• pearsaltchocolatebar
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    2 days ago

    Your memory of what something tasted like 30 years ago probably isn’t super accurate. It’s a fact that they’ve been selectively bred over the last few decades to taste better.

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      1 day ago

      I mean wouldn’t that also apply to everyone who thinks they taste better? And why would they have only started trying to make them taste good recently?

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        If you’ve been eating broccoli throughout the whole selective breeding process, then the flavor change would have been subtle enough that you don’t realize there’s been a change at all. If you ate them side by side, the difference would be noticeable.

        It’s not too different from Jim adding nickels to Dwight’s phone, then suddenly removing them.