LOL! If I made it from home-made vanilla wafers, my crew would probably say, ‘it doesn’t taste right’; which usually means it doesn’t taste like Mom’s or Aunt Sally’s...
I guess it’s what you grew up on. I see lots of recipes trying to fancy-up the traditional green bean casserole that’s made from canned soup and French’s fried onions; and I’ve tried a couple of them. It just doesn’t hit the same spot ;-)
-JT
I agree with you. I think that we have atavistic taste buds - we like the food our ancestors ate and if it involves canned green beans and French’s fried onions that’s the way it has got to be. I know I feel this way. And since my mother was a strange health-nut who thought nothing of serving carob fake-chocolate and Brewer’s Yeast at meals, I never had a Nilla Wafer until I tried it about two years ago in a banana pudding. (My husband ate it up.)