Back when I was a kid, their food tasted different than the last time I ate it.

They used to use animal fat to fry their french fries, then they switched to a different type of oil because of the supposed deadly trans-fats.

That whole thing was a scam so that toxic oils could be ushered in for cooking, as another way to make people sick.

All you have to do is look at people, and you can tell what/how they eat.

Same here. Their fries were better in the 60's.

Yepp, the operation paperclip included also to make war products mainstream
They did so in most of europe during ww2 and people to this day eat it