I’ve got a pretty severe sensitivity to – of all things – sugar. (I know, “sugar” isn’t very precise, but I’m pretty sure it’s either glucose, fructose, or sucrose.) I virtually never eat anything with added sugar or anything with any significant amount of natural sugar. And I’ve eaten that way for like 20 years now. I’m practically blind to half the produce department (any “sweet” fruits like apples, pears, cherries, grapes, oranges, etc) at the grocery store, let alone the candy isle.
Meat clearly isn’t gonna be a unique answer here, but it does have a weird effect on what it feels like to travel to different countries when your diet doesn’t revolve around animals.
Where other people see tons of street food and opportunities for interacting with a culture, some places mostly just feel empty.
Not meaning it in a judging way, but there are tons of places where I don’t really feel welcome.
Also how is your butthole doing, bro?
Beer. Since I stopped drinking it I have lost so much weight and feel so much healthier.
McDonald’s
I don’t know if the recipe/ingredients changed, or I just started eating healthier, but I can’t even have a cheeseburger from there without my body rejecting it.
Whataburger is still good though, love me a chicken bbq sammach with bacon, pickles and toast bun.
Came here wondering if anyone said mcds. Everything about that place has gotten worse over the last 5 years or so. It wasn’t that great to begin with. The only redeeming factor was that it was cheaper than many places, but now it’s garbage and expensive.
I haven’t considered mcds since the covid shut down, and even then I’d been off it for years.
I can eat a lot of weird foods, but McDonald’s food just falls into the uncanny valley for me. It’s like something an AI would synthesize from raw chemicals.
I distinctly remember McDonald’s being more than a rough approximation of food at one point. I don’t know when that changed.
I do too. It was never my favorite fast food, but it used to be ok.
I know they strive for uniformity, so I don’t know if they just cranked up the food science too hard or what.
Things are supposed to taste a little different, which is why people love different foods. Columbian coffee, San Marzano tomatoes, single malt Scotch, different grapes in wine, etc. It’s what makes eating an experience instead of some kind of chore.
Chef boyardee. I served some to my kid and took a bite cause I hadn’t had it in decades. That shit is vile. Was it always that bad and we didn’t notice as kids, or did they change it up and it’s awful now?
Meat, 18 years.