They Changed It Now It Sucks: Food Edition - If you can forgive the TVTropes reference

[NumberingYourState]

I was beginning to shit in the Discontinued Foods thread, changing the recipe isn't the same thing as all out discontinuing and I should know better.

Five Gum has a citrus flavor which was rather kickass at first, as of recently started to react very badly due to some random change in the ingredients, as it started to break down into a semi-thick liquid glue consistency with a very bitter taste. Gross. I have never encountered this with their mint flavors though.

 

[Y2K Baby]

Pencils.

 

[oasys]

Crispy M&Ms

 

[Pikapool]

Sour Skittles

 

[ES 148]

Creme Eggs, at least in the UK.

 

[ArnoldPalmer]

Honey Comb Cereal. When I found out that shit doesn't come in those mylar-paper bags anymore, I knew the good times were over.

Burger King Fries, before they were just reconstituted mashed potatoes, fried for about 3 minutes, and while we're at it, the thinner fries that Wendy's had before they pretended that leaving the skin on and using "sea salt" was a thing people cared about. They were both more like the McDonald's fries that had the 1 in 10 chance of getting one of those weird brown squishy ones that were extra salty.

Burger King's Onion Rings also don't contain any real onion anymore. What in the fuck is that cockhungry bullshit? I bite into their onion rings, and I get fry batter and a vaguely mushy onion flavored goop in the middle. I am NOT about that life what the FUCK.

Most sodas tasted better before everything was flavored with HFCS and cancertame. Don't you dare fucking tell me I can't taste the difference, I know the fucking difference.

I distinctly remember Shin Ramyun being spicier about ten years ago. Top Ramen used to have a consistency and texture more similar to Maruchan some years ago, but it looks like they're willing to lop those 3 extra cents out of production costs and now they taste like 3d printer filament.

 

[LofaSofa]

Wendy's food have changed certain things in thier menu for whatever reason.

Most notably the chicken there now tastes almost rubbery. After looking more into it, it looks like they're cooking the chicken from a frozen state instead of letting it thaw before hand to make the process faster.

Also more of a nitpick but they also started using sea salt instead of actual salt on thier fries and they are too salty for me now.

 

[XYZpdq]

Seriously Wendy's.
The change from the old basic burgers to the RIP Dave versions. The fries.

Hell, the fries everywhere as they phased out a tasty frying oil for a less tasty one each time.

Burger King changing to those shit wannabe checkers fries, too.

 

[Koby_Fish]

Lipton's Chicken Noodle Soup (the powdered stuff with the small short vermicelli noodles) used to taste a HELL of a lot better pre- mid-90s. IDK if it was salt reduction or elimination of trans fats or getting rid of 'artificial flavors' or what, but that shit don't taste the same anymore. The closest I can get is some random bulk chicken soup powder that while similar, isn't exactly the same, though it still tastes better than the Lipton's one. Back when it tasted good, I would make a really nice rice dish by adding the powder to a pot of rice before it started to boil. I'd just have to filter out most of the noodles which could be a pain, but the results USED to be worth it.

Similarly, Lipton's ruined their instant cream of mushroom Cup-A-Soup so badly that most stores don't carry it anymore because it tasted way worse than it used to. I'm not even sure what they did to it, but salt reduction seems to be only a small part of the equation. It's like where the hell did all the flavor go?

Most of Campbell's soups don't taste the same anymore, either, but at least the Cream of Mushroom flavor is still decent-tasting and not a complete fuck-up like Lipton's ended up being. I just end up having to add a little salt to get it tasting correctly again.

I recall the days of McDonald's Formula 47 (used to be all beef fat, then 1/2 beef fat 1/2 veg shortening). Their fries tasted way better back then. Now with the canola oil, I'm not sure what's going on, but there's a weird aftertaste to the fries and breakfast potato patties every now and then. I'm not sure if this is leftover chemicals from cleaning out the fry vats, or some additive to the canola oil they're using, or what, but I don't recall tasting some weird chemical aftertaste before they made that switch to canola oil.
(EDIT: Why does typing h4$#br0wns convert to BIG BLACK DICK?!)

 

[NumberingYourState]

Burger King's Chicken Nuggets have a hint of sanitation chemicals in them, or something, wtf it is it needs to be exercised.

 

[Koby_Fish]

Burger King's Chicken Nuggets have a hint of sanitation chemicals in them, or something, wtf it is it needs to be exercised.

Even when they go for 99 cents a pack, those burger king chicken nuggets really aren't worth it. I'd rather get a 6 piece McDonalds' nuggets than those or even Wendy's, but then again I prefer battered things to breaded things.

 

[Nien Nunb]

Literally anything Burger King has, that isn't their ice cream.

They're trying to be "luxury", to distance themselves from McDonald's shitty reputation, but there's literally no flavor to anything anymore. Everything's soggy and tasteless. Their ice cream is still better than places that are known for their ice cream, like Dairy Queen. Also stop toying around with chicken fries. The don't taste the same as their OG run and I'm not gonna buy them when you randomly add and remove them from the menu.


On the inverse of the thread's topic, I'd say Domino's is pretty fucking good now. It's better than my local pizza place.

 

[AnOminous]

Literally anything Burger King has, that isn't their ice cream.

They're trying to be "luxury", to distance themselves from McDonald's shitty reputation, but there's literally no flavor to anything anymore.

Every BK I've even seen in literally years has been a rundown nasty ass shithole with nobody inside but hood rats or white trash. So if they're shooting for that, they're failing hard. The bathrooms are disgusting, even by fast food standards, the employees are listless drooling idiots, even the drive through employees, they get orders wrong, and even when they don't, the food sucks.

It's weird, because they used to do better. It's strange for them to have gone bad all across the board. I'm not sure if they've actually changed recipes, or if they've just let quality control slide across the board. The last thing I used to get there sometimes was the BK Big Fish, which used to be the best fast food fish sandwich. The last couple times I got it, it was horrible. (McD's is barely passable.)

McDonald's by comparison has really good uniformity in service these days. The fries are always hot and fresh, and better than any other fast food fries. It's been years since I had a shitty McDonald's nearby where you'd have to order them with no salt just to not get nasty-ass stale fucking things left under a heat lamp for hours. I actually like the new recipe fries, with the caveat that unless they're really hot and fresh and eaten nearly immediately, they go to shit really quickly. The recipe with beef tallow (that some Hindu bitches sued over after being told it was vegetarian) had a bit more staying power.

 

[Morose_Obesity]

I pretty much add stuff to everything nowadays, I buy random spices from ethnic stores because I need some fucking flavor for fucks sake.

 

[cans.wav]

Everything Burger King sucks now a days

Reviewbrah saying "Everything Burger King touches turns to garbage" really is true

 

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Literally anything Burger King has, that isn't their ice cream.

They're trying to be "luxury", to distance themselves from McDonald's shitty reputation, but there's literally no flavor to anything anymore. Everything's soggy and tasteless. Their ice cream is still better than places that are known for their ice cream, like Dairy Queen. Also stop toying around with chicken fries. The don't taste the same as their OG run and I'm not gonna buy them when you randomly add and remove them from the menu.


On the inverse of the thread's topic, I'd say Domino's is pretty fucking good now. It's better than my local pizza place.

I live about 75 miles away from the closest BK and haven't been to one in years, but I remember couple years back when I was helping people move to their new place, we stopped at a BK along the way. I remember walking in there was really, really weird. Like the whole aesthetic they had going on was like wood paneling and pictures of burgers in baskets. Not like a 50's style burger and fries baskets, but like Better Homes and Gardens: Country Edition baskets. Also, totally agree on the Dominos.

 

[Koby_Fish]

The ONLY thing I've really found to be "worth it" at Burger King are the deep fried apple turnovers. At least, unlike A&W, they don't coat it in a ton of granulated sugar with a hint of cinnamon. They're the closest things to those amazing deep fried pies McDonald's used to make, and I so miss the cherry flavor that was in McDonald's ones, but BK only carries apple flavor.

 

[GloriousScarf]

They changed the flavour of Jim Beam in the last year. The taste is not as smooth, now its more like something a wino would piss out. I have to pay more money for Jack Daniels to get the same taste.

 

[Donovan the Man]

Breyer's motherfucking Sara Lee strawberry cheesecake ice cream.

What it used to be; Cheesecake flavored real ice cream with strawberry topping and graham cracker swirls. Delicious shit I love graham cracker swirls in my ice cream the strawberry swirl was top notch. Like I'm really eating a frozen strawberry cheesecake.

What it is now: Frozen diary dessert, nasty ass tiny cheesecake pieces, and mediocre strawberry swirl like some bootleg hersey's strawberry syrup. You can leave this shit sitting out for 30 minutes and nigga that shit won't melt.

 

[Hui]

Seriously Wendy's.

Burger King changing to those shit wannabe checkers fries, too.

That was 6 years ago.