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What really was better "back in the day?"


  1. Chocolate candy. They seem hell-bent on finding ways to remove chocolate from chocolate candy.
    — crystalistwo

  2. Scotch Brite sponges. The yellow ones that have the green side for scrubbing. Those things used to SCRUB. And they'd last so long, probably too long and you should have thrown them away long ago they were so funky and dirty, but they'd still be in perfect shape. Now the green doesn't scrub at all, and it wears off after just a couple weeks and the yellow part disintegrate if you use it on anything except smooth dishes.
    — heinleinfan

  3. My body. It keeps breaking in weird ways the older I get.
    — SensibleMadness



  4. A lot of food items now come in smaller sizes but at the same price as it was before. so I'm still spending the same amount on a box of oreos but there are 8 less cookies in the box and they're thinner. a lot of food items at the grocery store are like this.
    — EricTheRedCanada

  5. MTV
    — PNWCoug42

  6. Kentucky Fried Chicken. Back in the day, it was **not** cheap. But you got a fresh-baked biscuit, with packets of *real butter* (not 'buttery spread') and *actual honey*. (not 'honey sauce') Now, everything at KFC tastes like what what an alien or an AI would make after you described the food to them. It's *like* food, but not. edit: OK, so a few confused comments later... I'm in the U.S., and by "biscuit" I'm referring to the baked flour-and-water side that the chicken is served with, which I *think* the Brits would call a scone (?) or maybe a roll. (?) Though you actually **can** get a baked cookie (which is what the Brits replying in confusion call a biscuit) in some U.S. KFCs with your meal, but those are awful in a *different* (but still 'not-quite-food') way.
    — RodeoBob



  7. You know all of those chains news outlets claim millennials are “killing”? Those places. I was born in the early 80s and remember places like Applebees, Subway, and Papa John’s tasting pretty good as recently as the early 2000s. These places have all cut quality in the name of profit over the years, and it shows. They have no one to blame but themselves for “killing” their brands.
    — Bobcatluv



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