Could be one, could be both, could be another factor in combination.
Me, as a middle-aged person who’s worked on healthy eating habits for a long time, I do like to go back and sample stuff I liked as a younger person. And if certain stuff tastes good, I’ll keep bags / containers of goodies around that I can have as occasional treats.
Enshitificacion (sp?) is definitely a thing, with a small group of owners owning the vast majority of brands like a monopoly, able to shave off quality from almost their entire line of products in order to squeeze out more quarterly profit.
That said, I still find certain stuff tasty. Dove chocolate bites, Werther’s caramel candies, generic store-brand shortbread cookies, Lifesavers fruit candies. It may be that some stuff has such basic ingredients that it’s hard to screw it up, I dunno.
Sounds like what’s happened to many of the peanut butters, turning them into “peanut butter spread” (generally characterized by less than 90% peanuts and added oils).
anyone remember when Nutella wasn’t made with palm oil?
miss it. it isn’t the same anymore
Nutella is almost 80% sugar & palm oil. There’s a reason it tastes great but is a health disaster.
I prefer my all natural 30% butter, 10% whole milk, 10% cocoa, 10% hazelnut, 40% cane sugar and honey, healthy alternative
Its not the ingredients necessarily, its the proportions
“Healthy alternative.” oO
I wonder if things taste different because I grew up or because it is all enshitified beyond recognition
Could be one, could be both, could be another factor in combination.
Me, as a middle-aged person who’s worked on healthy eating habits for a long time, I do like to go back and sample stuff I liked as a younger person. And if certain stuff tastes good, I’ll keep bags / containers of goodies around that I can have as occasional treats.
Enshitificacion (sp?) is definitely a thing, with a small group of owners owning the vast majority of brands like a monopoly, able to shave off quality from almost their entire line of products in order to squeeze out more quarterly profit.
That said, I still find certain stuff tasty. Dove chocolate bites, Werther’s caramel candies, generic store-brand shortbread cookies, Lifesavers fruit candies. It may be that some stuff has such basic ingredients that it’s hard to screw it up, I dunno.
Sounds like what’s happened to many of the peanut butters, turning them into “peanut butter spread” (generally characterized by less than 90% peanuts and added oils).
I miss being a child, and I had the bizzare notion that everything will improve, instead nothing is free from enshitification
They came up with a vegan one that briefly didn’t have palm oil and then changed it to palm oil.