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Since reading the Downy thread, I got to thinking about what else was changed and to my way of thinking, ruined,..
Log Cabin syrup...It used to be a blend and contained a percentage of real maple syrup...NOT ANY MORE! its just cheap pancake syrup now!!

Aunt Jemima pancake mix..It used to contain four different flours and made the best pancakes...not now, its just another generic mix now!

Tide..Need i say more

Kitchen Aid...Need i say more, still OK, but not Hobart thats for sure.

Frigidaire, Maytag, GE, Hotpoint...Need I say More

Miracle Whip Margarine...No longer available

Anyone think of others, im sure there are TONS more!!
 
Yes I know there not good for you but one thing that has changed well one is gone

Tv dinner meatloaf in red sauce tomato sauce on it. Now they use brown gravy to me that is a salisbury steak.

Gone but not forgetting
boil bag dinners

They where cheap fast and good on bread or just to eat,
 
From Better unto Worse

Hoover,Electrolux,Eureka vacs are NOT what they were with few model exceptions. Front loading washers will soon have features like "Dripmatic technology washes your clothes with an eyedropper's worth of water,saving you 95% energy costs over previous models." All brands of dishwasher detergents without phosphates. Fresh Start powdered bottled detergent no longer has enzymes in it.Most shampoos today are loaded with coating silicones. I miss original Vidal Sassoon,Silkience,Agree,Tame Clean Rinse (a conditioner), Flex, Wella Balsam,Halo(blue), Meta Henna Creme,K Mart Wheat Germ Oil and Honey,Ultra Max,original Nexxus,original Redken products,green Herbal Essence,White Rain clarifying,
Protein 21, Faberge Organics Wheat Germ Oil and Honey,Loreal Ultra Rich,original Body On Tap and Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific. The Vermont Store remakes of the latter two do NOT contain the original ingredient list and are not the same.Contadina tomato paste was like paste, but is thin and pourable now. Rave hair spray,the best ever,jumped the shark in the late 90s.
 
Sunny Delight Florida Citrus Punch was originally an all-juice blend.  Now it's called SunnyD because it's just another water and corn syrup-based "contains less than 2%" fruit juice-flavored beverage on a par with Hi-C.

 

Bisquick made better biscuits and pancakes when it had lard (Jiffy baking mix still has lard as do many store brands).
 
in many instances..

...particularly with consumer products, I believe it is 'hidden inflation.'

Nobody wants to raise prices. I'd rather have the price go up and I can still get stuff that is good.
 
1960's Cheer

 

Mr Bubble powder that leaves no rings

 

Pyrex cooking/baking ware

 

Orginal Mr. Coffees with gravity flow through

 

Full 1 pound coffee;s

 

5 pound bags of sugar

 

I see people all the time saying what a bargin and they are 4 pounds.
 
Most shampoos today are loaded with coating silicones. I miss original Vidal Sassoon,Silkience,Agree,Tame Clean Rinse (a conditioner), Flex, Wella Balsam,Halo(blue), Meta Henna Creme,K Mart Wheat Germ Oil and Honey,Ultra Max,original Nexxus,original Redken products,green Herbal Essence,White Rain clarifying, Protein 21, Faberge Organics Wheat Germ Oil and Honey,Loreal Ultra Rich,original Body On Tap and Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

I miss my hair.

In defense of Log Cabin, it's nowhere near like it was but they DO have a version with no HFCS.

Here's something else that's gone. Real maple syrup you can afford. For something that just squirts out of trees with no cultivation costs, it's priced like it was made from jet fuel.

You can make better syrup than stores sell. It's been a long time but I believe the proportions were 1c sugar, 1c water, 1 or 2 tsp maple extract, 1/2 or 1 tsp vanilla extract. Heat sugar and water stirring to dissolve, low boil to thicken, remove heat add extract. If your tap water smells like a swimming pool or a dirty aquarium, use bottled water.

Oh, there's another thing that's gone bad, tap water.
 
When I was growing up, we'd put Aunt Jemima syrup on our waffles, but we'd always have a bottle of real maple syrup in the fridge for guests. We weren't allowed to use it because "it was too expensive".

Real Canadian maple syrup is more expensive, but we don't usually buy it by the gallon like you can with the Aunt Jemima stuff.

Typically, we'll buy a 1 litre bottle of it from Costco and transfer it to a smaller 100 ml bottle and use that. That lasts us far longer and makes everything taste far better.

The one thing I really miss are computers built with cases which could kill people. The IBM PC and IBM XT had all real steel cases with absolutely no plasticrap, view through windows and other crazy stuff.

I miss decent pop music, but that's a generational thing I think.
 
Afew things from my younger years.

Here are a few things that are not as good as before or have been deleted,
1.Blue Clinic medicated shampoo- loved the fresh fragrance.(gone.).
2 Streeets paddle pop ice creams.(still around but nowhere near as creamy as before.).
3.Most concentrated laundry detergents.(I think they were better years ago in large 1.5kg boxes with standard formulas.)
4.Spray fresh anti-perspirant.(the fragrance is nowhere as nice as before.).
5.Flash powder cleanser.(the best floor cleaner ever bar none.)
6.Ezi-Kleen spray foam cleaner.(the best bathroom cleaner bar none.)
7.Australian governments.(current ones are a disgrace and should all be shut down, we would be better off with no government.).
8.Uncle Sam anti-perspirant.(actually hated the product, but loved the way out tv commercial,it is probably on youtube somewhere.)
9.Most electrical appliances.(because average consumer is only interested in cheap price not too worried about a level of quality.).
That will have todo for now, no doubt I will be adding to this list as other things come to mind.
 
Real Maple Syrup...

IS expensive, that's because it takes a lot of energy and work to cook 40 gallons of sap to make 1 gallon of Syrup, it boils at full tilt for over 24 hours too... we Vermonters know just how much it takes, everyone has friends with a Sugarbush if you're from there... add in the vacuum collection tube systems now universally used, the expensive stainless steel evaporator systems, generally LPG or natural gas powered by the big producers, or your own hand cut and fed logs... try making it once and you'll understand!
 
affordable new pyroceram

For fellow corningware lovers:

Affordable pyroceram that is new. The stuff from Goodwill is fine but I miss the new stuff.
 
Post# 574594, Reply# 12 2/9/2012 at 05:03 by qualin

Hi Sir! You Canadians have some of the VERY BEST EVER pop artists, both in English & French! I have thousands of CD's at home, many, MANY are of those and I cannot match the quality of the music or lyrics with American cookie-cutter music for the masses crap!
 
Post# 574478, Reply# 2 2/8/2012 at 18:36

I am old enough to remember that I simply don't remember TV meatloaf dinners ever having tomato sauce gravy. I thought that Salisbury Steaks were pretty much "glorified" chopped steaks, but with lots of delicious parsley mixed-into the meat. Those are what I used to love, especially at coffee shops or diners. Those dinners always did have brown gravy. We used to eat mostly the turkey ones.
 
''Affordable pyroceram that is new. The stuff from G

 

 

 

That's why I wait for the "Buy 2, Save 50%" and "All Open Stock CorningWare and VISIONS 50% Off" sales at the CorningWare Corelle and More store.  They usually have Pyroceram and VISIONS pieces that aren't sold online.  I think the current vitroceramic products are made by ARC International because they're all made in France.
 
Is it just me or is Heinz ketchup not at all as thick as it used to be? Even accounting for it being in a squeeze bottle I think it's gotten thinner.

The same goes for HP sauce, not to common in the states but very common here in Canada. It was made here around Niagara Falls for decades but about 2 years ago they closed that plant and it now comes from the US and it's noticeably thinner as well.

Pot of Gold chocolates. They were a Canadian company called Moirs Pot of Gold at one time and had great boxed chocolates. Less than 10 years ago they were bought out by Hershey after Nabisco owned them for a while and the brand Pot Of Gold is now widely distributed in the USA and the chocolates are now tiny and waxy and almost tasteless. Nothing at all like they once were
 
 

 

Peter Paul Almond Joy bars originally had 3 whole almonds on each half.  They cut it to 2 and never went back.

 

The original Mars Almond Bar bragged about "6 big California almonds in every bar". Over time, they reduced the number of almonds to 4, then reformulated it with chopped almonds blended into the nougat and renamed it the Mars Bar.
 
"Is it just me or is Heinz ketchup not at all as thick as it used to be? Even accounting for it being in a squeeze bottle I think it's gotten thinner."

I haven't had Heinz experience in years, so I have no idea about how thick it is. But I have bypassed buying it since it appears that they have started using HFCS. I haven't compared recently, but this did seem to be the case within the last year or so. At one point, I think they were selling a limited time replica of their old bottle, complete with the new formula. Sort of like putting "new wine in old skins."
 
One huge change that has hit a number of products that I don't like is the use of high fructose corn syrup in everything. I hate this--there are accounts that a product may not taste as good (like Coke). And I'm concerned about the health risks (which is why I avoid it as much as I can). Shopping for HFCS free products has become difficult and even impossible at times.
 
Spray Starch . . .

Lately I've notice that Faultless spray starch is anything but faultless: it spits and pops and leaves spots on my dress shirts, sometimes to the point that I have to rewash a shirt. I expect this from off-brand starches but not Faultless. I guess I'm going to start buying Niagara and hope they've kept their quality up.
 
Coke Cola

Soda pop is still sold made with pure cane sugar instead of HFCS. IIRC only one or two bottlers in the entire USA produce and it's very difficult to find in many areas of the United States. However it usually more easily found around the Jewish High Holy days as it's Kosher for Passover.

There was an article about this in the New York Times about a year or so ago. They also told of a man who drives from NYC down to wherever the stuff is bottled and buys tons of the stuff. Oh, he returns his empties back to that place as well as I think they still have Coke in glass bottles as well.

Now *THAT* is something one misses; ice cold soda pop in glass bottles.
 
Here is the meatloaf in sauce yummy. They changed it to gravy around 1994. All tv dinners that had a meatloaf had the tomato sauce in them. I gave a call to one of the companys that still make them and was told taste change and to save money they switched to nasty brown gravy.

http://www.theimaginaryworld.com/tvdin10.jpg
 

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