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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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anyone remember when Nutella wasn't made with palm oil?
miss it. it isn't the same anymore
Nutella is almost 80% sugar & palm oil. There's a reason it tastes great but is a health disaster.
I prefer my all natural 30% butter, 10% whole milk, 10% cocoa, 10% hazelnut, 40% cane sugar and honey, healthy alternative
Its not the ingredients necessarily, its the proportions
"Healthy alternative." oO
I wonder if things taste different because I grew up or because it is all enshitified beyond recognition
Could be one, could be both, could be another factor in combination.
Me, as a middle-aged person who's worked on healthy eating habits for a long time, I do like to go back and sample stuff I liked as a younger person. And if certain stuff tastes good, I'll keep bags / containers of goodies around that I can have as occasional treats.
Enshitificacion (sp?) is definitely a thing, with a small group of owners owning the vast majority of brands like a monopoly, able to shave off quality from almost their entire line of products in order to squeeze out more quarterly profit.
That said, I still find certain stuff tasty. Dove chocolate bites, Werther's caramel candies, generic store-brand shortbread cookies, Lifesavers fruit candies. It may be that some stuff has such basic ingredients that it's hard to screw it up, I dunno.
They came up with a vegan one that briefly didn't have palm oil and then changed it to palm oil.
No, because it's used palm oil my entire life. It tastes different because they use less cocoa and more milk now.
I might be older that you...
I googled when they changed to palm oil and apparently they always used palm oil. I was wrong. they still changed the recipe in 2017 to make it cheaper, but it wasn't the palm oil.
Sounds like what's happened to many of the peanut butters, turning them into "peanut butter spread" (generally characterized by less than 90% peanuts and added oils).
I miss being a child, and I had the bizzare notion that everything will improve, instead nothing is free from enshitification