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[–] 9 points 1 month ago (1 child)

And one component of taste is the dopamine release from eating the food and all of the negative associations with snack foods combined with a mature and adult brain means that you can't enjoy it as much as a kid who just wants to taste something sweet.

You're literally psychologically conditioned to not enjoy them as much and to release less dopamine when you eat them now.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago*

    True. Its both. But I have a ton of positive associations with those snacks which make their change suck harder.

    I mean I can link 6 different Little Debbie treats to unique family members and childhood events.

    It's hard to taste a memory, harder still when the company changed the recipe.

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