Originally Posted by
CPRich
All the best ice creams have fat. Everything in moderation.
Including moderation!
In fact I'd say all ice cream has fat. That's why it's ice
cream and not ice water.
Originally Posted by
Eastbay1K
Not the same? The run of the mill US produced candy bar (whether a Nestle, Hershey or Mars product). I was never a fan of Hershey, but the chocolate is just so crappy tasting these days overall. Is it the replacement of cocoa butter with oil in some of the products? Have I just been exposed to better stuff over the years and the snobbery has set in? A combination of both? It seems like the texture isn't the same, either. And it isn't that I don't like to eat crap from time to time. But the US mass produced candy bar has (with limited exception) become a bit too crappy even for me.
Yeah, either Hershey has gone downhill or I've just gotten used to better chocolate. I think the latter.
I had a can of Campbell's tomato soup maybe a year ago for the first time since I was in maybe middle school and I couldn't eat it. It was so sweet that it was just gross. I looked at the ingredients and sugar featured prominently. I don't remember it being sweet. Why do they have to put sugar in everything?
In business school one of my marketing professors, who used to work in a corporate marketing job for...I think it was Shake n Bake but not sure, said that his office used to listen to the radio in the mornings and one morning someone called into the show to say that they remembered their product tasting different when they were a kid and wondering why. My professor thought it would be fun to call into the show and say, "we work here and it's the same great ingredients it has been since 1960something," and maybe send the lady a free box of the product as a little marketing triumph. But before calling they thought to look at the history of the product recipe and found that, sure enough, when it first came out it was lots of fresh herbs and fewer but higher quality ingredients, and by the time of the radio call in it was a lot of chemicals and no fresh ingredients...so they didn't call.