Why do Milano cookies taste gross now?

[Anonymous]

DH bought DD those Milano cookie packs for her lunch box as a treat. I tried some because I used to love Milano.

Ugh, they taste like cardboard and have an aftertaste. What is going on here? I feel this way about almost every ready made cookie- they seem to all have this gross aftertaste and the consistency of cardboard. Is it some ingredient that is new? A preservative?

[Anonymous]

Really. I loved for those in high school back in the day.

[Anonymous]

This reminds me of how much I used to love Famous Amos cookies. They were so good, and now they taste like soggy stale cardboard that was dehydrated and cut in the shape of a cookie.

[Anonymous]

Could be new ingredients. The supply chain has forced a lot of companies to reshuffle their ingredients. So, it’s quite possible. Or maybe OP has COVID.

[Anonymous]

Hydrogenated soybean oil. This is why they are banned from WholeFoods

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hydrogenated soybean oil. This is why they are banned from WholeFoods

Is that a new ingredient or part of the OG recipe?

[Anonymous]

The quality of the chocolate used in the US has degraded since we were children.

[Anonymous]

OMG I had some recently and thought the exact same thing! I thought perhaps my tastebuds had changed but they were truly terrible.

Same with those Tate's Bakeshop cookies--just cardboard.

[Anonymous]

I noticed the same with a big container of individual packs I bought at Costco. Dry and flavorless.

Butt the bags you buy at the store are still good, to me at least. I think it may be something about the individual packs, or just a crap shoot on how fresh they are.

[Anonymous]

Famous Amos were never good. You just liked the catchy rhyme.

[Anonymous]

I think our tastes have become accustomed to more butter.

Back in the day there wasn’t anything so buttery and flavorful and salty out there. We loved low-fat and high sweet.

[Anonymous]

Just had those pinwheel marzhma!low chocolate cookies for the first time in years. Did not disappoint!

[Anonymous]

Saltines are inedible now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Famous Amos were never good. You just liked the catchy rhyme.

I have to disagree with this. They were really delicious back in the 1990s. I had some recently for nostalgia purposes and they’re awful now. I think the brand was purchased by a large company.

[Anonymous]

I’m pretty sure thhey used soybean oil back in the 80s. I had a soy allergy and the only PF cookies I can remember that I could eat were the chess ones or those round ones that had jam in the middle.

I have definitely found that the snack pack versions of cookies are way worse than the large pack versions. It’s like they acquire the taste of the package.

Now I have to get some milamos to try.