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Some of these do sound really nasty. The only one I'm familiar with are those little packaged donuts, and yes they are gross and leave you tasting a glob of grease fat in your mouth.
Since Covid, I’ve been eating better and less processed.
It hasn’t been that long, but processed things taste like a block of salt. Met a friend for an In and Out burger. It wasn’t edible. My mouth burned from the salt.
I knew processed foods were high in sodium, but this is a wild discovery.
I used to love Hostess Donettes, those mini-donuts; the chocolate ones were always a bit waxy but darn it I liked the taste! And the powdered sugar ones were the best. Then they disappeared, came back after a while (marketed as "The Sweetest Comeback Ever" and they were AWFUL.
Thanks for the warning upthread about Mr. Goodbar; I liked those once in a great while and I'm sorry they've changed.
I used to like Lay's potato chips but it seems something changed there too. I tried them quite a while back from one store and thought I got a bad snack bag, but then tried them from two other places and the same thing. Plain or BBQ...something changed. Oh well, I don't need them anyway.
Soy stuff isn't my thing...leaves an odd aftertaste.
Virtually all American mainstream brands make horrible candies and chocolates. M&Ms, crack open and you can see very little cocoa content. It's more sugar and binders than pure chocolate. Snickers omg, the peanuts the use is so little and so much caramel. The worst part is the chocolate or lack of it. I know people think Hersheys is the go to brand. Their chocolate bars is so off the mark today how can they sell a bar that doesn't taste much real chocolate flavor vs say IKEA chocolate bar that cost less and taste a lot better. Another bad offender is kitkats, the reason so many millennials these days buy the Japanese version because it not tastes better, more variety, but the chocolate content is higher. Until Americans start buying other brands or demanding high quality these snacks are gonna start tasting all sugar and very little flavor.
Millennials could change this as they are buying less and less traditional mainstream brands and more specialty snacks and brands.
Yes, they've definitely ruined the chocolate.
The chocolate candies we loved growing up have been cheapened beyond recognition. Not the same. M&M's, etc., waxy and full of cheap chocolate "flavoring" and corn syrup. Most candy now outsourced to Mexico. Including Hershey's. Have you noticed there are rarely and "new candy" bars introduced anymore? Always the same boring offering of Snickers, Reeses, Hersheys and Payday, etc.. I remember when Reese's first came out. "You got your peanut butter on my chocolate....". It was a thing, you know, a new thing. No creativity anymore.
I'm sure that's why Millennials are seeking better tasting, higher quality chocolate and snack options.
My thoughts exactly!!!
(tried to rep you again but CD says too soon)
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Solly says — Be nice!
but CD says too soon)
