As I walk down the aisles I point at things and say "Not food. Not food. Not food!" #notfood
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I agree with other sediments here that all of this is disgusting except for nutty buddies. They are not part of the disgusting stack of synthetic tasting garbage.
Nothing worse than feeling fat but not full.
Pecan spinwheels still hold up but most of it just tastes like sugar and plastic
nutty buddies, oatmeal creams and strawberry rolls are a perfectly cromulent sometimes treat.
i still love oatmeal cream pies ngl.
I will still fuck up some twinkies and zebra cakes
I'm trying to quit soda (or pop) once and for all (1 week strong) and everything in this photo makes me want to vomit.
I didn't eat most of these by adulthood. I don't even eat much real cake or pie to be honest. But I will always like cosmic brownies.
Ha! I'm still young then.
All of that shit has always been disgusting to me, even as a kid. The only exception (and its not even in this picture) are those little debbie brownies. They had those at my school cafeteria and they were good and rich. Hell those are still good IMO. Terrible for you though.
When I was a kid I LOVED oatmeal creampies. Now that I'm an adult I still love creampies, just not the oatmeal ones.
I will eat toasted Poptarts once in a while, but I think I enjoy the aroma more then the taste.
I tried twinkies because of zombieland.
Major disappointment.
A lot of the US stuff really is an acquired taste. If you didn't grow up with it, there's a fair chance it won't work for you.
They've slightly changed the formula of twinkies something like 10 times. Each time the changes are small buy over 10 times, it builds up to something very different. I will say, deep fried twinkies are surprisingly good, still.
Cuts both ways, leaving the US a lot of the treats we find disappointing.
Twinkies were never great, but Twinkies of the 80's/90's were cake-ier and fluffier. HFCS, palm oil, overwhipping with air, and ever shrinking sizes have made our treats of old rather disappointing even to us.
exception: SHOUT OUT CANADA! Your snack cakes are absoltely rockstar and not even by just snack cake standards. Vachon is the GOAT
When I was little Zebra cakes were my jam. I tried them again a few years ago, and they did not hold up
Palm oil ruined most of these. Leaves that greasy film in your mouth.
I can only handle the nutty buddy.
I can't and I don't anymore. My sweet treat is frozen blueberries with 2% milk, nuts, and cinnamon.
Nothing in this picture is worth getting fat over. And, it all tastes so fake once you start paying attention. Yes, disgusting.
Never heard of any of the products in this picture, except I've heard of Twinkies but only because of Zombieland guy that was obsessed with them. I'd probably try one if you gave me one for free, just to see if it was any good.
None of it looks very appetising though tbh. I like real food not this fake american shit
funny thing about the zombieland guy, the actor is actually allergic to them so they had to make different ones that he would be able to eat
He wasn't allergic. He's vegan.
The Nutty Buddy bars are pretty good, or used to be. It's like wafer cookies with peanut butter between the layers, covered in chocolate.
I thought those little debby Swiss roles were disgusting when I was a kid.
I loved all of the hostess stuff but I haven’t bought any in over a decade because fuck Union busters.
Yes, all of that stuff is awful... until you eat a gummy, then it becomes your life force.
Always has been 🧑🚀🔫👨🚀
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.
the original banana creme filling changed to the 'plain' creme during ww2, and never reverted back when bananas were readily and cheaply available again.
the banana variety sold now is definitely not the made the same.. far less banana and more artificial flavorings.
now we have two points. soon we'll have data!
I still have a problem with pastires from the bakery. So it's a good thing the nearest bakery is 50 miles away.
But yeah, I have little tolerence for sweet anymore.
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.
Cheap and familiar.
This. Oreos have changed a least 3 times since I was a kid, and the newest ones don't even tickle the fancy anymore.
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.
It's all the same 3 ingredients formed into different shapes with different artificial flavors injected into them
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.
I can agree, they are lower quality now and they were not that good decades ago. Hard pass.
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.
The oatmeal cream pies are probably the only things there that I still have some appreciation for, but even then I gotta scoop out like half the filling. Nutty buddies used to be a favorite of mine, but then I discovered good peanut butter.
Yeah, in retrospect, I really do think a lotta these have cheaped out and reduced quality.
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 loved those two as well. Now I have mild fatty liver so I'm avoiding saturated fat and excess sugar the best I can -- the only two ingredients in the zebra cake/holiday cake.
That's some fancy looking American Cuisine.