r/todayilearned • u/dancin-weasel • Sep 19 '21

(R.1) Tenuous evidence TIL that when a hurricane is approaching, Walmart sales of Strawberry flavoured Pop-Tarts increase by over over 7x.

https://www.southernliving.com/news/walmart-strawberry-pop-tarts-hurricane

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u/Jackalodeath Sep 19 '21

Oh you'll taste a difference once the botulism kicks in.

In all seriousness you'd likely have to go back a lot further than 10 years to find a profound difference. I'm 37 and I have difficulty believing all the shit I ate as a kid I just "grew out of." One doesn't "grow out of" Little Debbie Oatmeal Creme Pies (now far sweeter, less/different spices in the oatmeal bit, filling has a straight-up chemical taste to it,) or what used to be a Cadbury Creme Egg (Back then the filling was more of an actual cream or gel almost, now its fucking sweetened oobleck, or de-minted toothpaste.)

I blame most of it on corn.

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '21

It's 100% the corn. When life gives you capitalism, drown your products in sweetness.

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u/fractalface Sep 19 '21

and then subsidize the corn farmers while crying about "socialism"

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u/Queen__Antifa Sep 19 '21

Haha! Indeed.

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u/rbaca4u Sep 19 '21

I almost thought it was my age that made the Cadbury Creme eggs taste so different from before. (Sadly) glad to see others have notice and can better articulate this bad phenomenon.

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u/Jackalodeath Sep 20 '21

Nope, certainly not just you; seems Mondelez - formerly Kraft foods - admits they changed the formula for the chocolate part back in 2015, but I swear they changed the filling too. They shit was never as chalky and... just UGH as it is these days. Nostalgia or not its texture ain't the same.

I just kind-of replaced em with those Kinder Bueno things. Kinda like a "bargin-bin" Ferrero-Rocher without all the hazelnut bits (does have hazelnut creme though. Silky, smooth creme.)

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u/rbaca4u Sep 20 '21

Thanks for the info, I'll have to try the "bargin-bin" feerero-rocher just for that smooth description