Anonymous wrote:Ketchup. I think having kids partly ruined it for me. My kids were so gross with ketchup when they were younger, like smothering things in it. Now I just can’t get that out of my head. Even the smell turns me off

I guess I have to say ketchup as well. Although, I still like Russian dressing.

Taco Bell. Adored it at 17, didn’t eat for decades, tried again in my 40s and was sorely disappointed.

I still love carvel cake!

But I agree on deviled ham. I also adored pudding that came in a can. I doubt they sell that brand any more but if they did I probably wouldn’t like it.

But most things from my youth I still adore. I’d eat a fluffernutter every day if it wasn’t diabetes on a plate.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the issue is that the food actually has changed too. So you're dealing with two variables-- adult tastebuds and the fact that the food has gotten objectively worse with cheaper ingredients.

+1. Pepperidge Farm cookies and Breyers ice cream used to have real ingredients when I was a kid. No fake sugars, no stabilizers, gums, etc. All the recipes changed during the 90s, I think, so none of it tastes the same as they used to.

I c know for sure that ppperidge farm cookies used palm oil in the 1980s. I had an allergy to soy oil and peanut oil so I read all the labels. Pepperidge farm chews cookies and the ones with the raspberry jam in the middle were some of the only ones I could eat.

Deviled ham: too salty, too fatty--heart attack on a cracker

Tang orange drink powder

American cheese

My mom was not much of a cook. One thing she made as a special treat was basically this:

https://www.plainchicken.com/3-ingredient-cream-cheese-sausage-dip/

I made it once as a 20 something and did not enjoy.

Another of her specialties was a sliced hotdog baked with a layer of mashed potatoes and kraft cheese. Also no longer enjoy that.

I also used to mix jam and coop whip and eat it like ice cream. Too grossed out to even try that now.

jif peanut butter is a good one. i LOVED it as a kid. now, i only like the 100% peanut butters.

Pretty much all the packaged cookies, snack foods, grocery store breads, cheap chocolate grocery store candy, Jif peanut butter. We practically lived on these processed foods growing up in the 80s-90s. They are disgusting to me now.

Ketchup. I think having kids partly ruined it for me. My kids were so gross with ketchup when they were younger, like smothering things in it. Now I just can’t get that out of my head. Even the smell turns me off

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the issue is that the food actually has changed too. So you're dealing with two variables-- adult tastebuds and the fact that the food has gotten objectively worse with cheaper ingredients.

+1. Pepperidge Farm cookies and Breyers ice cream used to have real ingredients when I was a kid. No fake sugars, no stabilizers, gums, etc. All the recipes changed during the 90s, I think, so none of it tastes the same as they used to.

Yes to Pepperidge Farm! Brussels was my jam in the early 90s. I bought them for my kids and they are not even remotely worth the cost or calories.

Kraft mac and cheese.

Pop Tarts
TV dinners
Breyers ice cream before they changed it

Frozen French bread pizzas. Too much bread and they have to cool off forever before you can eat them if you don’t want to burn the roof of your mouth.

charlotte russe dessert. I loved it as a kid, thought it so special. I didn’t have it for years and then retasted it and find it nothing special now.

also tuna noodle casserole was a favorite dinner of mine as a kid. as an adult just the idea of it turns my stomach.

Anonymous wrote:I think the issue is that the food actually has changed too. So you're dealing with two variables-- adult tastebuds and the fact that the food has gotten objectively worse with cheaper ingredients.

+1. Pepperidge Farm cookies and Breyers ice cream used to have real ingredients when I was a kid. No fake sugars, no stabilizers, gums, etc. All the recipes changed during the 90s, I think, so none of it tastes the same as they used to.