> Compared to 50 years ago, portions are larger and, based on little more than my personal impression, stuff has gotten softer and easier to eat. The person I

> Compared to 50 years ago, portions are larger and, based on little more than my personal impression, stuff has gotten softer and easier to eat. The person I was replying to was talking about supermarket sold mass produced confections, and my response was valid, not based on personal experience and can be easily verified. For most of those things shrinkflation is the predominant force. Ice cream packaging sizes and prepackaged cookies haven’t gotten larger. And if anybody is surprised that these products are loaded with refined sugar (then as now) that’s on the public education system. The fats used have may have changed. Restaurant portion sizes and content have increased but that’s a different problem. Same as dispensed soft drinks. > gotten softer and easier to eat. What does this even mean? Hostess foods famously went out of business a few years ago. When I think “soft” and calorie dense I can’t imagine any time more representative than the 50s and 60s.