And there I think you have it. I discovered as a parent the homogeneity is the key to "kid food", chicken breast being an excellent example. I remembered preferring Campbell's chicken soup, with its uniform little white cubes of chicken and homogenized fat to the version that my mother, where the chicken was raggedy looking and the fat floated unevenly.
I absolutely hate Campbell's chicken soup, but I think it has more to do with the high salt content, and the fact that it was what I was given by my mom to me when I was sick with the flu.
My wife's chicken soup, with dumplings, though? I'll have a couple servings of it no problem!