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?

    • @[email protected]OP
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      5 months ago

      Ah, that reminded me of another bizarre Guinness product I saw when I was travelling to the States.

      Guinness Lager

      Why would you have Guinness American Lager?

      • @[email protected]
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        45 months ago

        They did do a really nice lager some years ago. It was a limited edition but rather good. Wish they’d bring that back instead of this crap.

    • TotallyNotSpez
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      85 months ago

      Someone at the Guinness Storehouse needs to get sacked and exiled from the island.

      • @Jarix
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        15 months ago

        … For not doing this earlier right? These are amazing

    • @cmbabul
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      65 months ago

      American here, if y’all need help bringing those responsible for that abomination to justice just holler, shit is fucked up

    • @Jarix
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      35 months ago

      I have a fourpack in my fridge. These are so god damned good, they dont have any right to be but are absolutely amazing how good this is

      • @[email protected]
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        35 months ago

        We talking about the same thing? Thin, watery, an insult to Guinness, an insult to coffee.

        This is like when Kraft bought Cadbury’s and started to do mash ups nobody wanted.

        • @[email protected]
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          35 months ago

          This is like when Kraft bought Cadbury’s and started to do mash ups nobody wanted.

          Aha, that explains why every possible item of food has a new “Oreo” flavoured version.

        • @Jarix
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          35 months ago

          Tastes so good. Guess we are just very different people. This is an amazing drink. Ill gladly accept your share of these to prevent your horror of ever encountering these again!

    • @soloner
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      35 months ago

      How is that different from a coffee stout?

      • @[email protected]
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        25 months ago

        It’s Guinness branded.

        Maybe they thought that was enough. It’s proper disgusting though. Not sure what they were on when they dreamt that up 😂.

  • NickwithaC
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    185 months ago

    Oreos. Bourbons are superior in every way.

  • @MrJameGumb
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    155 months ago

    I’m in the US. On my last trip to the grocery store I saw that the Mt Olive brand is now selling pickle juice as its own separate product. They had little shot sized bottles and big liter jugs of it. Someone had the actual nerve to market this as a “sports drink”.

    It’s literally on the same shelf right next to the pickles, and cost nearly twice as much.

    • @[email protected]
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      215 months ago

      Okay, fuck that, but hear me out: it’s a good sports drink. Drinking a shot of pickle juice for every couple of water bottles on a day where you’re pouring sweat keeps you hydrated better than Gatorade (also good while drinking, and the sour and saltiness mixes well with tequila). There’s no reason to pay a premium for it instead of just skimming some from pickles you already have though.

  • @[email protected]
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    45 months ago

    removeds, they’re just a poor man’s version of Haggis. (Grew up poor eating removeds)

  • Tippon
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    35 months ago

    Princes tinned chilli.

    I get Sunday evenings to myself at the moment, so I’ve been doing the whole sitting in front of the telly eating some shit that the wife doesn’t like. I tried chilli with cheese, sour cream, and Doritos, but didn’t want to cook just for myself.

    I tried a tin of Princes chilli, and while it was nice enough, it’s pretty much pureed.

    I’d tried another brand the week before, and it was lovely, but this felt like eating baby food.

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    5 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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      65 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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        55 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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          45 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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        15 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.

  • @[email protected]
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    25 months ago

    I once tried Red Bull Cola.

    I am very flexible when it comes to Cola. I have my strong preference, but I’ll drink other brands to when offered, with one notable exception: You’d have to pay me to drink Red Bull Cola again. They should’ve stuck to Energy Drinks. All their pretty flavours are nice, but that one product is an crime against my tastebuds.

  • @Etterra
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    15 months ago

    Smooth refers to how it goes down when you smoke one.

  • Nfamwap
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    -25 months ago

    Mushrooms. They look vile, they smell vile, they taste vile, the texture is vile.

    Mushrooms. Vile.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      35 months ago

      Sorry, I love them. Fried as part of breakfast, cooked with cream on fresh sour dough toast.

      Beef and mushroom pie. So good.

    • @Motorheadbanger
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      15 months ago

      I’m with you on the taste and smell. To me they smell like dirty old socks