Another equally plausible reason for the apparent decline in the quality of your condiments is jaded taste buds (or faulty memories of "how good it used to be"). Kick it up a notch with some horseradish. Do you have a cold? Most of taste is actually smell. (Something else the horseradish will cure!  ) Lots of supporting characters in your cast of reasons.
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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