I was having an argument with my friend’s girlfriend the other day. We were at a restaurant and they ordered some crab legs. They offered me some and I declined. I stated that I no longer like crab legs. She recalled that I ate a very large amount of them last year at a buffet. I told her that I loved crab legs back then, but now I can’t stand them. Also, for years lobster was my favorite non-pizza food. Now I really don’t like it any more. She thought I was crazy. She said that adults don’t stop liking certain foods all of a sudden. I said that they obviously do, since I did. She thought maybe it was something to do with seafood. I agreed. Now I realize that there are all sorts of foods that I used to like that I don’t. Black olives, capers, blueberries and coconut are a few examples. Additionally, I recently noticed that I love strawberries, cottage cheese and yogurt. I detested these foods not too long ago.
Is this common, or am I really crazy? Or both, I suppose.
Hmm, I thought most people got more adventurous with age. From a culinary perspective that is. Really spicy food bothers me a bit more in the aftermath than it used to, but I haven’t stopped eating anything in well, as long as I can possibly remember. Head cheese and tripe are the only 2 things that come to mind that I won’t eat, at least not unless it was a life or death situation.
Did you happen to quit smoking? When my father quit smoking (2-4 packs a day for…a really long time) he found (over the next few months/years) that foods that he used to be able to eat, like green olives, he now didn’t like. He attributes it to probably just not being able to taste these foods as well while smoking and now that he can taste things better, he doesn’t like them.
Maybe relatedly, I heard an interesting piece on NPR the other day, where the interviewee headed up a group studying super-tasters and other things related to taste. They’d learned a number of unexpected things.
a) Most people will say their ability to taste has never been damaged. Most of those people’s ability has been damaged to some extent. Damaged ability to taste leads to altered food preferences – mainly manifesting in an increased appreciation for fatty foods.
b) People who suffer ear infections (especially multiple) almost always lose tasting ability. The nerve that supplies taste information to the brain runs through the Eustachian tube in the inner ear. Infections damage that nerve, and voila – taste is lost (this seemed to mainly impact the ability to taste bitterness).
Cool stuff (but I am not having luck finding the piece online).
Leftover pizza. I used to eat it with some regularity but over the last couple years I’ve gotten to where I can’t stand it. The flavor and texture makes me nauseous.
Sure, I stop liking things. On the whole, I’m probably more adventurous than I was as a kid, but that doesn’t mean I can’t stop liking particular items. For me, it’s often just that I’ve eaten something too often and have gotten tired of it. I recently went off ravioli–I’ll still cook it for my family, and eat something else myself, which works out fine because then they can eat as much as they like–a package of ravioli will really only feed them anyway and not me too.
I get tired of certain foods that I used to adore, if I eat too much of it. Ranch dressing used to be my “secret ingredient” in many recipes. Now I taste it automatically, and I’m tired of it. The smell of ranch makes me wrinkle my nose. I realise as I’m typing this I have a look of disgust on my face. Blech.
I was violently ill this past Saturday night after having margherita pizza and a couple of pints at a local pizzeria. It was delicious, and just the kind of thing I’ve been craving all week (I’d even made one homemade last week, and mentioned I was craving it in the MPSIMS thread about food cravings)… I’m not so fond of it at the moment. And though my illness wasn’t alcohol-induced, I’m not particularly craving beer of any kind at the moment. Ergh.
Sometimes I love hot dogs and could eat tonnes of them. Other times I take a bite and suddenly lose my appetite.
I think it’s normal and just depends on the circumstance: you might be bored with a food, you might have had an unappetising experience with something (a sour strawberry will put me off of them for a while, even though normally I love them), if you’re not in optimal health, things may taste differently, or any number of circumstances can put you off. Or hell, you just might not be in the mood for a particular food for a long time. We’re not robots. Or if we are, we’re pretty persnicketedly wired.
I used to have a colossal sweet tooth, but I’ve found that it’s gone away with age. Chocolate no longer has the same appeal, and I prefer desserts that are not quite so shockingly sweet. I also find that sweetness in savory things like spaghetti sauce really bothers me where it didn’t use to. I also enjoy the taste of bitter things more.
My tastes have changed. And I think it would have happened within a year. It’s kind of an all-or-nothing thing, not a fading taste.
Nacho cheese used to be fine, but now it makes me gag. I still like most other cheese, and Mexican food besides that.
And I have a very strong reaction to Romano cheese that never bothered me before.
On the other hand, walnuts used to upset me and they are now not a problem.
I used to like sundried tomatoes… and then I had a pizza with too many of them, and it apparently exceeded my lifetime capacity. Now I don’t like them at all.
While I have sworn off carbonated drinks for the most part (an occ. root beer is it),
I have grown to loathe both Sprite and 7-Up-both are much too horribly sweet to my
taste buds now, while in my youth that’s all I drank.
You can get a conditioned aversion to a food at pretty much any age. If you get sick shortly after eating a particular food (whether or not that food caused you to get sick), you can end up with an aversion to that food.
For example, I loved cheesesteak sandwiches until about my third year of college. Then, I ate one and got violently sick afterward (I think from it, but I don’t actually know). For about six months after that, I couldn’t even stand to sit at a table with someone who was eating one- the smell would make me nauseous. I never ate one again after that, right up until I started keeping kosher. In fact, if you offered me a veggie-cheesesteak sandwich or a cheesesteak sandwich with kosher meat and parve soy cheese now (so that it was OK with the kosher laws), I’d probably say no thanks.
I abruptly lost my taste for deep dish pizza a while back. I used to love the stuff, but now it’s just…meh. It’s not repulsive, and I’ll eat it if I’m with a group that prefers it. I just won’t make or buy it for myself. I still like thin-crust pizza, though.
I don’t recall any bad experiences associated with deep dish pizza or anything, I just noticed that I wasn’t enjoying it any more.
I went off salads sometime this year. I was never nuts about them, I mostly just chawed 'em down in the name of good nutrition unless they were unusually fresh and contained yummies like bacon, blue cheese, shrimp, etc… Now I won’t even look at those that aren’t/don’t.
A few years ago, when I was on an extremely low-carb diet, I had salmon 3-4 times a week. It was one of my favorite foods, and I couldn’t have enough of it. One day, last year, I prepared my usual salmon, sat down to eat it, and was instantaneously repulsed by it. Since then, I’ve tried all sorts of salmon recipes, to no avail. I can’t even stand the smell of it. For some reason it smells like ammonia now, but never did before.
All of a sudden i hate most the foods i used to love…pop. Tea coffee. Meats most foods…i lost a bunch of weight last year 25 lbs from this…and had a pain in stomach they ran three test daid there was nothing more they could check …has this happened to anyone else…also not sure if it means anything but last may 23 i was bitten by a tick
