WHAT FOODS TASTE DIFFERENT THAN THEY USED TO?

(November, 2023) Reddit asked, ‘What foods don’t taste the same as they used to?” Some of the responses:
– “Fruit Roll-Ups had actual strawberry seeds in them because they were made out of actual fruit! Infinitely superior to the gooey sugar rolls carrying the name now.”
– “Spaghetti-Os 100% taste different than they did as a child.”
– “Kit Kat tastes like it only contains palm oil, carnuba wax and sugar for the last four years.”
– “I remember Atomic Fireball Candy used to be really hot! Was I just a wimp as a kid?”
– “Trefoils Girl Scout cookies. They used to taste really shortbread-like. Now they taste like bad sugar cookies.”
– “I got some little Debbie donut sticks as a quick breakfast the other day, I remember loving them as a kid. They tasted chemical-ly and left an oily residue with a bad aftertaste.”
– “Most any chocolate bar these days. Now you can tell they cheaped out on the ingredients.”
– “Tomatoes have definitely become more bland.”
– “Red delicious apples.”
– “Oreos just don’t taste the same as they did when I was a kid.”
– “Graham Crackers, Chips Ahoy, & Chocolate Teddy Grams — staples of my childhood and they all taste like cardboard now.”
– “Soft drinks aren’t as fizzy as they were 30 years ago. I remember having to wait a minute after opening a can of Coke and pouring into a glass before I could drink it. Now if open a can and drink from it straight away, I might choke on the fizz, maybe.”
– “Microwave popcorn. I used to love it so much but now it’s weird and waxy. It coats the roof of my mouth.”
– “Hasn’t it been reported that Brussels Sprouts have been bred to be tastier over the last few decades? Because they’re delicious nowadays.”
* We’ll take your word for it on the Brussels Sprouts.
* How have they hurt tomatoes and apples? Are they growing them in cheaper dirt?
* If you’re an adult eating Spaghetti-Os, you need to take a serious look at your life.
* Only Americans would say, “This junk food is so awful, it’s all I can do to finish it.”
* PHONE TOPIC: What tastes a lot different now than it did when you were a kid?