Thread 21546462

ITT: Extremely iconic foods that you've tried and they were just "meh"

>>21546462 (OP)
Your dad's cock did not live up to the hype, shoulda asked you first, I know

Sriracha

>>21546465
What an odd thing to say

>>21546474
How so?

A lot of "iconic" food is cheap and readily available. Like Kool-aid, Coca Cola and frosted flakes. All of which are meh

>>21546462 (OP)
kfc

a lot of these zombie brands aren't even as good as they used to be.
a few megacorps own almost all of them so there's no incentive for them to make them good

For me, it's Cheetos. Even as a kid 20 years ago I didn't care for them in the slightest. Flamin Hots aren't special either.

>>21546462 (OP)
Items like this are carried by childhood nostalgia mostly
As in people who love them grew up eating them so it reminds them of a better time which is a flavor unto itself

>>21546462 (OP)
I'm Russian an it goes as this for me personally:

Gansito > Russian Syrok > Twinkie

Not all Syroks are equal, however. It heavily depends on particular Syrok manufacturing brands, as it can be either utter sloppa shit, or perfection.

Main difference between Gansito and Syrok is that Gansito mostly uses souffle and usually has sprinkles, while Syroks are based on thick "cream cheese" custard and have very flat/even surface. Since Syroks are based on real dairy, they can't be stored in warm temperatures for very long, and even in fridge they'd better be eaten in two week's time tops. Gansito, on the other hand, essentially being a candy, can usually be stored for longer.

At the current day, the absolute Top tier of all Russian Syrok-making brands is considered to be "B.Y. Alexandrov" (picrel, premium quality packaging, top tier quality ingredients, great variety of fillings and always best state since the packaging is very sturdy and double-protected), but they're also the most expensive ones (averaging 70+ RUR per one, while other brands tend to be in 40-some RUR territory and lower. Absolute sloppa dogshit usually swims in the 16~18 RUR territory, while "decent" Syroks start at 28+ RUR and "good, but not overpriced" are in range of 35~45 RUR, anything over the "psychological barrier" of 48 RUR is either overpriced, or it's extra premium "tax" for top notch quality).

>>21546462 (OP)
>look up ingredient list for twinkies
>contains tallow
unexpected

they mostly just tasted like bland fat and artificial vanilla to me. not the worst thing i ever ate but kind of offputting.

>>21546799
>contains tallow
From what country are you?

>>21546462 (OP)
>>21546764
>>21546799
>>21546805

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCSJ0uXdc8E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPcIz4SQ-5Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ0F9C0GZaU

P.S.
Bonus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rkn-xqhSDc

>>21546805
what?

>>21546843
What

>>21546805
>keep frozen
What is that? It's not a regular Twinkie snack cake. Since milk and cream are the first ingredients it seems like Twinkie ice cream.

This is the ingredient list for regular Twinkie snack cakes. It has tallow according to the official Twinkie site.

>>21546805
>S O Y
>O
>Y

I used to think that I grew out of liking Fig Newtons around 1993 because my palette changed, the other day I bought some high-brow imported Greek fig spread and it tasted exactly the same as fig Newtons used to taste before 1993. Like somebody said, the small handful of mega corporations that own the food companies are more interested in marketing than quality

>>21546462 (OP)
To be fair OP, Twinkies used to be fat in a way that seemed to be expanding like a marshmallow, not like the texture of the inside of a car seat like the box you posted

>>21546872
What?

Eclairs
Macarons
Pop-tarts
Cheetos

>>21546872
Nothing you just said made any linguistic sense or accurately depicts how Twinkies ever were or are now in texture or taste.

>>21546919

They expanded, I remember the older Twinkies, when they used to go bad they would expand and the wrapper would fill up with air. The way a marshmallow expands when it goes bad. Not stale like the current ones. Also go fuck yourselves for not understanding me and then making that my problem you little retreads

>>21546919
Spongy, like the cushioning on a stale car seat; sue me faggot

>>21546872
>not like the texture of the inside of a car seat

wat

>>21546952
He meant paralon ("foam rubber") filling, obviously.

>>21546939
>>21546944
Literally nobody was talking about food going bad.

>>21546734
true
part of it is our rose-colored memory
but a bigger part is corporate crapification
pic very rel

>>21547146
Oh man I remember when these came to my country in the 1990s, I thought it was the most delicious thing ever. Now I skip over them for the local brand of choco chip cookies.

They REALLY fell off a cliff.

>>21547027
im not american but these do look pretty good

>>21547183
They used to be a lot better before it got jewcified using shitty ingredients.

>>21546767
>Gansito
Should I try these? See the around but never bought them

Most of these things had their ingredients cheapened for profit and shelf stability.
Hostess was recreated as an entirely new company because people missed many things and it is nothing like before.

>>21547146
Chewy was so good. Then they cheapened the recipe and it tastes like squishy sugary wax.

>>21546867

Candy and sugar breakfast cereals had the same thing done.
They changed the manufacturing to a cheaper method. Instead of 12 steps they cut down to 5, and use cheaper ingredients too.
Fruit loops for example once had each color the taste of the fruit it represented, not a uniform blended one.
Pops was in a foil bag and had a coating like a honey shell that went stale in a couple days of opening.
On and on.

Naked juice was really healthy hippie smoothies, then got bought by pepsi and turned into flavored apple juice with just enough other stuff to be the right color.

Breyers famously was milk, cream, sugar, then put gums and thickeners in even their best ones.

Few things last as quality. You have to keep finding the yet to be corporately jewed product to get quality. And it only stays how you found it for some years before you have to find new stuff.

>>21546939
Preach Anon fuck these illiterate shitbags. I understood you first read you aren’t the problem they are

>>21547183
If you get a chance to try them, go for it. It's a very unique experience.

Sugary cereals in general continue to let me down as I get older. This shit here and Reese's Puffs don't even taste like peanut butter.

>>21547950
Well I mean, it's mostly corn.

>>21547183
It's a lot drier than it looks

>>21547965
I had some before going on a hike recently and noticed a cheeto-like aftertaste while it was going down. This organic dupe of it that I tried for the hell of it didn't have the aftertaste, but still didn't taste like peanut butter.

>>21546736
if you didnt have it with milk you didnt have it

>>21547950
Reese's Puffs made me vomit in the school parking lot when I had them for breakfast at home as a kid. Even as a child I preferred Kix/Gorilla Munch instead of the sugary cereals. I might be defective.

>>21548976
>Two grams of sugar is the difference between me vomiting and me not vomiting.
Grim

>>21547027
What a time to be alive

>>21546462 (OP)
Twinkies are the perfect representation of NYC.
So yes, meh.

>>21549118
What

>>21546462 (OP)
you can basically taste the preservatives in them.
fucking gross as fucking gross

They don’t fill em like they used to

>>21546462 (OP)
Euro here.

What's the deal with hersheys?
Why americans love it so much? It's just a typical chocolatebar but with 50% less flavor somehow.

>>21549632
Midwestern American- legitimately don't know anyone that actually enjoys these or the Hershey kisses. It's baffling that they remain such a preeminent brand because they're awful and everybody knows it

>>21549632
Marketing and chemical disposal. Hugs almost taste okay.

>>21549632
Cheap. That's it, cause it's cheap, affordable, "Chocolate"

>>21549632
It's cheap crap for kids, Americans don't "love it so much" it's just really heavily marketed.
Like pretty much everything euros erroneously believe we're obsessed with and use as an excuse to feel superior.

Worked at a place that really did have chicken nugger on the menu. I was the only non-chinese working there and he didn't let me proofread anything, but it was funny seeing it
they came in a bag frozen identical to wendys but got fried in the same oil as the fried fish

>>21546476
Why are you sucking father cocks?

>>21546867
>palette
lol

>>21547916
>jewed

Go back to /pol/, you schizo piece of shit.

>>21547950
Why don't you stop eating like a cavity-ridden child.

It's redbull.

>>21548979
Kix only has 4g of sugar per 40g serving while Reese's Puffs has 12g sugar. PB Crunch has 13g.

All three are corn cereals that are pretty shit and contain granola levels of caloric load. You're better off eating peanut butter flavored granola. A bowl of picrel is healthier than all three and tastes like peanut butter.

>>21549920
The difference between gorilla munch and Reese's puffs is two grams of sugar. Nothing he said was incorrect.