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Pop Tarts are so awful these days. Not only have they relentlessly cut the filling and icing, you can visibly see the progress as time goes on. Kellogg, I don't
by BitwiseFool 5y ago
Pop Tarts are so awful these days. Not only have they relentlessly cut the filling and icing, you can visibly see the progress as time goes on. Kellogg, I don't buy pop tarts for the crust!
- brianwawok 5y agoI wish I had some frozen in time from the 80s/90s. How much did they really get worse vs how much are my kid rose tinted glasses clouding my judgement?
- themitigating 5y agoWhy have facts when you can use feelings? /s
- skhr0680 5y agoIn Japan, Country Ma’am cookies are infamous for magically getting smaller over the years. Shrinkflation is a real thing. /edit to include cookie name Pic: https://twitter.com/cicada3301_kig/status/1314194162699309056?s=21 https://twitter.com/cicada3301_kig/status/131419416269930905...
- colmvp 5y agoYour comment reminded of the time 10+ years ago when avid Cadbury Egg enthusiast B.J. Novak was on Conan and talked about how he thought Cadbury Eggs were shrinking and proved it by bringing out a Cadbury Cream egg he had around his house from years prior. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlXLCrzpToo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlXLCrzpToo
- monksy 5y agoThe biggest reason why Cadbury Eggs suck in the US is because the brand Cadbury is owned by Hersey and they make terrible chocolate. Get some in the UK the next time you're there. (Yes, the eggs have shrunk)
- jnsie 5y agoHate to break it to you, but since 2010 Cadbury UK has been owned by Mondelez International. The quality of Cadbury in Europe is declining, IMHO. (I never liked US Cadbury)
- monksy 5y agoThere is still a massive difference between the chocolates. (Hersey vs now Mondelez) Herseys tastes like wax that's gone bad.
- ceejayoz 5y agoThere's a specific reason for that. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hersheys-chocolate-tastes-like-vomit_l_60479e5fc5b6af8f98bec0cd https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hersheys-chocolate-tastes-lik...
- tweedledee 5y agoMy favorite part was the gaslighting done by Cadbury. “It hasn’t gotten smaller, you’ve gotten bigger”
- mynameisash 5y ago
- iratewizard 5y agoIt must be a recent thing. A little over 3 years ago I had to eat a poptart dinner in a hotel while prepping for a demo. They were exactly what I remembered.
- cafard 5y agoA college roommate said that his family received a box of Pop Tarts as part of a marketing test before they went on the market. After the first breakfast, they never ate more. That would have been about the time they came out, maybe 1965. I did eat them, but at an age that I'd eat pretty much anything.
- tshaddox 5y agoI have had them once or twice a year for the last 10 years as a junk food treat on wilderness backpacking trips. Other than the availability of certain flavors I haven’t noticed any change at all since I was a kid.
- mleo 5y agoI have to imagine there has been reformulations on many items since the 80s based on cultural trends and food science. We went through the "Low Fat" period where "fat" was removed and replaced with sugar. Probably less animal fats and more palm oil along the way or fried in peanut oil, etc... There is a lot of foods that I had as a kid that I don't consume now nor even offer my kids.
- JohnWhigham 5y agoCancerous MBAs extracting as much profit as possible out of everything. They've perfected the art of re-examining everything and trimming as much fat as their customers can tolerate...and then they do it again. If you're reading this as an Ivy League business school student, I hope you outlive your kids.
- refurb 5y agoExactly. I hate the fact that products get cheaper every year and businesses have to compete for me as a customer. Damn you MBAs!!! <shakes fist at air>
- JohnWhigham 5y agoLol, they are not getting cheaper. For decades, products are getting made with increasingly shittier parts. Big box items like fridges/washers/etc are nowhere near as reliable as our grandparent's were. They break just outside of manufacturer warranties. Selling a washer that lasts for years and years doesn't help YoY growth. Prices stay the same all the while they bilk you right under your nose (https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20180510-the-food-you-buy-really-is-shrinking https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20180510-the-food-you-b...). But if you want to go ahead and be a ignorant lemming like these companies want you to be, by all means do so; It doesn't change reality.
- adrianN 5y agoWell, my grandparents couldn't afford neither a fridge nor a washing machine at all and now you can get one with a week of minimum wage work. The problem is that as a consumer I can't distinguish between a washing machine that is expensive because it's built to last and a washing machine that's expensive because somebody liked a higher profit margin, so the market naturally converges to things that last exactly as long as they have to to avoid lawsuits.
- rgrieselhuber 5y agoI had the same thought and was just looking at making these the other day: https://www.punchfork.com/recipe/Paleo-Strawberry-Homemade-Pop-Tarts-Paleo-Running-Momma https://www.punchfork.com/recipe/Paleo-Strawberry-Homemade-P...
- coldpie 5y agoSkip the paleo baloney (that crust ain't holding up) and just use a standard flour and butter shortcrust recipe. Super easy & fun to make. Chuck what you don't eat in the freezer for next month.
- rlewkov 5y agoIMHO ... Cinnamon Pop Tarts are still bad ass
- bell-cot 5y agoMmm...back in the early 80's, frosted brown sugar cinnamon Pop Tarts were my usual breakfast. I tried ~all the other flavors - and decided that those generally tasted worse, and had (at best, after reading the labels) no better nutrition. (Edit: 's/that was/frosted brown sugar cinnamon Pop Tarts were/' - to spell out just how "these are not health food" obvious the label on 'em is.)
- chaosbutters314 5y agothis is the same recipe as 20 years ago. I actually used to work on redesigning the formulation and process for strawberry fillings. Nothing changed except your taste buds.
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- spacehome 5y agoThen what was there to redesign?
- Ansil849 5y ago> I actually used to work on redesigning the formulation and process for strawberry fillings. Nothing changed except your taste buds. Nothing changed, but you redesigned the formulation? What does that mean?
- 123pie123 5y agothe (person you replied to) indicated in their view that the dimension (thickness) has changed not the recipe Changing the ratio of filling/ crust/ icing would change the taste
- tyingq 5y agoTook a few minutes to do some image searching, and the ingredients (listed in order of prevalence) have changed. As have several nutritional values. Many are the same, but many are not.
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- duxup 5y agoThere's a lot of food that has evolved to taste "like a thing" but man I swear it has evolved into it's own thing. That is just referencing something "like another food".
- Pxtl 5y agoYeah, lots of things don't really taste like the thing they're "supposed" to taste like. Like, I find most grape stuff approximates the taste of concord grapes... but how many people think of concords when they think of grapes? Grenadine tastes more like cherry flavoring than pomegranates. Heck, cherry flavoring doesn't taste much like cherries either.
- jdmichal 5y agoWait, grenadine is supposed to be pomegranate flavored? I've been using it to make "cherry cokes" for decades... I prefer that flavor to the "real" cherry coke one.
- Pxtl 5y ago"Grenade" is French for pomegranate. The problem is the most common brand "Rose's" is basically a cherry-flavored corn-syrup. Which, if that's what you want, is fine... but it's a far cry from proper grenadine. Cocktail cherries are another cocktail ingredient with a similar insane drift from their origins - good quality Luxardos taste amazing and fruity and come packed in this deep purple fruity maraschino syrup, while supermarket Maraschino Cherries taste... well... awful. source: I watched too many Youtube "How To Drink" videos on the history of cocktails at the start of the pandemic and ended up picking up a new hobby. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTF7QkIkns8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTF7QkIkns8
- jdmichal 5y agoThanks for the link. Now I need to find some pomegranate juice so that I can make my own!
- HeyLaughingBoy 5y ago> Kellogg, I don't buy pop tarts for the crust! That's really funny because I do. I hate the sugary "frosting" crap so I only buy the unfrosted ones (for myself, that is). But honestly, the crust is the best part of the whole experience.
- BitwiseFool 5y agoYou weirdo, I bet your prefer whipped cream to actual frosting on cakes! /s
- HeyLaughingBoy 5y agoNow, them's fightin' words. Nothing beats a good buttercream.
- handrous 5y agoOTOH, I'd prefer pop-tarts if they were just frosting and crust with no filling at all. The one end where the frosting runs almost to the edge (I assume as an artifact of how it's applied) so you get just crust and frosting, is the best part of a pop tart.
- dgudkov 5y agoThis is why I believe the real inflation is higher than the official. When the price remains the same but the quality degrades it's inflation.