An interesting post, @slowwalker, concerning childhood reminiscences.

The great British poet, Wordsworth, believed childhood perceptions were more pure than adult experience.

I constantly go back and compare and I agree - the tastes of our childhood were much more dramatic - our sensations clearer and more defined.

I recall eating halibut fish as a child - it too was relatively inexpensive then, but now it's very expensive and almost a delicacy here, in Toronto.

Does it taste the same? By no means - it has a distinctly fishy taste, not at all like the halibut of my childhood.

But there's another consideration - we are polluting our oceans - perhaps that is a factor.

Thanks for prompting some pleasant recollections, my friend :)