Does it bother you when food tastes different?

If you eat or drink a particuliar food/drink with a particuliar brand, do you expect it to taste the same every time? Part of my job at work is to taste food.
When I get something that tastes different from the store, even if it isn't a bad taste, I usually won't finish it. Sometimes, I'll even take it back.
The hypocritical thing about this is that sometimes the product that I work with tastes different for a variety of reasons such as different suppliers. I do always note it and tell my boss that we should be more careful about the flavor being consistent. My boss says that most consumers don't even notice.
I notice and it bothers me. Do you notice? Does it bother you?

I have a particular taste in food and a highly overactive nose. If something that I'm used to eat tastes different or even so much as smells different I wont eat it.

Many foods I wont buy anymore because of this reason and this reason alone.

As long as it doesn't taste bad they sell it. Many people buy a particuliar brand for a particuliar taste. If the taste is inconsistent, it isn't worth paying a little more, if you buy a brand that is more expensive than the cheapest brand.
This thread hasn't been very popular. Maybe, some many people don't care. Maybe the people who do care, don't buy processed food and make their own from scratch.

camper when food is different from what I expect. (Thus the curried sweet potato dish debacle from this week.) x(

You'd like her. I only wish she'd be more flexible or specific in her requests. She knows I want to do my part to make her happy.

:eyes:

;)

Maybe you'd bring her more towards the middle.

:rofl:

What are you doing Thursday?

potato something or other. Not that I'm inflexible or anything... :eyes:

. . . I can't remember the last time that ever happened to me, except maybe at a fast food chain.

Can you tell us for whom you work or what it is that you taste?

:)

Some of the things that I am referring to are differences in saltiness, sweetness, balance of flavors in items with multiple flavors, sharpness in cheese and cheesy items, peanut flavor of peanut butter, hotness of "hot" items, strength of artificial flavor in various drinks including soda, creamy flavor in dairy items, acidic flavor in tomato or citrus items, smoke flavor. Perhaps I am just being picky, but if you can tell without tasting side by side, the company isn't being very consistent and is not worth paying more for a particuliar flavor.
I have gotten flavors that are truly disturbing that I haven't even considered continuing to eat or even giving away. One that I know is a bad sign is yeasty or farmy smelling or tasting cheese.

You work for Kraft! ;)

there are bunches of things we buy that sometimes taste a little different and I always notice and it drives me nuts. My husband says I'm too sensitive about that kind of thing and doesn't *usually* notice, but sometimes he does.