A matter of taste
Nov. 8th, 2007 02:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisFor 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.
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.
