r/southafrica • u/Sp00pyBoii_ Eastern Cape • 25d ago
Humour Our taste buds are under attack
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u/Competitive_Cod_9853 25d ago
Here in the UK, the Americans have bought and F****d up Cadburys. Much smaller, more cheaper ingredients and preservatives. Tastes like sugar not chocolate. Apparently once people get used to it you'll never know the difference.
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u/Great-Layer2765 25d ago
Apparently they're leaving cocoa behind too, I mean who needs it right?? (Cadbury used to be soo good but it tastes weird now and doesn't melt properly anymore)
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u/Dazzling-Read1451 25d ago
And hazelnut are better than almonds… why is everything becoming almonds
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u/RightInTheWinks 25d ago
https://youtu.be/GmiLpgrYQg0?si=URAiJ36-Pn-hFU-U
Cadbury literally was 2 glasses of milk and cocoa, not anymore. Enshittification has taken over.
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u/MetaBambi 24d ago
And they still have the AUDACITY to have the glass and a half symbol on their chocolates. How?! How, when the whole slab is smaller?!
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u/sock0puppet Didn’t Make the Cut, Still Making Pap 25d ago
Dude, over here Cadbury has become just shy of the cost of those small Lindt bars.
I actively avoid Cadbury now. Why buy their slabs that taste honestly Meh now if for R20 more I can just yoink a freaken LINDT?!?!
Not to mention, after Easter every Clicks in the country has a sale on the Lindt Egg shaped chocolates
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u/Aerosol668 25d ago
American chocolate is like American cheese - it’s really shit. And yet Americans love it - because, as you say, you get used to it.
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u/Salty_Cold_7971 25d ago
Fuck these Trans National Corporations. They ruining our Food, Americanizing South Africa’s Taste buds
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u/TheW1tchK1ng 25d ago
When the fuck did they get rid of All Gold Simba chips? I'm coming back to SA in a few weeks and was hoping to bring a few bags home with me.
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u/TheThoughtSource 25d ago
They’re still around don’t worry. And salt and vinegar
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u/TheW1tchK1ng 25d ago
Thank God, crisis averted.
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u/Sp00pyBoii_ Eastern Cape 25d ago
So they changed the flavour. It's no longer All Gold, but rather Wellington's.
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u/No-Independent71 25d ago
A travesty!!! Do they taste the same?
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u/skaapjagter Rapture-Proof Like a Hilux 25d ago
No. Idk how to explain but it's not as strong as the all gold flavour was.
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u/beefycheesyglory Local Cheeseburger Expert 25d ago
They do as far as I can tell but I am not a connoisseur of this particular flavor, some people may taste faint differences.
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u/Sp00pyBoii_ Eastern Cape 25d ago
Joh, saying Wellington's and All Gold tastes the same is like saying Beacon and Cadbury chocolates taste the same
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u/beefycheesyglory Local Cheeseburger Expert 25d ago
The flavouring on the chips tastes the same as far as I can tell. There's a difference between the sauce and the flavouring. Kind of like how the chutney chips doesn't taste exactly like the chutney sauce.
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u/TheThoughtSource 25d ago
I agree. It’s like the unpopular chicken flavor turning into KFC Original Recipe flavor.
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u/Sp00pyBoii_ Eastern Cape 25d ago
Where??? I just see Wellington tomato sauce simba chips?
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u/TheThoughtSource 25d ago edited 25d ago
Only ever seen them at Engen.
Update: You’re right, just been to Engen, they’re the Wellington one. Sorry for your loss man. I’m in luck though because I genuinely can’t taste the difference.
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u/thedudeabides-12 25d ago
Boycotting any US company..
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u/paddlesworth 25d ago
It's not easy, but I try. Turns out life much healthier with less American garbage in it.
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u/rollerblade7 Aristocracy 25d ago
PepsiCo own Ceres fruit juice and liquifruit - https://sa.pepsico.africa/about/about-the-company
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u/im_not_a_vampir3 Left Behind, Still Braaing 25d ago
im boycotting pepsico in support of palestine 🇵🇸
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u/MockTurt13 25d ago
whew, for a bit there i misread and thought pepsico have gone and effe-d up the actual all gold tomato sauce recipe as well.
...i imagine there would be riots if that was to actually happen.
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u/Stebaruto 25d ago
Saw them back on the shelves some time last year and I thought oh damn they brought them back... Well I was disappointed
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u/Caffeinerunworksleep 25d ago
Well, All Gold is made by their competitor Tiger Brands.....
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u/Sp00pyBoii_ Eastern Cape 25d ago
Yeah and Intel is currently in talks to start producing some AMD chipsets.
In 2006 Pepsi reported someone who tried to sell them the recipe to Coca Cola.
Competition is healthy, if you hurt the consumer experience you hurt your revenue stream.
We already lost the Steers Simba flavour, now they just bastardised the tomato sauce flavour to "save money" - absolutely disgusting.
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u/ApocalyptoSoldier Ascension Delayed by Eskom 25d ago
They took away my all gold tomato sauce simba chips‽
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u/Sp00pyBoii_ Eastern Cape 25d ago edited 25d ago
Yeah, it's now Wellington's tomato sauce simba chips.
It's a cheap imitation
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u/fostermonster555 25d ago
But the crinkle cut tomato one is pretty good as well.
You got alternatives
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