Fruit Pastilles

Can't say if they're vegan or not (I certainly haven't noticed that on the packaging) but I've seen them in my local newsagents in the roll on the sweet counter, and definitely have seen bags of them in some supermarkets.....

I will agree though that they don't taste anywhere near as good as I remember them from childhood (which is a long time ago!). Very different from the Rowntrees in texture, my absolute favourite pastilles for flavour are the Tesco bag of own brand ones for about 60c - I've had to stop buying them as I just can't stop eating them once the bag is opened

Fruit Pastiches.

The aldi fruit pastilles are very like the old-school Rowntrees pastilles, if you want to try that?

I would contend that them (and Jelly Tots) really changed for the worse back in the 90's when they stopped using so many additives ("e numbers").

More likely your taste bud went downhill.

"Your sense of smell and taste change as you age. Between the ages of 40 and 50, the number of taste buds decreases, and the rest begin to shrink, losing mass vital to their operation. After age 60, you may begin to lose the ability to distinguish the taste of sweet, salty, sour, and bitter foods."

erm, I wasn't that old in the 90's!

You could have been 30 or 40 in 1990 for all I know. Anyway you might be suffering from Golden Age Thinking, which afflicts a lot of Boardsies. Everything was great in the old days, and everything is rubbish now.

Do you know the recipe hasnt changed?

Not everything is rubbish now but lots of food products have gone downhill as ingredients are replaced with cheaper options, 'healthier' options, or to be vegetarian or vegan friendly.

It's the yummy Pork Gelatine that is the secret.

Ingredients Sugar, Glucose Syrup, Water, Pork Gelatine, Gelling Agent: Gum Arabic; Maize Starch, Concentrated Fruit Juice (Apple, Blackcurrant, Cherry, Raspberry, Strawberry, Orange, Apricot, Pineapple, Passion Fruit, Lemon, Grapefruit, Banana, Peach, Grape, Pear), Acids: Lactic Acid, Malic Acid, Citric Acid; Colours: Anthocyanins, Curcumin; Flavourings, Plant Extracts (Safflower Concentrate, Spirulina Concentrate, Radish Concentrate, Carrot Concentrate, Blackcurrant Concentrate).

I watched this on BBC 2 recently. I can't remember any reference to vegan jelly beans. 10 million jelly beans a day, that's a lot of jelly beans.

"Gregg Wallace visits a jelly beans factory in Dublin to reveal the astonishing processes used to make ten million of these colourful little sweets every day."

That was my point. Lots of food products have changed recipes / ingredients mix, almost all for the worse tastewise.

So unless someone knows the recipe mix hasnt changed, bit premature to be blaming aging tastebuds.

Dunnes

That seems more like Wine Gums than Fruit Pastilles? They werent especially chewy/sticky. Unlike Wine Gums that would take your teeth out

Do you mean Fruit Gums, G? Wine Gum are soft yokes.

Do a blind taste test of the real v the Aldi version. Let us know the verdict!

Well then, go for the animal version in Aldi. Can't lose can ya if the REAL ones are gone now to the vegan society.

230g size and lucky they have not been reduced.Only the prices has gone off