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The only thing on that list that I would eat are probably the Skittles. However, I'd like to smack the guy responsible for taking away my Tab in the middle of a pandemic.
Kellogg's didn't buy Club Crackers from Keebler. Kellogg bought the entire Keebler company back in 2001.
Thanks for the helpful explanation. Club Crackers became a product of Kellogg's after Kellogg's sold the Keebler cookie lineup as well as rights to the Keebler brand name in 2019 (see Wiki on this topic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_Crackers). So that's why we didn't see the change in the stores until recently - Kellogg's probably figured consumers would be too dumb to notice they had taken that opportunity to cheapen the product.
Regardless the point is that with the Club Cracker Kroger modified a product that people had loved for decades, presumably to extract a few more pennies of profit. Why do companies do stuff like this? Plenty of threads in forums out there with people complaining about these new crackers. I have found the store brands (Kroger and Meijer) to be more similar to old recipe.
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Thanks for the helpful explanation. Club Crackers became a product of Kellogg's after Kellogg's sold the Keebler cookie lineup as well as rights to the Keebler brand name in 2019 (see Wiki on this topic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_Crackers). So that's why we didn't see the change in the stores until recently - Kellogg's probably figured consumers would be too dumb to notice they had taken that opportunity to cheapen the product.
Regardless the point is that with the Club Cracker Kroger modified a product that people had loved for decades, presumably to extract a few more pennies of profit. Why do companies do stuff like this? Plenty of threads in forums out there with people complaining about these new crackers. I have found the store brands (Kroger and Meijer) to be more similar to old recipe.
I'm old enough to remember the "Pepperidge Farms Remembers" tagline - and speaking of evil conglomerates buying up brands and cheapening their superior products.
Take a look at Breyer's ice cream. In the 80s, the commercial had a little girl reading the ingredients list on competitor's ice cream packages, and famously struggling over "mono- and di-glicerides." They made superior ice cream with absolutely no fillers, stabilizers, and gums. Unilever bought Breyer's and the first thing they did was pump in the guar and tara gums, replace cream and sugar with corn syrup, and then claim that "taste testing panels of consumers" chose the crappier formulas, so we the consumer are only getting what we supposedly prefer in taste tests. Most every box of Breyer's now says "frozen dairy dessert" because by law, it doesn't meet the standard to call it actual ice cream.
I'm old enough to remember the "Pepperidge Farms Remembers" tagline - and speaking of evil conglomerates buying up brands and cheapening their superior products.
Take a look at Breyer's ice cream. In the 80s, the commercial had a little girl reading the ingredients list on competitor's ice cream packages, and famously struggling over "mono- and di-glicerides." They made superior ice cream with absolutely no fillers, stabilizers, and gums. Unilever bought Breyer's and the first thing they did was pump in the guar and tara gums, replace cream and sugar with corn syrup, and then claim that "taste testing panels of consumers" chose the crappier formulas, so we the consumer are only getting what we supposedly prefer in taste tests. Most every box of Breyer's now says "frozen dairy dessert" because by law, it doesn't meet the standard to call it actual ice cream.
Unilever also bought Ben and Jerry's, and while their product is still called "ice cream," it now contains corn syrup, guar gums, carrageenan (a thicker made from red algae), soy lethicin, soybean oil, and a bunch of other crap. I make gourmet ice cream starting with the original B&J's base (cream, milk, eggs, and sugar) and add in nuts, chocolate, liqueurs, etc, and I'm consistently told that it tastes better than the B&J's currently in the supermarket freezer.
Unilever also bought Ben and Jerry's, and while their product is still called "ice cream," it now contains corn syrup, guar gums, carrageenan (a thicker made from red algae), soy lethicin, soybean oil, and a bunch of other crap. I make gourmet ice cream starting with the original B&J's base (cream, milk, eggs, and sugar) and add in nuts, chocolate, liqueurs, etc, and I'm consistently told that it tastes better than the B&J's currently in the supermarket freezer.
Yer darn tootin'! The best ice cream to be had is home made anymore. I have some great recipes collected over the years. Emeril has a cookbook with a hazelnut ice cream that includes toasted hazelnuts and is spiked with Frangelico - it is a family favorite!
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