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Great video and very interesting! Unfortunately, as someone with a major sweet tooth that loves all kind of candy/chocolate (and even really likes almonds), I never liked marzipan, and I've tried lots of different brands/quality. Just generally a really unpleasant flavor to me and usually sickly sweet.

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As a kid I just couldn't appreciate adult tastes for dessert.

I just couldn't understand why adults would eat something like marzipan, a butter cookie, or fruit cake.

I mean why choose those over chocolate or a reeses cup or a creme filled donut?

(I also didn't understand why old people would play golf when they could ride bikes)

Your kid self isn't really wrong. However, your kid self is comparing the "mass market" versions of things while your adult self understands that "mass market" kind of sucks.

Mass market "fruit cake" is terrible. A "proper fruit cake" has a ludicrous amount of alcohol in it and is quite a different beast. I suspect I've never had "genuine" marzipan. And a chocolate peanut butter cup or creme filled donut made by hand at your local store is very different from anything "mass market".

However, I will also say that kid you is remembering a different food as well. Reeses cups have gotten terrible--the chocolate and peanut butter have gotten nasty. Similarly for creme filled donuts, I'm pretty sure that they don't even wave a dairy product over those anymore at Dunkin Donuts.

There is also a significant biological difference. Children basically have an unlimited preference for sweetness, while as we age adults' flavor preferences change and we get turned off by things that are too sweet.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2011/09/26/140753048/ki...

Totally agree with your stance on Reeses. I learned how to make my own cups after seeing a video from Bon Appétit on YouTube. I think it's definitely worth the trouble if you're a big fan of peanut butter cups.

Thanks for reminding me about that channel... Was thinking about it, but has forgotten it.

> (I also didn't understand why old people would play golf when they could ride bikes)

That's it, I'll never become an adult.

You're not wrong. Marzipan is one of the most disgusting things known to man.

And before people say it's to do with complex/adult tastes, there are lots of those that I really love: black coffee (especially espresso), gin, marmite (a powerful salty/umami flavour) etc. Marzipan is just nasty.

Must be great to have objectively correct tastes

Of course my tastes are objectively correct 8^). The above is an opinion though.

Marzipan is objectively gross though.

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