# Acquired Tastes **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 5, 2003, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acquired-tastes/205756 "2003-10-05T21:28:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Single\_Serving\_Friend](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5fc32e/32.png) [@Single\_Serving\_Friend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Single_Serving_Friend)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acquired-tastes/205756/21 "2003-10-06T18:02:15Z")
-Olives -Spinach -oysters -Coffee -Beer -Red Wine -Dry white wine -Water melon -Sake -A range of soup besides Tomato. -A multitude of french cheeses. I’m not sure if I’ve acquired them all or if I just poisoned my taste-buds with my constant smoking. Cigarettes incidentally are something I loved from the start. ---
**Author:** ![Elysian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c77e96/32.png) [@Elysian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elysian)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acquired-tastes/205756/22 "2003-10-06T18:22:45Z")
Green vegetables. I used to hate them but now I love them, especially steamed and salted. I love grilled summer squash and baked butternut squash, and I wouldn’t have touched them ten years ago. I also used to hate: Chinese food, Japanese food, Mexican food and Indian food, and now that I’ve lived in Chicago, Arizona and have many different friends from many different countries, I can safely say that I can’t live without and of them! I still haven’t cultivated a taste for beer, although Pete’s Wicked Strawberry is starting to help me with that. I live in Dayton, too. I still haven’t found a great Indian place here. The ones I have tried were way too expensive for way too little food. Guess I’ll just keep trying! ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acquired-tastes/205756/23 "2003-10-06T18:50:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Engineer Dude \* > \*\*What things did all of you dopers not like at first, but like now? > > Two things come to mind for me. Samuel Adams beer and Sushi. I usually only drink Samuel Adams around the Fourth of July. Usually the fist one tastes nasty and skunky. For some reason, by the time I reach the fourth or sixth (whether it’s all in the same day or several days later), the taste begins to grow on me and I enjoy it. With sushi, I thought it was slimy and nasty at first, but now I enjoy that cold-fish taste. \*\* I can handle Sushi. I can handle Sam Adams (its true: closer to Boston better it tastes. It was Amazing this summer in New Hampshire; Its better than average in NJ.) …But I can’t wash Sushi down with Sam Adams…not even if both are ice cold. God bless (or help) the people who can. ---
**Author:** ![WavyDavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3da27b/32.png) [@WavyDavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WavyDavy)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acquired-tastes/205756/24 "2003-10-06T19:44:54Z")
I’ll second **Isabelle**. Scotch was an aquired taste for me. Now it is nearly the only thing I drink with regard to hard liquors. Sushi, however, I liked the very first time I tried it. The same with raw oysters. Mmmmmm. Good. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acquired-tastes/205756/25 "2003-10-06T20:58:35Z")
Cunnilingus. My first partner, um, wasn’t very clean. That took some effort to get over, and to this day a whiff under the right circumstances will bring up those memories. Otherwise, though, now I can’t get enough. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Engineer\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9fc29f/32.png) [@Engineer\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Engineer_Dude)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acquired-tastes/205756/26 "2003-10-06T21:14:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by quietman1920 \* > \*\*But I can’t wash Sushi down with Sam Adams…not even if both are ice cold. God bless (or help) the people who can. \*\* I don’t actually consume the two together. I can understand, based on the way I wrote that post, how you could’ve interpreted it that way, though. > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Elysian \* > \*\* I live in Dayton, too. I still haven’t found a great Indian place here. The ones I have tried were way too expensive for way too little food. Guess I’ll just keep trying!_\* My favorites are Amar India and Ajanta India. Those both may fall under your “too expensive” catergory, though. ---
**Author:** ![Engineer\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9fc29f/32.png) [@Engineer\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Engineer_Dude)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acquired-tastes/205756/27 "2003-10-06T21:22:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by quietman1920 \* > \*\*But I can’t wash Sushi down with Sam Adams…not even if both are ice cold. God bless (or help) the people who can. \*\* I don’t actually consume the two together. I can understand, based on the way I wrote that post, how you could’ve interpreted it that way, though. > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Elysian \* > \*\* I live in Dayton, too. I still haven’t found a great Indian place here. The ones I have tried were way too expensive for way too little food. Guess I’ll just keep trying!_\* My favorites are Amar India and Ajanta India. Those both may fall under your “too expensive” catergory, though. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acquired-tastes/205756/28 "2003-10-07T00:15:41Z")
For me, it would be tomatoes and Marmite, not necessarily at the same time. And I would say beer, except that I have never acquired a taste for _bad_ beer, and the first few hundred I tried definitely fell into that category. Most of the other foods people have mentioned, I liked the first time I tried them. ---
**Author:** ![WILLASS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/54ee81/32.png) [@WILLASS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WILLASS)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acquired-tastes/205756/29 "2003-10-07T01:19:58Z")
I really hated mushrooms when I was a child until my mum made a pasta dish with wild mushrooms and mascarpone cheese, now I am hooked! Also oysters, avocados and smoking. To be honest I have always been pretty adventorous when it comes to flavours, I think it was the texture of the above that I didn’t like but I soon got used to them and enjoy all of them. I think smoking goes without saying, did anyone take a first ever drag of a cigarette into their virgin lungs and think ‘wow, this is delicious and not at all painful’? ---
**Author:** ![WILLASS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/54ee81/32.png) [@WILLASS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WILLASS)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acquired-tastes/205756/30 "2003-10-07T01:25:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fretful Porpentine \* > \*\*For me, it would be tomatoes and Marmite, not necessarily at the same time. \*\* By the way tomatoes and marmite do actually go well together, try either: tinned tomatoes cooked over a low heat to reduce the sauce (add a little salt, pepper and a small knob of butter) with a poached egg on toast with marmite spread thinly on it (or to your liking) or my personal favorite: whisk one or two eggs together and fry to create a kind of omelette, toast two bits of bread and spread one slice with butter and marmite, put tomatoe ketchup on the other and eat as a hot toasted sandwhich. enjoy! ---
**Author:** ![Gotterfunken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/58956e/32.png) [@Gotterfunken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gotterfunken)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acquired-tastes/205756/31 "2003-10-07T01:48:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sender \* > \*\*?? > > I’d look it up, honest. Just doesn’t seem like a good thing to be googling from work. \*\* You might know this drink better as the “Flaming Moe,” since Moe took all the credit for it after he stole the idea from Homer. “It’s like there’s a party in my mouth and everyone’s invited!” ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acquired-tastes/205756/32 "2003-10-07T02:41:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Single Serving Friend \* > **… > -Water melon > …** Watermelon? You had to learn to like watermelon? Olives are a good one, though. I used to just tolerate them, now I love them. I still can’t stand cilantro, though. ---
**Author:** ![fruitbat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fruitbat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fruitbat)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acquired-tastes/205756/33 "2003-10-07T02:52:33Z")
I remain the only person I know who really doesn’t care for watermelon. Strangely I love watermelon flavored candy. ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acquired-tastes/205756/34 "2003-10-07T07:28:29Z")
Onions and green peppers are about the only things I can think of that I used to despise but now love. Used to hate all mexican food, now I like mexican sea food (crab burritos especially) Still can’t tolerate sushi, beer or coffee. ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acquired-tastes/205756/35 "2003-10-07T14:09:27Z")
Licorice. Peppery stuff. Raw onion. Kalamata olives. I have un-acquired my tastes for spinach, peanut butter and fast food, and I will never like cilantro (tastes like soap), most artificial fruit flavors (grape, watermelon and green apple are the WORST), or thyme (tastes like dust.) ---
**Author:** ![Frank\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Frank\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank_2)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acquired-tastes/205756/36 "2003-10-07T17:59:53Z")
Human flesh. Once you eat an arm or two you’ll have a good grasp of the taste. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![cowgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@cowgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cowgirl)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acquired-tastes/205756/37 "2003-10-07T20:15:03Z")
Marmite. Still trying for scotch and cilantro. (Again, not at the same time. Although that couldn’t possibly make either any worse.) ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acquired-tastes/205756/38 "2003-10-07T22:18:07Z")
- Green olives - sushi - dry wine - really ripe stinkin’ cheese - durian - Moxie Some of the things many of you have on your lists (Marmite/Vegemite, scotch, eggplant…) I’ve always liked and didn’t have to acquire a taste for. Cilantro, though…still working on that one. Soapweed! Pfah! ---
**Author:** ![burundi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3ec8ea/32.png) [@burundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burundi)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acquired-tastes/205756/39 "2003-10-07T23:40:19Z")
The first few times I tried Indian food, I really disliked it. Now I’m a huge fan. Last night I made some killer eggplant bharta for dinner. Mmmm… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acquired-tastes/205756.md?page=1)