I don't feel so violently on one side of this or another, but I agree with the spirit of your comment as a child of the 80s.

I think I ate white bread or something very similar to it almost every day for lunch (in school). Cold cuts too. A shit-ton of pasta, but I'm my family is Italian, so that was a given no matter what. Tons of granola bars. Basically every processed baked packaged thing you can imagine.

Your point about sauce hits home too. Sauce purists may disagree but I despise ANY sweetness in your basic red sauce.