I wouldn’t say disgusting but definitely not as good as one remembers them to be. I don’t know if that is your palette getting more nuanced and things getting more shitty.
Ho hos / swiss rolls / ding dongs hold up
someone gave me a twinkie on halloween… wow… not sure if it’s enshittification or nostalgia but goddamn, greasy as fuck flavorless foam snack jfc
I’ve been attributing it to enshittification. At a minimum, changing recipes
When the Twinkie brand was bought out from bankruptcy, I tried it again for the first time in a long while. Had the same reaction as you
In the 70s I seem to remember twinkles having a banana stuffing that was infintielty better than the shitty vanilla. They have been enshittifying for decades.
now we have two points. soon we’ll have data!
Yes but once you get old enough it’s delicious again and you don’t care if it kills you.
Oh, yeah, it’s disgusting, but that’s not gonna keep me from eating almost everything there.
‘disgusting’ is how much they charge for that stuff these days.
I look at these like chips ahoy cookies. They were once pure unadulterated treats not unlike what you would make at home but without the hassle. Over time they altered the recipe slightly. Many many times. And now chips ahoy cookies raste like sweetened cardboard with little tiny bits of what would be the minimum standard of what could be called chocolate. Ill still eat em if theyre in the house. But i know there are far better cookies to be had.
Why anybody buys chips ahoy at the grocery store when there are likely way better recently baked cookies in the bakery area is beyond me. They are infinitely better.
This. Oreos have changed a least 3 times since I was a kid, and the newest ones don’t even tickle the fancy anymore.
Wow it’s all super stuffed things, here in Italy we have the opposite problem: it’s all so “balanced” that when you have craving for something sugary we don’t have many options.
Yeah, they taste like sadness. You think they are going to be rich and flavorful but they are mostly bland and overly sugary.
Idk if my memory is fucked up or if they were better as a kid.
They were better. Optimisation is filling everything with palm oil and other cheap replacements. Few ingredients may be hard to notice, but it all gets optimised to the point of inedibility. We have full shelves with hundreds of choices for those all to be sad and gross. Not to mention bad for the farmers and the environment.
None of that was ever good. Trailer park breakfast food.
Don’t pretend 5o know what we eat.
They’re bland for the same reason little pink hot dogs are bland. They’re for little kid taste buds.
You are right that they were always shitty, but they’ve also enshittified further nonetheless, just like everything else.
That’s because the quality of food has decreased so capitalists can increase profit margins.
I still love zebra cakes but I rarely get them, also love the Christmas tree cakes when they have them, but I limit myself to buying them after thanksgiving
I will say, they don’t taste the same as they did when I was a kid, but they did change the recipe over the years
I can agree, they are lower quality now and they were not that good decades ago. Hard pass.
To be fair, I found most of these disgusting, as a child; I think Cosmic Brownies were the only ones I ever enjoyed.
My father likes to eat this stuff. He knows it’s gonna kill him. He knows it’s probably why he can’t lose weight. I stopped trying to influence him and I just tell him how I eat because I like to share. My little brother is going into medicine and can’t seem to grasp that ‘dad doesn’t want your medical opinion, he wants his little debbie treats’
He’ll figure it out.
Maybe dad will too.
Cosmic brownies are pretty good emergency stock. They’re calorie dense and have a pretty decent shelf life.
