get real ice milk, it was light and melted in my mouth and was lovely, now they add in all kinds of gummy cr*p and it is nowhere near like it was before.  Yogurts and sour cream too...have you noticed that these have gelatin, guar gum, starch and all kinds of weirdness added?  Blech.  I have to read all kinds of labels just to find sour cream that is only that, not a strange blend of gelatin and pudding, with enough sour cream tossed in for taste.

Candy bars used to taste better...most seem to have too much sugar and not enough flavor.  Only Reeses Peanut Butter Cups and Hershey's plain ole chocolate bar seem the same. 

Also, canned veggies.  I boil and even can fresh veggies, and the taste leaves the store bought canned stuff far behind in the dust.  Do they boil this stuff and then take the juice and sell it to soup companies, then can the veggies with some salt water and a little sugar, or what? 

Custard filled doughnuts and jelly doughnuts.  Years ago, it was real custard, and the fruit was like jam that wasn't quite so sweet.  Now it is this generic goo that is colored and given artificial flavors but it is basically the same stuff.  Blech.

My favorite whole meal bread was bought out by some other company and they just had to change the recipe to taste like everyone else's...a bitter aftertaste.  When I bake bread from scratch I never get this taste...unless the flour is going rancid.

Pancake syrups are now made with corn products instead of sugar cane.

"Beef" on fast food sandwitches, and "chicken" for sandwitches at places like Subway (WTF is that stuff, it has small circular bubbles in it for crying out loud).

Tuna used to be great.  Before they took the "albacore" out and left us what used to be reserved for cat food.  We used to get lots of meat chunks and large flakes, now it looks like it went through a blender and has squishy bones...ewwh.

Chicken pot pies that I grew up on...all gravy now and maybe a small spoon of veggies added, and some cubes of mystery gristle ground with soy with meat flavoring added.  When I was a kid, there were lots of veggies and real meat.

Storebought cheesecakes.  I can barely even taste any cream cheese, and they are greasy as all get out...slapped together with fake whipped cream.  When I was growing up, there was no whipped cream inside cheese cakes...cheesecake was made in one of two ways, New York style with unflavored gelatine, and the other with cream cheese, eggs, flour...and had to be baked.  (No bucketloads of hydrogenated fat added.)

Cannot remember what brand it is, but...frozen burritos in something like a twelve pack.  For years it had thick, real refried beans inside, then suddenly a few years back (maybe half a dozen or more) mystery goo appeared inside, the same stuff in jelly doughnuts, but this time was refried bean flavored.  They added more cumin so we wouldn't know the difference...

This reminds me, I need to make some strawberry pancake syrup and some black raspberry syrup this year...and some homemade fudgecicles.  At least when I make it myself I know what't in it.

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RE: Flavor changes - 6/5/2011 3:18:55 PM   
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Several. My favourite spam is something I stopped buying since a couple years now, due to a taste change


Honey - we got spam!  Heck we got spam giftboxes! 
http://www.seouleats.com/2010/09/get-your-spam-box-sets-for-chuseok.html

There is even - SPAM DICE!!!
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RE: Flavor changes - 6/5/2011 3:31:05 PM   
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Status: offline 		Cynthia... your post is enough to put people off anything not homemade! 

Seriously, though, you have many good points.  Your comments on canned vegetables brought to mind my "discovery" that they add food coloring to canned vegetables to make them look tasty.  I was making a green bean casserole one evening and upon opening two different cans of the exact same brand and variety of green beans, I found them to be two entirely different colors of green.  Not different shades of the same color... one was bright kelly green, the other was bright olive green.  Yech!

I, too, noticed that tuna was no longer the same.  I've had to start buying the more expensive Albacore tuna in order to get what a regular old can of tuna used to be like.

And I whole-heartedly agree with you on the nasty goo they put inside donuts.  It reminds me of the institutional canned pudding. 

Which reminds me... I haven't made Firm any of my homemade eclairs with REAL pastry cream.  I need to do that. 


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RE: Flavor changes - 6/5/2011 4:18:27 PM   
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Status: offline 		I used to go to the drugstore in town & get real coca cola that they made by putting the syrup in the glass & adding the carbonated water & stirring it. I hate fountain coke now. It tastes watery to me. I love the Mexican Coca Cola & get it as a treat sometimes.

Pretty much nothing tastes like it used to. Remember when store-bought bread only lasted a few days, not a couple of months??? Or maybe only us old farts can remember that. I pretty much avoid most packaged foods except for a couple of different kinds of cereal. My one exception is generic mac n cheese. OMG!! Talk about a comfort food from the past!!! And I made it one day decades ago, then discovered that my milk had gone bad, so I used sour cream instead. I always use sour cream now, never even buy milk. Milk tastes blah to me because I was brought up on raw whole milk.

As for yogurt & sour cream, I don't skimp on those. I buy plain Greek yogurt which is nothing but milk & cultures. I can no longer eat store-bought ice cream because of all the additives; it makes me physically ill. Ice cream should be cream, sugar & whatever flavor, fruit whatever one puts in it. Ever read the list of ingredients on a container of ice cream? It contains about 25 items now. WTF is all that crap???

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RE: Flavor changes - 6/5/2011 4:29:15 PM   
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Now I'm wondering what this "old coke" tasted like. 


Sheesh!  Kids these days.....buncha smartasses, ain't they! 

I used to drink nothing BUT coke, til they changed the formula.  Then I switched to pepsi, now I drink diet pepsi and still can't stand coke.  Even funnier to me is how the differences in the taste of coke and pepsi vary by country......Coke in Germany always tasted lemony to me.

Growing up, I ate Taco Doritos by the bag.....they've brought them back, but they don't taste like I remember.  I'd get a bag and a coke...ice cold...and just polish the whole bag off.  I can't really say what the difference is, but all the Doritos pretty much taste like the Nacho Cheese ones anymore.



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