[bert]

.....I liked Hydrox better....

I’ll pick your post to respond and question.

I too preferred Hydrox.

There are several histories given noting that Keebler took over the brand. It is my recollection that at sometime prior to that event, sunshine changed the recipes for Hydrox and after that they were not as good.

I don’t recall the date, but after 1980.

I wrote the company a letter advising they had made a poor decision by the change to what was an Oreo clone, having the slightly bitter flavor characteristic of Oreo.

I got a very long letter, signed in ink, boiled down to they had to change because that was what customers demended.

It’s a quarter centuary lated and I’m still not over it.

Do you recall the reciope change?
The official Hydrox page doesn’t even know it happened.

[weegee]

I saw a cookie package about 3 years ago for either Chips Ahoy or Oreo. It said “America’s favorite” (or something like that) AND “bew and improved”. Either it is a classic “staple” and tradition or it isn’t. Mucking about with the recipe will lose the older consumers who are wise to the switch.

Charmin bought and ruined White Cloud (now sold as “Charmin Ultra”).

[Verloona Ti]

It’s a quarter century lated and I’m still not over it.

I sympathize. I used to love the taste of Coca-Cola, till some time in the early 1990s I noticed it always tasted like "Santa coke"-the coke cans sold around Christmas time had Santas on them, and the contents were relatively bitter or harsh in flavor. (We hypothesized that that's because they put less sugar in it then so people could mix it with alcohol. )I now realized that's because they had changed from sugar to high fructose corn syrup, but at the time all I knew is coke now "sucked". So I quit drinking it and switched to Sprite, and now I rarely drink sodas at all.