Pickled beets. I used to adore them, but somewhere along the line I just burned out. Now I can’t stand them. But I’ve grown to like so many foods I once disliked over the years it makes up for it.
Right there with you, bub.
Also, just about any type of mass market candy – Hershey’s/Nestles. Used to love Reese’s peanut butter cups. Now, the Halloween candy that I can’t give away to the unsuspecting goes right into the trash. Well…technically, it sits in the bowl until I have to empty it out for next Halloween, but it doesn’t get touched. Same thing with Duncan donuts – in grad school, I’d always be happy to scarf up two or three on Coffee Mondays, but now, it’s strictly a “well, I’m on the road and I need something” sort of food. “Hate” is a strong word, but I’m definitely “meh” on the donuts. “MMMMMMeh, donuts…”
When I was a young’un, I used to drink tomato juice all the time. Then my mother served a tomato aspic with dinner. It had green pepper in it. I cannot stand green (and only green) pepper, so the aspic just dumped me off the tomato juice wagon.
And a particular widespread national sandwich chain was our ultimate fallback while traveling. It was rather good eating, but when we got home, it just fell off the radar. Now I have no desire to go to one of those.
PB&J. Ate far too many in brown bagged lunches as a kid. Can’t stand them now. Won’t eat grape jelly at all. Will make toast in the morning and have peanut butter on one slice and peach or strawberry or cherry, etc., jelly/jam on the other. BUT THEY CANNOT TOUCH!
I used to love Campbell’s tomato soup, but it eventually started giving me heartburn so I had to give it up. Then I tried some homemade tomato soup made from fresh tomatoes, chicken broth, garlic and cream. Yum! It doesn’t bother my stomach and tastes far better than Campbell’s.
I’m 56 years old and have eaten Cap’n Crunch all my life. I have no idea where this notion that it “cuts the roof of your mouth” came from. It doesn’t, and it never has. If it did, no one would buy it and it would have been discontinued decades ago.
I never even heard of the idea until I was in college, and then only from people who admittedly refused to even try it because they heard “somewhere” that it cuts the roof of your mouth.
Bar-B-Que. Uggh. Everything has red stains on it and stinks like smoke. It’s a lot of eating for not much real gain. I just don’t get it.
Pass.
Exactly this for me, too.
I’m 59 and began eating it when it was introduced in 1963 and I well remember the sharp edges of the cereal even back then. My peers considered milk necessary to protect one’s mouth, and minimize the occasional pokey pain, but I was hardcore even then and ate it out of the box as a snack, dry.
Peanut butter. A staple of my youth, including eating from a spoon directly from the jar. Still occasionally OK on rye toast, but I don’t go out of my way to eat it. Also - steak and red meat in general.
Congrats on your roof callouses, then!
Did you forget a word? Rolls? Buns? Muffins?
No, it is pretty abrasive stuff. My method of eating cereal – milk’s getting low, better add some … cereal’s running out, better add some … milk’s – ah fuck, damn carton has 3 drops left in it – made the problem worse.
Of course, I have moved away from actual milk. The store I go to has dozens of alternatives that do not leave your mouth gunky in the summertime, though I stay away from the elf come.
As a kid, I absolutely loved rice and cheese. Then one day I was sick and threw it up, and that was the end of that.
Well, the proof (or in this case the disproof) of the pudding is in the eating, and 50+ years of eating it both dry and with milk (and it’s still my favorite sweet cereal) tells me otherwise. Nor have my siblings, their children, my daughters, my wife, her siblings, or their children had any trouble with it either.
Another former lover of Cap’n “cuts the roof of your mouth up” Crunch. Not that that’s why I stopped eating it. I’d probably still find it yummy but I don’t have room in my diet for a gajillion empty calories.
Wow, Doug K., you actually did a study on the effects of Cap’ Crunch on the mouths of your extended family?
Has anyone actually done a study? I’m talking about 50+ years of personal experience, plus the experiences of everyone I know. My daughters, now 17 and 20, have absolutely ZERO tolerance for pain. If Cap’n Crunch so much as made a slight prickling sensation in their mouths they wouldn’t eat it But they do.
But beyond that, if it really cut the roofs of the mouths of children, it would have been removed from the market decades ago.
Cream of tomato soup now tastes WAY too sweet (and I still love my sweets). Did the recipes suddenly get very, very sweet?
Do you think they’re lying to you for… what reason now? :dubious:
Lychee fruit.
LOVED it and would wait for it to appear at the store. Then one day I had a Lychee flavored bubble tea and got sick.
Now I can’t even stand the smell of it. 