I agree with your first point -- when I drastically reduced my sugar consumption, it was only a few months before I felt that everything I had liked before was

I agree with your first point -- when I drastically reduced my sugar consumption, it was only a few months before I felt that everything I had liked before was horrendously over-sweetened. However, your second point is not applicable. The Amish have a culinary tradition of their own that stems from 18th C German cooking adapted to American ingredients. Because they strictly limit their exposure to technology changes, they do more manual labor than is common for their neighbors, but this isn't correlated with a lack of desire for good (tasty, appetizing, visually appealing) food. If you tour Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana, you'll discover Amish foods and handmade goods being sold everywhere.