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

Since this has turned into a rant at modern commericalism, the injection of water into meat has to be close to the top of things I hate (as someone above mentioned). I struggle to understand how it is in any way legal for products that are sold by weight.
 
Same goes for most things really. "New improved recipe" is code for "We found a way to make this cheaper, hopefully you won't notice".
 
That time of year, those tubs of Roses and Quality Street aren't quite what they used to be.

There was a guy at the supermarket last night in front of me buying about 10 tubs. I stood there thinking back in the day 2-3 would have lasted you all Christmas:)

Plus they cheap out on Roses, those god awful foil wrappers.
 
koooowweeee said:
A shaker bottle was never needed. That's ops point :rolleyes:
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Oh i get you now. Well they really should change the name to a milkstir then.

Back to the original post, it's not surprising it turns into a paste as sugar doesn't disolve in cold liquid, and aspartame foams up in milk (the first clue that you shouldn't be ingesting it).
So try shaking it to disperse it better.
 
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lokiss said:
That time of year, those tubs of Roses and Quality Street aren't quite what they used to be.

There was a guy at the supermarket last night in front of me buying about 10 tubs. I stood there thinking back in the day 2-3 would have lasted you all Christmas:)

Plus they cheap out on Roses, those god awful foil wrappers.
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Lolwut?

Even now 10 tubs should last you all Xmas and well into the new year.
 
Buy raw organic cocoa powder and buy some xylitol sugar add to milk and its yum. I use it for my porridge in the mornings its great.

I even make my own raw chocolate cocoa powder, raw cacao butter and xylitol better no sugar and much much nicer.
 
adolf hamster said:
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.
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Having a product with spares available and designed for servicing isn't compatible with people wanting to pay the absolute lowest price for things regardless of quality.

Buy a Dualit toaster and you can keep it going forever - https://www.dualit.com/support/4-slice-newgen/spares but people don't want a £200 toaster, they want to buy 10 £20 ones.
 
stopper said:
Mate, it's a bloody milk shake, put ingredients into a shaker bottle and...well...shake it? :rolleyes:
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Nowerdays the term milkshake is more to describe the style of drink as opposed to the preparation method. For example I would imagine most commercially produced milkshakes are mixed or whisked mechanically as opposed to the container or drum being phyically shaken. That said, the origin of the word would indicate at development they were mostly prepared by shaking but obviouslly the world has moved on a bit since then.
 
BDEE said:
Scumbag elites just finding every which way to squeeze more out of the other 99%.
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Don't think that's all of it though. Many people just want the cheapest regardless of quality quantity and ethics. Companies are just responding to demand.

They know exactly what we buy, when and how. As soon as the demand starts shifting they'll respond by lowering price by reducing quality or quantity.

I paid £24 for one chicken yesterday for the family Sunday roast. My mate would spend £3.29 on roughly the same from Lidl. I'm happy to spend what I did a d he's happy to spend what he did.

If you want quality, quantity and ethical products you have to expect to pay more.
 
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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This is because you're buying packaged meat from the supermarket.
 
nesquick has always been lumpy if done incorrectly. i know that when i was a small kid (20 years ago) there would be times i'd not be able to get rid of the lumps. as a kid though you make it so often you learn how to get it to not be lumpy. i remember everyone would put a tiny bit of milk in, stir it, tiny bit more milk, stir that, and keep going until it was perfect. i also remember just accepting that the first mouth full will be mostly the powder lumps. then all the rest of the sips would be fine.

you may also find your spoons have got bigger, so before say 2 small tea spoons you'd put in, but now 2 tea spoons is more like 3.5 from back then, so there is more to disolve.
 
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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I work with very old equipment at the moment, and we have to repair everything as it would cost a vast sum of cash to replace the electronics.

From what I can tell, we are one of the very very few places that doesn't just bin stuff, but actually repairs and replaces most equipment for a specific supplier.

Everywhere else, is as you say just bin and replace.
 
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