A matter of taste

[susandennis]

For several years now I have noticed a distinct change in the way some foods taste. Yeah, my taste buds grew up on the fats and sweets and starches of the 50's and those days and many of those tastes are gone but I also think my taste buds are responsible for at least half the change. I've been craving a bologna sandwich for several days so today I finally went and got some bologna and made myself a sandwich.

My mind distinctly remembers the flavor of a bologna sandwich. It bears little resemblance to what I ate today.

My bread taste went first. At least that was the first I was really aware. It tastes different and it smells different. And not in a good way. I went through a patch where I couldn't even eat the stuff because the taste was so, well, distasteful. It still doesn't smell or taste like it used to.

Today the bologna had nearly not flavor at all.

Potato chips lost their good old flavor several years ago.

It's sad and disconcerting. Now my food cravings are just too specific to fulfill. I want a bologna sandwich - I want the kind of bologna that you had to tear the red casing off of. I want it on Wonder Bread - like the kind that was made in the 50's, 60's and 70's. Fresh and squishy. I want butter on one slice and mayo on the other. Please slice diagonally and add a side of Charles Chips (waffle would be fun) from the 60's and 70's (but not the ones they make today - I've tried them, they aren't even close).

I have been able to find things I like to eat so it's not terrible. I can remember what a bologna sandwhich tastes like and find something else to eat. One peek at my ass will tell you I'm in no danger of starving.

Comments

[roadskoller.livejournal.com]

See? I'm not the only one.
I love salt.
Looooooove it. And potato chips have all cut down on the salt.
Lays used to be the last hold out on the reduced salt thing, but they're disappointing me too.
I guess my blood pressure will thank me, but I resent it.

[susandennis]

Gimme a salt lick and call me Bambi!!! I'm so with you on the salt thing.

oohhhh i had a typo and just edited this - love that new feature!!!

[roadskoller.livejournal.com]

Stan's offered to buy me a salt lick.
It was a joke of course.
Well, I hope.
How do you do the edits?

[susandennis]

clicked on 'edit' - i think the option goes away once someone comments on your comment.

[roadskoller.livejournal.com]

This is too cool. I can finally edit my deplorable typos!

[howeird]

Irony time - my hypertension medicine is working so well the doctor has told me to eat more salt so I don't faint from low blood pressure when I stand up.

[roadskoller.livejournal.com]

Oh sweetheart. Come on over and I'll turn you into a pillar of salt.

[ruralrob.livejournal.com]

Buy some Genoa Salami at a deli (its the hot spicy kind.) Ask them to slice it thin. Has to be Genoa. Make a sandwich, with a little mustard, white bread. And give your taste buds a treat . . .

[susandennis]

What a wonderful idea. There's a great place just down the street that makes it's own kind of genoa salami and I have not been there in a while... hmmmm thanks!

Phoney Baloney

[howeird]

Bologna these days has a lot less animal and a lot more vegetable - soy, corn filler, etc. To my taste buds, Loius Rich turkey bologna tastes the most like old time beef stuff. Still doesn't hold a candle.

When all the potato chip companies ditched transfats, I actually got sick from eating a bag of that sunflower crap. And Safeway has stopped carrying edible dips - the ones which come in plastic tubs and need refrigeration.

I never really loved Wonder Bread, except it was fun to play with and make little balls out of to throw at my sisters. Used to bake my own bread, and can still find good sourdough down here.

Re: Phoney Baloney

[susandennis]

YES! So the bologna thing is not me! Thank you! For the record the tasteless stuff was Oscar Meyer beef.

[vasilatos]

Oh so it's not just me. Sometimes, Susan, you just hit the nail on the head.