Tate’s cookies also now taste like nothing. Tate’s claims they still use butter but they sure don’t taste like it anymore.

I think the PP that commented on trans fats is right. Trans fats were developed for a reason - they are cheap, taste good, and are ridiculously shelf-stable so the product never goes stale. Now that trans fats are out, companies have to choose between butter (expensive and turns rancid at some point) or other oils (cheap, but taste like cardboard and get stale). Guess which they choose?

Overall I still think it's a good thing. Trans fats are horrible, and I'm glad we're rid of them. If the side effect is that I end up eating fewer Milanos because they don't taste as good without the trans fats ... well, that's not such a bad thing either.

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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.

Agree. They taste awful now! There is this old expired oil stinky smell when I opened the pack as well....

I don't know.

I don't have the patience to read 5 pages of this, but I have noticed it too, and so I'm not buying them. I find that the Chessmen are closer to what they used to be. But the Milanos were better. Not anymore.

Nothing that cheap and shelf stable can be made with good ingredients. It’s poisonous junk. Just use common sense and avoid crap like that. Buy good cookies made with butter from a local baker if you get the urge.

Just had some milano cookies and I am devastated. What have thry done???? They are horrlble!!!!!! Had some a couple months ago and thoivht maybe it was just a bad batch. But now I know they are just disguting now!! They need to take them off the shelves.

Anonymous wrote:It’s just the life cycle of snack foods in clown world. Step 1: high-quality product finds its market niche and becomes very popular; 2. Brand acquired by multinational food conglomerate looking to expand into high end market; 3. Food conglomerate substitutes cheap, low quality ingredients and production processes to cut costs and drive up margins; 4. Product now sucks, but it takes some time for people to figure it out and much money is made, 5. Product declines in popularity as people figure it out, but not everyone can tell the difference, so 6. Formerly premium ghost brands haunt the supermarket shelves. Case in point: Häagen-Daas. I’m on to Alden’s now, but I am sure Unilever or someone will buy it at some point and the cycle will repeat.

H-D vanilla bean still tastes good, to me. But we don't buy any of the other crazy flavors.

We have more sophisticated taste now.

I know I don't need to buy pepper Ridge Farms products. The size an quality are terrible now. Filling...What fillingsUsed to be you could taste the chocolate in the light, crispy cookie.

PF cookies and pop tarts are terrible now. Cross them off the list of items to buy.

The chocolate in it tastes bad like when you buy easter candy chocolate from the dollar store.

Anonymous wrote:No taste ,very bland ,cookie texture was very weird ? ,,I see why there smaller lol

Thanks AI bumper of zombie threads. You suck.

Flavored Perrier in a can is transforming and it does not taste the same to me. They are using a different spring for sure (based on news) and I don't know what else is different but it is. The plastic bottled lemon Perrier also never tasted like the glass or aluminum can Perrier (packaging effect - maybe on the carbonation).

Quaker Oats messed with the instant Maple and Brown Sugar recipe until it tasted like a Bath & Body Works candle. They put it back to "original recipe" for about a year then left the label on but changed it again. I stopped buying it.

Breyer's mint chocolate chip lost some mintiness years ago when they stopped having the replaceable plastic film freshness seal under the lid. Recently, they very obviously worsened the chocolate in it.

My only consolation is that Campbell's had to reverse its change of the Chicken & Stars soup recipe to subtract salt and eliminate the tiny star noodles. They said it was to eliminate noodle clumping. But everyone specifically wanted those tiny stars and not the giant, bad tasting openwork shapes they subbed in. Sales must have really cratered for them to swap back.

No taste ,very bland ,cookie texture was very weird ? ,,I see why there smaller lol

Anonymous wrote:It’s just the life cycle of snack foods in clown world. Step 1: high-quality product finds its market niche and becomes very popular; 2. Brand acquired by multinational food conglomerate looking to expand into high end market; 3. Food conglomerate substitutes cheap, low quality ingredients and production processes to cut costs and drive up margins; 4. Product now sucks, but it takes some time for people to figure it out and much money is made, 5. Product declines in popularity as people figure it out, but not everyone can tell the difference, so 6. Formerly premium ghost brands haunt the supermarket shelves. Case in point: Häagen-Daas. I’m on to Alden’s now, but I am sure Unilever or someone will buy it at some point and the cycle will repeat.

Yep.Sad but true.

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Anonymous wrote:I haven’t had those recently, but have noticed that other packaged treats don’t taste like they used to. How much of that is a changing palate and how much is changed ingredients though I don’t know.

The last time I got Fruit Newtons I couldn’t believe how much they’d shrunk the individual “cakes” (they’re fruit and cake, remember?). I remember them as being about two inches long and nearly as wide back in the day and they are now closer to one and a half inches long and proportionally less wide.

But I remember the package shrinkage during the recession under Bush.

Food companies suck.

Have they actually shrunk, or are you just misremembering? Everything used to be smaller back in the day.

I googled it. They shrunk them. http://wiredforweird.blogspot.com/2011/01/what-happened-to-my-fig-newtons.html

Do you not remember how much larger toilet paper rolls used to be? Those shrunk sometime in the last ten years, too. Like they shrunk the width of the roll and the individual squares used to be squares; they are now rectangles.