Haven’t bought name brand Pop-Tarts in years, but have occasionally picked up Toaster 'Betes or whatever the off-brand versions are called.
Noticed a ‘sale’ on the name brand and got conned into buying them. They’re now smaller, have less frosting, and have way less filling. The damn things were so flimsy that two of them snapped trying to take them out of the toaster.
If you get a craving for some nice sugary betes for breakfast, stick to the off-brands. They’re now higher quality than the name brand.
The future is stupid.
As a US emigrant, every time I go back to the US the first thing I buy is Pop Tarts because it’s the hardest thing to get outside the US, and is the thing I miss the most. And it’s years between. And every time it’s significantly worse than the last time. It’s not just your imagination - the quality loss is not just noticeable but STAGGERING.
It’s also because they’re shit. I loved them once, too. They were shit then, too. I just didn’t realize how shit this shit was because of the sugar high. Every few years you just cone more to your senses. Shitty chemical sugar foods are worse than any drug.
People in the UK are saying it about Cadbury too. :(
Kinder chocolate is still safe. Hershey’s been dead since 2006. Kitkats died (for me) when they removed the foil barrier, sad moment for chocolate lovers everywhere.
Fortunately and unexpected Milano Cookies are really good and have replaced Kinder Buenos because they’ve gotten too sweet.
I think I’ve hit my mid 30’s dark chocolate phase because dark chocolate is delicious.
Just FYI, KitKats are Nestle, so you can give yourself a pat on the back for not buying them anymore. My sad chocolate moment was when I learned that After Eight is made by Nestle. It used to be my favourite treat. I haven’t had one in 16 years. They probably don’t taste the same anymore anyway.
Knock off after eights are just as good though. Knock off KitKats are not quite as good (as I remember KitKats from my childhood, which is probably a lot better than they are now)
They got bought by an American company, so naturally the suck followed. Sale should’ve been stopped.
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Woah woah woah. What are you thinking? We need all the pop tart revenue we can get. The line doesn’t keep going up all by itself!
You have your priorities, others have theirs…
That’s fucking interesting. I’m one too but haven’t been back once in five years. Partly because it’s hard to travel en famille halfway across the world (but mostly because of the good reasons not to).
What’s the vibe like? I hear shit has gotten weird.
It’s depressing. Granted, I’m from a place that was already depressing BEFORE I left, but it’s way worse now. Last time I was back I was there for a month and I don’t think I saw a person smile in public that entire time.
I’ve heard similar. We’re not meant to live like that, we need to be part of a society. Or at least think of ourselves as part of a larger context. Or at least smile in public.
That explains a lot. I used to live the raspberry ones so much and couldn’t wait to share them with my two girls.
All I got was, “Dad, these suck.”
So I tried one and was just baffled. It did suck. I chalked it up to my taste buds changing, but this makes much more sense.
Chocolate has gotten worse and worse too.
I’m fairly certain they stopped using actual ingredients and make all the flavors exclusively with artificial flavors now. Everything tastes like the same corn syrupy artificially flavored trash. The flavors used to actually be differentiated and taste like something besides sweetened chemical disaster.
I tried a twinkie for the first time in ages and maybe it is just a rose‑tinted memory but I swear they tasted better when I was a kid. It was really dry and the filling barely had any flavor. It was just greasy.
Cosmic brownies and oatmeal cream pies… Not good now either.
I believe I read recently that the price of cocoa beans has gotten much more expensive so chocolate producers have started using more sugar. Therefore the chocolate is lower quality.
Cacao prices went up sharply a couple-few years ago, but have gone back down the last year or two.
It’s part of why Dubai Chocolate everything was a trend. Use a fraction of the chocolate but charge a premium? Nearly every chocolate producer was all over that.
They have been omitting chocolate entirely from some things. There was a whole thing recently with Reese’s trying to make on of their chocolate and peanut butter candies with no real chocolate.
I’d rather pay more and eat less of it for real chocolate.
It doesn’t even matter if cocoa was more expensive.
They will look for any way to make it cheaper, quality be damned. 2¢ saved per candy bar looks great on an excel spreadsheet, the only thing that matters to those fucking finance bro clowns.
Course it matters. There’s a reason they weren’t already doing it.