Chocolate used to taste like heaven. Now it’s made with coconut oil and tastes bland.
I used to think everything tasted great. Now it all tastes like cardboard. So, I got out my Mom’s old cookbooks and read the recipes. You can’t even guy the ingredients anymore. A cake of yeast comes to mind. Everything takes hours to make. We’ve gained inexpensive and plentiful food but lost the taste. On the other hand, if everything was made today like it was in the ‘60’s a meal out would average $100 per plate and take an hour to get to your table.
I know things don’t taste like they used to and I am losing my sense of smell.
Maybe the fact that I will soon be 75 has something to do with it.
I used to make my own French bread (with a bread machine), using yeast, a little sugar, egg whites and bread flour. That took some preparation, even with the machine. I admit I've gotten lazy and buy the bread from a bakery. So laziness may play a part in not having the tasty food we used to enjoy.
**Now it all tastes like cardboard.***
As you get older your taste buds change. I used to hate fried onions, now I have no problem with them. Same for cottage cheese and spinach.
As a kid I loved candy. Not I don’t even touch it. same for coca cola. I only drink it when I eat pop corn.
I remember how home raised chicken used to taste, also pork and beef. Beef and pork is fed grain in feed yards to get the reek of wild onions and other nasties out of them to make them edible.
Farm raised chicken is fed the same thing commercial chickens are fed, although free range chickens can also pick up foods that will falvor the meat in a bad way.
Best thing for anyone to do is run out to a used bookstore or antiques store and buy up the old Betty Crocker cookbook with the red-white checkered cover, as well as Sunset Publications’ cookbooks, such as for baking bread or Italian cooking. Or any cookbook published before the ‘70s.
No way. I cook everything from scratch. No cans in my cupboard, no boxed items whatsoever. A few bottles and jars of things like catsup and salsa, some bags of pasta. I live on a limited income, have to watch every dollar, buy excellent mostly organic ingredients. It helps that I actually enjoy chopping veggies. And that I do not overeat. Tonight, top sirloin is on the menu. But a small serving.
And if you can find the ingredients the sizes have all been reduced and if you don’t put enough in the outcome could be affected.
An old recipe calls for a jar of peanut butter? Better get 2 jars. Calls for 2 cans of tuna you need to get 3 cans now.
We have a cooked eggnog recipe that we have to add extra eggs because the large eggs of today was medium just a few years ago.
“Chocolate used to taste like heaven. Now it’s made with coconut oil and tastes bland.”
No coconut oil ...
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“Now it all tastes like cardboard.”
Our meals are ggggggggggrrrrreeeeeeeeeeattttttt!
Did you ever think it might be your cook?