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But your homemade meals don’t have to resemble a frozen TV dinner, with its segmented tray of meat, an amorphous sauce, a scoop of peas or rice and a mysterious, saccharine lump of... jello?

“I always describe the bags as being like beautiful white jawbreakers with saccharine colors all over them,” says Liana Satenstein, 35, a writer who focuses on the vintage market.

From villains to prey, tragic backstories are mandatory — and what once felt like sweet empathy now smacks of artificial saccharine.

But even that easy target could be dull and saccharine, bringing us back to the docuseries’ greatest triumph.

Much of the company’s allure is that it managed to transform a humble dessert into a saccharine spectacle.