The "glop", as you put it, is also food. It has the same nutritive components and addresses the same hunger signals and fuels the body's same energy-production requirements. You just don't like it.

See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_consensus_effect

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_projection

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemophobia