Something to keep in mind is that industrial food usually has a lot of sugar and other additivies added to make it taste as good as possible. . Companies literally spend billions of dollars figuring this stuff out, of course the home made meal can't compete.
He though industrial food was awesome as soon as he was exposed to it.
(Obviously bad sample size)
I think it is something about the perfect homogeneous product they like. Or how the taste even out between different ingredients on the shelf.