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I’d be more interested in the ingredients. I would guess the 91 version has a lot less weird stuff in it?
by jonplackett 2mo ago
I’d be more interested in the ingredients. I would guess the 91 version has a lot less weird stuff in it?
- anentropic 2mo agoThe 90s were not that innocent
- ahartmetz 2mo agoThat song is from 2000 though.
- coldtea 2mo agoThey don't have to be perfectly innocent - it's still a big win if they were way more innocent, which they were. All kinds of products, from food to clothes, had better ingredients and fewer cheap substitutes.
- anentropic 2mo agoActually I do remember the clothes being better quality - I still own one of the t-shirts that was one of the first things I ever purchased over the internet, it is a bit worn out now but it's lasted an order of magnitude longer than any I had since I'm skeptical about the food though, all the artificial ingredients and cheap substitutes were well under way by then
- Foobar8568 2mo agoI'd believe that the 90s on food industry was way worse than now in some ways, almost no control I suppose, already at least a decade of creating shareholders values etc.
- bena 2mo agoI forget when it was required to list ingredients. But I'd also imagine the regulations were more relaxed, you could list "Milk chocolate product" and have it pass.
- oneeyedpigeon 2mo agoIn the UK, it was 1984. Regulations were further expanded in 2021.
- inigyou 2mo ago> UK forces food makers to list ingredients. Literally 1984.
- 14u2c 2mo agoI’d assume the opposite. People are much more conscious of that stuff nowadays.
- dylan604 2mo agoYou're thinking of it from the wrong perspective. Lots of formulas were changed so that ingredients were substituted with cheaper alternatives. There's an artificial chocolate that uses no cocoa used by lots of items claiming to be chocolate. Just because people are more aware of it does not mean the companies are not using the cheaper formula. One of these stories was recently in the news about Reese's peanut butter cups[0]. So it seems to be one of the rare times evilCorp relented under public pressure instead of stock price pressure [0]https://apnews.com/article/hershey-reeses-chocolate-peanut-butter-cups-recipe-1c17247e190eb03952e1c197b6f872ce https://apnews.com/article/hershey-reeses-chocolate-peanut-b...
- mitthrowaway2 2mo agoIn the 90s it was more common to find aspartame and artificial colors in candy (although those haven't disappeared), but less common to find polyglycerol polyricinoleate and similar emulsifiers in chocolate.
- winter_blue 2mo agoI'm also surprised it's bigger by 20g, since obesity and being overweight wasn't quite as much common at the start of the 90s...
- jonplackett 2mo agoThe reason is that back then while Mars bars were more unhealthy - everything else was more healthy. Eg. Mayonnaise contained eggs and oil instead of the weird crap + sugar mayonnaise is made of now. Also even things like the vegetables has more minerals in and the chicken had less fat in it.
- tekla 2mo agohttps://www.marsbar.ca/en-ca/products/mars-bar-52g https://www.marsbar.ca/en-ca/products/mars-bar-52g What is weird in here.
- jonplackett 2mo ago‘artificial flavour’ may be doing some heavy lifting
- dehrmann 2mo agoThese are the current ingredients: > INGREDIENTS: SUGAR, GLUCOSE SYRUP, COCOA BUTTER, FULL CREAM MILK POWDER, COCOA MASS, SUNFLOWER OIL, SKIMMED MILK POWDER, LACTOSE, WHEY POWDER (FROM MILK), FAT REDUCED COCOA, MILK FAT, BARLEY MALT EXTRACT, SALT, EMULSIFIER (SOYA LECITHIN), EGG WHITE POWDER, PALM FAT, There's nothing particularly weird in it. Soy lecithin is probably the weird one, but it's in a lot of plain chocolate bars, and is pretty benign.
- rsynnott 2mo agoMight have been more. There were a lot of food additives in use in the early 90s which the EU subsequently banned.