What the hell has happened to Trebor Extra Strong mints?

[Zak33]

I have a new retail packet...

(i've been enioying the Aldi own brand version for a while.. but wasn't near Aldi so had to buy Trebor legit brand from a supermarket)

They've gone all granular and it's like sucking a breeze block! Have they aerated them to lower sugar perhaps? By half way through I was sandpapering my tongue with it.

bloody dire... is nothing sacred?

when Aldi own brand are nicer than the "original"

pahhhhh yeauch

[Saracen999]

It's a result of EU directive 2445/2018 mandating that all UK-based confectionery must be, at a minimum, significantly inferior to EU versions, if not .... and this is a technical term .... downright yeuch, bleugh and ick.

I told you we should have left already.




P.S. I'm working from memory on that directive number, so I might have misremembered it. So if you chdck it out fpr details, please keep looking.




Oh, and .... wanna buy a Rolex? Cheap. Absolutely genuine .... honest, guvnor.

[Saracen999]

On a more serious note, it actually might be some change in regulations. Food standards are changing, and it just might be that some previously used ingredient is now 'perdona non grata' and the alterntive is .... grainy.

What immediately comes to mind is maybe substituting some "healthy" chemical for sugar. In which case, watch out in about 5 years for "studies" that show 37% of users to have problems with their teeth falling out or growing a third eye or something.

Or failing that some marketing genius worked out that they could save £0.00000000000000000001p per pack by changing the recipe, and then forgot to taste-test the new version.

Or .... those are fakes and actually are a method international drug smugglers are using to smuggle crack cocaine but the shipment got lost. If you develop an overbearing desire for eating more of those horrible grainy mints .... start worrying.

[atemporal]

On a more serious note, it actually might be some change in regulations. Food standards are changing, and it just might be that some previously used ingredient is now 'perdona non grata' and the alterntive is .... grainy.

What immediately comes to mind is maybe substituting some "healthy" chemical for sugar. In which case, watch out in about 5 years for "studies" that show 37% of users to have problems with their teeth falling out or growing a third eye or something.

Or failing that some marketing genius worked out that they could save £0.00000000000000000001p per pack by changing the recipe, and then forgot to taste-test the new version.

Or .... those are fakes and actually are a method international drug smugglers are using to smuggle crack cocaine but the shipment got lost. If you develop an overbearing desire for eating more of those horrible grainy mints .... start worrying.

It'll be the great sugar crack-down led by Jamie Oliver. Another reason I won't buy anything of his ever again. They have ruined IRN BRU. That alone is a national outrage. Messing with Ribena and Sprite is not on either. All because chavs can't be bothered to make fatty-chav-lard-arse junior get off the xbox and do some sport at the weekend, or eat vegetables and balanced meals during the week. Stupid Nanny State. Next they'll be meddling with what people can see on the internet. Oh wait a second...

[Ttaskmaster]

Bought a multi-pack for the Mrs to try when she had a cold, but she hates them, so they're now being slowly worked through from my desk. Can't say they seem any different.

Edit: I actually have XXX mints which, while advertised as THE Extra Strong Mint, are apparently Big Bear Co. rather than Trebor ones... and despite Trebor ones supposedly being made in Sheffield since Year Dot, they're now listed as being made in Brum by Mondelez.

Maybe there's an explanation there? Maybe you just got a duff pack?
RMA them and see if they'll send you some better ones.

[Saracen999]

It'll be the great sugar crack-down led by Jamie Oliver. Another reason I won't buy anything of his ever again. They have ruined IRN BRU. That alone is a national outrage. Messing with Ribena and Sprite is not on either. All because chavs can't be bothered to make fatty-chav-lard-arse junior get off the xbox and do some sport at the weekend, or eat vegetables and balanced meals during the week. Stupid Nanny State. Next they'll be meddling with what people can see on the internet. Oh wait a second...

Reading between the lines .... I'm guessing you're not a fan?

[Spreadie]

I have a new retail packet...

(i've been enioying the Aldi own brand version for a while.. but wasn't near Aldi so had to buy Trebor legit brand from a supermarket)

They've gone all granular and it's like sucking a breeze block! Have they aerated them to lower sugar perhaps? By half way through I was sandpapering my tongue with it.

bloody dire... is nothing sacred?

when Aldi own brand are nicer than the "original"

pahhhhh yeauch

On a slightly different note, does anyone remember the salt tablets that were identical in appearance to extra strong mints?

Much fun was had, offering them to friends and schoolmates

[cheesemp]

Can't say I've noticed a difference? They are still slightly better the triple X ones but not that big a difference. If you want vile get the cheap poundland 6 pack of no-name 'traditional extra strong mints' - they are just utterly solid and tasteless!

[TooNice]

Anyone remember the Polo Extra Strong? Liked them, but they vanished ages ago (guess not successful?).

[SeriousSam]

and despite Trebor ones supposedly being made in Sheffield since Year Dot, they're now listed as being made in Brum by Mondelez.

Does it state "manufactured" ? Otherwise its just down to location of head office, which moved during the merger and subsequent "hiving off"...

[Saracen999]

On a slightly different note, does anyone remember the salt tablets that were identical in appearance to extra strong mints?

Much fun was had, offering them to friends and schoolmates

You were the ars..... erm ....comedian at my school that used to go around undoing the salt-pot tops so that when I .... I mean some poor sap of a victim .... tried to salt their chips they buried them instead. Aren't you? Come on, admit it.

Don't think I've forgotten. Me, and elephants, y'know. Memory like a bear-trap. Nothing escapes.


Now what was I saying?

[Jonatron]

Now that you mention it, I think there is a difference, for the worse. I'll continue to buy chocolate and sweets from aldi because

bloody dire... is nothing sacred?

[Output]

If you want vile get the cheap poundland 6 pack of no-name 'traditional extra strong mints' - they are just utterly solid and tasteless!

I quite like them actually, and from what I could recall of the Trebor Extra Strong (as it had been a few years) seemed to be pretty much the same.

[jimborae]

I have a new retail packet...

(i've been enioying the Aldi own brand version for a while.. but wasn't near Aldi so had to buy Trebor legit brand from a supermarket)

They've gone all granular and it's like sucking a breeze block! Have they aerated them to lower sugar perhaps? By half way through I was sandpapering my tongue with it.

bloody dire... is nothing sacred?

when Aldi own brand are nicer than the "original"

pahhhhh yeauch

Cant say I've had them in a long while but I remember them as always being as you described...........quite liked them personally so feel free to send me a sample

[atemporal]

Reading between the lines .... I'm guessing you're not a fan?

of the sugar tax? another exmaple of well intentioned but meddling law making. what they need to do is stop persecuting the sensible folk because jonny dumb-ass can't control his appetite and jemima-moron can't be bothered to parent properly. Make it clear that obese heffalumps won't get NHS treatment for self-induced diabetes and heart disease. Make it law that large people must buy two tickets if they can't fit in one train/airline seat. And incentivise/reward people who do exercise and pass their yearly medical with tax breaks (and increases where you get worse) don't just ban sugar. I can't stand artifical sweeteners. My diet is fine, and now things I do enjoy like ribena have been ruined all because fatty chav chav can't do a proper job of looking after themselves/their family.

So me? a fan? Non monsieur. I think not.

[Smudger]

I seem to recall them bringing out a vegan version, without Gelatin, you sure you didn't pick up a packet of these in error?

Edit: Having had a quick google, maybe I dreamt the whole thing...