There are lots of things that can be put down to personal taste, however I can’t let this abomination go.

I am referring to Branston Smooth.

Branston Smooth image

I love Branston Pickle, but I can’t get on board with Branston paste. Is there a better example where a manufacturer made an updated version of a food that was objectively worse?

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    4 months ago

    I’m in the US. On my last trip to the grocery store I saw that the Mt Olive brand is now selling pickle juice as its own separate product. They had little shot sized bottles and big liter jugs of it. Someone had the actual nerve to market this as a “sports drink”.

    It’s literally on the same shelf right next to the pickles, and cost nearly twice as much.

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      Okay, fuck that, but hear me out: it’s a good sports drink. Drinking a shot of pickle juice for every couple of water bottles on a day where you’re pouring sweat keeps you hydrated better than Gatorade (also good while drinking, and the sour and saltiness mixes well with tequila). There’s no reason to pay a premium for it instead of just skimming some from pickles you already have though.

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      American here, if y’all need help bringing those responsible for that abomination to justice just holler, shit is fucked up

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      Ah, that reminded me of another bizarre Guinness product I saw when I was travelling to the States.

      Guinness Lager

      Why would you have Guinness American Lager?

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        They did do a really nice lager some years ago. It was a limited edition but rather good. Wish they’d bring that back instead of this crap.

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        It’s Guinness branded.

        Maybe they thought that was enough. It’s proper disgusting though. Not sure what they were on when they dreamt that up 😂.

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      I have a fourpack in my fridge. These are so god damned good, they dont have any right to be but are absolutely amazing how good this is

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        We talking about the same thing? Thin, watery, an insult to Guinness, an insult to coffee.

        This is like when Kraft bought Cadbury’s and started to do mash ups nobody wanted.

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          This is like when Kraft bought Cadbury’s and started to do mash ups nobody wanted.

          Aha, that explains why every possible item of food has a new “Oreo” flavoured version.

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          4 months ago

          Tastes so good. Guess we are just very different people. This is an amazing drink. Ill gladly accept your share of these to prevent your horror of ever encountering these again!

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    Mushrooms. They look vile, they smell vile, they taste vile, the texture is vile.

    Mushrooms. Vile.

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      Sorry, I love them. Fried as part of breakfast, cooked with cream on fresh sour dough toast.

      Beef and mushroom pie. So good.

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    I once tried Red Bull Cola.

    I am very flexible when it comes to Cola. I have my strong preference, but I’ll drink other brands to when offered, with one notable exception: You’d have to pay me to drink Red Bull Cola again. They should’ve stuck to Energy Drinks. All their pretty flavours are nice, but that one product is an crime against my tastebuds.

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    Faggots, they’re just a poor man’s version of Haggis. (Grew up poor eating faggots)

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    Marmite. I had the displeasure as a child to mistake this for jelly when visiting relatives. It was a nasty surprise.

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      I’m hoping this is an American. I can’t even imagine taking a huge spoonful thinking it’s blackcurrant jelly.

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        It looks like “stoop” and I’m Dutch. So I expected high octane sugar… It was not. To this day I’m convinced it it made from the gunk thats left after refining oil.

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          They call it yeast extract.

          What they don’t admit is. Yeast it the nickname of an incontinent factory worker.

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        In the Netherlands we have something called stroop and this looks similar. I was very young 85 to 8 maybe) and did not know any better.