Does anyone our age drink old school Taster's Choice instant coffee? I mean today
Hello, good people of Reddit Generation X. I am one of you (I guess that should be one of us, 58 this year).
I saw there are now fancy instant coffees. That made me think back to my late mother making Taster's Choice and those Folger's television advertisements from when we were young. I don't drink much coffee at all. But I got to thinking how much this has changed, and I know nobody, I mean literally not one single person, who has Taster's Choice or Folger's in their cupboard. I associate it with the generation older than us.
But there also are other things that I know I prefer the fake to the real. The easiest example to point to is maple syrup. Of course, genuine maple syrup existed when we were young. But my family didn't have that much money; I thought that stuff was for rich folks. We once took a road trip (we flew maybe never, not once that I recall, as a family with all the kids) to New England, and we went to Vermont, and I experienced maple syrup for the first time. Well, I have to confess, to the horror of those who are "foodies," I prefer "breakfast" syrup to maple syrup. It's what I grew up on. I realize it's bad for you. The transition from frozen concentrate orange juice to fresh squeezed happened, at least for me, about the time I went to college, so I do not prefer the frozen concentrate that came in those cardboard tubes, but I don't mind it at all.
I'm wondering if this just changed over time, and this product category, or this brand, became obsolete or much less significant. I know you can still buy it. But who does? Any of you drinking Taster's Choice? Or was that Baby Boomers? Do kids like it?