Tasteless food

[sahgwa]

Here in Mexico there’s a vegetable market just down the street, and across from that is a butcher shop. Everything is fresh, and it tastes like it should. I’ll be 60 this year and have noticed that the taste buds don’t seem to work as well as they did.

Lots of Roma tomatoes, but tasty beefsteak ones are harder to find. The beef and pork are fantastic! The chicken is great, but because everything is fed corn it looks yellow and that’s a bit of a turn off for me.

Still though, back in Canada this time of year produce is terrible so I’m thankful to be able to eat well when I’m here.

Of course, I smoke and drink beer so that probably doesn’t help the old taste buds at all either.

Tecate

eta, I miss real cheddar cheese. The stuff here is mild, or comes from the states and just isn’t right….

Can you get Kerrygold cheddar from Ireland, where you live? 
Its the best I have found easily in the States, but I know you are in Mexico. If I recall.

[Byrd]

hello there is food that is tasteless that didn't use to be!

it used to have zing and aftertaste and be satisfying in way that is not any more

now why is this

well here is expanations theories any why you share your opinion:

- it is the covid it did something
- it is frankenfood and capitalisms
- we mandela effect jumped to other timeline with bland food
- it is drugs they put in to make unsaisfy and eat more so fat and sell drugs
- it is simulation like in matrix they couldn't make chicken

now perhaps the covid no taste thing is coverup for something else! oh it could also be some kind of warfare?

what, do you think and your experience?

also there is company sysco that has all restraunt food supply has anyone looked in to them

Late to the party, but (in case it hasn't been suggested yet) other factors includ

* age
* habituation to ingredients (you become "used" to the flavors)
* they changed their recipe 
* ingredients are the same but the source is different (like bananas... they look the same but because of a sweeping pandemic of disease the ones we eat now are not the ones eaten by folks in the 1950's and they taste just a bit different.)
* different cooking techniques (green peas taste VERY different depending on how long and how they're cooked)
* different machine (at home, you bought a new oven and it heats differently than the old one did (slight changes in temperature) or someone used an air fryer or pressure cooker, etc)
* allergies
* medication
* certain types of disease or disabilities


However, as some have said, it's a known result of Covid and long Covid

[Tecate]

I haven’t seen Kerrygold Cheddar here in Mexico, but I can probably find it in Canada when I head back.

We went to a specialty deli and found some decent cheddar but wow! Expensive…

I think $80 Canadian for 3 small blocks. A box of Triscuit crackers was like $18. Crazy, but the place was packed with shoppers.


Tecate