I used to hate cheesecake. Couldn’t smell it without feeling nauseated. Last year, someone brought one to a company function, and I tried a small bite. Went back for a large slice. MY LORD, but it was good…now I’m hooked.
sigh…why can’t I ever get addicted to healthy stuff, like, say, broccoli?
It can happen. I went from hating all vegetables to cauliflower being my absolutely mostest favorite food. Use the force. Er, wait it out? Something like that.
vegetable rolls.
Wow. What a discovery. I’m allergic to seafood so sushi joints have never had any appeal. However, I recently found myself in just such a joint and ordered the vegetable rolls–I’m hooked.
Yes. Inquiring minds (MEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! sorry to the grammar police, IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!) want to know. Was this from a re-creation of the Dave Barry infamous flaming Pop-Tart experiment?
As for my new tastes: red wine. Used to be strictly sweet white wines for me. I have found that red wine is not all that icky.
I like vegetables more now than I used to only because of the way they are cooked, or not cooked as I actually prefer them raw. My mother, bless her heart would boil the crap out of them as did most women of her generation.
The other thing I’ve had to get used to is eating food without salt. At first I thought I would never enjoy food again, but now years later it just seems normal to me. Mostly I still dislike the same foods I did as a child, I have not acquired a taste for any of those same foods over the years.
Tastes I’ve recently developed:
- Tea.
- Sushi.
- Beer (very rarely).
- Tobacco (pretty rarely as well).
- Other tobacco-like things.
- Spicy food (buffalo wings in particular–mmmm!)
- Mexican food, particularly spicy Mexican food.
I was certain I hated shrimp and other seafood. One day, when I was 22, I decided to try shrimp. I love it.
The frist time in my life I ever had Chinese was when I was 23. I love it, too.
I had very limited eating habits as a child - no junk food, fries, chicken nuggets etc etc etc. I would only eat veggies, salad and various other stuff that was ‘good for you’. So now any time I try McDonalds or Burger King it makes me sick.
But now that I am a grown up and willing to pretty much try anything I eat everything. I moved to the states about 6 months ago and I now have a pretty decent addiction to Ranch dressing and Mountain Dew (not always at the same time) I also tried fresh crawfish when I was in Houston a few weeks ago something I wouldn’t have deamed of a few years ago and loved it.
In the last few years, I’ve started to enjoy a number of foods that I didn’t used to like at all:[ul][li]Coffee, especially good cappuchino.[/li][li]Many more vegetables than I used to like - green beans, green peppers, asparagus…[/li][li]I’ve only really started to enjoy wine, especially dry reds, in the last few years[/li][li]Crab, lobster, and occassionally shrimp, but only if the de-shelling has been done by someone else and it’s chopped up with other things. Something like peel and eat shrimp - no way in hell…[/ul][/li]I still dislike every beer I’ve tried, except for UncleBeer.
Chinese food. Of course, I was an incredibly picky child and only grew into liking alot of things in the past 3 or 4 years.
But I now especially adore Chinese food, where I used to be grossed out by the thought.
Crab rangoon is man’s greatest invention.
I stilll don’t like almost all vegetables ( water chesnuts, carrots, and green onions are the only exceptions), and I can’t bring myself onto coffee, no matter how much I want to. Tim Horton’s French Vanilla cappucino I love, but I can’t stand straight coffee.
I had a difficult time with cilantro but because my partner loves it I persisted. I now love it and use it to make pesto over basil. I’ve also developed a taste for scotch over th past few years.
Cigars, stronger is better.
Pipe, strong twists and latakia blends
Hard liquor, straight, no adulterants.
All acquired within the last three years.
Budweiser. All of a sudden it tastes light and refreshing rather than watered down and bland.
The fact that it’s super-cheap probably has something to do with that.
OK, just remember you asked. 
(Short answer: not intentionally.)
My childhood friend Dave was (and still is) a bit of a spazz. A loveable spazz, but spazz nonetheless.
My whole gang of high school friends always used to sit together in the cafeteria at lunch and act like complete goofballs; this generally involved a range of offbeat activities, from discussing theoretical mathematics to giving backrubs to trying to draw each other’s pictures without looking at the paper.
One day, I was waiting in the lunch line, and I looked back into the seating area and saw flames leaping up from the table where my friends were sitting. "Oh no,"I thought to myself. “Dave must have had something to do with that.”
Sure enough, when I got back to the table, I found out I was right. Someone had told Dave that if you light a cigarette lighter under a Ping-Pong ball, the air inside the ball will expand rapidly and the Ping-Pong ball will explode. He decided this would be really cool, and that the optimal place to carry out this experiment was in a crowded high school cafeteria.
Well, the Ping-Pong ball caught fire. Dave, who was not thinking clearly at that moment, dropped it and threw a lunch bag at it in an attempt to smother the flames. That caught fire, too. So then he decided to throw a Suzie-Q at it, and well, you can imagine how things escalated from there. Poor Dave got a 3-day suspension for starting a fire in the cafeteria. I imagine if this happened now, he would have been expelled.
I learned at the age of 33 that I really like Indian food. I had tried curry before that and didn’t like it (and it’s still not my favorite). But I learned that there’s so much more to Indian food. Palak paneer…yum!
I’ve recently developed a taste for fine scotch whisky, having recently come back from the islands, i was able to squirrel away a nice 18 year old Glenfiddich for a neat little sum (way less than it costs here)…and for the record, it’s the only 18 year old, i’ll be putting my hands on…better that way…really.
I also used to have a problem with cilantro, but now Tex Mex tastes weird without it. And I stuff fistfulls into baguettes when I make Vietnamese sandwiches, but I prefer pho without it. Too bad cilantro is so hard to get in my neck of the woods.
I was always turned off by olives. Now, my favorite snack is toasted baguette with this delicious Italian olive spread, and I MUST have olives in my spaghetti sauce.
FISHER QUEEN- I’ve always thought Earl Gray tee tasted like soap, I see I’m not the only one.
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Hm, quite the opposite here. I used to absolutely despise beer just eight or nine months back. But now that I’ve had a bit more time for socialising, I can’t stop thinking about it (whichcan’t be healthy) and I’ll usually get a pint whenever the opportunity arises.
And in case I didn’t make it clear in my above post (I’m getting tipsy just thinking about it), I now love beer.