My Kids Are Going Trick-Or-Treating. But They’re Not Eating The Candy.

If you went trick-or-treating back in the 1990s and early 2000s, you may have noticed something: The candy tasted better back then. You aren’t imagining it. It’s not the rose-tinted glasses of nostalgia playing tricks on you. It’s not the fact that your taste buds have “evolved.” The candy today truly does taste like hot garbage. And that’s because it is.

Take Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, for example. Despite claims that its “classic recipe” hasn’t changed, it has. Anyone who’s eaten them over the past two to three decades could tell you that by taste alone. But we have proof.