When I was young, I was more than happy to eat liver sausage even though I hated liver.
Tried some a few years ago for the first time since I was about 11 or 12. Despite the fact that it tasted just as I remember it, I hate the stuff.
Still like the Deviled Ham, though.
All of those snack cake type things like Twinkies, Hostess Cupcakes, Zingers, Little Debbies, etc. None of them are as good as I remember. Most of the cereals I loved as a kid have little flavor at all to me now. Corn Pops used to be my favorite and now it’s just sticky-sweet puffs of yellow something.
Pop Tarts are horrible, but I’ll still buy them every now and again thinking that they won’t be and I get disappointed every time.
I still eat Quaker instant oatmeal in Maple and Brown Sugar, but now I cook it. When I was a kid, I would only eat it with enough very hot tap water to make a very thick paste. How I thought that was delicious, I’ll never know.
Sonic grilled cheese sandwiches and tater tots used to be food of the gods. The tots are still decent, but the grilled cheeses are just not the same. All the kid focused pasta products are disgusting, but I would eat that shit up. The little bitty meatballs in the spaghetti-o’s were the best part and I would save them for last.
I swear that kiddy junk food has changed.
I remember ho-hos as being a darker chocolate color, with the enrobing chocolate less waxy. Now they are sort of beige and the coating is more waxy. The same goes for the chocolate cupcakes. Near as I can figure, the white crap in the middle is still some vaguely vanilla flavored sugar bomb.
I do believe that the crust of pop tarts has changed, it seems much more crumbly, and there seems to be less filling inside. I don’t think the frosting [a hard royal icing] has changed much. The flavors and colors are frequently different, the multicolored neon colored ones are something from the 90s I guess. I remember mainly fruit flavors - strawberry, blueberry, cherry and apple, and chocolate.
I was never really into spaghetti-os, but I did have some canned ravioli a few weeks back and other than the processed meat paste filling them being blander than I remember they seemed pretty much the same as back in the 90s. Not something I would choose to eat, but if that is all there is it would be reasonably palatable. Just yuccky sweet.
I buy a freeze dried line of fruits and veggies to keep on hand to cook with and I noticed on the sweet potato dices that every single recipe provided on label and online was absolutely loaded with sugar. To 2 cups of dices [rehydrated by simmering in salted water] for a casserole half a cup of white sugar and half a cup of brown sugar. You know the carb load on something like that? That is half a cup of dehydrated sweet potatoes and a quarter cup of sugar :eek: I can not imagine being locked in a bunker with a dozen kids hopped up on sugar and sweet potatoes [I know that research does not back up a sugar fueled maniac kid, but I keep seeing kids get hopped up on sugar.] Why in hell people think something like a perfectly good sweet potato needs sugar is beyond me!
For all you crisp-apple lovers, I have a tip – Honeycrisp. They are all that, and more.
No Campbell’s soup tastes the same as when I was younger…same with Progresso.
Honeycrisp are great! We are lucky to live adjacent to an apple orchard. I buy a different variety each time I stop,and make blended applesauce.
An even better tip for crisp apples- go to an orchard. Even Red Delicious apples can be crisp and juicy if you get them at an orchard.
It is worth planning a trip if there aren’t any nearby.
Peanut butter and jelly in one jar.
As a kid, I loved the whole idea of this, and would occasionally talk my mom into getting it.
Just think how much better your life could be without all that “get this jar, then that jar” nonsense.
It’s one jar!
Then as a 20-something living alone, ( I’m in charge here!) I saw some at the store and had to have it. Ick. :smack: I’ve eaten strange things in third world countries that still had a face or ears, and this stuff made me long for that! It was like Vegemite or fresh racoon asshole; it may be edible for some, but not me.
And don’t try to fool me with a sandwich in a can, either.
Ovaltine used to be ‘malty’. I guess that was too old-fashioned, now its like a blah cocoa.
Big Mac at McDonalds tasted pretty awful, I haven’t had one in decades and either it, or I, changed.
This. I can’t believe all the crap I ate before I grew up and started taking care of myself.
Mine would be Campbell’s Chicken Noodle-O’s. I LOVED them as a little kid. One day when I was in my 30’s I bought a can out of curiosity and I couldn’t even eat it. It was SO SALTY I had to throw it out and be hungry.
Oh, man, I fondly remember this stuff. Goober Grape is the one I always got. I’ve revisted the product some time in the last decade and have had a similar experience to you. It wasn’t quite that bad, but that peanut butter was pretty funky, and no way would I buy it as an adult.
The heck? I don’t even know why such a thing exists.
Don’t they sell different varieties of it, one malted flavor, one not? At least that’s how I remember it, there was a malt flavor that came in a lighter brown jar and a chocolate flavor that came in a darker brown jar. Lemme see what Google brings me…
Hmm…I might have the colors wrong. Maybe it was yellow for the malted, and then orange/brown for the chocolate. Anyhow, current packaging classic malt flavor, chocolate malt flavor, and rich chocolate.
I can’t remember if as a kid they had both those chocolate flavors or not, but there were definitely at least a malt flavor and a chocolate-type flavor.
ETA: Looking at the Wikipedia page, it does say that there have been various formulations, and that the formulations even differ around the world. It looks like the plain malt version is just plain malt with no cocoa. Looking at the ingredients for the “classic malt” mix, that does seem to be the case. The chocolate malt is a mix of chocolate and malt (heavier on the cocoa), and the rich chocolate has no malt. So, theoretically you could “roll your own” Ovaltine and control your malt and chocolate levels as you like them. Me? I’ve always liked the malt version.
I was just reading about ‘snow apples’ over on rocketnews - apparently apple growers on the northern island bury crates of apples in snow for several months, they are claiming it improves the flavor and texture of the apples. I was thinking of trying it sometime, it might make an interesting difference from the way apples are stored here [in a neutral gas controlled temperature environment]. Purportedly the higher humidity cold is what does the trick.
My opinion of Red Delicious apples has for a long time been, “They’re half right.”
Honeycrisp is where it’s at.
I’ve heard your tastes change every 7 years. Is there any truth to that?
I don’t care for canned pasta I still like the little meat balls in Spaghetti-O’s but the past themselves, and Chef Boyardee…I can’t do it except on rare occasions. Very rare.
Fast food in general, I loved it as a kid, I still eat it on occasion as an adult but nothing seems to taste like it did. I remember Long John Silvers in particular tasting amazing when I was a kid, and Mcdonalds fries…KFC. Now it’s…blah. Maybe i’ve just just had my fill. I’ve cut back a lot. I’m sure i’ll appreciate those places more when I don’t eat there for months and months.
Both “Golden Delicious” and “Red Delicious” applies are lies. LIES!
As a 50-year-old adult I discovered Honeycrisp. I can’t believe I missed out on these for so long!
I’ve recently been recommended to try Pink Lady. Any opinions here?
Oh, and canned Spaghetti-os, Chef-boy-r-dee Ravioli, and Deviled Ham are disappointments. I was never really “in” to Pop Tarts, and having tried one recently I figured I was just a savvy kid. Ick.
While the previously posted image looks to be about as disgusting a thing I could imagine, this picture on Wikipedia makes it look barely more palatable. Or at least more imaginable.
That’s not that bad. Don’t understand why they had to put it in a can, though. Marketing gimmick, I guess.
At any rate, it sure beats whole-chicken-in-a-can.
Honeycrisps, while delicious (and you should thank Minnesota for creating them for you), are rather sweet. (It’s right there in the name! Honey!) If you’re looking for a tart apple, honeycrisps might disappoint.
