re: Things that tasted better as a kid.

Reese’s Puffs

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Get you a Mexican Coca-Cola. They still use the original recipe with cane sugar instead of corn syrup.

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And then conduct a blind taste test with family. I did it and was surprised how none of us could tell the difference between either product. Instead of a 1 v 1 pour, we did a 1 v 1 vs random 1. So randomness suggested we had only a 1 in 3 chance of getting it right. Results were brutal . No one guessed correctly above a rate of randomness.

Turns out corn syrup is as awesome as sugar, and a preference for sugar is rooted in nostalgia rather than taste.

Tang

Otter Pops

Kool-Aid

Pork fixed all kind of ways, cracklings at a couchon de lait, pork skins in the see thru bag (tom's?), whole baked hams at Christmas and Easter, bacon for breakfast, big pork roasts with rice and gravy and vegetables from the garden served at lunchtime, fried shrimp, stuffed shrimp and french fries from the city cafe, breakfast on Sunday mornings at the city cafe - fried eggs, grits, bacon, sausage patties, biscuits, and coffee milk - oysters - fried, on the half shell - those big saddle back oysters that you never seem to see anymore - camp food - venison roasts, rabbit and squirrel fricassee - - lots of good memories

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Yep.

The glass bottles make it even better.

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Maybe I wasn't clear the analysis was done on the Mexican bottled Coke that was labeled as being sweetened with sucrose and marketed and sold as such in the US. There are two possible explanations either they were using HFCS for at least the last 10 years or they sucrose was naturally breaking down into the component monosaccharides glucose and fructose and thus becoming chemically the same as HFCS.

The many blind taste tests that have been conducted always prove the taste difference if any is imperceptible whether or not it was sweetened with sucrose which broke down to the component monosaccharides or just was a complete lie and they are using HFCS despite how it is marketed.

This exactly the same as the audiofools that will wax poetic about the differences in two properly designed and functioning solid-state amps both used below even micro-clipping gain levels but then can't reliably pick one over the other in blind testing. There are a million reasons given and most remain convinced but it is just a money grab.

No it’s a different recipe. Back when there was a saturated fat craze in the 90’s pretty much all fast food joints switch from frying in lard to vegetable oil.

When you taste legit lard fried food, you realize what you are missing.

Vienna sausage
Bologna
Spam

Would devour as a kid and there is no way I'm touching any of that now.