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Neurodivergent 1d
Has anyone else had this experience where you go to try something you remember being so fucking good as a kid and it tastes like straight up chemicals. So many processed things taste Worse and I don’t think it’s just me growing up and not being as into it
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Anonymous 1d

I honestly think most of those things are because they’ve changed recipes and have made them more processed.

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Anonymous 1d

dude istg reese’s cups used to be better, why are they bland and grainy now??

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Anonymous 1d

Yeah. Hawaiian Punch fruit punch. I used to love it, then I came back and it was like sugar in a can. 2/10 drink

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Anonymous 23h

Cosmic brownies. I remember kids foaming at the mouth over them. Tried one recently and it was like someone whispered the word chocolate over a brick of air dry clay.

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Anonymous 1d

Bug juice, would get it in the small bottle at gas stations

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Anonymous 21h

Products are also getting worse so it’s not just in your head either

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Anonymous 1d

Probably a combination of your taste buds changing as you grow older and ingredient changes by the producers.

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Anonymous 4h

definitely. my specific one is that i swear soda has gotten more carbonated, to the point where it genuinely bites my mouth

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Anonymous 23h

Yes! So many thing, particularly candies and cookies

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1d

Some of it isn’t even about how overly sweet stuff is but like I feel like I can specifically distinguish the taste of bleached flour and red dye 40

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1d

Honestly I’ve never had *that* experience, since my mother was a health nut, and my father would “treat us” to fruit punch cans when she wasn’t home. So like honestly the only really gross sweets were Hawaiian Punch and Sunny D

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 1d

They’re sooooo bus wdym??😭

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 1d

They WERE, now they taste like strep throat in a bottle

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 23h

Wait are y’all talking about these knockoff things?

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Anonymous replying to -> #8 22h

Honestly I remember Cosmic Brownies hitting like crack and now they just taste like regular grocery store brownies

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 22h

TACO BELL’S QUESADILLA HAS NEVER BEEN THE SAME SINCE 2011

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 22h

Those are the knockoff. The on brand Bug Juice were bussin

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 4h

Yes and, our tastebuds change as we grow up. It’s probably both things.

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