Why did they have to change......

My husband can't stand the flip up caps and has kept his last screw on cap for 20 years!

It's those blasted medicine bottles that you need a nut cracker to unscrew them because they are 'child proof'. Child Proof, everybody proof more like, you need muscles like Mike Tyson to get them off.

The one thing I wish they would change though is the dreaded corned beef tins with the key. Hands up anyone who over the years hasn't cut themselves on those invention of the devil.

I cut my thumb badly on a corned beef tin whilst we were camping at Southend (that's Southend, Argyll). Not only did I bleed all over the corned beef, leaving us with only bread and butter for supper, but it would not stop. The following day I went to the wee hospital in Campbelton, where a nurse put a stitch in and advised me that it would not heal up until I got home. She said that no one knew why locals were OK but visitors' cuts did not heal up until they returned to their usual homes.

My cut did indeed continue to reopen and bleed profusely all week and was fine in a day when I got home. One of the other playgroup mums had exactly the same experience in Campbelton. Wonder if the medics have found a reason for this phenomenon yet?

Granny 23

As I said the devils invention.

You have to be careful with cuts from corned beef cans - one young woman died from blood poisoning because she thought it was just another little cut.
I have given up trying to use the key, even though I have a special large one, because the tag always breaks off anyway. The shape of the tin makes it very hard to use a rotary opener, so I keep the old fashioned kind just for corned beef cans.

I think they are worse somehow if you are left handed, but don't ask me to explain!

A lot of things are being changed, biscuits for example. I treated myself to a packet of dark chocolate digestives, and they were not the same at all.

I heard an interview on the radio a while back and a manufacturer did admit that they had been gradually changing the recipe to make them "healthier"

Leave my biscuits alone!

Also, you can no longer buy pork chopes with a slice of kidney attached.

Did you go to the Muneroy Tearoom when you were staying at Southend, Granny23?

Yes, phoenix you're right. Ritz crackers are the same. They taste quite different. We think they've reduced both the salt and fat content.

The silly thing about making biscuits healthier is that they are BISCUITS!! I think that about children's medicines too - they need to be sweet or they taste horrid - have they not heard of Mary Poppins!!

Lilygran , so glad it's not only me, and of course I meant "chops".

kittylester you are right, when I want a biscuit, I do not spend time trying to work out which ones are the healthier option, I just want a damn biscuit and to hell with the consequences.

Sorry Specki4eyes, I thought Johnson's baby lotion was awful back then, so perfumed that it badly affected my daughter's skin - over 35years ago now - so I've never bought any of their range since.
POGS I agree with 'childproof' bottles, I fear needing medication in my doteage as I could die before getting it out of the packaging, wonder what they'd put on my death certifcate?

I bought a tin of stain for some floor boards last week. It had one of those press down and turn caps which was on so tight I couldn't budge the thing. I tried trapping it in a door but all I did was make an indent in the door frame . DH was out so in the end I secured it upside down in the vice in his workshop, opened it using a can opener and then drained the contents into an empty coffee jar. What a performance!!

But shows great determination and ingenuity, merlot !

Toothpaste - I use pearldrops - nice little neat tube/bottle which stands on its head - and I can get every last drop out. It is very econimical - you only need a tiny bit and it lasts for ages.

specki Toothpaste tubes that you could squeeze from the end??
You were lucky.
We had those little tins of Gibbs Dentifrice that lasted ages and were not nearly so cool as toothpaste in tubes

They changed Milky Way bars! They used to be quite nice, firm inside and not too sweet. Now they are sickly sweet, a creamy colour and quite thin. I don;t like them at all now. Then they "improved" Imperial Leather soap, my Nan used that and she lived to 100, and the smell of the bar always reminded me of her house, but I know they have changed the formula, as the bars just smell so different.

Why did they change Marathon to Snickers?(and make them smaller to).
Wagon wheels don't seem as large as I remember they were either.

They kicked about with Caramacs too. I loved them as a child and was really disappointed recently when I bought one.