What food/drink did you love when you were a child, but can't stomach now?
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Cap'n crunch.2
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Eggo Waffles and Pop Tarts.2
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As a child, Pop Tarts > Toaster Strudel.
Now, Toaster Strudel > Pop Tarts.
I'm the same as @MikePTY I like pretty much everything I liked as a kid, plus so much more, though obviously I make different choices now that I have different goals. My taste has expanded exponentially, but I'm still up for a bowl of Lucky Charms when calories allow. Some things don't seem quite as glorious as they used to, but nothing that I can't stomach :drinker:8 -
orange crush. cringeworthy now. and rainbow icecream with bubble gum in it. the thought of all that sugar just makes my teeth vibrate2
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I think a lot of these items were what we were told we should like as kids of the 80s or 90s. All the advertising made it seem like not having these foods meant you were a loser with a poor lunch. I've gone back and checked nutritional info on a bunch of things.. and it's bad. Just look at any extreme burgers, pizzas, fried on the go foods we ate. No wonder people like me have weight issues. Even the fruit drinks back then were just softdrinks in disguise. Sunny D, Bunnybread, most Kraft things at kid-height.. our cereals, which of course needed a metric ton of sugar, marshmallows, and chocolate. IF you want to have a lifetime sugar addict, that's how you could do it. Fruit roll ups, gushers, sourblasters, etc etc etc.christschild2 wrote: »WATERMELON. THEY AREN'T THE SAME AS THE ONES THAT HAD SEEDS. NOT AS SWEET AND HAVE TO PICK ALL THOSE LITTLE SEED SHELLS OUT. I DON'T LIKE EATING THEM. AND JELLO. I FOUND OUT WHAT IT WAS. AND LET ME NOT FORGET GRAPE KOOL-AID. THANKS TO JIM JONES.
That wasn't kool-aid brand if I remember right.1 -
Kool aid - I don’t know how I drank it.
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Milk is gross. I drank so much milk as a kid. Makes me nauseous just thinking about it.2
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There is a cheese spread served on bread at one of my favorite restaurants https://clearmansrestaurants.com/northwoods-inn/
I was nuts about it as a kid.
Recently I had it again and thought "Meh, it tastes like there's mayonnaise in it"
Although maybe they changed the recipe?
This is supposedly the recipe - maybe this recipe is better than what they serve now in the restaurant.
https://www.jamhands.net/2008/04/daily-recipe-north-woods-inn-garlic.html
The restaurant also serves red cabbage salad, which I used to love. When I last had it, it seemed more oily and less tangy than I remembered.
Whoa! I was JUST talking about the red cabbage salad and cheese bread the other day. It was the the only way I'd eat red cabbage. It's been forever since I've been there tho.2 -
Pizza pop!!!!! I loved them as a kid & cant stand them now, the little white chunk of ‘cheese’ eww
White bread! Loved it then now I hate it and can only eat whole wheat.
Also just juice in general. Sense I’ve started only drinking water & coffee. Apple juice tastes pretty gross to me. Once in a blue moon I’ll have a ice tea or lemonade as a treat but that’s pretty rare.
Never really liked pop.1 -
Lunchables1
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Egg flip. A drink made with milk, egg, vanilla and sugar. The thought of raw egg puts me off now.1
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sunny- D. i think they changed the recipe to be healthier though so that is why. i would likly love the origonal.1
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I did not woo, but if I had to posit a reason, it would be the mischaracterization of Eggos as "nothing but pure sugar." Eggos actually have almost no sugar in them. A serving of 2 Eggo waffles (70 grams) only contains 2 grams of sugar in them.
Its only 5g sugar but 46g of carbs. I also think the maple syrup gives it a strong sugar bump but that's not on the label.8 -
How much are you consuming? The regular is 27 g of carbs (mostly flour), 2 g sugar (1 g added).
Obviously adding syrup adds sugar. Same with anything you might put syrup on.
Eggos aside (which I did like as a kid, but didn't have that often and not as an adult), some of this discussion is making me realize how picky I was as a kid. I HATED all of those pre-packaged kid lunch things, like lunchables, pop tarts, any pizza-related snack thing (there was some frozen pizza I liked that we would sometimes get when my parents went out).
I did like canned soup, and usually brought a thermos of soup for lunch.
One thing I recall enjoying that seems awful now are those microwaveable honey buns. My sister really loved them, which is the main reason we got them, and now she has basically no sweet tooth at all, so clearly tastes change.2 -
Potted meat....3
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I used to love untoasted english muffins with a thick layer of cream cheese on top. Makes me want to gag now!2
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Green Peppers. I used to eat them like an apple. I’ll pick every piece out of my food now.1
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Government cheese3
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gallicinvasion wrote: »I used to love untoasted english muffins with a thick layer of cream cheese on top. Makes me want to gag now!
This brought back a memory of what I used to eat for lunch in elementary school, cream cheese and jelly sandwich. That was until I got ill after eating one and never ate one again.2 -
My mom made this cherry jello salad with a topping made of cream cheese and Cool Whip for holiday meals and I recall loving it. Haven't had it (or anything with jello) in years, but I suspect I would not be a fan.2
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Packaged snack cakes like Twinkies, Lil' Debbie cakes, etc. I used to get them in my lunches when I was a kid and loved them. Now they don't even taste like food.
I came here to mourn Little Debbie brownies. Those were one of the most amazing things when I was a kid, and now they taste nasty.3 -
Milk. I actually can't stomach it as I developed an intolerance for dairy as I grew up. But I used to chug it all the time until I was about 5.
Frappaccinos. My mom used to go to the coffee shop on the way to school every morning for her drink and I'd get some sugar-bomb with whipped cream and caramel on top. This was the beginning of my severe caffeine addiction. I haven't had one in years but I'm not super interested in trying it again.1 -
Ha, ha, just thought of one.
I used to love, love, love those cartons of non-alcoholic eggnog that are available this time of year.
I still always think about getting them when they appear, for old time's sake, but can't say I still enjoy them.2 -
1% milk1
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Any sort of kid's yogurt, like those old trix yogurts. They taste metallic now? Like just plain sweet with a metallic edge to it. I think it's something they do with the strawberry flavoring (which was my favorite as a kid). I get the same sort of taste with the Little Debbie strawberry shortcakes, which was also a childhood favorite.
Also, kraft mac and cheese. Tastes dry and thin.
Capri sun. Again with the metallic taste.
Hawaiian Punch. It's become sickly sweet, and I'm someone that really likes things sweet.2 -
Vienna sausages :sick:5
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Canned Pasta. Be it Beef and Macaroni, Ravioli, Chilli and Macaroni, etc.... All disgusting, but I loved it as a kid.3
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I used to love all the little frozen things, like pizza rolls and such. And things like rice-a-roni. I think they're so gross now.3
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I used to eat tons of candy of all sorts, did that pretty recently for my B day and I passed out in a candy coma 😧. Literally put me to sleep better than taking a sleep aid would lol. Hubby thought it was pretty funny coming home to find me passed out in a pile of Reese’s wrappers though 😂.
Wonder why it happens now?4
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