Have you ever unacquired a taste?

In My Humble Opinion
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FWIW, I just realized that I left tuna off my “seafood that I like” list. My scallops-making grandma died 6 years ago: since then, the only seafood I eat is tuna (quite a bit, really) and New England clam chowder.

I’ll keep that in mind. :wink: I’ve also been told that I should give lobster a chance someday.

I keep hoping that will happen to me! I love most tomato products – even chunks of stewed tomatoes are OK – but cannot stand raw tomatoes. To the point where if enough of the juice has gotten on the bread of my sandwich (because my “no tomato” request went unheeded) I usually have to ask for a whole new one instead of just picking the tomatoes off. Something about that taste just makes me quite ill, and I’ve been this way for as long as I can remember. :frowning:

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I used to be a big fan of Babybel cheese before I had to make a car out of food for my AP Physics class. I decided to make my car out of cheese (I’ve blocked the exact kind from my mind) with wheels of Babybel cheese. Several hours of squishing and molding cheese later, I couldn’t stand the stuff. It took me about a year before I could eat plain cheese of any kind, and I still can’t stand Babybel.

And the car sucked, too.

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Hard Booze.

Got sick on it once, when I was a kid and can’t hardly touch it now.

Wish the same woulda happend with Beer. :frowning:

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Ranch dressing. Used to use it in everything; now I can barely stand the smell of it. Overused.

Fresh blueberries. I used to love 'em. I can still eat (and love) blueberry muffins or cake, or other blueberry flavoured confections… but just a handful of fresh blueberries? No more. I was raised in blueberry land, and as a child, adored the native berries, which I could pick by the bushelful in my own backyard. Big, juicy, plump, and real, true blue, unless you held them too long. Then our neighbour started up a blueberry packing plant on the land he bought behind our house. Naturally, my first job was there.

When you come home each evening with your arms stained purplish-blue-black up to the elbows from picking out bad berries all day, with the smell of forklift fumes mingled with the cloying scent of blueberry… you just lose your appetite for them.

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Veal. I used to love veal with a passion, but gradually it just became meh to me. Now it’s lost to me altogether. We had some good times, we both got what we wanted, and now it’s hasta la vista, veal baby…
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bananas

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As a real little kid I apparently had a taste for earthworms. That certainly didn’t continue. :slight_smile:

I loved squirt in college, but can’t stand it now.

I also a couple months ago lost the taste for Pancetta. I had always liked it, and got a couple slices for cheese and cracker day. on the second slice all the sudden I didn’t like it. It didn’t taste wrong or different than before, it just all the sudden wasn’t a good taste. Thinking about it now it doesn’t sound good either, but I wondering if someday I’ll like it again.

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Last summer I did my annual-injure-my-lower-back fest. Usually I lie flat for three days and take aspirin and am miraculously healed, but last summer’s injury was really bad and I ended up on Prednisone (a steroid) for a few weeks.

Prior to this I was a Diet Coke junkie for 20 years(? I started drinking it whatever year it came out – 1980s?). After the first dose of Prednisone I couldn’t abide the taste and still can’t. It now tastes like I imagine embalming fluid laced with molasses might. Weird . . .

I also have an amusing story about Nyquil and throwing up on the dishes in the drainer, buy Nyquil probably doesn’t come under the acquired taste category.

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I totally forgot about coke (coca-cola).

I loved it as a kid but can’t stand it now. Actually, the only sodas I’ll drink anymore are rootbeer and Sprite.

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Milk, I used to love milk, probably averaged a quart a day. About 10 years ago I was having lots of indigestion problems, figured out it was the milk. I gradually quit, now I neever drink it. I still eat cheese and cottage cheese, but no milk.

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Since I’ve discovered Real Maple Syrup, I can’t go back. So I would say my taste actually changed on that one.

Gin. After drinking about half a bottle on an empty stomach, and the hilarity that ensued, I can’t stand even the smell.

Chili, since I got sick on it.

Childhood candy, particularly hard candy and pure sugar ones. I prefer my sugar wrapped up in a bow with plenty of fat and cakey goodness.

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Yep, me too.

I used to like oysters a lot, and now I avoid them. I think you can guess why.

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I’ve gone off Ramen two different times - once when I was a kid because it was one of the few things I could cook myself without burning the house down. Didn’t eat it for probably 6 years. Then freshman year of college came along, and I’m off it again as a sophomore. It’s too bad, that stuff is 10 packages for a buck…

I also have no taste for sour candy. When I was a kid I’d down tons of sour things, but now I can barely stand it.

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Mushrooms. As a kid, I used to love them in all forms and dishes - raw, sauteed, fried, stuffed & baked, etc. Now, I can’t stand the nasty little fungus. And I can’t just pick them out of something - they leave a slimy taste trail like a snail or something. Blech.

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Beef pot pies.

While eating one one day, I felt sick of it (though not actually sick) midway through it, and I haven’t had one since.