What is a 'British staple' food from your childhood that you recently tried again and realized is actually absolutely tragic?
Posted by 3Dstlviewer@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 384 comments
I was feeling incredibly nostalgic the other day and bought a box of Findus Crispy Pancakes and some Turkey Dinosaurs for the first time in about fifteen years.
Honestly? It tasted like pure cardboard, sadness, and regret. I don't know if they massively changed the recipes due to sugar/salt taxes, or if our culinary standards as 90s/2000s kids were just completely non-existent.
Aside from the obvious ones like Freddos getting smaller, what childhood staple did you recently revisit only to realize it's actually absolutely shocking?
ezchile@reddit
Chicken supernoodles. What was I thinking?
dodgycool_1973@reddit
Cheap Chinese supermarket noodles are far superior and still only about 20/30p. Ko-Lee are the ones to go for if you can find them.
Add a Spoonful of peanut butter to them and they are fab.
Super noodles are soggy mush
Buckenboo@reddit
Same, was gutted at how bad they were
Kian-Tremayne@reddit
Still are a staple for my 15 year old daughter. Who eats them with chopsticks.
On the other hand, I will hear nothing said against barbecue beef super noodles with some chopped up kabanos mixed in. Eaten with a fork, as God intended.
Auntie_Cagul@reddit
Some of the recipes may well have changed since then, as well.
For example, I loved Twiglets as a child but then Jacobs removed the cheese from the recipe and now they just taste burnt. Peak Frean's recipe contained 10% cheese.
lilphoenixgirl95@reddit
Interesting. I hate cheese but preferred the original by far
Auntie_Cagul@reddit
The cheese was in the biscuit part so if you wouldn't notice it.
Proud_Smell_4455@reddit
Fry's chocolate cream. Or rather chocolate glycerol judging by the taste.
argotepowell@reddit
For me, it's spaghetti hoops. I loved them as a kid. When money started to get tight in uni, I thought, "it's fine! a tin of spaghetti hoops is only 15p!" (I doubt they cost that little now) I bought 5 tins for the week.
It tasted so SAD. Pure artificial sweetener. Didn't improve no matter what I added to it.
Canitgetmuchworse@reddit
They taste metalic to me
ReallySmallFeet@reddit
Always have. Couldn't stand it as a kid in the 80s either.
argotepowell@reddit
they really do! I hadn't thought of that
uncle_monty@reddit
Block vanilla ice cream. A slice of that between wafers was a treat when I was a kid, but it's now pretty much inedible.
dodgycool_1973@reddit
It’s not actually ice cream now. It’s just looks like it.
Had a tub of cheap vanilla in the freezer that had been touched once and then left. Decided to dump it, so tipped it in the sink to melt away.
It did not melt. It was still sat there 20mins later as a depressing fluffy yellow lie.
Past-Obligation1930@reddit
I know this story to be a lie since it referred to the “taste” of Findus Crispy Pancakes. Everyone knows it is impossible to taste anything, because you are focussing on the roof of your mouth (and possible face) being burned off by the filling, which is hotter than the sun.
The serious answer is : yes, they reformulated them. You are actually a secret fan of horse meat.
I had a pop tart the other day. It was horrible.
phatboi23@reddit
my issue is if they just SAID it was horse i'd have still eaten them.
Thraell@reddit
My stance has always been that a lot more Brits like horse than want to admit to.
Note that no-one complained about those lasagnas tasting a bit horsey, did they?
((I can't support the horse meat scandal from a food safety POV, but I'm open to trying horse so long as there's traceability and confirmation it's fit for human consumption))
phatboi23@reddit
this is basically where i stand with it all.
Eayauapa@reddit
I've eaten kangaroo as well, it's pretty similar
tellhimhesdreamin9@reddit
Yes exactly. Horse meat is actually delicious. Had a steak in France and it was amazing. Sorry, horsey people.
callisstaa@reddit
I lived in Kazakhstan for a while and horse meat is so fucking good. Very expensive there though.
phatboi23@reddit
yup my parents had some in france, my dad said it was pretty damn good! :D
Eayauapa@reddit
Pop tarts just give me an immediate headache, it's just so much sugar in one go it's overwhelming, and I used to love Ricicles
Ravnak@reddit
I think people really do the Cheese pancakes dirty.
I grabbed some a year or two back to find out how bad they were compared to what I remembered and they were pretty good.
I threw some basil on them as a garnish to take a joke photo, and oh man that actually slapped. If you gave me it in a restaurant I'd not suspect what you'd done.
TomatoChomper7@reddit
I loved the tomato and mozzarella crispy pancakes a couple of years ago. I thought crispy pancakes had vanished yonks ago, was surprised to see they still existed and went on a little run of regularly having them. Then they discontinued the tomato and mozzarella ones anyway, near me at least. Haven’t tried the just mozzarella.
Ok_Kale_3160@reddit
I LOVE the cheese ones. I think I have a mild addiction.
TheInconsistentMoon@reddit
Pop Tarts taste like really cheap low end bourbon biscuits that have been left in an unopened packet. I can’t understand how anyone actually likes them!
Apricot_Oasis@reddit
I had this experience with Rolos. The chocolate is so cheap and bland. Again, not sure if they changed the recipe or something, but I don’t remember them being so awful
OMF1G@reddit
Yeah almost everything has been cut massively in sugar/salt since our childhood.
Our tastes have changed, but the food has absolutely changed more.
Thanks Jamie Oliver I guess.
First-Can3099@reddit
Jamie Oliver was never a promoter of bland food. He was more concerned with schools not giving a shit about kids’ nutrition and buying the cheapest unhealthy mass-catering crap due to budget pressures. Kids in the UK shouldn’t be getting ill through mineral deficiencies and chronic constipation. He wanted to get school cooks actually cooking again and using a bit of old-school catering talent to make good food with cheap but healthier ingredients. I love junk food as much as anyone but let’s not make Jamie Oliver into some killjoy villain.
inevitablelizard@reddit
Good to see someone else defending him.
There were bits of his campaign worthy of criticism - demonising chicken nuggets for using what would otherwise be waste meat, and unscientific tv stunts like piling junk food on a tarp with sugary pop and coke poured over it to make it look disgusting. But the main thing he was trying to do needed to be done.
Pristine_Speech4719@reddit
I do mostly agree with you, but I'm not sure demonising "waste meat" being fed to kids was a misstep. If adults want to eat that shit, well...
RetardsBeLike@reddit
Bro 66% of the UK is overweight or obese, we do not need more sugar in our diets man
Jacktheforkie@reddit
Probably because everyone drives everywhere as walking is terribly unpleasant on crappy pavements with zero shade
LOTDT@reddit
The reason people don't walk is laziness. Bumpy pavements and a lack of shade in a country that gets about 3 weeks of hot weather is not an excuse.
Then-Significance-74@reddit
Its strange to me that obesity has gone up while salt/sugar content has gone down. Its as if its a life style problem more than a food problem
GosmeisterGeneral@reddit
There’s a whole generation of us who are hardwired to believe Jamie Oliver is the root of all bland food after his Healthy Schools thing.
TheBladesAurus@reddit
Part of it is cost as well - a race to be the cheapest
Past-Obligation1930@reddit
Chocolate has been massively cut in cocoa as well, because profit.
Airurando-jin@reddit
In a similar note , have you seen the size of snickers now ? So flipping tiny
Rusty_Shackleford3@reddit
Saw rolos on the shelf at the weekend and said to the misses I haven't had them in years & picked up a pack. So sweet yet tasteless
James_Connery007@reddit
‘Sweet yet tasteless’ so true for too many things!
Jacktheforkie@reddit
It’s the sugar reduction, replacing cocoa with cheap alternatives and using palm oil, most drinks are ruined with aspartame because of the sugar tax
bigfanofmagicstars@reddit
They’ve deffo changed the recipe, the caramel used to be lovely and chewy now it just tastes artificial and thin. Truly sad, rolos used to be top tier
loulabelle20@reddit
I had Butterscotch Angel Delight recently and used to love it. Now it just tasted way too artificial
ChristyCloud@reddit
I literally had some last night, and was thoroughly dissapointed.
The thing is I know I've had it.. In the past 2-3 years and still thoroughly enjoyed it as a childhood classic.
So either my taste has changed, or the recipe has.
Pristine_Speech4719@reddit
COVID permanently affected some people's sense of taste, didn't it?
Jacktheforkie@reddit
Probably the recipe
ZestycloseOutside575@reddit
I reckon they’ve swapped some of the sugar for some kind of artificial sweetener. Always wrecks the taste.
Meshla-Beviin-Ordo@reddit
I had the strawberry one recently, the texture was really bizarre, like the one when I was a kid had a super smooth texture, but this was hard to explain! The flavour was like you said artificial! I'll never buy it again!
ENorn@reddit
Are they sugar free now?
Fit-Bedroom-7645@reddit
The chocolate one is still good, until you read the ingredients and it's like 99% sugar
jdsuperman@reddit
Well, that's exactly why.
Other treats have pivoted to artificial sweeteners and now taste shit.
Fit-Bedroom-7645@reddit
You got me, I'm actually a wasp.
GosmeisterGeneral@reddit
The same company also now makes a Butterscotch Angel Delight ice cream though, which is great!
mcbeef89@reddit
Ok now you have my attention
DoKtor2quid@reddit
Do yourself a favour and buy a cheaper supermarket version, then buy a *Crunchie bar, smash it into bits and sprinkle it on top of your butterscotch amazingness.
*Actually, enshittification dictates you should probably buy 2 or 3, to equal what used to be one Crunchie.
**Actually #2, Crunchie is Cadbury, which means it's now Kraft/Mondelez American shite and is no longer chocolate, but instead manufactured from ear wax and dust (probably). Better to tie bricks to your ankles and jump in the sea; there's no joy remaining for any of us.
loulabelle20@reddit
Haha it was sounding tempting
Lemmas@reddit
My 36 year old brother still asks my mum to make him angel delight when he goes round to visit
cuppoteaplease@reddit
Tastes awful doesn’t it? Yet that was the best flavour and something we all looked forward to!
No_Cartoonist981@reddit
I only ever liked it frozen as ice lolly’s but made some recently for the kiddo and didn’t taste like much at all… I have been using the rest to stir into butter to make butter cream (I couldn’t be bothered to go buy icing powder so took a chance and it works)
Former_Bandicoot_769@reddit
I did this at the weekend and it was dreadful!
loulabelle20@reddit
I was really disappointed haha
VFrosty3@reddit
Yeah, bought it a few years ago. Absolutely gross. I used to love that stuff as a kid/teen.
ItAintNoUse@reddit
Oh god I haven't had that in years. I had thought about trying it again but maybe I'll avoid it! 😅
loulabelle20@reddit
Yeah stay clear 😂
So_Southern@reddit
The strawberry one is also rather disappointing
awkwardandroid@reddit
Same here
Seafoxing@reddit
Tinned meatballs - absolutely disgusting. Loved them as a kid.
And meat paste. (Not sure what it’s actually called) Had it in my packed lunch for about 8 years straight.
teedyay@reddit
I’d forgotten meat paste. How did we ever accept that as normal? Imagine trying to invent it now.
“Meat Paste.”
Leader_Bee@reddit
its actually really good on toast!
ReallySmallFeet@reddit
You saying that just summoned a childhood food...
Remember those equally tiny tins of stuff called Toast Toppers?? Heinz made them - it was like really thick condensed soup that you'd spread on bread that was toasted on one side, then chuck it under the grill to finish it off.
Leader_Bee@reddit
Oh yeah I think i remember those now you mention it, I never had one though.
ReallySmallFeet@reddit
I LOVED it as an afyer school snack as a kid.
I'm horrified by the thought now, lol
Customisable_Salt@reddit
It really does sound alarmingly non-specific.
halfwoodenjacket@reddit
same with "meat pie", I'm sorry boss, you're going to have to be more specific than that. There are many meats....
Old_Introduction_395@reddit
Fray bentos meat pie always smelt the same as dog meat with gravy to me.
Eayauapa@reddit
Some dog food really isn't that bad, I can tell you that
ReallySmallFeet@reddit
There are many meats....
And they are all in the pie. All of them.
Typical_Ad_210@reddit
It is fantastic for wrapping around pills, disguising dog medicine. It is the only way I can get medicine into my dog, as it’s pliable but sticky enough that he can’t lick it off the pill. I recommend it to everyone for that purpose. Something like 29p a jar in Aldi. Incidentally, the cleaned out jars are good for transporting a dog urine sample to the vets, so you really get your moneys worth from that 29p.
Current_Fly9337@reddit
My son absolutely devoured salmon paste sandwiches when he was weaving. Now he acts like he grew up in Dickensian times when I tell him he loved it.
I did used to be partial to a tin of Heinz ravioli and we tried one a few years ago. It was absolutely disgusting.
teedyay@reddit
I mentioned to a friend that I’d eaten ravioli. They asked, “tinned or normal?” and at that point I realised I had a different class of friends.
MobiusNaked@reddit
Them : heated or straight out of the tin. Me : you can heat them??
makingbacon@reddit
lmao my 6 yr old nephew loves tinned ravioli
scouseb@reddit
The ravioli tastes like it has sand in the middle
Current_Fly9337@reddit
And it had a weird sweetness to it. It was just gross.
BenTheMotionist@reddit
To be fair, ravioli, meatballs and tinned beans and sausage have all gone shite. They used to be a cheap combo lunch back then, like noodles and meatballs with the hottest hot sauce. Or noodles and ravioli with the hottest hot sauce, or noodles and a cornish pasty with the hottest hot sauce.
Greg's sausage rolls were peasant food, a boots sandwich aside range, m&s was king with noodles and the hottest hot sauce.
Mind you I don't eat any of that rubbish now with my noodles and hottest hot sauce...
elbapo@reddit
I mean, you didn't get him working down the mills early so maybe he has a point
Current_Fly9337@reddit
Haha. Spelling corrected 🙈
phatboi23@reddit
i'm mid 30's and will still have them every now and again haha
MobiusNaked@reddit
Crab paste still rocks.
EffDubya@reddit
Well the French find it completely normal. They call it paté.
I accept that paté squeezed from a metal tube is probably not going to please most French ppl however
worotan@reddit
No, it’s very different to pate. Meat or fish paste is not pate.
EffDubya@reddit
Well yes, hence my comment about the metal tube. But the French word pâté literally means paste
cybertonto72@reddit
These used to come in a stupidly small glass jar.
EffDubya@reddit
Haha yes that’s true, I remember those tiny lil bastards
oxfordjrr@reddit
Sounds like what I gave to my dog when I was teaching her recall
Timely_Egg_6827@reddit
Just pate in a tube
ScottyDug@reddit
Mmmm, poverty pâté
imnotpicky_@reddit
The tuna mayo one is absolute fire. Judge me, I don't care. haha
eca3617@reddit
We always called meat paste "potted dog".
ding-wizzy@reddit
West Yorkshire?
Aggressive-Fee-6399@reddit
West Yorkshire here, we called it that too.
clrthrn@reddit
Also West Yorks and thats what my mum called it.
eca3617@reddit
South! Glad it's west too :)
Aggressive-Fee-6399@reddit
Ha, ha, ha!!! We called it “potted dog” too. I am probably laughing about this more than I should be! Thank you for the nostalgia trip and the laughter. :)
hashbrowneggyolk0520@reddit
Was it also the dog in your profile picture perchance?
eca3617@reddit
Nah he's going through personal problems. He doesn't want it airing online.
ZestycloseOutside575@reddit
Poor Brian.
parkaman@reddit
I doubt you were too far wrong.
TapeDeckSlick@reddit
Hahahaha them ones with the alien on the can? Wouldn't go near them now but loved em as a kid
Kian-Tremayne@reddit
I still eat the tinned meatballs from time to time, and I’m a fairly well paid professional in my 50’s so it’s not through sheer poverty.
I would agree they’re pretty tragic, but there’s a comfort factor to a bowl of meatballs and some bread to mop up the gravy or tomato sauce.
tomcat_murr@reddit
This is exactly how I feel about tinned ravioli.
SunWarri0r@reddit
100%, they're great as a quick camping meal too!
TomatoChomper7@reddit
I had tinned meatballs a month or two back and they were alright, but there was a span of about ten years before that where I’d thought they were awful. Loved them as a kid as well, and even as a young adult, used to often have a tin of meatballs with a pack of cheap noodles.
Aced4remakes@reddit
I just looked it up and apparently the ones in the alien tin are pretty much the same as the other fray bentos meatballs with the difference being the artwork on the label.
rabbithole-xyz@reddit
Ravioli out of a tin. 🤢
feralhog3050@reddit
Macaroni cheese out of a tin is probably worse 🤮 Tubes & snot
snittersnee@reddit
When Campbells changed from pork to a pork-chicken mix it was my picky eater brothers 9/11. Not that he was wrong. Now they're just chicken and its like eating a lump of snot
TheLastPotato9@reddit
I've had meat paste since I was kid too. Moved in with my girlfriend recently and she was surprised by it, made me realise I can actually afford and eat alot better than that.
cybertonto72@reddit
Sandwich paste/spead, my parents used to buy this for my school lunch. Hated back then had refused to try it.
parkaman@reddit
Looked like vomit.
Federal_Fun9587@reddit
Shippams? The fish paste is the worst thing I've ever had to endure. I was in hospital for three days as a kid in the early 80s, and wasn't allowed to go home until I'd eaten my "lunch", which was a fish paste sandwich and some golden wonder ready salted. Ate the crisps obviously, ended up jamming most of the sandwich into the frame of the bed.
The memory scarred me. I also remember that the boy in the bed next to me said that he was Graeme Souness's son, which was more than just unlikely in west Dorset.
PotentialInfinite55@reddit
Crab paste was the worst for me
Federal_Fun9587@reddit
Tell me about it. I dated a rich lass once. She promised be lobsters, all I got was crab paste.
Kitchen_Part_882@reddit
Until this point, I wasn't aware that tatebuds could have flashbacks...
Pass the mouthwash.
uncle_monty@reddit
Me and my brother used to share a tin of macaroni cheese and a tin of meatballs for a quick meal when we were kids. Bordering on child abuse.
SaltyName8341@reddit
I got a recipe off here for homemade "Campbell's" meatballs. Fry off some meatballs to colour them, add sliced onions to the pan and sweat down after 10 mins add chopped garlic and the meatballs back. Add a tin of oxtail soup bring up to just boiling and stick in the oven about 170 for 15 mins or until thickened enough.
AllDayDabbler@reddit
Hiw good was it? Used to love em.
SaltyName8341@reddit
Its passable, needs tweaking still but as a basic start it's ok. I find it's missing something I can't put my finger on but it's probably msg.
ding-wizzy@reddit
Meat paste is known as potted dog in my family..
Munchkinpea@reddit
I had a beef paste sandwich for my dinner just the other day...
CreativeAdeptness477@reddit
I still do Shippam's beef paste on the semi-regular. Goes great smeared on thick in a big breadcake with a packet of flaming grilled McCoy's. Sometimes I have beef paste and corned beef sandwiches. Sometimes I'll just slather beef paste into a couple of slices of bread and pop it in the sammidge press.
MinMorts@reddit
Used to have this white chicken with white sauce that came in a tin. Used to love that for dinner but can't remember what it was called. I assume it wouldn't be as nice now
-Rhymenocerous-@reddit
Eggy bread.
Realised its a poverty meal as an adult but my god I still love it.
ReallySmallFeet@reddit
With a little bit of garlic and onion powder whisked onto the eggs!
ploopitus@reddit
Heinz tinned Macaroni Cheese.
Jesus Christ, that stuff's awful, but it was such a treat when I went to stay with my Gran.
Top-Bike-113@reddit
Findus Crispy Pancakes were found to contain horsemeat at on point. Low in fat, high in Shergar.
HyperAndStick@reddit
Yeah but the mane question. Were you still hungry after or did it filly you up?
Admirable-Trouble789@reddit
Can you all rein it in now please.
Top-Cat-a@reddit
Anyone who doesn't like comments like these is a neigh-sayer!
DiabloG1@reddit
Saddle up, we've only got started.
Admirable-Trouble789@reddit
Well someone needs to put a halt to this.
Top-Cat-a@reddit
I laughed until I was horse.
NewDate6115@reddit
I went off them when they started putting more onion in them.
giganticturnip@reddit
There's neigh chance i'll be eating those.
VodkaMargarine@reddit
I eat them as a mane course
Flashy-Pizza-Pie@reddit
They’re a good snack when you’re on the hoof
Mane_UK@reddit
I eat them with a slather of vodka margerine. Although I had some with rum lard the other day and they were also good.
banananey@reddit
Fucking loved those things as a kid.
Sorry_Commercial_959@reddit
Christ al-bippityboppin-mighty.
I probably wouldn't mind eating horse that much in a severe pinch, but not in my pancakes.
Electronic-Country63@reddit
I love this sub.
thatlldopig90@reddit
Ooh, do you have it regular sized or footlong? Not too hot or too spicy?
scariestJ@reddit
There's too much of a chance you'll get the trots.
giganticturnip@reddit
But if you go to hospital, your condition will become stable.
Ok_Shirt983@reddit
You canter make jokes like that.
scariestJ@reddit
Yeah, too much horseplay, you'll need to reign it in.
rodger_the_fishwife@reddit
They improved the flavour with a lot of mascarpone sauce
Great-Category-1197@reddit
Tried it. Couldn’t eat them furlong.
dectomax@reddit
I bet they tasted foal
DrGoiburger1234@reddit
Quit horsing around
imalwayshungr@reddit
They also stopped the best ones: bolognese 🥲 (sad for child me, not adult me)
Beginning-Towel-5300@reddit
😂😂😂
Nebulae-Noodles@reddit
This, used to have ham and sandwich spread sandwiches as a kid, but it just doesn't taste the same now
TSC-99@reddit
Super noodles. They are shit.
Chefchenko687@reddit
Jaffa cakes, hot dogs, laughing cow cheese
pooches4life@reddit
Sugar puffs. Put the sugar back in. They taste of dust now.
IamlostlikeZoroIs@reddit
Chocolate angel delight or just angel delight in general, loved it as a kid. Tried it not long ago and it’s aweful
antimathematician@reddit
I think I looked at the packet in a supermarket and realised I’d probably wreck my childhood memories 😂
hashbrowneggyolk0520@reddit
We made some a few months back and it just tasted of nothingness
MobiusNaked@reddit
In-between scratch built meals my diet as a kid was findus crispy pancakes and ‘french bread pizzas’ which would shred the roof of your mouth
Director_Phleg@reddit
I used to love tinned ravioli as a kid.
I dare not sully the memory. They surely can't be any good.
biscuit1579@reddit
I wouldn't if I were you. Gone so tasteless now.
No_Ring_3348@reddit
Don't do it, I had a tin of Branston ravioli last week and couldn't finish them. Sub-dogfood stuff.
ChewpapaNeebrae@reddit
The Sainsbury's version used to be the best ones to get. Good sauce/ravioli ratio. Then they took them off the shelves for about a year and they reappeared recently, but they don't taste the same at all. Was massively disappointed ☹️
rabbithole-xyz@reddit
Me too! I wouldn't try it now, either.
snakeoildriller@reddit
In Heinz tomato soup! The only way to eat it!
Sixforsilver7for@reddit
I was eating turkey dinosaurs well in to adulthood. The new chicken ones are rubbish. Quorn Roarsomes are filling the spot for now.
feralhog3050@reddit
You can still get the turkey ones with a bit of hunting cough Asda cough Please don't buy the entire stock, they're one of the only things my son will eat 😄
C0nnectionTerminat3d@reddit
i think they were recently announced to be discontinued but turkey dinosaurs. Great as a kid, but tried them once a couple years ago and the rubbery grey meat weirded me out.
robinthebum@reddit
Not discontinued, but they've switched to chicken instead. Ridiculous. Anyway, I still eat them because I'm a man child. I have them in a wrap with hot sauce.
They're...quite shit. But a comfort food none the less.
feralhog3050@reddit
Turkey dinosaurs aren't discontinued, but a lot of the major supermarkets have started selling the chicken ones instead. They're one of the only "meat" products my son will eat (alongside fish fingers), and by all accounts chicken ones are Not The Same, so I have to go treasure hunting for those blue packages 😅
HereticLaserHaggis@reddit
You remember those little jars of paste, like salmon and liver etc? I absolutely loved those as a kid, would just wolf them down by the jar without even spreading them
They're absolutely vile as an adult.
lackingsavoirfaire@reddit
I actually still like salmon paste sandwiches with some black pepper and thinly sliced cucumber. The meat ones though…
Fizl99@reddit
Sardine and tomato for me
phatboi23@reddit
the salmon one is alreet for a lazy and cheap sandwich tbf :D
Snapimposter@reddit
Lidl do the little Spanish pots in a pack of 4, sardine pastes. It’s truly lovely, I buy them by the dozen.
stauer88@reddit
Sardine and tomato paste was and is my go to spread. It tastes exactly like it did when I was a kid.
Smellycooter123@reddit
Basically any cereal, used to love curiously cinnamon and they’ve completed changed them now, they taste like cardboard. Same for Krave
Rude-Gap-4816@reddit
brains faggots - used to be impressed with my dad for making these...it was a different time for sure. weirdly still a fan of ikea meatballs (poverty food never goes out of style:)
PeacekeeperAl@reddit
Hard to say cos they change the recipes so often they'd not be the same as when you were young
OccidentalTouriste@reddit
Whilst I'd agree that recipes and ingredients will have changed over the years surely there's at least some degree of it being your taste buds having developed/matured overtime as they've been exposed to a greater variety of tastes and textures? Factor in hazy recollections and nostalgia and all these fondly remembered foods were likely crap to begin with.
lilphoenixgirl95@reddit
Gaslighter ⚠️⚠️🚨🚨🚨
Kizzieuk@reddit
I had angel delight as a child, it was lovely, my children had it and it was still lovely. it now has a chemical taste.
I had Findus pancakes as a teen and my kids had them they were still nice , now they are flat as pancakes with crap inside
My grandkids wont eat them
Fox_Avocado@reddit
Billy Bear ham, wouldn’t feed it to my dogs now! But my sister and I used to consider it a treat in the 90s
No_Ring_3348@reddit
The smell of farts when you opened the packet...
StrangerThings1106@reddit
Said the same 😂 Used to love it, and was even still buying it until recently. Had two packs just a few weeks ago and they both tasted like mud 🫠
XCinnamonbun@reddit
I’ve just tried this again recently after randomly spotting it in the supermarket and still rather like it which at least means it’s likely that just your taste has changed (or should I say improved 😅) and not the recipe
SaltyName8341@reddit
Cheese hamwiches they just tasted like disappointment
dozylion86@reddit
They changed them! They had that little pocket of cheese in them now it's all mixed in with the "meat" they're no where near as good.
caiorion@reddit
Yep. Devastated the first time I had the new recipe. My kid loves them and I'm constantly sad that she missed out on the proper version.
owmuch@reddit
Finally someone else has noticed! I used to get so excited about these as a kid cause I was the only one who liked them. I'm sure they were full of cheese and delicious meat but apparently not.
SaltyName8341@reddit
I hate enshittification
Musicola@reddit
Tinned beans with small cocktail sausages in them. The sausages are just dire now, they probably always were but as a kid I didn't notice.
Turkey Drummers - foul. Or 'fowl' i suppose.
Any supermarket premium range sausages - all now have these slimy skins and are all fudgy inside. They never used to be like that did they?
stauer88@reddit
They've changed the sausages in Heinz beans to Richmond. I think I prefer the older ones though.
Lopsided_Soup_3533@reddit
Richmond sausages are disgracefully bad
meltymcface@reddit
The plant based ones are good
worotan@reddit
Made me realise how bland meat can be, when the herb/spice mix is the thing that makes them tasty.
No wonder the industrial meat industry is so worried about meat-free alternatives.
justabean27@reddit
Nah the vegan ones are just as rubbish
callisstaa@reddit
Nahh nerve endings and capillaries are still meat.
baddude1337@reddit
Absolutely horrible change as someone who hates the taste of Richmond sausages. I'd rather take supermarket own brand than the Heinz ones now.
hunta2097@reddit
Branstons all the way. Heinz is dead to me.
the-bid-d@reddit
The stockwell ones that Tesco used to sell were top tier
spittingparasite@reddit
Vienetta. It was probably always rubbish, but it was fancy rubbish.
worotan@reddit
I was a teenager in the 80s, and I remember so much of the nostalgia on here as being rubbish the first time round, if you weren’t young enough to think it was how the world worked.
lonefox22@reddit
That's one way to say you had a middle class childhood.
No_Currency6911@reddit
It was like a quid ten years ago, why do you think middle class? Genuinely interested
hepheastus_87@reddit
It's only £1.75 these days.
lonefox22@reddit
It was a jokey reference as how it was advertised and promoted back in the day. Same as Ferrero Rocher. It liked to allude to a more refined and glamorous society. It's been around since 1982 and l can remember it been at the top end price wise for ice cream, certainly a bit more than a box of choc ices.
bubblechog@reddit
Because 35 years ago it was kind of expensive and fancy, at least to my working class family
Bojack_Skillman@reddit
Used to get it free with a bargain bucket back in the day
LOTDT@reddit
Vienetta is and was cheap crap. Really not middle class at all.
love-is-a-rose@reddit
I think it's still really yummy. I can finish one off in one go
punky63@reddit
I was never a big fan. Vienetta reminds of a choc ice - really bland and disappointing
GosmeisterGeneral@reddit
Every year at primary school we’d have a lil Christmas dinner just before the holidays. Still on the blue plastic trays but they’d dim the lights and play Christmas carols to make it feel classier.
Vienetta was ALWAYS the dessert. The height of class to an 8 year old in the 00s.
OptimusPrime365@reddit
I had a vienetta the other day as part of a meal deal thingy at the one stop. It was quite nice, very cheap tasting but sometimes that’s ok.
adymann@reddit
Mini kievs, lush as a lad but strange dark meat stuff now.
dozylion86@reddit
They made them worse again recently, they went from a good balance to mostly foam like meat...
WordsUnthought@reddit
Caterpillar Cakes are deeply mid and I'm tired of pretending to be excited about them.
worotan@reddit
This whole thread is full of people saying that cheap shit ‘slaps’, and I’m not convinced they’re tasting anything other than the opportunity to act enthusiastic to other people in a wacky, but thoroughly corporate-approved way.
They don’t want to act like they’re actually being creative, that would be offensive to the bland office-style group dynamic and make them seem like they want to stand out, just copying how creative people act but with cheap everyday domestic staples.
People who seem to define themselves and their lives by the adverts they see, and base their sense of community on that.
ScottyDug@reddit
I recently had the Home Bargains caterpillar cake and I was stunned at how much better than all the others it was.
Particular-Bid-1640@reddit
Is it a normally available one? I'll give it a try
ScottyDug@reddit
No idea, but I only had it a couple of weeks ago so I’d assume so
Krakshotz@reddit
Store-bought birthday cakes generally are pretty mediocre
DiDiPLF@reddit
Oh I'm definitely a fan of the M&S one. Fist pump when I see Colin at a kids birthday party rather than a knock off one.
Lopsided_Soup_3533@reddit
Best thing about them is aldis social media team baiting M&S like all the time.
XCinnamonbun@reddit
I still like the mini ones from M&S but have to agree that they’re pretty mid in general and I don’t go out of my way to buy them. Don’t really get the excitement around them, especially when there’s lots better things to chose from in the M&S bakery section
peppermint_aero@reddit
The mini ones have a higher chocolate to sponge ratio which is why they're better
mistakes-were-mad-e@reddit
Caterpillar cakes are a bright light after the darkness of the dry sponge, white icing character cakes my kids went through a phase of.
AlexMC69@reddit
Mr Brain's Faggots are not made with the premium cuts of meat as I remembered....
Ok_Kale_3160@reddit
Were they ever? I remember enjoying them as a kid, but even then they seemed filthy. It was probably the name more than anything
Abject_Tumbleweed413@reddit
I lived off of Turkey Dinosaurs when I was in the sixth form. Much to my parents horror. 🤣🤣
BurntMarshmellow_@reddit
Iced gems EEEYUCK!!!!
nickytheginger@reddit
A restaurent I used to frequent made turkey drumstick with the original recipes. The difference between them and the modern ones is drastic. So yeah I would say the changes to content have weorsened the prodects.
Mrslinkydragon@reddit
Heinz macaroni cheese :(
Loved it as a kid, its Flavourless goop now
ExtentForsaken3928@reddit
Turkey twizzlers
lookbored@reddit
Any and all bernard matthews products, i used to love a turkey dinosaur, those little molten lava mini kievs all that jazz. Had a beige buffet with some friends and every single Matthews product was terrible to the point it was inedible. My friend was so incensed he penned a letter to mr matthews opening with...Dear Bernard....what the fuck.
Useful_Tear1355@reddit
A Freddo. What the hell happened to them?! Why are they so thin? Have they also had the recipe changed by the new Cadbury owners?
I did recently have McCain Smiley Faces as well for the first time in a long time and honestly they were even better than I remember!! 15 mins in the airfryer cause I like them crispy.
LOTDT@reddit
Fucking AI post.
luckeratron@reddit
I booked ght some smash instant mash potatoe to have with the kids as I had very fond memories of it. I suspect they have changed the recipe to be mostly sawdust now. It was putrid.
PM-UR-LIL-TIDDIES@reddit
I'm afraid Smash has always been disgusting. I got it served regularly by my nan in the '70s, and it was gag-inducing even then.
Interesting-Tip-2962@reddit
Spam fritters! used to love them at school dinners, got some in farm foods they were awful.
PM-UR-LIL-TIDDIES@reddit
I tried some not so long ago, after not having them for literally decades. Underwhelming doesn't come close to describing the disappointment.
TheSecretIsMarmite@reddit
To counter the thread, my husband says that the green Hartley's jelly you buy in a block is just how he remembers it. I have no idea if it's true as I always thought it was horrible, but he still likes it.
BillyJoeDubuluw@reddit
Nothing but happy memories of my childhood meals.
I didn’t really have any of the ready made crap that is being mentioned but did have a variety of homemade “retro classics” that wouldn’t necessarily be a child’s first choice these days…
I very deliberately made a chicken supreme recently, which was a big school dinner favourite… It was admittedly more beige than I remembered it but ultimately still nice…
Badgerfest@reddit
Fray Bentos pie, it was like dog food wearing a hat
PM-UR-LIL-TIDDIES@reddit
A hat that manages to be simultaneously slimy and sharp enough to slice through gums.
BulbaCorps@reddit
Jaffa cakes. I'm pretty sure the recipe has been enshittified since the 90s, but my god, they are now just bland, dry, and the chocolate is about a micron thick.
SmallPinkHo1e@reddit
Spam
Agitated_Island9261@reddit
Wagon wheels are disgusting now, cardboardy texture & don’t really taste of anything. Loved these as a kid.
TheLoneRanger2025@reddit
Has to be tinned ravioli. Just awful
Leifang666@reddit
I "treated" myself to some coco pops as an adult and they tasted of cardboard and misery.
ben_jamin_h@reddit
I did the exact same with Fundus Crispy Pancakes about 10 years ago. I cannot believe how little filling there is in them and how bland and milky it was. I remember them being delicious about 35 years ago.
MountainOk5299@reddit
Does anyone remember lamb savouries? Breadcrumb covered chop shaped reconstituted meat, served for school lunches. They probably taste like shite but I remember quite liking those.
ZestycloseOutside575@reddit
They used to be called ‘lamb choppy’ at my school.
OptimusPrime365@reddit
That sauce that you put on ice cream and it goes hard so you can crack it. It’s pure oil!
WonderfulDelivery639@reddit
Absolutely. So I put Nutella on mine now
OptimusPrime365@reddit
No! That’s just oil and sugar with a sprinkle of powder!
WonderfulDelivery639@reddit
Better than the sauce though
OptimusPrime365@reddit
Nah get some lemon curd on your ice cream, delicious!
PrisBatty@reddit
Yes! That used to be delicious, now it’s just something that makes your ice cream taste gross.
Cherimbba@reddit
Sugar puffs, bought some for my kid as a treat and was excited to have a bowl. Tasted like paper. Gutted.
yougavememagical@reddit
I'm not sure if it's because of Jamie Oliver the sugar vampire, but the reboot of Turkey twizzlers was really underwhelming. I remembered them being incredible as a kid, but got them from Iceland not too long ago and they were pretty awful.
Think-Witness-7342@reddit
This is what I was going to say I remember when they came back out again years ago I got excited about it went to Iceland and got some but now they taste like disappointment :( they were rather grim
yougavememagical@reddit
Did you remember that when the were cooked the OG twizzlers released this red grease that was really tasty? They must have been so fatty. And they were just sawdust when I got them recently. Disappointment is immeasurable
Think-Witness-7342@reddit
I don't remember the grease that came.out of them but I remember they actually tasted good rather than bland and texture wise a bit shit I still remember the disappointment. The prick with the fork had to ruin them didn't he 😅
LOTDT@reddit
Jamie Oliver stopped them from being served for school dinners. He had nothing to do with Bernard Matthews changing the recipe.
baddude1337@reddit
IIRC they changed the receipt a LOT compared to the original twizzlers.
yougavememagical@reddit
The recipe now consists of curly misery sand 😭
imalwayshungr@reddit
I've not tried them for this reason alone! Well, that and a not so secret loathing of that man. -.-
They can stay as a happy childhood memory 🥲
yougavememagical@reddit
Yeah I wouldn't bother, keep that precious memory in your mind. The new twizzlers are like eating the contents of a hamster cage
Maleficent-Leek2943@reddit
I didn’t get beyond the title before the thought jumped into my brain that if I ever tried my beloved Findus Crispy Pancakes again, I’m sure I’d be in for a horrible shock.
And then I read your first sentence 🤣
Perskins@reddit
Wagon Wheels
EvilCitrusFruit@reddit
Tango iceblast!
Daughter-of-Rohan@reddit
turkey twizzlers
Falloffingolfin@reddit
I tried Heinz Spaghetti Hoops for the first time in about 40 years not too long ago and they were absolutely dreadful. Just complete flavourless slop.
If my wife's out and I need a quick tea though, I can still find a modicum of joy in a tin of Heinz Beans and Sausage-adjacent meat tubes. Four slices of toast, plenty of Henderson's relish and black pepper. Not ashamed.
Spaghetti Hoops can get in the bin though.
Major-Damage173@reddit
Turkey dinos are so good what
kestrelita@reddit
Tinned macaroni cheese - absolutely vile. Tinned cheese ravioli still hit the spot though.
esper_wing@reddit
The Heinz stuff genuinely used to be nicer (or at least more edible) but they changed the recipe a few years ago and now it's absolutely fucking foul. I had some a while ago and it smelled like sick, tasted weirdly of plastic and the sauce was an alarming radioactive yellow colour. No thanks.
pebblesandweeds@reddit
Corned beef. My mum would be constantly making casseroles with it.
drivelhead@reddit
Corned beef is delicious!
Electronic-Sound331@reddit
But so expensive now! My Mum used to make corned beef hotpot as a cheap midweek meal, so I like to make it now and then as a nostalgic winter warmer. I feel so aggrieved paying so much for tinned meat though, I could get a pack of fresh chicken breasts for the same amount!
sanehamster@reddit
Instant mash (like smash)
West-Championship603@reddit
My mothers cooking
GabberZZ@reddit
Mini Kievs. Absolutely vile grey slop compared to what they used to be.
Lopsided_Soup_3533@reddit
Bernard Matthews mini kievs
I dont think this is bad memory tho as ive enjoyed them as an adult but theyve absolutely changed them so the texture is an affront to the senses
Kizzieuk@reddit
Yes most things here I had as a kid and also my kids had them. they are very different now my grandkids turned their noses up at most of the things I am their parents loved.
RiotSloth@reddit
Wagon Wheels. Bloody vile! Loved them as a kid, proper treat. They’re not even chocolate, they’re ’chocolate flavoured candy’
No-Efficiency250@reddit
They're not even wagon wheels any more either. More like trolley wheels.
Kizzieuk@reddit
Barbie doll pram wheels
lukespicer@reddit
Vienetta is disgusting now. Very bland, flavourless, icy 'ice cream' with really waxy chocolate that has a horrible mouthfeel.
It's hilarious that we were convinced this was in any way posh.
Kizzieuk@reddit
They have change the recipes for all these things, I loved them as a kid as did my own kids, and us adults still loved them they are awful now
Lemmas@reddit
Angel Delight and Tizer
Low-Lime3109@reddit
Arctic Roll - it used to be my absolute favourite, tried some recently and the sponge was sooo dry and the ice cream was almost tasteless.
yalrightyeh@reddit
Pot noodles just ain't the same
DrZonino2022@reddit
Liver
Former_Bandicoot_769@reddit
Feasts. Used to be glorious, I'd eat then layer by layer and sometimes get chocolate up to my eyebrows.
They've been absolutely ballbagged now, shit vanilla ice cream and a weird melting fudge type core that tastes really artificial.
StrangerThings1106@reddit
Billy Bear ham
ConfidenceMundane205@reddit
Sandwich spread
chuteboxe19@reddit
Cheerios taste like cardboard now
insertitherenow@reddit
Westlers Tinned Burgers and a Fray Bentos pie. Loved them as a kid. Not sure which was worse. They were just revolting.
Familiar_Benefit_776@reddit
American style hot dogs. No meat should ever have that texture, and 90% of the flavour comes from the condiments.
baddude1337@reddit
I remember trying turkey twizzlers when the bought them back a few years ago and they tasted like hot ass. can't tell if it was the recipe change, my now older tastebuds or both.
EvieMoon@reddit
Golden Nuggets cereal. Tastes like cardboard now and the texture is all weird.
Shauntattoo3@reddit
I fukin knew it wasn’t just me ! They used to be epic ! I had them recently and it was just crunch with weird stored in plastic taste ! Bad
EvieMoon@reddit
I'm sure they were a victim of the Great Sugar Removal. Sugar Puffs are trash now too.
e-pancake@reddit
and coco pops, truly tragic. cereal used to be such a joy
GosmeisterGeneral@reddit
They’re not even called Sugar Puffs anymore! (Presumably because that sounds wildly unhealthy)
JayR_97@reddit
Yep, I recently bought Golden Nuggets for the first in like 15 years. They 100% changed the recipe cos that is not how I remember it
nzdevon@reddit
My daughter bought this home yesterday. I cannot believe how bad it is now. I couldn’t eat more than the initial spoonful.
According-Diet-4803@reddit
Goblins meat puddings, absolutely wank now. Used to go feral for them as a kid
Icaruss-@reddit
Had a Galaxy chocolate bar the other day and it was absolutely vile the yanks have clearly bought them out and filled it with oil and god knows what else shite for more profit
No-Efficiency250@reddit
I tried a Fray Bentos steak and kidney pie not so long back. I used to think they were the dogs rear swingers when I was a kid but now I don't think a dog would eat it.
pip_goes_pop@reddit
Heinz spaghetti hoops. Used to love them on toast but they tasted so sweet when I tried them as an adult! Tried the "no added sugar" ones instead and didn't like those either (odd sweetner taste).
Canitgetmuchworse@reddit
Metalic tasting
Hykage@reddit
The Tesco cheap ones are suprisingly good
Timely_Egg_6827@reddit
Soft drinks have just gone downhill - I realise sugar tax and all that but no one was drinking cola for health reasons.
I tried alphabet spahgetti recently and way too sweet.
Callis_tow@reddit
Boil in the bag cod in butter sauce. Loved it when I was a kid, tried it a year ago and couldn't finish the sad grey rectangle of rubbery sadness.
SuddenlyDiabetes@reddit
Vimto - It used to be our drink of choice and I frequently associate the taste with quavers for some reason, that is until I got a job working retail and a mother had given her toddler a bottle of vimto and some quavers, and then I guess he wasn't swallowing them because there was a trail of vimto quavers mush going around the store.
I cannot have Vimto anymore without that association.
Odd_Committee_100@reddit
I think It’s a mixture of nostalgia and enshittification.
I recently tried Bernard Matthew’s Turkey Drummers again, not for the first time since childhood, but the first time in about 10 years. The texture of the “meat” was like a mildly gritty paste, and tasted of absolutely nothing.
Lopsided_Soup_3533@reddit
Ditto for mini kievs that texture is horrendous
Lazy-Limit-8684@reddit
Pork and egg loaf
anasfkhan81@reddit
Pretty much any chocolate bar or sweet from back in the day tastes off now
BrumGorillaCaper@reddit
I remember coco pops being way better
Insatiablehubris@reddit
I miss when sunny D would make my teeth hurt
Swansboy@reddit
Angel delight pink one now my favourite is butterscotch.
Jorge-Esqueleto@reddit
Shreddies. I remember them being malty and tasty. Now it'd be more interesting to eat the box.
No-Calligrapher-7415@reddit
Recently had a rebranded 'Feast' ice cream and it was awful no chocolate on the stick just cream.
Apple Tango will never be the same.
unhiddenhand@reddit
Calippo orange tastes like what I imagine scratch and sniff printer ink to taste like. Probably completely different recipe to the nineties and way less sugar no doubt.
ohsaycanyourock@reddit
Surprised no one's said Cadbury's yet! A standard bar of Dairy Milk used to be the most delicious treat as a kid but now it's just sugar and oil.
Various-Big-5168@reddit
Code in butter/parsley sauce. Loved these as a kid, especially the butter one! Awful now - tiny piece of chewy dried up white fish in an artificial sauce.
Jacktheforkie@reddit
Enshittification
Triordie@reddit
Remember Findus crispy pancakes as having a slimy interior back then. Imagine with cost cutting they must be horrific now
scottishsilversurfer@reddit
Instant whip, tastes like decorating plaster
Ill-Appointment6494@reddit
Super noodles 🤮
CreativeAdeptness477@reddit
The thing is with me, I lived on fishfinger sammidges as a kid in the 80s and I still live on fishfinger sammidges now. I never stopped eating stuff I liked as a kid unless they got entirely discontinued.
drivelhead@reddit
On white bread, with salad cream. Delicious!
terryturbojr@reddit
In findus crispy pancakes defense back in the day they used to be signed with all the food stuff - loads of salt and MSG.
Now the food police have ruined them.
I'm sure you'd enjoy an original 1989s recipe one much more.
The same applies for loads of prepackaged food. Just doesn't have the tasty additives it used to.
jimmyboogaloo78@reddit
Toad in the hole, I just don't get it, love sausages, love Yorkshire pudding, put them together, no thanks.
Repulsive_Sweet_5308@reddit
Hahaha agree on the pancakes , bought them for my 2 children, the look of disgust they gave me... I tried them and they didn't ever taste like that in the 90s 😂 or I'm just a fab cook now I make everything healthy and homemade 😂
BerryOk966@reddit
My kid practically took over making weekday dinners from age 12. I still dont know if that was because I was a good mum, setting them up well for their future, or a terrible cook whose dinners they couldn't tolerate any longer 🤣
DownrightDrewski@reddit
Could well be a bit of both.
thebeesbollocks@reddit
I just don’t like sugar as much as I did as a kid, which I’m sure is true for most people. I tried a bowl of Kellogg’s crunchy nut recently and couldn’t finish it, the sweetness was too overpowering. I used to LOVE it as a child
CozJeez85@reddit
Mini kievs, they used to be yummy, tried them again recently and the meat is grey and the filling tastes like gravy. Gross.
Foreign_Mouse6636@reddit
Liver
Remote_Development13@reddit
Frosty Jack's
learningismyjam@reddit
Smiley faces they are soooooo dry and boring. I think it was because at primary school they use to fry them rather than oven bake.
munkian69@reddit
Angel delight
Tinned spaghetti/Ravioli
Vienetta
dobber72@reddit
Take that back, the Vienetta is manna from the God's themselves. I'm almost certain but can't prove it was served as desert at the last supper.
Stevebwrw@reddit
Sutherland 's or Shiphams' s meat paste. On sandwiches every day. I have not seen it in years now.
Brickie78@reddit
The question is of course was it always tragic or has it been shrinkflated, had its ingredients replaced with cheaper, crapper alternatives, generally enshittified?
Did Findus Crispy Pancakes always only contain about a teaspoon of filling? Did Jammie Dodgers always have a micron-thin layer of jam?
coachhunter2@reddit
Have you seen what they’ve done to Feast ice creams?
Leader_Bee@reddit
I haven't tried it recently because it was always tragic, but Corned beef hash.
Diddleymaz@reddit
I remember that a campaign for Spangles was successful in bringing the square boiled sweet in a pack. We eagerly bought some and then everyone realised why they stopped making them! Awful even the legendary Old English flavour was just meh.
thxrpy@reddit
Heinz mac and cheese. Was the holy grail of cheesy items when I was a kid and now it smells and tastes like vomit (or more specifically that smell in the back of your nose post vomit)
cdh79@reddit
I tried my childhood treat meal, crispy pancakes and super-noodles. Rank. My tastbuds revolved at the textures.
aarontbarratt@reddit
As an adult Billy Bear ham frankly disgusting
Alarmed_Pea518@reddit
I used to work in the office of a biscuit factory and every year we made the budget for the coming year. The recipes were changed constantly to reduce costs.
truckosaurus_UK@reddit
I had a disappointing Vienetta recently.
Although they have probably changed the recipe since I was a kid.
cankennykencan@reddit
Most cereals are wank now.
DrKnackerator@reddit
Trouble is - was it that bad when you were young? everything has become enshittified, either through cost cutting or law changes/health food requirements. I used to love Heinz Macaroni cheese as a kid, but by the 90s it was bloody horrible.
PsychologicalDish430@reddit
Turkey drummers.
TheRealVinosity@reddit
Heinz sandwich spread.
Just seems too brutal these days.
Goes well on a cheeseburger though.
sock_cooker@reddit
I was waiting for someone to say that. Fucking heathen, sandwich spread will always hold a place in my heart. Never tried it on a cheeseburger tho
BvshbabyMusic@reddit
Mr brains faggots, utterly rank
davenuk@reddit
Ugh, same. And turkey drummers, fuck that.
queenoftheharpies420@reddit
Omg Poptarts… I was heartbroken they taste like cardboard
Stage_Party@reddit
Came here to say crispy pancakes as well. Such crap.
Fine-Night-243@reddit
Post is written by AI
rabbithole-xyz@reddit
Cream of chicken soup. Loved it as a kid. It was VILE.
Fel_Eclipse@reddit
Bernard Matthews Turkey Drumsticks. Doesn't taste anything like i remember, doesnt even taste like turkey. Just mince slop with an air of dog meat.
snakeoildriller@reddit
Angel Delight, especially butterscotch flavour. I could eat a whole made-up packet easily, even though the nutritional value was minimal. Tried it again recently and was disappointed how poor it was. I didn't think an already-enshittified product could be made even more enshittified!
Gloomy_Pastry@reddit
Findus Crispy pancakes. The beef and onion one is now just a baby food mush rather than being actual beef and onion (like you would expect in a Cottage pie)
laidbackhorizontal@reddit
It was a few years ago, so not recently, but Angel Delight. Blegh...! I remember begging for it as a kid and I have no idea why as it was absolutely revolting!