Macaroni with butter and salt. I can eat a huge bowl of it.
Peanut butter and mayo sandwiches.
Target shooting, although I haven’t done it in. . .decades.
Peanut butter & jelly (jam) sandwiches. Chocolate cake. The Three Stooges. Dogs. Riding a bicycle. Long car rides.
Is still like many things from my early teen years onward, so I’ll just list those things I liked before age 10 till now.
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Chocolate malted milk
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Hot tea
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Hot dogs
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Pizza
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Wagon wheel pasta with salt & butter
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Liverwurst Sandwiches
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Liver & onions
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The Beatles
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Fishing
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The Andy Griffith Show
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The Dick Van Dyke Show
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The Three Stooges
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Dr. Strangelove (still my favorite dark comedy)
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Porn
Bonsai tree, I had a fascination with it as a child and I find it even more fascinating today. I say bonsai because it most closely describes what I like but in truth I just enjoy growing trees in small bonsai style pots and go free style with the design. I don’t care if I spend 20 years working on a plant completion doesn’t even cross my mind, I do like to let them fill out once a year sometimes 2 years straight before I see something new in them and change directions with it. I do some wiring but prefer to use light and gravity, and drought and fire to give them character, I sometimes have used compressed air to mimic storms. Anything I can think of, I see them as toys while at the same time feeling a little guilty because they are living things. I try to cram 200 years of real life into maybe 20 years. Very few of them have died. Just a great hobby.
Finally, a thread about appreciation and not frustration! Good on you, Cheesesteak.
Just about everything, really. I’ve found new things I love, and I don’t do all the things I used to, but I’m still fond of them (fatty foods, etc.) My political/social views haven’t changed, either, and it’s not immaturity or ignorance. I’m not trying to brag, but I spotted quality and understood things correctly early on, and I’ll be damned if I’m going to give up something that gives me pleasure and isn’t hurting others or myself.
Of course, I’ve grown out of some habits and worn certain favorites thin, but that’s another matter. Isn’t it?
I just played Monkey Island 6 and it was very fun, reminded me of the games I grew up with.
Boobies.
(pardon my snip Puzzlegal)
I have a partial match, in that I still love to read, but I found I almost never read a new series, or books by new authors anymore. It’s not like @doreen who had tastes change, it was that I was having a hard time getting emotionally invested in a whole new set of characters or clever world building that ate up the first book of a series, and then … nothing. For years, or over a -decade- (looking at YOU Rothfuss!).
So I’ll happily read fluff stuff, or re-read series with worlds or characters I love, but otherwise… yeah.
Okay, back to the OP
Fiction - still love Science Fiction, Fantasy (especially dark), and blends.
Food - sadly still love eating until I’m stuffed rather than until I stop being actively hungry. I still also love Parm Goldfish Crackers, even if they’re nutritionally void carb bombs. And even if I can make empirically better food across the board, sometimes I just want a cheap fast food cheeseburger dammit!
Video games - OMFG, if my steam collection keeps growing, I don’t know what I’ll do. With adulting, I never get to play as much as I like, but there’s always something new or old to play or replay. I don’t miss the specific games of my youth, but the rush of leveling and ROFL-stomping the early stuff with high level and high level gear still gives me a grin every time.
Cars and car-spotting. Running - we used to stage races in the back yard and I started running track in junior high; 50 years later, still running. Reading - I was just thinking about how my to-read pile is as big as ever. Food-wise, I think my only holdover has been the ice cream “drumstick” - I’m rarely without a variety pack in the freezer.
Hmmm. How long have you been a mod here? Maybe reading has become something of chore.
Horses.
Dogs.
Fresh fruit.
Food: McDonald’s chicken nuggets. I know they’re about as healthy as Strontium-90 but once or twice a year I get a craving and head for the drive-through. Same for Arby’s roast beef sandwiches, which I have only slightly more often. When I was a kid my roast beef sandwich of choice was Rax but I haven’t seen one of those in 25 years, so Arby’s it is.
TV: I’m one of those weirdos that doesn’t watch much TV, but I have a soft soft for The Simpsons, which I quote often. The other day one of my students started playing some K-Pop song on her computer and I wandered over, looked at her, and said “that sounds like rock and/or roll!” She, naturally, didn’t get the reference. Unfortunately Disney+ is blocked on campus so I can’t help fight her ignorance.
I still like the NES and SNES games of my youth and am grateful for the NSO shop which allows me to play them again on my Switch. I still have the original consoles as well, although they haven’t been plugged in and played for 2 or 3 years.
Same here. I have boxes and boxes and boxes of books but ever since I finished my MA, which required me to read 24,367,247,962,358,074,245,853 books each semester for 3 years straight I haven’t had any desire to read. I’ll start a book, get a few chapters in, and then give up because I’m just not interested anymore.
Possible, it does coincide, but so does retirement and a new house after 20 years. Lots of life changes.
The jokes I learned in books from Elementary School and Boy’s Life magazines. I still remember and use many of them.
Ice Cream, Chocolate, Bacon & Eggs . . .
Wait. Who you callin’ old?
I loved McDonalds when I was a little kid and it was a huge treat. I still have a soft spot for the place. Also, orange sherbet with Sprite. My mom would always fix it for me when I was sick and it’s still comfort food for me when I feel bad.
Hair metal, the cheesier the better, is another one. I have a much older sibling who was a teen when it was at its peak so it’s the first music I really remember. I listen to a whole lot of super serious Americana and alt-country, singer songwriter type of stuff, but I still love to blast some Poison, Enuff Z Nuff, Twisted Sister, Crue, etc.
Just off the top of my head:
Movies with special effects by stop-motion master Ray Harryhausen. “7th Voyage of Sinbad.” “The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms.” “Jason and the Argonauts.” Loved them then, love them now.
Music by the Beatles. I never tire of it. Also some of the progressive bands of the time, like Jefferson Airplane, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, the Byrds, the Allman Brothers. Just today I was listening to the first LP by Santana, on vinyl of course. Hadn’t listened to it in quite some time and really enjoyed rediscovering it.
TV Shows…none. I can’t watch old TV shows. I’ve seen them too many times. Maybe “The Twilight Zone” or “Star Trek” on occasion.
Pop Tarts
I’m waiting for someone to say “Cool Whip” so that I may silent judge them as unworthy, as is my wont in these threads.
