That’s pretty much the case for all American food. Tomatoes, strawberries, cucumbers, and every single fruit and vegetable I buy here pales in comparison to what I ate as a child. Once in a while I’ll get a blueberry that tastes close to the real thing and it just serves as a reminder.
It pains me very much to see unfortunately that food being grown in India is also moving very much in that American "large, beautiful, homogenous, easy to store and transport but bland and tasteless" direction. As an example, the market of guavas in Indias has completely transformed in last two-three years.
As an example, in the last few years, our markets have gotten flooded by these monster guavas.
I am sure they improve the farmers yield and profitablity, but they are about as watery and flavourless as a guava can possibly get. You literally get nothing on your nose when you take a sniff of one of these. Tragic. Heartbreaking.
It seems like this is inevitable whenever a country's people move from producing their own food or buying locally to getting their food from large supermarkets.
