Have they substantially lowered the quality of Nesquik over the years?

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Have had a bit of a craving for milkshakes of late so decided to pick myself up some Nesquik at my local Tesco. Now, its many years since I last purchased this stuff but to me the quality seems much lower than it was previously. Inspection of the current product revealed a powder that is very fine and seems to have wetting and dissolution issues when mixing it in with the milk. I had to resort to creating a paste first with a small quantity of milk which I then diluted down with further milk and stirring to form the finished milk shake. Even with this methodology, lumps of undissolved powder remained which despite my best efforts of spoon-based agitation (I thought the hand blender to be overkill) refused to fully dissolve.

Thinking back to my childhood close to 30 years ago I distinctly remember Nesquik to be much more granular in nature as opposed to the fine powder we have now. I dont seem to recall any problems with powder wetting/dissolution and certainly did not need to use the pasting methodology in order to get an acceptable milk shake beverage. Has anyone else noticed this or is it just me? Perhaps someone works for Nestle and can confirm they have changed their process route for production of Nesquik? Has anyone got any other examples of products which seem to have reduced in quality over the years? Here's one for you, Dow Egberts instant coffee; this stuff used to be decent (as far as instant coffee goes) but now is absolutely terrible.
 
Chocolate of all forms is getting worse, supposedly its becoming an increasingly scarce commodity.

Many things are getting bad, i dislike the way meat comes loaded up with water these days to the level that microwaving a slice of ham for ten seconds is a way to halve the volume and double the flavour, and you dont so much fry mince as spend 30 minutes boiling off the water before getting to the actual frying bit.

Its not just food, everythings bloody consumable these days to the stage you couldnt fix it even if you wanted to. Mobile phones starting to have too much plastic on a top of the line device when not 5 years ago it'd have been aluminium and theyre all glued together anyway, also since when did "gorillaglass" scratch so easily? I had a samsung years ago with a gorillaglass screen and you couldnt have scratched it with a hammer and a chisel.

Reduce, reuse and recycle is soon going to be impossible, what happened to people actually making spares?
 
adolf hamster said:
Chocolate of all forms is getting worse, supposedly its becoming an increasingly scarce commodity.

Many things are getting bad, i dislike the way meat comes loaded up with water these days to the level that microwaving a slice of ham for ten seconds is a way to halve the volume and double the flavour, and you dont so much fry mince as spend 30 minutes boiling off the water before getting to the actual frying bit.

Its not just food, everythings bloody consumable these days to the stage you couldnt fix it even if you wanted to. Mobile phones starting to have too much plastic on a top of the line device when not 5 years ago it'd have been aluminium and theyre all glued together anyway, also since when did "gorillaglass" scratch so easily? I had a samsung years ago with a gorillaglass screen and you couldnt have scratched it with a hammer and a chisel.

Reduce, reuse and recycle is soon going to be impossible, what happened to people actually making spares?
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Watched something on Facebook about the Americans holding meetings where they bring broken items such as printers etc and experts show and help them fix them rather than throwing them out and buying new ones. Hope it catches on.
 
adolf hamster said:
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Reduce, reuse and recycle is soon going to be impossible, what happened to people actually making spares?
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That was what happened before globalisation made it viable to have stuff made in places with few employment laws and extremely low wages. Now it's more profitable to repeatedly sell low quality items that don't last long than it is to sell spares for higher quality items that last longer, so that's what usually happens. Quality is no longer commercially viable in the mass market. It was when stuff was usually made in or close to the country it was sold in, but those days are gone.
 
I've always thought lidl was a bit of a wake up call for people to realise that most manufacturers are mugging you off. They rip off products so blatantly and in most cases are much better quality at sometimes as much as half the price.
Is this some magic buying power voodoo or are the big names just scraping more and more profit out of us.

The one that astonishes me atm is Coke. Two quid for two litre bottle of 99% water lots of sugar and a few additives. Wtf.
 
ChroniC said:
I've always thought lidl was a bit of a wake up call for people to realise that most manufacturers are mugging you off. They rip off products so blatantly and in most cases are much better quality at sometimes as much as half the price.
Is this some magic buying power voodoo or are the big names just scraping more and more profit out of us.

The one that astonishes me atm is Coke. Two quid for two litre bottle of 99% water lots of sugar and a few additives. Wtf.
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Isn't it 1.75L and 1.25L nowadays?
 
on another topic, yet similar, i have also noticed that Ribena is no longer as it was years ago. Used to be A) thicker and B) in a glass bottle.

Doesnt taste the same :mad:
 
Magic_x_uk said:
on another topic, yet similar, i have also noticed that Ribena is no longer as it was years ago. Used to be A) thicker and B) in a glass bottle.

Doesnt taste the same :mad:
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+1

Been like this for a while. I stopped buying it.

I also noticed last xmas with the obligatory Lynx shower gel present, that it was significantly less viscous than the previous year - more water in that too it would seem. It's everywhere.

Scumbag elites just finding every which way to squeeze more out of the other 99%.
 
opstrat said:
Watched something on Facebook about the Americans holding meetings where they bring broken items such as printers etc and experts show and help them fix them rather than throwing them out and buying new ones. Hope it catches on.
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Isnt it the norwegians are bringing in tax breaks for people repairing things instead of throwing them out?

Itd be a good idea if stuff was made to be servicable but ofc it isnt.
 
Since the Illuminati took over Heinz, I've seen a 3% drop in the number of beans per tin of Heinz Beans. It's bloody criminal. :mad:
 
rubberduck said:
I had to resort to creating a paste first with a small quantity of milk which I then diluted down with further milk and stirring to form the finished milk shake. Even with this methodology, lumps of undissolved powder remained which despite my best efforts of spoon-based agitation (I thought the hand blender to be overkill) refused to fully dissolve.
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Mate, it's a bloody milk shake, put ingredients into a shaker bottle and...well...shake it? :rolleyes:
 
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