And one component of taste is the dopamine release from eating the food and all of the negative associations with snack foods combined with a mature and adult brain means that you can’t enjoy it as much as a kid who just wants to taste something sweet.
You’re literally psychologically conditioned to not enjoy them as much and to release less dopamine when you eat them now.
Yes, randomly had my first zebra cake in ~25 years and holy shit are they awful. Not only smaller but really dry. I used to walk the long way home (an extra half mile!) to slam down a hard earned quarter for one of those things in my youth. Threw the fuckin box out after three bites.
Did they change it or is it that at a certain age your tastes change?
They definitely changed. Most of them got smaller, many of them got dryer (less moist), and they all got more expensive.
And one component of taste is the dopamine release from eating the food and all of the negative associations with snack foods combined with a mature and adult brain means that you can’t enjoy it as much as a kid who just wants to taste something sweet.
You’re literally psychologically conditioned to not enjoy them as much and to release less dopamine when you eat them now.
True. Its both. But I have a ton of positive associations with those snacks which make their change suck harder.
I mean I can link 6 different Little Debbie treats to unique family members and childhood events.
It’s hard to taste a memory, harder still when the company changed the recipe.
Trans fats were gradually banned in the US from 2008 to 2018
They replaced butter with palm oil. Look for ones not made in the US. Aldi has a bunch of good ones.
Yes, randomly had my first zebra cake in ~25 years and holy shit are they awful. Not only smaller but really dry. I used to walk the long way home (an extra half mile!) to slam down a hard earned quarter for one of those things in my youth. Threw the fuckin box out after three bites.
IDK but all the Little Debbie type cake things really do taste like wax to me now. And they used to be good, somewhat
Both. As I grow older I’m more and more fond of bitter stuff that younger me wouldn’t like, and younger me was more accepting of the very sweet stuff.