There are lots of things that can be put down to personal taste, however I can’t let this abomination go.

I am referring to Branston Smooth.

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I love Branston Pickle, but I can’t get on board with Branston paste. Is there a better example where a manufacturer made an updated version of a food that was objectively worse?

  • RubberDuck
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    6 months ago

    Marmite. I had the displeasure as a child to mistake this for jelly when visiting relatives. It was a nasty surprise.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      66 months ago

      I’m hoping this is an American. I can’t even imagine taking a huge spoonful thinking it’s blackcurrant jelly.

      • RubberDuck
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        56 months ago

        It looks like “stoop” and I’m Dutch. So I expected high octane sugar… It was not. To this day I’m convinced it it made from the gunk thats left after refining oil.

        • @[email protected]
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          46 months ago

          They call it yeast extract.

          What they don’t admit is. Yeast it the nickname of an incontinent factory worker.

      • RubberDuck
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        16 months ago

        In the Netherlands we have something called stroop and this looks similar. I was very young 85 to 8 maybe) and did not know any better.