Taste is learnt. Some people consider junk food to taste good only because they’ve been conditioned to eat it when they were growing up. If junk food was not a

Taste is learnt. Some people consider junk food to taste good only because they’ve been conditioned to eat it when they were growing up. If junk food was not a regular thing in your life, I doubt you’d consider it particularly tasty. Due to health issues when I was a child I couldn’t eat a lot of things at all growing up which for others were just not that healthy. I always ate at home. As a result I don’t consider junk food particularly tasty. Quite the opposite, home-cooked meals made out of raw ingredients are the most delicious thing I can think of. I also have a group of friends a bit older than me who grew up before McDonalds and KFC entered my country. For them too stuff sold by those places isn’t particularly pleasurable to eat. On the other hand I saw plenty of families who these days go to McDonalds every Saturday/Sunday, where the children are conditioned to expect regular visits to those places and will make a huge drama if it doesn’t happen. If you’re in US, from what I’ve heard even normal food in supermarkets is already more processed and the fresh stuff may somehow even be more expensive, so that’s a whole other can of worms.