The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality

Re:The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality by Earw0rm on Sunday July 20, 2025 @06:16AM (#44623621)

Memory loss and survivor bias.

There was mountains of tacky, throwaway crap produced in the 80s. Guess what, we've thrown it all away. Quality lasts.

And don't even get me started on the food. A lot of tin cans. Desserts that you reconstituted from powder in a packet. The list goes on.

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Re:The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality by leoedin on Sunday July 20, 2025 @07:41AM (#44624215)

Food is way better now than it was in the 90s. Every supermarket has refrigerated ready meals which are actually pretty healthy. Here in the UK, the quality of food in cafes (at least in the major cities) is far better than it was when I was a kid.

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Re:The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality by Earw0rm on Sunday July 20, 2025 @01:46PM (#44627485)

This. Every once in a while I end up somewhere that the revolution in food has somehow bypassed, and what would have been acceptable standard in the 90s is just _bad_ now.

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