Lol…
I think Wendy’s started it and I find them to be the best.
I know you’re in a rather small town but I’m in a humongous city with two Catholic churches close to us that both do fish fries on Fridays during during Lent, check out your town.
Repeating an earlier reply in this thread, these “it doesn’t taste as good as it used to (so the manufacturer has obviously switched to cheaper ingredients)” threads have been a food board staple for years, and always make for good reading and walks down memory lane. But just to introduce a little science into the discussion, almost nothing will ever taste exactly the same as it did years ago, no matter what has or hasn’t changed in the production process. The problem isn’t how it’s made; it’s because we have changed; specifically, as we grow older, our sensory capabilities deteriorate. We all (at least those of us of a, ahem, certain age) know how this works with sight and hearing. But it’s the same with taste and smell. We don’t necessarily notice it because it’s so gradual, but when we try an old favorite that we haven’t had for years we often will notice it doesn’t taste the same, and in fact probably tastes a bit bland by comparison, due to the deterioration in our sensory perception. So don’t always blame the big bad capitalists: we share the blame.
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Will do & thanks j. We have a Wendys just over the toll bridge that connects our peninsula to everything else. In the old days it used to take a ferry ride to get over & it was kind of an all day thing. This was WAY before my time late 1880,s till the 1930’s I think.
I don’t eat much fast food, but I do like the quality of Wendy’s specialty sandwiches - I think they have strict and excellent quality control.
This will give me something to look forward to next spring, think we even have a couple Catholic Churches over here.
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An update to,a previous post of mine where I stated I could taste no differences in present day ketchups.
DH picked up a bottle of Hunts the other day and we had some last night. Holy Hell it does taste amazingly different. In a blind tasting I would have thought it was something else. I’ll have to buy my regular Heinz & do a side by side.
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Different good or different bad?
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To me it was MUCH sweeter, (not good,) with amped up spices. I would have used way less on my brat had I known it was going to be that different. When you use something ubiquitous on a regular food, like ketchup, which many of us have been using for decades, it’s a shock, the difference wasn’t subtle at all. Salsa has taken over as the number 1 condiment in our country, so this may be a gambit to not lose more ground.
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Malcolm Gladwell had a piece in the New Yorker, later reprinted in one of his books (IIRC, What the Dog Saw) that was about how many attempts there have been to rival Heinz, none successful. I don’t think I hate Hunt’s, but do recall once getting Del Monte and loathing it. Nowadays, supermarket and TJ’s house brands suit me fine.
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For a while they were making "vintage"Heinz. It came in the glass bottle and really tasted great - like it used to. They stopped making it, I think, and I buy it now wherever they have some left.
I buy “Simply Heinz,” which has sugar instead of corn syrup. You might iike that as well.
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Yes, that’s the one I get and will go back to when I’m out of vintage. It’s more like the one I remember too.
I get the Simply Heinz as well. And I’m from Pittsburgh, so there is no other brand!
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Have that book, will have to read it now. Love the way he thinks and writes.
Will be picking up the Simply Heinz, and look for the vintage stuff too. Thanks for the tip.
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Our current favorite is Uncle Dougie’s Tomato Heaven, which to us really does have a more intense tomato flavor.
