Originally Posted by
VivoPerLei
I'm intrigued by this comment and several other similar ones made in this thread. What has changed over the years - have our palates outgrown the products, or have the franchises changed the recipes over the years? Is it just like everything else - compounded cost reductions over the years eliminating what made something special in the first place, or is it us?
IMO it's the meat that makes the difference. Fast food places never used top quality beef, but IME it used to taste like beef, not a food lab experiment. Read up on "pink slime" and you'll never look at a burger the same way again. When the patties are flat, grey and have weird blobs of oozed "protein" all over them (I'm thinking of my last Five Guys experience) I wonder about what is really in them.