• agent_flounder@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Try eating it for a few months and I bet you will see that people acclimate. Just like if you cut out salt suddenly processed shit tasted way too salty. Hell, I just had a peanut butter cup, first candy in weeks and it was like hyper sugar. Yuck.

    A buddy of mine spends time in an easy Asian country where even desert is barely sweet and he noticed the same coming back to the states.

    See, food companies figured out they could make more money selling food with cheap HFCS because it “tastes better”. It’s cheaper than sugar because we grow boat tons of corn + govt subsidies. It isn’t banned because corruption and regulatory capture that is ubiquitous in the US.

    Lucky us.