They mailed the snacks in two regular boxes, inside a inverted box of the same thing. This was my childhood snack growing up, and I wanted to know if they still taste good.
Spoilers: meh. It was better when I was a kid.
Preemptive hail corporate - I wish I was getting paid to eat garbage.
My personal theory is that it’s a combination of both of those, with changing recipes and all that, + the way our tastebuds and brains experience the taste of things change throughout our lives for the non-sugary tastes, too, + changing preferences, + time and nostalgia affecting our memories of it.
I’ve thought about this a lot, lol