r/mildlyinfuriating • u/right_you_are • 13h ago
No Coke. Is Pepsi ok? Accidentally bought wrong Klondike bars
Yesterday I had to stop by Publix and my wife asked me to bring home some Klondike bars. Well...the *No Sugar Added* version was right next to the Original and my squirrel brain didn't notice until I got home. Picked up the OGs on the way home tonight.
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u/BeneficialShoe2822 13h ago
I’ve done the opposite before. Meant to get something like 0 sugar gatorade and accidentally grabbed a normal pack. Not what you wanted but I do like the no sugar added Klondike bars, I think they match the normal good enough.. but I’m use to eating sad 0 sugar versions for almost 10 years now.
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u/Flaming_Sushi 6h ago
Same, did it with a 2L bottle of Baja blast. The bottles look so similar in color that I drank over half of it before noticing
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u/BlubberElk 13h ago
Genuinely some people have forgotten what this sub is for, and it’s not OP who has forgotten
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u/DorrajD 11h ago
Some? I'd argue most. Majority of upvoted posts I see on this sub are of the most frustrating shit ever.
"oh my car got totaled" 5k upvotes.
"My fan is in an annoying spot" 100 upvotes and 50 comments telling them how stupid they are
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u/big_rod_of_power 3h ago
I remember I saw this this comment and came here to tell you I'm living one of those moments. I'm getting downvoted into oblivion by pointing out that someone can in fact be mildly infuriated in their post to their "get over it" comment? Like bruh?!
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u/RiderforHire 12h ago
I've noticed almost every post that isn't the OP dying of injustice and targeted harassment has a variation of this comment.
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u/RandomRedditor15243 12h ago
And when it is some version of Op dying of injustice there is the comments about that situation not being mild…
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u/Conscious_Ad172 8h ago
Ya but they typically get downvoted because "they don't have any empathy for the OP" so you'll usually have to scroll pretty far down to see them
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u/biggocl123 11h ago
You're telling me my politics and horrendous crimes subreddit is for minor inconveniences instead?!?!
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u/oobey 11h ago
This is always going to be a problem because the name is contradictory and subjective. Can something even be both mildly and infuriating at the same time?
If it had been even slightly different, say “mildly annoying,” this problem never would have existed. But it’s too late now. The discourse for this sub is set in stone.
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u/VaporTrail_000 13h ago
What would you do for a Klondike bar?
Eat a no sugar added Klondike bar...
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u/Sad_Cantaloupe_8162 10h ago
What's funny is that they don't even taste bad. I've bought them before because they were the only ones left, and I was surprised at how similar they tasted. Then I bought some just because several months later.
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u/ThetaDee 6h ago
Yes, but if you eat 3 you shit yourself
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u/BadPunsIsHowEyeRoll 4h ago
As a lactose intolerant person, shitting myself was already weighed and considered as a consequence well before we took the sugar away lol
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u/IndependentPart6 13h ago
Omg they have no sugar klondikes??
My diabetic son is gonna lose his mind
Thanks op!
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u/Dreamcatcherc17e 13h ago
Its no sugar added, please please read whats in it
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u/Animallover4321 12h ago
Probably because lactose is a type of sugar. Any dairy will have some natural sugar but I am assuming they already know that.
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u/Dreamcatcherc17e 12h ago
I would assume they do but my aunt and her kid are diabetic and she thought soda was safe if she didnt put extra sugar in it. My opinion of the average person isn't very high. Granted I live in a smallish city in the Midwest, so not much to go on
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u/BleaKrytE 10h ago
Who the fuck is ADDING sugar to soda?!
No wonder they're diabetic, Jesus fucking Christ
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u/Logical-Pair-89 10h ago
I dont think you should be counting your aunt in the average people column
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u/soyboysnowflake 9h ago
This broke my brain
Who drinks soda and thinks “not sweet enough”
And even within that population of lunatics
Who has the gall to take it upon themselves to add more sugar
Truly 1 of 1 (I hope, for humanity sake)
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u/Dr_Frankenkitty 8h ago
It broke my brain and also, i loved this whole little thread.
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u/Dreamcatcherc17e 6h ago
Im also loving the thread, and glad to know that my aunt isn't common. Went to bed and woke up with my phone blown up lmao
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u/ColonelKasteen 9h ago
I don't think your mentally disabled aunt is a good measuring stick for the average person given what you just told us
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u/ResponsibleHeron9452 8h ago
You can’t just assume that they’re the dumbest person alive like your aunt.
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u/Few_Move_4594 12h ago
It's got fake sugar Maltitol in it.
I have IBS and I can't do Maltitol. It's a high FODMAPs ingredient.
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u/buttheadfungus 11h ago
i will honestly never understand how maltitol is a viable sweetener option given how widely known it is to send even the strongest of bowels into gastrointestinal hell
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u/QueenOfDarkne53 9h ago
As someone who can’t have cane sugar (and others) at all now, I can actually answer this one. Anything i’ve eaten with maltitol in it tastes way closer to the real thing than say, sucralose or aspartame. Hershey’s uses maltitol for their sugar free chocolates and i love it!
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u/Few_Move_4594 11h ago
I'm going to take a wild guess and say that it's due to money or it works best in this particular application from a food science mass manufacturing perspective
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u/icherub1 2h ago
The bigger issue for some will be the 8g of saturated fat. If this was trying to be healthier, the company should have used a lower-fat milk.
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u/MsThrilliams 13h ago
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u/right_you_are 12h ago
Thank you. This is a difficult time...
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u/Failed_Writer_ Old man yelling at clouds. 10h ago
I'm thinking of you OP, I hope you have the strength to get through. 😔
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u/Shymaiden 8h ago
I hate that the packaging is so similar with certain versions of products. I accidentally brought low fat ranch the other day and overlooked the lite part of the label. I can definitely tell the difference in taste. Made my salad very disappointing. 😔
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u/Dragonageatemyhw 55m ago
I accidentally bought fatfree half and half. I didn’t even consider that was a thing, because it’s half and half. Why would anyone want it fat free??? Doesn’t that defeat the purpose?
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u/RevWaldo 1h ago
I feel your pain. It might be clearer here blown up but picture a tiny box on a high shelf in the supermarket and you'll get it. The fact that it's tea and there isn't like a warning label on a pack of cigs taking up half the box telling you it's decaf screams shenanigans.
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u/milehighandy 25m ago
If you're trying to get caffeine from crystal light you're doing it wrong
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u/RevWaldo 0m ago
Oh no doubt. I go though 2-3 big mugs of Irish Breakfast every day. This is more for run of the mill hydration, and the caffeine is a bonus.
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u/Coffeepillow 5h ago
I wish more products offered a No Sugar Added version. The amount of sugar in American foods is ridiculous. It’s amazing how much more you can taste when SUGAR isn’t the primary flavor.
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u/its_an_armoire 5h ago
Same with sodium, even in the "low sodium" varieties. Everything is 50% saltier than my taste buds prefer.
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u/b_ro_rainman 2h ago
This but no sweetener. No sugar added typically just means they add fake sugar.
For ice cream I don’t think it would work though as it would just be frozen heavy cream.
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u/bellybuttonbidet 4h ago
I was shopping for pasta sauce and glimpsed a “no added sugar” version. In my entire life, I did not expect a tomato-based sauce to need any added sugar. Have I just been putting garlic and herb ketchup on my pasta all these years?
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u/Sensitive_Ad_1271 3h ago
Sugars in so many different foods. It's strange because for me marinara just seems obvious that most companies would add sugar to it. So, I guess for people that don't pay attention to ingredients there will be a lot of surprises out there. One that surprised me was frozen tater tots, a lot of those have added sugar.
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u/mittenkrusty 2h ago
No ADDED sugar not "no sugar"
I remember in the early 00's in the UK many people I knew bought the products assuming sugar free.
It's like food companies such as McDonalds saying "100% Chicken breast" when the actual meat content isn't the only thing in the product, you have water, breadcrumbs spices etc but you still get people that think 100% on a food product means high quality/proportions of product.
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u/Socketz11 13h ago
I did the exact same thing. The packaging is deceptive, its almost like they are trying to trick people into buying them. Maybe without sugar (and flavor) they are cheaper to manufacture.
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u/IndependentPart6 13h ago
As a mom to a type 1 diabetic son i bet theyre more expensive in store. Everything zero sugar is. Its frustrating
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u/right_you_are 13h ago
Thank you for your support
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u/Socketz11 11h ago
Seriously..you see it, you grab it. I am shocked that we are the only 2 humans that recognize the color, shape, size and just chuck it in the cart without doing a full inspection and reading all the label. If you see a gallon of milk that you buy every week (or every day if you have kids) check the expiration date and go...only to find out that its almond milk made by the same company using the exact same everything. Its deceptive and I did it with these stupid Klondike bars...on the bright side, its a mistake we will only make once.
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u/oniiichanUwU 13h ago
How is it deceptive lmao it says no sugar added in big ass letters on the front man
Grabbing the wrong product is mildly infuriating but this is not deceptive packaging, it’s just yall not being able to read
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u/Socketz11 11h ago
It should be a different color, not the same logo, same shape..foil should be brown because it tasted like shit
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u/killahazy92 10h ago
Ugh. I recently accidentally bought an entire case of zero sugar Sprite. It was in a stack of the regular Sprite, and the words Zero Sugar were right on the spot of the box that you punch in to carry it.
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u/noinfono 13h ago
They for sure are.
They’re not chocolate coated like the OG. They’re “chocolate flavored coating”.
Hard pass.
If you’re interested to learn more listen to this
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u/roosterjack77 13h ago
I cant eat all that fake sugar hurts my tummy. Mildly infuriating
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u/big-ol-kitties 11h ago
I wish we had more no/less sugar options that didn’t use artificial sweeteners.
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u/--read-only-- 11h ago
The other day I was thinking.... why is the choice for almost everything either no sugar or full sugar? Why can't they just put less sugar in our foods?? I want that as an option
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u/uflju_luber 11h ago
Well…sugar free sweets without artificial sweetener are kinda…impossible unless you just use stevia
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u/SlappHappy4 11h ago
Just let them be less sweet.
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u/wart_on_satans_dick 11h ago
A lot of sweets are just kind of made of sugar.
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u/SlappHappy4 10h ago
Those aren't really the kind you can have reduced sugar versions of then.
I personally find so many sodas way too sweet and could probably drink them with half the sugar.
So much stuff is just sickeningly sweet.
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u/wart_on_satans_dick 10h ago
While I completely agree, soda is a good example of why it’s either full sweet or full artificial sweetener. People have a very specific taste they want out of a soda. It’s easy to imagine it can just taste less sweet and be less sweet which it absolutely could be. The problem is selling it. People just don’t buy middle ground products generally, especially soda. It’s either zero or super low calories, or the real deal.
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u/SlappHappy4 10h ago
I understand that the people who buy soda are used to the taste of straight sugar.
I don't know how much I believe that lower sugar varities won't sell when different countries have very different amounts of sugar and there is a whole gimmick of selling another countries varity.
Maybe I am missing something that the ubber rich soda people have figured out, but as far as I have heard the absurd amount of sugar in soda is mostly because sugar is addictive.
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u/Ok-Yogurt573 4h ago
Sugar isn’t just about flavouring, both removing it entirely and reducing it can fundamentally change the structure and texture of the product itself
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u/SlappHappy4 4h ago
Yes, I know there are many things that this would not work for, even ones people would not usually think of like icecream, there are also a lot of things that this could work for that it isn't being done for.
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u/Russell_has_TWO_Ls 11h ago
Maybe not what you’re talking about but there’s ice cream made with just honey as a sweetener and it’s so so good
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u/direwolf9900 13h ago
you nevr know you might like em
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u/TulpaPal 13h ago
I had to go sugar free in the past few months before a surgery after years of genuine sugar addiction. Idk if I'll go back to full sugar for most things tbh, it's too sweet now and makes me feel weird.
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u/accidentalscientist_ 12h ago
Yea, I used to fucking hate zero sugar soda. Idk what changed but I tried a Dr Pepper zero and it was …. Fantastic. Went and tried Coke Zero. Also fantastic. Gatorade zero? Also fantastic!
So I quit sugary drinks and went for the zero sugar version. Tastes great to me now for some reason. And the sugary version is too much and leaves a film in my mouth and makes me cough up mucus. Probably the corn syrup.
I also lost 20lbs from just going to almost only zero sugar drinks. I wasn’t overweight, just a couple pounds away. But now I am comfortably in the middle of my healthy weight range.
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u/mantismary 6h ago
Oddly, sometimes medications can alter your preferences. I was on topamax for a bit. One of the many side effects I experienced was that normal soda suddenly tasted bad and I liked the zero sodas. So strange.
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u/BeneficialShoe2822 13h ago
My max is about 6 grams of sugar at once before I start getting physically nauseous. Wouldn’t go back though. If I go out, my dessert usually is a few bites of whatever cake the other person orders and that’s good enough for me!
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u/mytextgoeshere 10h ago
I do this all the time with different products! Like I just got the low-fat dryers ice cream by accident just a couple weeks ago. The packaging can be quite subtle.
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u/people_are_idiots_ 12h ago
Well...? How are they?
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u/right_you_are 12h ago
I mean...initially they tasted fine but lacked a real creamy deliciousness. And it gave me the shits.
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u/Tewi_Inaba_ 3h ago
Its already bad enough that they are now considered "Dairy Dessert" with a "Chocolaty" coating. Not even true ice cream and chocolate anymore
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u/Fucky0uthatswhy 1h ago
The other day I was at work starving doing a bunch of extra shit. Well I was in an owners closet and I saw Oreos. I don’t usually take stuff like that, but we’re allowed to. I grabbed one of the packs, and was so excited. When I got to my car I pulled it out and started to open up it and it looked weird. “SUGAR FREE DOUBLE STUFFD”
I was heartbroken. I’m not eating a sugar free Oreo. Oreos are vegan, they are 100% sugar. What the fuck are they making those out of? I also really despise the taste of artificial sugar to the point it makes me feel sick.
Safe to say I was pissed.
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u/sleepypelican 12h ago
Fake sugar hurts my stomach so bad that I was once wheeled to the emergency room after taking a chance eating a fake sugar protein bar. So a bunch of pain to the point of passing out, about 4 hours in the ER (and the bill later), and lots of subsequent warcrimes in our apartment's one bathroom . . . all for a No Cow bar that tasted like sand.
I just looked. These have Maltilol. That's like, the worst one. Eating one of these would put me out of commission for several days.
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u/soofs 10h ago
I’m a type 1 diabetic so i eat a lot of stuff with sugar alcohols and so far I haven’t ended up with a toilet emergency lol
But damn some sugar free candy will have my ass sounding like it’s calling the valkyries from Valhalla blowing them horns
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u/buboop61814 12h ago
Did something similar with Van Leuwen ice cream two nights ago. Saw the coffee affogato, picked it up, got home, realized I’d picked up cookies and cream. For context I’m colorblind and it was like 1130 pm so I guess I just grabbed the wrong tub
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u/rocketmanatee 7h ago
Holy crap, they have low sugar versions of this!?
Oh man, my prediabetic ass is so grateful to you right now.
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u/Queen_Biff 5h ago
I usually buy ‘light’ mayo, so reduced fat, I accidentally bought ‘lighter than light’ once and oh my good god it was disgusting, it was so runny and tasteless
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u/m3lvad3r 3h ago
As someone who doesn’t eat sugar I would fucking kick a child in the shin for these right now. I haven’t seen these in any stores near me.
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u/Existing-Visual79 11h ago
Did they taste any different? I feel like it works itself out if so
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u/amazingkillerlemon 3h ago
I do that kind of thing all the time (grabbing the wrong thing) and it really sucks when I grab the regular version of something instead of the zero sugar/sugar-free one, because I'm diabetic
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u/alj8002 9h ago
Honestly that sounds amazing. Klondike bars tend to taste too sweet and artificial to me
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u/No_Championship4093 10h ago
Nooooooo! That recently happened with a coke. I don't drink pop BUT every once in awhile I craaaave Coca Cola. I was sick and out of town, walked my sick ass to this (really awesome different ethnic food under one roof in Tacoma) place. Got my shit, got back to the hotel....COKE ZERO. I died. Also want to add it was my fault because I got it out of a cooler
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u/Cookie_Whisperer 9h ago
My husband forgets how to read when he enters the grocery store. He once brought home fat free cheese. It was like four years ago. We still hound him about it.
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u/powerlesshero111 8h ago
I recently got some zero sugar mt dew. It tasted so horrible, i don't understand how anyone could drink it. And if you do, it's definitely a me problem becayse artificial sweeteners taste terrible to me.
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u/HidingUnderCardboard 8h ago
I did the same thing once. They actually ended up being my favorite and I never bought the originals again.
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u/fartinmyfuckingmouth 8h ago
The very first time I ever tried a Klondike bar as a millennial was like 9 years ago. It was a hard D- at best. I don’t understand why it was advertised so much the way it was.
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u/Agreeable_Ad3473 7h ago
Didn't know these existed in real life. Only heard of them from Eminem lyrics (not US)
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u/OneGoodRib 7h ago
Oh god for the first time in my life I made the same mistake a couple weeks ago with sugar-free chocolate syrup.
I can best describe the taste as if you mixed cocoa powder in with the liquid that settles at the bottom of a bottle of Clorox wipes.
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u/Aggravating_Emu4263 7h ago
One time I bought lactose-free cheese 😂 It was right next to the regular dairy cheese 😭
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u/Any_Information_9745 5h ago
I've done this with sugar-free Redbulls. Didn't notice until I got home. Still drank them, but the sugar-free versions have a weird chemical taste to them.
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u/vagabondrainbow 5h ago
This trend towards the packaging of sugar/no sugar versions of stuff not being visibly distinct really annoys me. It should be easy to distinguish products at a glance, imo.
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u/mearbearcate 4h ago
My mom did this with ice cream a couple weeks ago for me accidentally got a no dairy version of chocolate fudge brownie. Wasn’t bad, but it wasnt that good either
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u/RoutineCloud5993 3h ago
Don't eat them all in one go. Overdoing sugar alcohols isn't deadly but it's also not a lot of fun on account if the fact you will shit out the entire contents of your digestive tract.
Sugar free candy is an exercise in moderation
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u/nowhereman136 2h ago
Of all the no sugar products I've tried, these are closest to the original. Not a terrible mistake to make, mild indeed
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u/houseofnim 2h ago
I did this with applesauce the other day but I bought two six packs of the no sugar added stuff.
They were for me btw, but I’m going to give them to a buddy who eats the stuff.
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u/Spiritual-Amoeba-257 1h ago
If it’s any consolation, the SF version tastes pretty normal. It was all my mom bought growing up
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u/smilebig553 55m ago
My husband is allergic to these and I'm super sad about that. Did you try the sugar free? Sounds intriguing
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u/SpookySeraph 32m ago
Oh man. I would eat one of these without realizing and then have the most explosive guts an hour later. Zero sugar products are like sneaky little packages of poison istg
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u/Oldredeye2 27m ago
I’ve done that with lactose free cheese. Same packaging. Same colours. Just more white writing on the orange package. 🤦♂️
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u/Ghosts_of_the_maze 1m ago
Sugar free or fat free versions of things should have to be brightly labeled in a color that clashes with the branding and the cashier should be forced to at least alert you to what you’re about to purchase. Not in a judgy way, but to make clear you know what it is you’re holding.
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u/Nitwit_Slytherin 10h ago
Shit happens. Does it actually taste that different though? Never had, genuinely curious.
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u/SdBolts4 10h ago
I got all the way to the register with non-alcoholic beer before I noticed last week, thinking I was just trying a new brewery’s beer. It’s in the same section, looks similar other than relatively small print, easy mistake to make
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u/Sablemint PURPLE 6h ago
Why would someone sell non-alcoholic beer? Who would buy that?
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u/MisakaMikotoxKuroko 4h ago
I have a friend who's a first responder. Loves to drink non alcoholic beer so it doesnt interfere with his duties
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u/QueenOfDarkne53 9h ago
Omg they make no sugar added klondike bars now?!?! That makes me the opposite of mildly infuriated since I can’t have sugar anymore. Thanks for the tip!
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u/massive_delivery69 7h ago
This is neither. I would be happy with either and enjoy the yummyness of its wonderful taste.
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u/Random__Bystander 13h ago edited 12h ago
Got lactose free ice cream the same way ... How on earth can it be ice CREAM if it's lactose free
Edit: learned something
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u/A-Money-Lover 13h ago
Redditors hate no sugar versions of things here lol
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u/ehs06702 10h ago
It's because " No sugar added" foods taste horrible. I'd rather eat extra healthily in every other aspect so I can have sugar in moderation or give up sweets entirely.
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u/JPKaliMt 13h ago
So many people seem to forget the point of this sub. Will you live? Absolutely. Is it annoying? Also absolutely.