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It doesn't even taste good.
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Last time I tried a fruit by the foot it was skinnier thinner and worse tasting than I remembered them being just a few years earlier. They came in a multi pack with gushers and rollups. The gushers where by far the most disappointing nostalgically, they didn’t even have a shape really and most had leaked.
It's not just your imagination I and others don't think, they've cheaped out on everything presumably. I used to like subway, I went there a couple years back and it was so salty I could barely eat it, and more downgrade than before I think. Others agreed with me on this, and other food products being worse quality.
Subway is, as far as I know, almost entirely a franchised operation so it varies substantially by region and between individual stores. My town definitely has a "good Subway" and a "bad Subway" (and actually it's been a year or two since I've been, the good one might suck now).
The franchiser makes all the ingredients, they have to buy from them, the franchisees have other discretions, but generally none of them can buy their own food or packaging or other supplies, dairy queen is an exception I believe as they have real burgers, but I hear not all are as good.
Subway is famous for screwing their franchisees too, they allow new ones to open up right next to older ones, they have or at least had more locations than any fast food some years back, John Oliver did a piece on it some years back.
Gushers have also failed my recent nostalgia test. Most come melted together.
Sadly that lives up to my nostalgia but I did remember them tasting better. Dunkaroos were a huge disappointment, the frosting doesn’t taste nearly as good as it did to 10 year old me. Not sure if the formula changed or if my taste buds did
Dunkaroos definitely changed.
I was a dm of dollar tree. They don’t give a fuck if things get melted. During the hottest three months some candy does come in with frozen.
What really concerns me is the medicine. A lot of that stuff says to keep it room temperature. Those trucks are not room temperature and the medicine never comes in with frozen. Straight off the hot ass truck.
I'm convinced snack companies are shrinking their products, ala shrinkflation, at a slow enough rate to make you second guess if they just looked bigger when you were smaller.
Right now they appear to be A/B testing natural colors vs old school Allura Red & Tartrazine. The boxes look almost identical, but IMO the natural colored ones taste better. I keep accidentally buying the artificially colored ones.