when supermarket recipes go bad
when supermarket recipes go bad
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tonym911

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19,368 posts

233 months

Tuesday 22nd November 2011
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I used to like Morrisons tiger bread. Then, about three months ago they did something to the recipe which has given it a rather unpleasant oily aftertaste, so now I hardly buy it.

Anybody know why they change perfectly good stuff, or noticed any other 'improvements' in supermarket goods of late?

redtwin

7,518 posts

210 months

Tuesday 22nd November 2011
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To lower costs or to healthify it.

I will never forgive McDonalds for switching to whatever the hell it is they fry their chips in now. I also used to enjoy ASDA bakery oatmeal and raisin cookies, then of late it seems to have a banana type after taste that I do not enjoy.

johnnywgk

2,579 posts

210 months

Tuesday 22nd November 2011
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Redtwin, McDs fries used to be cooked in beef tallow (sp) very bad for you, but taste the biz.

Loads of info on the net, just got to spend hours looking through it.

Next clostest thing i found, cook fries in beef dripping.

Only do this once every 125 years, or you will shorten your life
by 124 years, or sumint lik dat. HTH.

johnnywgk

2,579 posts

210 months

Tuesday 22nd November 2011
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Oh sorry, the change was to make McDs a healthier option.

But now tasteless.

johnnywgk

2,579 posts

210 months

Tuesday 22nd November 2011
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Oh sorry again, (just trying to up my post count) try a different morrisons.

My father buys tiger bread and i can't taste the difference, from a year ago til now. HTH as well.

calibrax

4,788 posts

239 months

Tuesday 22nd November 2011
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johnnywgk said:
Oh sorry, the change was to make McDs a healthier option.

But now tasteless.
Yep, always the way when they try to 'healthify' a product.

I used to love Chicken & Mushroom Pot Noodle, but they changed the recipe to reduce the salt content. Ironically, this means that if I have one I need to add salt to it.. probably more than they took out!

It's a Pot Noodle FFS! mad Why would you anyone want to make it healthy? same goes for chips... they are SUPPOSED to be bad for you!

redtwin

7,518 posts

210 months

Tuesday 22nd November 2011
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johnnywgk said:
Redtwin, McDs fries used to be cooked in beef tallow (sp) very bad for you, but taste the biz.

Loads of info on the net, just got to spend hours looking through it.

Next clostest thing i found, cook fries in beef dripping.

Only do this once every 125 years, or you will shorten your life
by 124 years, or sumint lik dat. HTH.
What is in their beef burgers then if they have deemed beef fat to be so bad?. scratchchin

Actually, don't want to know, McFlurries are the only thing I will have from there.

Baryonyx

18,275 posts

187 months

Wednesday 23rd November 2011
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Tesco Cola used to be delicious, it was so good it was a credible alternative to proper Coca Cola. This was back when the Tesco coke came in the bright red cans. I bought a bottle a few weeks ago, expecting it to be just as good, despite having not had it for a couple of years. Good grief, it was awful. The taste has changed for the worse, it's now extremely bland tasting. Absolutely dreadful.

I wondered if maybe it was considered 'too good' by Coca Cola and they were forced to change it!

66comanche

2,369 posts

187 months

Wednesday 23rd November 2011
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redtwin said:
What is in their beef burgers then if they have deemed beef fat to be so bad?. scratchchin

Actually, don't want to know, McFlurries are the only thing I will have from there.
49% GDA sugar is doing well for a small pot of stuff, not to mention 36% GDA saturated fat!

Their hamburger has 14% GDA sat. fat so your mcflurrie has more than 2 1/2 hamburgers.

rfn

4,605 posts

235 months

Wednesday 23rd November 2011
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Baryonyx said:
Tesco Cola used to be delicious, it was so good it was a credible alternative to proper Coca Cola. This was back when the Tesco coke came in the bright red cans. I bought a bottle a few weeks ago, expecting it to be just as good, despite having not had it for a couple of years. Good grief, it was awful. The taste has changed for the worse, it's now extremely bland tasting. Absolutely dreadful.

I wondered if maybe it was considered 'too good' by Coca Cola and they were forced to change it!
Coke (and most things) taste completely different from bottles, or cans. Coke tastes completely different from a plastic bottle than it does from a glass bottle - so they may not have actually changes the recipe?

redtwin

7,518 posts

210 months

Wednesday 23rd November 2011
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66comanche said:
49% GDA sugar is doing well for a small pot of stuff, not to mention 36% GDA saturated fat!

Their hamburger has 14% GDA sat. fat so your mcflurrie has more than 2 1/2 hamburgers.
That would explain why they taste so much better than the burgers. thumbup

BrabusMog

21,740 posts

214 months

Wednesday 23rd November 2011
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rfn said:
Coke (and most things) taste completely different from bottles, or cans. Coke tastes completely different from a plastic bottle than it does from a glass bottle - so they may not have actually changes the recipe?
No, I can vouch for this - I used to love Tesco Cola and then they "improved" the flavour, or so they would have you believe. It was a shame as 12 cans was something ridiculous like £2!

Mr Pies

8,992 posts

215 months

Wednesday 23rd November 2011
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Sainsburys have just changed their own brand cottage cheese with pineapple. Was lovely before. Now it just tastes like fking man foam.

Baryonyx

18,275 posts

187 months

Thursday 24th November 2011
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rfn said:
Coke (and most things) taste completely different from bottles, or cans. Coke tastes completely different from a plastic bottle than it does from a glass bottle - so they may not have actually changes the recipe?
It has definitely changed! Though I take your point about the container for the drink making it taste different.

That said, there is slightly more to the taste of Coke from bottles. The plastic bottles are 'new' Coke, made with high fructose corn syrup (IIRC). The coke in glass bottles is made with cane sugar, which adds to the price. Thats the way all Coke used to be be made.

Podie

46,649 posts

303 months

Thursday 24th November 2011
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redtwin said:
... McFlurries ...
McReconstitutedPorkFat

hurl

redtwin

7,518 posts

210 months

Thursday 24th November 2011
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Podie said:
McReconstitutedPorkFat

hurl
That's the best kind of fat there is!. lick