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Worst/Best discontinued products that are taboo now but ok yesteryear (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Seeing another post about aunt Jemima products that were discounted due to racial stereotypes I was curious what's the worst product-fuckuo you have seen?

In Sweden we have a chocolate pastry ball that was called negerboll which translates to negro ball. Early 2000s it was deemed that it was not ok and it changed name to chocolate ball.

Bonus. https://www.testfakta.se/sv/livsmedel/article/bort-med-nidbild-pa-fazers-kinapuffar

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

McDonald’s fries in the 80s and 90s were THE BOMB. Then they changed the fry oil and they got real mediocre.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I learned about this from the Revisionist History podcast.

https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/mcdonalds-broke-my-heart

The war on saturated fats had a bad outcome.