Most mornings I wake up...if I didn't it would mean I'm dead and due to being particularly difficult to kill I've rarely died and on those times I did I just came back to life, stood up, dusted off and carried on living. So...most mornings I wake up and have breakfast.
It's not always the same and depends if I'm home, away working, in the working week, the weekend, what I have to do and when...there's different breakfasts depending on many things.
About 70% of the time my breakfast consists of a really tasty vanilla yoghurt (no added sugar of course), a handful of strawberries and sprinkles of almonds and cashew nuts or a low carbohydrate/sugar granola, or both. It keeps me going until late morning - I usually eat breakfast around 06:00 and generally no later than 07:00 because I'm awake so early...unless I'm dead and then I don't wake up at all.
Anyway, I like my yoghurt breakfasts.
The trick to it is that the yoghurt has 15g of protein which helps me feel less hungry for longer and that the crunch of the nuts or granola, the flavour of strawberries and sometimes even a few blueberries, together with the creamy flavour of vanilla combine into a legit taste and it's pretty healthy too.
But they changed my fucken yoghurt
To be fair, it's still really tasty and I still like it, but it used to have a really nice texture, (probably the wrong word.) It would pile up on the spoon when scooped and not run or gloop off. Now, it fucken gloops.
To be even more fair, the glooping isn't all that bad, it's just different to what I'm used to and when people fuck with my breakfast I don't react well.
For instance, bacon and eggs, a breakfast I have once a week or so...fucken awesome. But if they changed bacon to taste like...umm...tree bark, bacon and eggs wouldn't be the same and breakfast would be ruined! It's the same with my yoghurt.
I don't know why the change happened, I don't know why companies mess with something that works well already either, but they do. Ok, I probably know why: product/ingredient shortages, cost cutting and revenue raising, changed manufacturing techniques...there's actually a lot of reasons why a company would change a product but don't they know I don't always agree with those changes?
Don't they know who the fuck I am?
Ok, admittedly, I'm a nobody...no one special at all, so they don't give a fuck who I am. I'm just a guy who wants my yoghurt texture back I guess, no more or no less.
Have you ever come across this situation with a food you like or love that was changed and now doesn't seem as appealing? Tell me about it in the comments if you want to and if you don't want to then you'd better not.
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Commiserations on the gloopiness of your yoghurt, but worse than having your favourite thing changed is having it taken off the market altogether, as with Cadbury's Pink Wafer Snack. Gawd, I loved those things.
Oh yeah, gloopiness is bad but losing a product altogether? Wars have started over less! Ok, not really, but I get really miffed, like really!
Oh yeah, this has happened to me multiple times.
Most recently this happened to me with smoked sausage ("Suitsuvorst" in Estonian)
I had this specific brand I bought smoked sausage from always, because I really liked the taste and texture of their product. Their product was absolutely the best in the business, until they went and changed something to make it fall to become one of the absolute worst ones.
IDK what they did with their sausages, but it felt like they stopped adding spices and didn't hold them in a refrigerated storage for weeks.
Took the pic from google for illustration
Now I migrated to my 2nd favorite brand and have to put mediocre sausage on my bread everyday :/
But it's still really good 😅
Yep, you know exactly what I'm talking about and I'm the same...every time I crack open a yoghurt and taste it I'm like, fuck man, I remember the good old days and now...not so good.
Now I feel like sausages and I've only just finished dinner! I reckon I could fit one or two in though. 😬
The bad policy of food manufacturers, due to the increase in prices and the reduction of quality raw materials, leads to the fact that the taste of the product changes.
It is the same with us with the Smoki brand.
The percentage of peanuts in this salty snack has been reduced and thus the taste has completely changed.
In order to cancel the reduction effect of the peanuts, they added too much salt and thus ruined it even more.
I don't even want to remember situations with reduced portions and increased prices in restaurants.
For this reason, I bypass once-favorite restaurants in a wide arc.
And then manufacturers wonder why sales reduce and they go out of business. Nutbags.
They have a few more steps before disappearing. Due to reduced sales, they change their portfolio and additionally increase their prices, because their turnover has decreased and they are incurring even higher costs, and customers do not want to take risks with new ones for more money, and that's it. Business is killed...
Yes of course they do, I was generalising rather than represent myself on an expert in business and economics.
It has happened to me many times, especially years ago, when in order to lower or maintain the price of the product they lowered the quality of what it contained. So I ended up consuming less and less quality.
Here in Spain what happens to me is that many foods have ingredients that they shouldn't have that are supposedly forbidden, for example palm oil and I see it in the composition.
If only you had th best beef in the world...but Australia holds that particular title.
You know it.
Yes you do.
No, I don't... I haven't tried it to be sure!
Hi @galenkp, what you comment has happened to me several times that I can remember. One, the one that has upset me the most, happened as follows. I have a cousin who has worked all his working life in a military laboratory and one of his duties was to analyze the food that was on the market. It was the late 1970s and from time to time he would warn us about the widespread adulteration of dairy products. In the early eighties, every morning I had a fresh cheese of a certain brand, until one day it changed. My cousin explained to me that the administration had taken the issue of this type of fraud more seriously and the company that manufactured the cheese had changed the composition of the product, making it healthier and less adulterated. But I stopped liking it and stopped taking it.
I think a lot goes into food that we don't know about despite "labelling" and a lot of the time it's not all that good for us. It's somewhat alarming but there's no way around it for most people as providing one's own food one hundred percent of the time is mostly out of reach.
You are absolutely right. The “fraud” continues to this day. I put quotation marks because many of the poisonous additives in processed foods are legal.
Indeed, that's the frightening part, that those things are considered acceptable.
It is frightening, especially (in my opinion) for two reasons, the complicity of regulatory agencies with big industry, and for the lack of awareness of most people about the problem. There are multiple proofs and evidences of complicity between parties. In addition, when regulators act, as you mentioned in a comment, the penalty is always less than the gain from breaking the law.
You said it and I completely agree.
It was not difficult to agree, now after a short break I have to continue working. I hope you have a great end of the day.
I detest when companies change a perfectly good product, especially products that I eat nearly daily. It's never a better outcome. I usually go fuss on their facebook page or wherever and if the change really ruins it for me, I protest by finding another brand! If I have loved the product previously, I usually buy it a couple of times before giving up, in case they just didn't have the right quality to one or two batches.
I know things change, but that doesn't mean I have to like it. hmmfff.... LOL
I don't have Facebook so usually just move on and find another product; I'm not into supporting companies that produce sub-standard food (or anything else) such as McDonalds and the rest of the fast food chains and Cadbury's who have seemed to embrace shrinkflation with passion - many others too. I was annoyed with my yoghurt but still eat it as it's still good, tastes the same; I still remember the good old days of non-gloopiness though.
Well! You're just better than me!
FB only because I have one for family and friends I know/have known, sharing photos and the such privately. It makes me feel better to tell those companies even when I know they don't care. Which platform doesn't really matter, just somewhere.
I know what you mean about yogurt getting like that. It's a big pain in the butt. I eat vanilla whole fat greek yogurt pretty much every day through the week around 8:00 AM. I put some granola and fruit in it and it gets me through until lunch. It's honestly one of my most favorite parts of the day. It's always disappointing when they don't have my regular brand and we have to get a different kind and it is a different consistency.
We have virtually the same breakfast.
It's super annoying that brands change their products but with cost cutting all over the place it's no surprise I suppose. It's a slippery slope on the way to rock bottom though and unfortunately humans simply adapt and accept the "new normal."
Yeah, that is a good point. Even worse than the texture issue is when you have to get the low fat stuff and it is so sweet because they add sugar to it to offset the fat. I'm guessing you avoid that though given your condition.
So this is about food. I used to love watermelon. I used to prefer it on everything but one day I vomited alot after eating it. I don’t know what was the cause but it is what happened . Abd after that day ,watermelon didn’t look so appealing for me.
Watermelon is good, vomiting is not.