I’m a bit of an oddity among the people I work with and hang out with:
I don’t like sweet food. Ice cream, candy, chocolate, cake, heck I don’t even like very many kinds of fruit.
Left on my own about the only “sweet” taste in my diet would be diet soda.
What’s strange is that when I was a kid I liked candy and whatnot as much as anyone. But as soon as I hit my early 20s, it was like a switch was flipped. No desire at all for foods that taste sweet.
…which is not to say I’m a paragon of healthy eating, of course. Sure, I have no problem whatsoever in turning down the brownies somebody brought into work. But put a bowl of pretzels near me and I’m ruined.
Anyone else lose all desire for sweets when they hit adulthood?
I like some sweet things once in a while, usually premenstrually- such as chocolate, soda, lemonade, and a few other things, but for the most part I usually don’t even want things like cake, brownies, and cookies. If I, for whatever reason, do bake a cake or make brownies, I’ll usually only have one piece and satisfy that desire, then the rest will have to be thrown away several days later after it’s sat there untouched.
Same here, don’t like sweets much at all. The gift box of Christmas chocolates is still here, sans three or four. But, salty and pickled and hot stuff, rowwwrrr, all gone soon.
I never totally lost my desire for sweets but when I was in my twenties I did lose it to some degree. Then it came back in my forties. And when I quit smoking I developed the sweet tooth from Hell. And gained about 20 lbs.
I don’t think I ever really wanted sweets themselves all that much, although I liked sweet food when I was a kid. Some of those breakfast cereals I ate then make me cringe now. Now it’s still the same. I like chocolate and brownies and cake and ice cream, but by and large I’d rather just eat actual food. At dinner, for example, I’d almost always rather have another piece of chicken (or whatever) than save room for a slice of cake. But I do eat sweets on occasion.
I didn’t even like sweets all that much when I was a kid. Candy was a big “meh” for me, and I absolutely hated cake (still do). About the only thing I really liked was pie as a kid. For my birthdays as a child my mom would make me either an apple or cherry pie. She would also make a cake for my friends that came to parties but I never ate it.
Once in a great while I’ll have some ice cream or soda now, but never crave it. When I want a sweet I usually have fruit, not because I eat healthy but because fruit has a bit of tart to offset the sweet. Put a bowl of potato chips or pretzels in front of me and I’m all over that like a cheap suit! Nummy!
Yes! Not as intensely as Gamehat - I still like a good dessert, occasionally (though only if I have strong bitter coffee to consume at the same time to cut the sweetness - I won’t even touch dessert if there is no black coffee to wash it down with).
Candy, even chocolate, and fruit … blehh! Given a choice between a banana and broccoli, I’ll take the broccoli any day.
Yeah, me too. I used to love sweets, then as an adult, sometime in my 20’s, I… well, I can’t say I disliked sweets, but I was seldom in the mood for them. I’d eat cherry pie or ice cream once or twice a year, that was about it.
Much later, I got major anxiety, took psychiatry meds, and suddenly felt a huge pull to pig out on chocolate and cookies. Go figure. I guess your brain chemistry does have huge effects on appetite, including what kind of appetite you have.
Not all desire, but yeah sometime around college I stopped having as much of a desire for sweets and started finding most sweet things to be a bit too rich for my tastes. I theorized that since I was an adult and could now eat anything I wanted, I had a period of eating a lot of crap and then lost my taste for it (as well as the sense of it being a rare forbidden thing lol). And maybe commercial products are more sugary then they used to be (or maybe HFCS just tastes sweeter). I also used to put salt on everything and then lost the desire for that. In the last two years though I’ve developed a taste for honey in my tea, and lemon pepper on my food.
Weighing in for the opposite camp - I’ve always had a sweet tooth and it shows no sign of disappearing as an adult. All these people saying they don’t like cake are making me question their sanity!
I did not. I have always had a sweet tooth. I’m well known for a love for beer, but when I go on a diet, giving up sweets is *way *harder than giving up beer. I actually dream about sweets when I give them up.
I’m an opposite, as well…I wasn’t big on desserts (or food in general) when I was young. Now, I really wish I could have that back, because I love everything, plus beer, and I really don’t want to be fat as a dog tick, so I have to be more ::shudder:: disciplined now.
At a friend’s wedding recently, I sat with an untouched chocolate mousse cake in front of me for nearly 20 minutes because I was waiting for the coffee to come out. Somehow, I just couldn’t handle the thought of consuming a sickly sweet cake without some black coffee to wash it down.
Five years ago, that cake wouldn’t have stood a chance. I would’ve whomped it down in 30 seconds flat, and then asked around for seconds when the coffee came out.
I love sweets. Cookie Monster is afraid of the amount of sugar I could gladly consume in a sitting. Self discipline is the only reason I am not 600 lbs right now.
I’m a very fat guy, and sweets just are not my thing. Sure, I like sweet stuff just fine, but I will almost always take the salty, fatty snack before the sweet one. And people can’t fathom why I dislike Ice cream - just don’t like it…
I can’t stomach really sweet things anymore–juice, candy bars, cotton candy (not that I’m eating a lot of that). I find myself more interested in salty/sharp (not quite sour, but with a bite). I still hate hot and most likely always will (I don’t eat peppers–you may have them all).
Luckily for me, there are lots of chocolate things out there that aren’t too sweet…
I continued to like sweet stuff just fine. What happened though, was that when I became an adult, I simply learned to like other stuff just as much or better.
When I was five, I liked ice cream. Now, I still like ice cream, but I also like things like hot peppers or whiskey.
One caveat though - sweet things MUST be in the appropriate dishes for me as an adult. So sweet cakes and desserts are fine, but the other day I bought some canned tomato soup for the first time in about twenty years. I was looking forward to eating it, but it tasted like somebody had poured a cup of sugar into it. Blech. I’m also turned off some Asian food which mixes sweet and savoury tastes together (eg. mooncake). I like a clear demarcation.