I know what you mean, sometimes you really can't go back. I gotta say, Spaghetti-O's aren't nearly as flavorful as I remember them being. Actually, unless they changed the recipe, they're blander then dry cat food.
Its kind of disturbing to know that your taste buds have measurably changed so much over such a relatively short time in your life. If these are crap now, will I be able to enjoy the things I do today 15 years from now? Am I gonna spend the middle aged years of my life and beyond eating tasteless mush because now everything is tasteless mush to me? And I don't even smoke or drink, how the hell did my taste buds all die?
I guess I'll end up as one of those dudes who keeps trying out progressively hotter and spicier foods and sauces, just to feel anything anymore. Much like how heroin addicts absorb a surprising amount of smack within a day as their body has built a tolerance to it.
Someday that will be me, the guy who OD'ed on habernero peppers.