Topic: Nabisco Saltines

[Pandora]

I went for some out of the cabinet and the stench from them was awful.  Apparently, they'd gone bad, despite me keeping the sleeves in a plastic bag.

I did some looking around via search engine and found many similar complaints, going back to 2009!

Anybody else notice this?

[Pablo de Fleurs]

I'm a Keebler 'Townhouse' & 'Dippers' man, myself.

[Libertas]

I've had them get stale and kinda funky before...

Never used to be that way back in the good old days...you know BO/BC...Before Obamahole, Before Clinton's...

I like a Ritz or a whatever that flat shredded wheat critter is I'm drawing a blank on...

[Pandora]

Stale is one thing; these reek and taste as bad as they smell.  I have another box that I put up (and bagged them as well when I first brought 'em home); I have to check them but I'm figuring they're bad too.  When I did searches for other people's experiences, they wrote that the ones brought right from the store were off.

Nabisco obviously changed something about the way they're made, and not for the good.

[Libertas]

Stale is one thing; these reek and taste as bad as they smell.  I have another box that I put up (and bagged them as well when I first brought 'em home); I have to check them but I'm figuring they're bad too.  When I did searches for other people's experiences, they wrote that the ones brought right from the store were off.

Nabisco obviously changed something about the way they're made, and not for the good.

Yeah...must be using a poor substitute...or the stores found them on a back shelf out back and figured what the hell, sell 'em...

Gotta check those dates...they leave recently expired on shelves all the time hoping some sap buys it...and if you don't get to it right away...gets more at risk...

Smaller sizes and/or smaller boxes...getting screwed that way for years now...now, old or rotten ingredients?  Time to say goodbye!

[Alphabet Soup]

Y'all forced me to go look ;'}

Yep, what I have is nabisco. Nope - they don't smell or taste peculiar. They have a Nov. 20th use-by date. Don't know what else to say.

 

[richb]

A lot of products (including things that have been otherwise unchanged for decades) have had their preservatives changed or removed due to them not being "natural" enough.   The times they are replaced with an alternative,  they are often not as effective. 

People forget why these preservatives were added to begin with,  that many natural items often do not last very long..........

It also doesn't help that most things are packaged in plastic now a days rather than metal or glass.    A metal can or a glass bottle will preserve something far longer than plastic.    The irony of course is more food waste........

Sometimes the common practices of decades ago (like returning soda pop bottles for refilling rather than just recycling),  are much more green than what is seen as "green" today. 

[paulh]

The sleeves were unopened in the plastic bag?

[Pandora]

The sleeves were unopened in the plastic bag?

Yep.

[John Florida]

  I have never had them stink before .  Call their asses up and see what they say.

[Pandora]

  I have never had them stink before .  Call their asses up and see what they say.

I can tell you without calling what they'll say:  "hunh, this is the first we're hearing of this; nobody else has complained".

[patentlymn]

  I have never had them stink before .  Call their asses up and see what they say.

I can tell you without calling what they'll say:  "hunh, this is the first we're hearing of this; nobody else has complained".

Sounds like a software help desk.
1. No one has every complained about this before.
2. This was fixed in the last release.
3. This will be fixed in the next release.

[Pandora]

  I have never had them stink before .  Call their asses up and see what they say.

I can tell you without calling what they'll say:  "hunh, this is the first we're hearing of this; nobody else has complained".

Sounds like a software help desk.
1. No one has every complained about this before.
2. This was fixed in the last release.
3. This will be fixed in the next release.

Closer to home for me:

I bought from a furniture builder a bathroom vanity and linen tower.  Couple weeks ago, one of the drawers started jamming and sticking.  I called the company and told the owner the problem; I said the slide-hardware on this unit is faulty.  (She contracts out the building of the furniture).

What does she tell me? 

1)  Nobody else we have sold to has complained.

2)  Did you take the drawers out?  If so, you put them back in wrong.  IOW, operator error.

[Libertas]

I can see someone grabbing another on the showroom floor by the back of the neck and explaining things in an intimate way...