# Things you loved as a kid that you now think are terrible **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 20, 2023, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-loved-as-a-kid-that-you-now-think-are-terrible/985857 "2023-06-20T20:44:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2023, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-loved-as-a-kid-that-you-now-think-are-terrible/985857/81 "2023-06-21T20:17:28Z")
Speed Racer. I loved the heck out of that show when I was a little kid, and it was my introduction to Japanese anime back before much of it had hit the US (along with Kimba the White Lion). Tried watching it as an adult, and it’s…insipid. I still like the art (though it’s pretty basic by modern anime standards) but the dialog and voice acting…ugh. I felt my brain cells dribbling out my ears. (These days I still like a lot of the anime art styles, but I’m still not a fan of many of the stories.) ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2023, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-loved-as-a-kid-that-you-now-think-are-terrible/985857/82 "2023-06-21T20:26:56Z")
I don’t remember that show as remotely scary. But I have never rewatched it and so maybe you’re right. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2023, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-loved-as-a-kid-that-you-now-think-are-terrible/985857/83 "2023-06-21T21:54:34Z")
> [@mozchron](#): > > I always loved Grape Nuts tho. Me too. I sprinkle them on vanilla ice cream and then add chocolate syrup. Yumm! ---
**Author:** ![Common\_Tater](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/common_tater/32/13846_2.png) [@Common\_Tater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Common_Tater)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2023, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-loved-as-a-kid-that-you-now-think-are-terrible/985857/84 "2023-06-21T21:58:15Z")
> [@mozchron](#): > > I always loved Grape Nuts tho. Still do (everyone else in the family hates them **so more for me** ). Reminds me of a story about Charlie Duke - he is an Apollo era NASA astronaut, somehow he convinced the nutritionists that along with TANG and bite sized apricot squares and all that stuff that they should include hominy grits in the onboard mission menus. I guess he’s a little bit good ole boy. And they did. So he loved ‘em . . . And . . . nobody else did. The transcripts show this. They are 150,000 miles from earth, and Charlie is asking the crew “hey John, you gonna eat your grits?” “No!” “I’ll take ‘em.” ---
**Author:** ![Common\_Tater](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/common_tater/32/13846_2.png) [@Common\_Tater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Common_Tater)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2023, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-loved-as-a-kid-that-you-now-think-are-terrible/985857/85 "2023-06-21T22:03:43Z")
“I don’t remember that show as remotely scary. But I have never rewatched it and so maybe you’re right.” Little kids remember. This wasn’t _The Flintstones_ or _The Jetsons_ or even _Scooby Doo_ people were getting wacked, and evil scientists and the rest of it. The invisible monster created in a lab, and the one eyed spider were the two that seemed frightening as I recall. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2023, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-loved-as-a-kid-that-you-now-think-are-terrible/985857/86 "2023-06-21T23:04:46Z")
Oh yes, the electric monster. It really scared me. Part of it I think was the soundtrack, rather similar to the sound you hear when the monster from the Id is coming, in _Forbidden Planet_. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2023, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-loved-as-a-kid-that-you-now-think-are-terrible/985857/87 "2023-06-22T01:18:08Z")
> [@Common\_Tater](#): > > The invisible monster created in a lab, and the one eyed spider were the two that seemed frightening as I recall. Those are probably the two best episodes of _Jonny Quest_. The invisible monster was scary while it was invisible. Once they throw paint on it so you can see it, it honestly looks a little silly. That robot spider, though…it honestly gave me nightmares. That episode takes place entirely at night, and it’s wonderfully moody, with mysterious lights in the distance, unconscious guards with weird marks on their foreheads, and that robotic spider creeping around a lonely military base. I think the fact that the spider was _utterly silent_ the whole time is what made it especially unnerving. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2023, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-loved-as-a-kid-that-you-now-think-are-terrible/985857/88 "2023-06-22T01:44:56Z")
Miracle Whip and Republicans. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2023, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-loved-as-a-kid-that-you-now-think-are-terrible/985857/89 "2023-06-22T06:35:16Z")
**S. E. Hinton** We all read this schlock in American Lit in the 70’s and thought it was so cool that a teenager wrote it. About 10 years ago (I was in my 50’s) I re-read “The Outsiders” and “That was Then This is Now”. Of course it reads like a kid wrote it now that I read it as an adult. They’re both terrible. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2023, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-loved-as-a-kid-that-you-now-think-are-terrible/985857/90 "2023-06-22T12:30:29Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > Miracle Whip and Republicans. [Carnac the Magnificent] “Things that are white, nasty, and should be kept in a jar!” ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2023, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-loved-as-a-kid-that-you-now-think-are-terrible/985857/91 "2023-06-22T13:29:13Z")
👍 Nothing but net! ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2023, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-loved-as-a-kid-that-you-now-think-are-terrible/985857/93 "2023-06-22T13:49:07Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > Gatlinburg. Threadwinner. ---
**Author:** ![jacobsta811](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jacobsta811/32/2893_2.png) [@jacobsta811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jacobsta811)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2023, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-loved-as-a-kid-that-you-now-think-are-terrible/985857/94 "2023-06-22T13:54:04Z")
Hostess went bankrupt and sold off the brand names. The twinkies now have a recipe altered to make it possible to make all in one factory, freeze, and then ship around as needed, where they used to be made in a local bakery for distribution. Thus the worse taste and texture. ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2023, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-loved-as-a-kid-that-you-now-think-are-terrible/985857/95 "2023-06-22T14:56:00Z")
They are _still_ using “The Outsiders” in middle school Language Arts classes. I was astonished to find that many 21st century middle-schoolers love it (I thought it was kind of dated back in the 70s, when teachers assigned it to be hip and cool). ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2023, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-loved-as-a-kid-that-you-now-think-are-terrible/985857/96 "2023-06-22T15:07:57Z")
Wonder bread, marshmallow fluff, and bologna. > [@echoreply](#): > > And my unpopular choice, _A Wrinkle in Time_. It was the same thing. I was again astounded by how boring and contrived the story was (_Prydain_ is also very contrived). I still like Prydain, but I’ve had terrible rereading both _a wrinkle in time_ and _the phantom tollbooth_. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2023, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-loved-as-a-kid-that-you-now-think-are-terrible/985857/97 "2023-06-22T18:13:54Z")
> [@NinthAcolyte](#): > > I literally have not touched bologna since, probably around 25 years now. Homemade aversion therapy! I _loved_ Twinkies when I was a kid. I ate one in my thirties, and it was awful. Did they change the recipe or did my tastes change? I think it’s a little of the former, and a lot of the latter. ETA: I should have read the thread before posting, but, yeah, Twinkies _did_ use to be good, right? ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2023, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-loved-as-a-kid-that-you-now-think-are-terrible/985857/98 "2023-06-22T18:30:40Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > ETA: I should have read the thread before posting, but, yeah, Twinkies _did_ use to be good, right? Better than now, anyway. One thing that is really good are Aldi or Walmart brand Swiss Rolls. Still great. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2023, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-loved-as-a-kid-that-you-now-think-are-terrible/985857/99 "2023-06-22T18:37:45Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > I still like Prydain, but I’ve had terrible rereading both _a wrinkle in time_ and _the phantom tollbooth_. Never read Prydain, but I tried reading _Phantom Tollbooth_ as an adult, because I missed it as a kid. Gawd, it was boring. I read maybe a third of it and stopped because I was just hate-reading it by that point… I love _A Wrinkle in Time_, but I loved all of Madeleine L’Engle’s books. ---
**Author:** ![echoreply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/echoreply/32/3641_2.png) [@echoreply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/echoreply)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2023, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-loved-as-a-kid-that-you-now-think-are-terrible/985857/100 "2023-06-23T06:12:17Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > Never read Prydain I think it’s probably fine for a kid who wants some introductory level fantasy, it’s just not for anybody else. Sort of like _Daniel Tiger_ is great, but no reason to watch it if your over 4. A few (probably) misremembered spoilers for a 60 year old children’s book: - A character is chased by an invulnerable zombie right to the rock where the big bad hid the sword that can kill the zombie. The character did not know it was there until moving the rock. - maybe the sword could only be used by royalty, and the character was secretly a prince (he didn’t know) - the king (or somebody) falls off a cliff, but survives because he is so strong. No giant eagles or fairies, just “it would have killed anybody else, but he was fine” - maybe it was the sword, when one zombie is killed, they all die, maybe I’m just muddling it with the final season of GoT ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2023, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-loved-as-a-kid-that-you-now-think-are-terrible/985857/101 "2023-06-23T12:27:25Z")
> [@Briny\_Deep](#): > > > [@Biotop](#): > > > > Gatlinburg. > > Threadwinner. Could someone explain this one? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-loved-as-a-kid-that-you-now-think-are-terrible/985857.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-loved-as-a-kid-that-you-now-think-are-terrible/985857.md?page=6)