# "Exotic" foods from your childhood that are common now

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**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** food-cooking
**Created:** [October 9, 2020, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exotic-foods-from-your-childhood-that-are-common-now/922539 "2020-10-09T02:33:28Z")
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### Author: ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2020, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/exotic-foods-from-your-childhood-that-are-common-now/922539/94 "2020-10-11T00:38:32Z")

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I have been advised about peeps

> [@I pit people who hate Marshmallow Peeps](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-hate-marshmallow-peeps/654509/8):
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> Yea, they’re basically just brightly coloured disappointment. They look so happy and tasty, and then you put one in your mouth, and its like someone sprinkled sugar on Styrofoam. And its all chewy, so its not like you can just swallow and get the experience over with, you have to sit there and chew it before you can get it down, reflecting on the unfairness of a universe that would produce something so joyfully tasty looking on the outside, and so disgusting on the inside, reminding yourself never to trust again. Like a cow chewing on cud, except I imagine cud tastes better.

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