What annoys me the most is that distinct flavors, as well as products, are disappearing.
My favorite candy, a delicacy local to the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area, is ceasing to exist. They are little amber-colored gummies called candy raisins. They don't look like raisins or taste like raisins; I think they taste like cream soda.
Stark used to make them and then they were bought by NECCO who decided to cease production. Go to Candy Raisins
There is NO other candy quite like them. Just as there is no other butterscotch like the late and very lamented Callard & Bowsers. Nothing else can replace it; it's unique.
I remember back in the '50s and '60s when there were many different flavors of soda (pop, tonic, soda pop) available. Now there are the big guys -- cola (Coke and Pepsi), the uncolas Sprite, 7-Up (is 7-Up still around?!?), the occasional root beer, gingerale, grape and orange...
Diversity is very, very important! When we lose a flavor or product, it's gone. Our choices are diminished. We are less rich than we were before.
Diluting a product like the Heinz baked beans is diminishing our choices as well. Are we going to let the big multi-national corporations get away with this?
As Ian Robb said -- Oh, they're taking it away, Yes they're taking it away They are taking all the good things You can hear the people say And they'll take it all tomorrow If they don't take it today From the poor and sick and helpless, They are taking it away.