If you’re not now getting it from the same source you got it from back when you’re an infant, it’s bound to taste different.
If you are getting it from the same source as earlier, you should inquire into dietary and medication additions/changes in the interval. Also consider past vs. present tobacco, alcohol and other substance use status.
I remember all the canned spaghetti and ravioli stuff being a sugar bomb when I was a kid in the 80s (which was part of the reason I didn’t like them. I didn’t and still don’t have much of a sweet tooth.) I also recall Campbell’s Tomato Soup always being weirdly sweet, too, but that could be because I was used to my mother’s tomato soup, which never had any sugar added to it.
Hardly, in fact the opposite. Used to be Hersheys was the norma American chocolate, and Euopeans dont care for it.
But now there’s Ghiradelli, Guittard , Scharffen Berger , Scharffen Berger and many others:
Apparently, it is the same Apple, but now stored differently and much longer.
I say strawberries. They were small- a BIG one was the size of a adults thumb- and sweet and squished easily. Season was short (but sweet). If you bought a flat, you’d know quite a few on the bottom would be squished. For fresh, even here in Califorinia, you had maybe a month. We ate them several times a week during the season.
McDonalds fries. First fried in beef fat. Then flavored with beet fat. Now- just greasy and salty.
KFC chicken seasoning reminds me of the seasoning that some place sells so one can recreate ‘Lum’s’ burgers and fries. Anyone remember Lum’s? Used to be a nice casual restaurant in the 70’s selling schooners of beer, and remarkable burgers and fries coated with intense spice mixes. I did find the company online and sent for the burger mix and the fries mix, but as far as I can tell, both are just some forms of seasoned salt. Lum’s used to coat their burgers in a real complex spice mix, with seeds of some kind in it.
In the 90s they changed the Budweiser can. My Daddy swore the taste changed. I never drank enough of it to know. He switched to Busch light after that.
I highly recommend Aldi brand Mac and Cheese. It’s the best on the market and is only 33 cents per box. I can’t even eat Kraft anymore.
Yeah, this was a “new Coke” moment that actually worked. Their “new” fries are way better than what they offered before. I still prefer Wendy’s fries over any other fast-food place, but Burger King’s are great. I agree that McDonald’s should go back to the 80’s style.
I may be in the minority, but I swear McDonald’s McNuggets were also different in the 80’s. I don’t know if they were better or worse, but I remember them tasting different. Am I alone?
Everything. I was a kid during WWII and I doubt if there is singe heirloom food item from those days that I could eat without recognizing the difference from today’s food.
Sweet corn, huge difference. Nowadays it tastes like candy. Beer nowadays is laughable, even if you can find a can not marked “light”. Milk then was not homogenized, so there would be particles of butterfat floating in it.
Yeah, I kind of feel the same way. My memory is that the early McNuggets were a bit fattier and flavorful, maybe with more dark meat or something. But they’re still okay.
McDonalds went from a mix of dark meat and white meat to all white meat in 2003. Some had a different ratio than others, but they were all a mixture.
Table grapes. They used to be reliably sweet, IN season, but the last few times I have bought grapes, I have had to pitch them, no taste.
Cantaloupe. I remember it being so flavorful and juicy as a kid. Today it has no flavor.
Smaller grapes are better than bigger grapes (at least for green ones). I never cared for the red/purple. But I don’t know if there’s more-water-less-flavor in the bigger ones or if it’s just that the skins are too think and the skins aren’t tasty.
Alpha-Bits cereal. Yeah, they still call it that but the taste is entirely different now. I can’t eat the new version.
This was what I was going to say. I used to always be tempted to buy ravioli and such from Chef Boyardee, but wouldn’t since I’m trying to eat healthier. But after giving in a few weeks back, I was just so unhappy with the ravioli that I no longer feel the desire to have it anymore. So thanks Chef, for making it just a little bit easier to eliminate unhealthy food from my diet.
Not enough information. You’re going to have to spell it out.
“Look Brian, it says ‘Ooooooo!’”
“Peter, those are Cheerios.”
I hadn’t thought of it in years, but you just reminded me of the annoying customers who would come to the McDonald’s I worked at and ask for “only white meat” McNuggets. I’m sure we knew they were all a mixture, but what we did was give them the short, round/square McNuggets, and leave out the longer rectangle/oval nuggets. That seemed to satisfy them.
Overnite, legs and thighs got cheaper than breasts.
Were legs and thighs ever more expensive than breasts? Back in college, mid-90s, I remember breasts being about twice per pound as thighs or drumsticks.