The removed the sodium to make Michelle Obama crowd happy, and so it tastes like crap now... and grossly overpriced at most retailers
Much of that crappiness appeared a in the relatively recent past (10?) when the straw that broke the camels back was the bs campaign they came up with to save money and claimed that the new formulations was to make it more”like mpms”. Poor cover for screwing the consumer and no, my mother was mever that bad of a cook.