I still remember when cereal companies, fed up with complaints, removed the laboratory dyes from their food. Then social media and the press went all-in on talking about how shitty the cereals looked and tasted.

I cannot be convinced it was not a deliberate move of malicious compliance to buy a few more decades of chemistry-set food: deliberately ruin your own product and pretend it's because you removed the artificial stuff.

I still remember when cereal companies, fed up with complaints, removed the laboratory dyes from their food. Then social media and the press went all-in on talking about how shitty the cereals looked and tasted.

I cannot be convinced it was a deliberate move of malicious compliance to buy a few more decades of chemistry-set food: deliberately ruin your own product and pretend it's because you removed the artificial stuff.