I don’t dispute smaller delivered amounts, I don’t know really. I can, however, believe that there is a difference that delivers in the texture and taste for mayonnaise and also from different types of Tuna.
As I’ve grown older, I’ve noticed a distinct difference between various products I remember when young and now. You might chalk it up to old age and damaged taste buds, and I probably wouldn’t disagree with you.
However, one of the few products, Hellmans, has never changed that I can tell in quality or taste. There are many others out there with the old names that don’t fill this bill. Cheese Its and Cheese Whiz are a couple. They taste fake and of chemical aftertaste to me. Even for tuna, only the solid white is reminiscent of younger days.
Agree. Things don’t taste the same as they did when we were kids. Too many preservatives and fake ingredients. Everytime I find a great tasting product, they change the recipe. Oreos lost this customer over their changed recipe long before they went gay. Totino’s Pizza Rolls lost my dollars five years ago when they changed the recipe but thankfully the store brand is using a not great but passable version of the original. Blue Belle Ice Cream used to be the best ice cream but I’d rather just buy plain vanilla store brand because Blue Belle lowered their standards. Too many products, like pork ‘n beans have no taste except tin can taste.
For many years, the makers of Maxwell House coffee would reduce the quality of the coffee beans used from year-to-year as a means of controlling cost and combatting inflation.
Each year they would conduct taste tests of the new formula compared to the previous year's formula. From year-to-year, not even the most expert tasters could tell the difference.
Eventually, somebody had the bright idea of testing the new year's formula against the formula from a decade past. Everybody could tell the difference...the quality decline over time was obvious to even the most amateur taster.