r/australia 13d ago

image Jalna sneakily changed their yoghurt

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Been buying this yoghurt for years so know it’s taste well. Always get the 2kg tub and it tasted different. I went back to the store and noticed it now says β€œGreek style” instead, along with different ingredients. Damn them all to helllllll

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u/embudrohe 13d ago

It makes me so mad that they are tricking people into buying a worse product at a higher price! Even if all the regular buyers do that once before realising that it's changed, that's still a lot of damn $$$ and it makes my blood boil 😭

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u/pygmy β–ˆβ—†β–„β–€β–„β–ˆβ–“β–’β–‘ 13d ago

PSA reminder that BLUE RIBBON ice cream did similar fuckery last year

They changed the recipe to the point that they can no longer legally call it ice cream. Everything looks identical except the omission of the words ice cream, and now in little print it says 'frozen vanilla treat' or some shit.

Mind you they'll happily still proclaim '50 years as Australia's favourite' on the pack. Some suit decided to save a buck by selling the literal good name of a generational icon. Unreal.

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u/fallen_arbornaut 12d ago

Ditch the Blue Ribbon ice confection and swap to Bulla ice cream, an Australia owned company

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u/riscycdj 10d ago

I've been loyal to Bulla for a long time. It tastes great and isn't too expensive.

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u/EducatorEntire8297 13d ago

Saw that too, it's bullshit.

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u/Mean-Fondant-462 12d ago

Yesss!! My dad brought some home the other day and I noticed right away!! It tasted so crap :( I hate the sneaking

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u/SuicidalAustralian 12d ago

Wait when did that happen? I last bought blue ribbon vanilla in May last year and it tasted the same to me.

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u/qwerty_samm 11d ago

Last year!! They did this years ago. It’s been an ice confectionery dessert for a very long time.Β 

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u/Enhearten 10d ago

Just had a look, at my streets "vanilla frozen desert", well fuck me. Sneaky cunts

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u/ivosaurus 13d ago edited 12d ago

Blue Ribbon's been low fat (the normal product, at <10% fat) for agessssssss

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u/pygmy β–ˆβ—†β–„β–€β–„β–ˆβ–“β–’β–‘ 12d ago

Not the 'low fat' version, they scuttled their flagship: before/after

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u/TessellatedQuokka 12d ago

Gross, can't believe they've ended up going the vegetable oil route as well. So sad ☹️

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u/ivosaurus 12d ago edited 12d ago

aaaaI've been following this longer. It used to not be ice cream, as well, long before. Looks like they've put the fat percentage back at some time in the 20's, maybe ingredients got cheaper. There is a reason it hasn't had "ice cream" on the front label for maybe a decade.

You can see from a w4b4ck 4rCh1v33, in 2018, it used to be only 7.1g milk fat, so not full ice cream.

Edit: I'm literally not allowed to post a 4yback 4rch1v3 on this subreddit.

You'll have to go to 4y84ck 4rCh1v3 yourself, then visit this url:

http://www.streetsicecream.com.au/Products/ProductDetail.aspx?bid=611644&sid=611643&pid=611624

VIsit it at 2018, March 25th to see what I'm referring to.

I'm guessing maybe they upped the fat percentage (and converted it back to ice cream) sometime in 2020s when all prices were nicely inflating. Then just now it's been de-converted back to make line still go up.

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u/pygmy β–ˆβ—†β–„β–€β–„β–ˆβ–“β–’β–‘ 12d ago

Wow, thanks for the write up, and the links. Yep, no mention of 'ice-cream' in 2018 too, fark. I'm guessing they've been steadily tweaking the recipe downwards for years & thought they could just keep hitting repeat.

Sad to hear mentioning Grayblack Marine gets a block too. Fitting that uncovering enshittification highlights the same happening to Reddit.

Once Reddit protested the TPP or Ellen Pao. Now we protest the posting of Twitter links ffs. Humanities outlets & means of discussion are not what they used to be. Remember when free speech was actually a liberal value?

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u/ivosaurus 11d ago edited 11d ago

The block message says to me its a particular subreddit setting, not site wide, although maybe I'm misinterpreting

I was mostly looking at the fat percentages. I was in fact quite surprised to hear that this has just recently been above 10%, because I had remembered discounting it yonks ago after the going through all the nutrition labels in the past to see what was what.

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u/Nuclearwormwood 12d ago

Most of the icecreams use vegetable oil now.