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loooooof 13 points ago +15 / -2

Gorilla Glue doesn't taste like it used to either.

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ripley88 [S] 12 points ago +13 / -1

It's almost like their bodies are telling them to grow the fuck up and buy some real goddamn food.

bUt mUh FoOd dEsErTs, reeeeEeeeEeEeeee!!!

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starsabove 11 points ago +12 / -1

They aren't wrong. Foods have gotten more processed and HFCS laden in the past 20 years. Pastry cakes, cereals, microwaveables, etc, all more processed. Also factor into this that they're trying to slow the cost increases of inflation, which means more chemicals and less 'food' in the food'. Thats why her hot pockets taste like paper . . . they probably are.

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ripley88 [S] 2 points ago +3 / -1

Oh, I'm sure they're right. It's more the fact that, what are they doing eating what is essentially kids food, or literally kids food in the case of cereals?

I also think it has more to do getting older and your body doesn't want garbage like that anymore. I remember about 6 or 7 years ago I bought a box of Reese Puffs because they were on sale, basically for nostalgia; I couldn't finish even a bowl of them, let alone the box. They tasted exactly the same, I'd just outgrown wanting to eat anything like that anymore. Same thing happened with a specific brand of pop you can only get in Eastern Canada; loved it as a kid, can't stomach it anymore.

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starsabove 3 points ago +3 / -0

I'd just outgrown wanting to eat anything like that anymore.

This is also true. Kids have a much higher tolerance for sugar, and sugar substitutes, than adults. Applies to various candies as well.

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Formerlurker92 2 points ago +3 / -1

The old wartime trick of hiding ash in the bread

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virgule 2 points ago +3 / -1

Sucrose fructose *

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Formerlurker92 5 points ago +5 / -0

They aren't wrong

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RoninIV 5 points ago +6 / -1

They're not wrong. Food has changed over the past 25 years.

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KuzoKevin 4 points ago +6 / -2

Quit your bitching. Cap'n Crunch will still shread the fuck out of the roof of your mouth.

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CisSiberianOrchestra 1 point ago +2 / -1

I've cut the inside of my mouth eating Nacho Cheese Doritos more than once.

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IwillRefuse 4 points ago +5 / -1

The moonpie from a vending machine has remanded unchanged for a half century.

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Formerlurker92 4 points ago +4 / -0

Yeah, because it was put in there 50 years ago

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grandfather_nurgle 4 points ago +5 / -1

Quality meat from the butcher shop and fresh produce from the market still tastes great.

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Mad_Hattie 4 points ago +6 / -2

Use a damn stove, learn how to cook real food ya babies!

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vote_for_MAGA_2020 3 points ago +4 / -1

I have to agree on hot pockets. I quit eating them about 5 years ago. They used to taste good, but they’ve clearly changed the recipe. Nasty now. Or did I just get old?

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Formerlurker92 4 points ago +4 / -0

Theres definitely more additives nowadays as they cut costs

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KuhlooKuhlay 3 points ago +3 / -0

They changed the formula I think, around the time there were a few listeria/salmonella outbreaks associated with flash frozen foods like this.

It's because you are actually supposed to cook stuff like this to temperature (internal temp 165 degrees for dark meat chicken, for example) but nobody ever does because we are all so fat and lazy and just microwave everything.

Also, how do you even tell if you get food poisoning from a Hot Pocket? It's like "gee this diarrhea is a little more intense than usual, something must be wrong."

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AnthraciteCracker 3 points ago +4 / -1

The Hot Pockets in Wakanda are banging.

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OtisTheTownDrunk 3 points ago +4 / -1

Hasn't anyone noticed that ground beef is nearly tasteless now?

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ripley88 [S] 2 points ago +3 / -1

Do you use salt when you cook it? That's always been important, unless you want it to taste like you're eating tumors.

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OtisTheTownDrunk 1 point ago +1 / -0

Yeah this is beyond using salt and other seasonings (which I always have). The beef has become tasteless is now just a vehicle for seasonings.

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runonce 3 points ago +4 / -1

There used to be lots of foods that were "bad" for you that tasted almost euphorically wonderful compared to today. Unfortunately, today's "bad" foods taste like shit and are still "bad" for you, just in different ways.

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Formerlurker92 3 points ago +3 / -0

They figured out by adding pure animal drugs in the form of sugar or sugar substitutes they can stop trying as hard

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Baryonic 3 points ago +5 / -2

frosted flakes? Who eats shit like that? hot pockets? Make a fucken meal, fool.

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PermaHandshake 2 points ago +2 / -0

They are right though.

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Flannel 2 points ago +2 / -0

Baby steps, not to be 'that guy' but I was a crap foodaholic for many many years and I'm still healing from my choices. So I'm all for anybody making better decisions for their health. Hopefully they realize what they need to do and actually make wise choices.