You aren't imagining things. Food is becoming inedible. Everything is synthesized in a lab to kinda sorta taste like what real food used to taste like. It's getting hard to find something that hasn't been adulterated to a vast extent. GF used to love sweets, now she doesn't even wander the sweets aisles anymore. Stupid high prices and very low quality. Chocolate bars that taste like cocoa wax, hardly any real chocolate in them. Hell, even Doritos taste like some science experiment gone wrong.
I got some Velveeta mac & cheese. The cheese very obviously wasn't real. It tasted like a petrochemical product. Into the trash it went. GF used to get pop tarts all the time, stopped with the last two boxes. Hard, almost no filling, and yet again more weird science product taste to them. She broke off the edges because they were hard and dry. It was half the product, no filling at all. Into the trash.
Truth.
Over the years they started injecting soy into...everything. It all has it. High fructose corn syrup has been around even longer. Even potato chips - which are potatoes and salt - are cooked in soybean oil.
I used to think the labels that would bold face "Contains: Soy" were there as a warning, but now it feels like they're bragging.
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