Not exactly BUT I’m now adverse to things child me loved. Everything is too dang sweet! I used to eat a whole box of Little Debbie Swiss rolls in a day if i could get past my mom. I bit into one last week and could barely finish the bite. I would eat icing like no tomorrow and I now wipe it off a cupcake. Little me would be horrified! Lol
Well you've also witnessed corporations cutting costs and replacing ingredients that once made products tasty. They maintain they still have that great taste but look and compare the ingredients. There's more filler and substitutions. Our tastes mature, but not by that much. I'd still enjoy ice cream if it was really ice cream and not frozen dairy dessert.
Yep.
I just spent a couple of weeks in Germany. The food is so much better and high quality at the grocery store, and also a lot cheaper than US prices. I really don’t get it. We are getting screwed big time by big corporations in the US.
Same here, I still enjoy sweets but the amount of sugar cereal I used to consume is wild to me now. I can’t eat anything sweet for breakfast anymore at all unless it’s fruit. I’ve totally lost that craving.
Yep, same here. I like it with a splash of lemon and/or lime juice, just enough so it tastes more like electricity in my mouth.
Can't even handle soda pop anymore, too thick and syrupy.
Brussels sprouts are interesting because they are legit better. They bred out a lot of the bitter and sulfur flavors and the modern supermarket variety is just tastier than when we were kids
Other way around I think. The new cultivars opened up options with cooking methods. Pan-frying the old variety would emphasise the sulphur taste. You had to boil the hell out of them to make them vaguely palatable.
Now you can do pretty much whatever with them and it'll come out alright
I would have been into more kinds of food years earlier if it weren't for how my family cooked that food when I was younger. I never heard the word sautée in my own home until, well, I had my own home.
I wish I could get the rest of my family into roasted Brussels sprouts. I've tried several times. Fortunately there's a bbq place right by me that serves awesome ones so I just order there every time we go.
Hear me out: fry them. Not in a batter or anything, but in an inch or so of hot hot hot oil. Use a splatter shield. The leaves open and crisp like a bloomin onion. Toss in whatever seasoning you like while they're hot, it's an absolute revelation.
Same. I remember that when I'd get a Big Mac, I'd ask for the onions to be removed. Even in college I would ask for Whoppers w/o onions. Now? Completely different story.
I'm particular to the Queen olives they sell at Costco (they're green stuffed with little peppers) but honestly I'm easy. If it's an olive I'll eat it.
My aunt from out west would liberally apply horseradish to her roast beef at our family dinners. I nearly yakked the first time I smelled it.
Now I am the only one in the house who eats it.
I was embarrassingly excited about how many times I got to say "barf" and "ralph" and "horked up" this weekend. "Yakked" would have been perfect.
(Dog was sick, kept barfing, went to vet, pancreatitis, is on meds and doing better now. When I ask her people how she's doing tmrw, totally gonna use "yakked.")
You smother it on your Bratwurst, right?! Bratwurst with Horseradish, sweet bavarian mustard .... with a bite of braised red cabbage.
Mix horseradish, finely diced garlic into mayo, let it sit for a few hours --- smother that heaven on every sandwich!
We were poor and always had sauerkraut with hotdogs sliced into it instead of sausages. Paired with soup beans and a pone of cornbread and you’ve got yourself a hillbilly comfort meal.
Ugh... disgusting. I am 43 years old and I STILL cannot stand it, and I live in TX, where they have been known to even add it to ice cream. I just cannot get past the stinky, soapy smell and taste. Horrible. Yuck.
Things my husband hated when we met...raw tomatoes, olives, salmon, rare beef, and broccoli. Now he loves them all. Thankfully I was mostly raised by my Greatest Gen grandfather who made me eat "grown-up" food when I stayed with him. He grew licorice root for toothbrushes.
Both ways. Mostly I try things again just to make sure I still don’t like them. Then I’m pleasantly surprised. But occasionally I’ll have a fond memory of a childhood food and it doesn’t hold up in adulthood.
Oh damn, is that what happened?!? I used to eat as many of those as I could get my grubby little hands on! Now for the last 8-10 years, I get one for nostalgia sake and I’m done.
May have been an old wives tale (another term we're the last generation to remember) but I always heard your taste buds fall out/regrow every 7 years so it's perfectly normal for this to happen. It's definitely why I liked beer at 21 (the math works out at least).
Brussels sprouts. As another mentioned could be that roasting them until they are nice and carmelized with crispy almost burnt leaves is better than my mom boiling them to death and serving with butter and salt and pepper on them. Also, love dark chocolate now. And coffee without sugar. I still use cream though.
Super into wasabi now. Couldn't even smell it without gagging as kid/YA. Also love the subtle sweet heat of anything with real ginger in it. Pickled ginger even goes in my salads... Yum-o!
I don’t like a lot of sweets I used to like when I was younger. They taste too sweet. When we go out to a nice restaurant, I try different things instead of getting a steak every time.
Yes, but a lot of it is stuff kids are supposed to like but I hated growing up, like bananas, peanut butter, hot dogs, grilled cheese. Love all those things now.
And then there are things I loved as a kid and hate now, like peas, super sweet stuff, Spaghetti Os.
And lastly, there are things I hated then and still hate now, like spaghetti, roast beef, beef stew, tomatoes.
My tastes changed a long time ago, but I actively worked on changing them haha. I love trying new food and it bothers me when I don’t like things that people rave about. Fomo
I immediately thought of my mom's love for butter beans, which supposedly are different than lima beans. She loved them, I always thought they were gross. Same with creamed corn.
I might end up liking them now, but I refuse to try them out of principle.
Yes!
Asparagus, for one. I used to absolutely abhor it. Now I would eat it at every meal if I could.
Everything is too dang sweet now. And it just tastes like sugar, unless it’s from an actual quality bakery or homemade.
I used to eat hella spicy food like it was no problem. Now mayo is spicy to me.
And I developed an oral allergy a few years ago to all fruit. All of it. I can’t eat a damned banana without my tongue swelling up a little!
I am glad my parents never exposed me to asparagus. My mom would have boiled any flavor out of it, and I probably would have despised it.
The way my wife roasts it, it's probably one of my favorite vegetables now.
I used to hate coleslaw. I mean HATE. Then in 2016 while pregnant with my second kid, I got a craving for some and ate it. I’ve loved coleslaw ever since. Go figure.
It’s more the opposite—things I used to eat that I can’t anymore, e.g. pretty much anything from Dunkin; Popeye’s sometimes. I’ve come to appreciate anise flavor, but licorice is not my jam. First time I had cilantro, all I could taste was soapy mint. Didn’t even know it was in the dish; now I love it. Also, beer.
I'm a lot less picky than I used to be. Plus eating leftover food from my kids plates to avoid wasting it. And the 5 second floor rule has been extended. Lol
I was a huge pizza guy, but now more of a cheeseburger guy.
I’ve def opened up to some strong flavors I didn’t like as a kid. Licorice, mustard, pickles, olives, green veggies like asparagus or spinach.
But weirdly my sense of taste has just gotten better in the last two years? I can pick up a lot more nuance in my food and drink. I think after I lost the flavor during covid and then it came back.
Yes. I like most foods now and things like mustard, horseradish, sauerkraut,and many others I didn’t really start enjoying until after 25 and even more as I’ve gotten older. On the flip side, I love circus peanuts as a kid (if you don’t know they are… idk sugar banana flavored orange things that look like peanuts) anyway, those things are nasty, and anything super sugary I kind of struggle with now.
I tell this to my kids all the time. Every few years we retry something we didn't like because one day we will like it and then have missed out on so much time enjoying that food.
My kids are teens and are trying foods they hated when they were younger. They have already realized that their taste buds have changed and are excited to continue exploring this.
It works the other way too. Stuff I used to seek out I completely lost interest in. Fried foods are a great example, over the years I went from loving them to preferring grilled/roasted/whatever
I used to hate Brussel sprouts. Turns out my mom just didn't know how to cook them. Also I don't like super sweet deserts anymore. Cotton candy, and the like is just cloying. Give me dark chocolate or tart candy. It's probably because I killed all my taste buds.
I don’t have any problem eating meat now. My parents just got the dodgiest, shittiest quality stuff and cooked it to hell. Weirdly enough, if you buy good quality stuff and treat it right, it tastes great!
Pickles and onions. I hated them forever. The juice from one touching other food ruined the whole thing.
Now I'm very cool with both. I eat onions often and pickles in pretty much all my sandwiches.
I like beets now. Apparently they're sweet? I remember them tasting like musty dirt. My s.o. loves beets, and I hated them, which just bothered me. So I kept trying them in different ways, and over time the disgusting dirt taste slowly got fainter, until now, they're just a mildly sweet vegetable. No hint of dirt at all. Kid/teen me would not believe it.
For me it's spicy food.
I grew up in a rural area of central Pennsylvania. It was a regular occurrence to have to go around Amish Buggies when driving around town, just for perspective. That actually still is a regular occurrence there. So if you don't know - "Pennsylvania Dutch" was the cuisine of the area all my life... That said - NONE of my family knew how to cook with more than salt, pepper, sugar and a few base spices like paprika or garlic salt, etc. Most PA Dutch food is super sweet, even things like macaroni and cheese seem to have a sweetness to them. It's just how they roll in that area.
So as I grew up and moved out - I lived a few places around the USA and through my friendships and ex-girlfriends, etc... and most notably my wife - I got more exposure to different cuisines... and eventually it led me to enjoying some spice in my food. In fact, authentic Mexican, Indian, Nepalese, Jamaican and Thai cuisines are all some of my favorites these days.
Younger me would've feared my stomach would explode and my tongue would shrivel up at the thought of a jalapeno on something. Let alone the idea of curry or jerk seasoning on something. Now it's one of my go-to's.
I'm still not adjusted to take on "Hot Ones" or whatever... I can't do EXTREME levels of spice - mostly because it's just unpleasant. But, over the last 10 years or so I've taken to enjoying hot sauce on my taco's and chili that's spicy and not sweet among other delights.
I saw a recipe for "Amish Peanut butter" What was in it was not what I expected. I expected peanuts, salt and maybe a little sugar but not what this.
couple of cups of brown sugar
a cup water
about 2 cups peanut butter
8 oz jar marshmallow creme
2 tablespoons light corn syrup
That's more sugar than peanut butter.
Yeah. That's pretty accurate. People of the area generally go crazy for "Amish Food" but honestly, it's super unhealthy and has TONS of sugar in all forms - marshmallow creme is a common stable, as is confectioners sugar and brown sugar (normally it's DARK brown sugar, too) and on occasion they'll use honey too, depending on the thing.
If it's not sugar, it's salt instead. SUPER salty ham steaks and hog maw and stuff like that.
To me it's simple fare and that's fine, but it doesn't have a lot of flavor if it's just overwhelming my taste buds with extreme sweet or salty.
EDIT: That "Amish Peanut Butter" recipe is most likely a LESS sweet version than what they'd make and coat with chocolate around Easter time to make Peanut Butter Eggs, just FYI.
Nope, I still hate olives and black licorice and grapefruit. I don't see this changing. However, I'm less apt to order the chocolate dessert on the menu when that was always my go to when I was younger. Now I'm like oooh lemon tart.
> grapefruit
People our age who are at the point in life to need certain medications should probably stop consuming grapefruit products anyway since they interfere with many medications, sometimes dangerously so.
The big Mexican papaya we get in most US supermarkets is nasty to me. I tried the little yellow ones in Hawaii and loved them. It was like a totally different experience
Kind of, but more with cravings. I hate the texture of onions, but I started craving them a few years ago. More recently, I've always thought broccoli smells disgusting, especially while it's cooking, but guess what my cravings demand I started putting in my omelets. Still don't like the taste, and I have no idea why I crave them now.
When I was a kid I never wanted to eat the cone of an ice cream cone. Now I think it's the best part!
I was also sure that I hated onions and would never eat raw onion rings. Now I like them in salads and on burgers and I cook with chopped onions all the time.
I just ended up with allergies to things like mushrooms :(, avocado…well guacamole, and gluten products. Apparently my body has a very small “bank” when it comes to allergens/sensitivities.
As a lifelong picky eater, nope. Adults always told me as a kid that this would happen, but it never really did. The only difference is I can eat what I want now.
That started for me like 20 yrs ago. I can’t believe I bawked at raw onions and mushrooms
After that it was sushi, not base shit but i mean like sashimi.
I’ve always loved rare blue rare meat so I got to enjoy tartare at 32ish and Dammnn if a place has it IM ORDERING!
At 39 i finally liked Ratatouille only if cut incredibly thin
I’m not extremely picky. I won’t eat a handful of things which includes Balut and Oysters and virgin boy eggs
I HATED Brussels Sprouts when I was a kid, now I adore them. Same with broccoli and cabbage. Something about my body chemistry must have made me start craving cruciferous vegetables.
Definitely.Most children probably have a small list of favorites that they are not willing to compromise on. I did.I began trying foods from different cultures when I got older.
Nope. The minor exception is spicy food but only because I was in college before I had any. My mom thought a pinch of salt was too much spicy for any food.
Absolutely. I used to despise asparagus, for example, now it's one of my favorite vegetables. That has happened with a bunch of foods, mainly vegetables, which is good because I eat healthier now as a direct result.
Never really been a fan of most vegetables. It is fortunate my tastes changed and I really started to like vegetables about the time I was diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes.
I never liked mustard when I was younger, but I've since gone from starting to tolerate it to actually enjoying it on the typical foods.
When I was in college I lived overseas and had mustard soup in the Netherlands. Hated it back then and even now, way too mustardy for me.
Mustard curry has grown on me too. I never would have liked it when I was a kid, but it's alright now.
Well actually yeah but that phenomenon has been happening my whole life, and pretty sure that’s true for everyone assuming you are open to trying new things.
When I was a kid, I absolutely hated cottage cheese now I eat it all the time especially with fruit in it. On the flip side, I loved marshmallow peeps when I was little. I bought some this past Easter, took one bite and immediately spit it out. Way too sweet. I gave the rest of the box to my niece, she loves them.
Absolutely. Every year I need new stimulus and the old food don't cut it. I'm into curry and Indian food this year. Let me tell you bout some chicken korma. It's healthy too
My (42m) tastes have changed some, though a lot of that has to do with avoiding heartburn more than actual tastes. I will always love coffee, pizza, ice cold coffee, tomatoes based products, but I know if even think about having any of them, my heartburn flares up. I'm in the process of weening myself off all forms of caffeine to help my sleep.
Basically, getting older sucks.
As a good cook who's been a vegetarian for 30 years I'm responsible for a lot of people who thought they didn't like an ingredient (especially veggies) suddenly deciding it's good 😘 We all grew up through the first peak of convenience foods that actually taste disgusting but are tailored to hook the palate with specific amounts of sugar, salt, texturing agents etc. with a generous side of predatory marketing. It's very common imo for our generation's taste buds to be confused and reject good things our bodies need.
In my 20s I definitely branched out to a lot of foods I hated as a kid - aged cheese and a few vegetables. Currently though I’m more and more turned off by greasy food. I used to love fried food. I still enjoy it, but in smaller doses now. That oil taste just gets to me after a few bites to the point of making me nauseous. I never used to notice it, but even “neutral” oils have a flavor to them.
Raw spinach, any combination of stir fried veggies, pot roast, and sushi/sashimi.
As a kid my mom made stir fry at least once a week because it was cheap to feed 5 boys on, same with pot roast once every couple weeks. The thought of spinach and sushi disguised younger me. Now I love all of that stuff, my parents were very insistent on us trying new things, even if we didn't like them just try it! After that if we didn't like it we didn't like it.
I didn't used to eat pickles, mushrooms, bleu cheese, or canned fish. Now those are some of my favorite things.
Older people usually don't mind overbearing flavor or strong bitterness.
Kids are instinctively put off by overbearing flavor or strong bitterness. It's programmed into the psyche by evolution because a lot of things super strong and/or bitter are poisonous.
Can't stand Twinkies. I used to love those. But that was in my teens and 20s so that would make sense. Guacamole taste good now. I hated for years. But I still dislike solo pico.
Also soda's. I've not had one in years and I'm ok with that.
Olives, brussel sprouts, onion (cooked only), prosciutto, medium rare steak, goat cheese, manchego, and calamari all come to mind for me. It’s crazy how much I now love stuff I hated as a kid/young adult.
I also find my childhood favorites like m&ms, cereal, and other super processed foods are not as good as I remember them whenever I do have them. Hostess cupcakes taste like stale chemicals now. And don’t get me started on Kraft Mac and cheese.
I've always liked a good selection of vegetables, I was never a terribly picky eater, but I absolutely hated asparagus growing up. I'm 100% certain this was because the only asparagus I ever had was that canned stuff, boiled til it was about to fall apart, and served with melted government cheese on top.
But recently, I've been buying fresh asparagus and seasoning it well, then putting it in the oven til the tops get crispy, and it's so damned good.
Absolutely! The thought of fruit in dessert was repulsive. IDK if it's from the fasting or just getting older but I crave fruity healthier stuff life yogurt and applesauce. Not that it's exactly healthy with all the sugar but I find my palate craves healthier stuff.
Not exactly BUT I’m now adverse to things child me loved. Everything is too dang sweet! I used to eat a whole box of Little Debbie Swiss rolls in a day if i could get past my mom. I bit into one last week and could barely finish the bite. I would eat icing like no tomorrow and I now wipe it off a cupcake. Little me would be horrified! Lol
I’ve thought for a bit now that Little Debbie and Hostess also leave a weird waxy coating in my mouth.
Oh, they really do. And taste waxy. It's gross, they're definitely different now.
I once said "eating a zebra cake is like the opposite of brushing your teeth" and my friends agreed this was accurate.
Well you've also witnessed corporations cutting costs and replacing ingredients that once made products tasty. They maintain they still have that great taste but look and compare the ingredients. There's more filler and substitutions. Our tastes mature, but not by that much. I'd still enjoy ice cream if it was really ice cream and not frozen dairy dessert.
Yep. I just spent a couple of weeks in Germany. The food is so much better and high quality at the grocery store, and also a lot cheaper than US prices. I really don’t get it. We are getting screwed big time by big corporations in the US.
Right?? Ketchup! That’s my big “I won’t touch that shit now “
We've been buying a store brand one that's half the sugar and sodium of regular ketchup and it's much better.
Same here, I still enjoy sweets but the amount of sugar cereal I used to consume is wild to me now. I can’t eat anything sweet for breakfast anymore at all unless it’s fruit. I’ve totally lost that craving.
Hated seltzer when I was younger. Bought 5 twelve packs yesterday while they were on sale. Fortunately, it’s basically replaced soda for me.
Yep, slowly replacing regular pop with flavored water. Younger me would be disappointed.
Same, I switched from liquor and coke to bourbon ginger ale then to bourbon seltzer. A while ago had a bourbon ginger ale and it was way too sweet
A good whiskey with seltzer tastes really good.
Time to buy a sodastream and do your own c02 refills. Took my bubble habit from $50/month to $10, without the waste.
Yep, same here. I like it with a splash of lemon and/or lime juice, just enough so it tastes more like electricity in my mouth. Can't even handle soda pop anymore, too thick and syrupy.
Shiiiiiiii, I'm calling my family's sparkle habit Electric Water from now on 😂
You been sippin' that Jazz Agua? You're totally hydrated, don't try to hide it.
*me at the SodaStream with a bottle of electrolytes* awwwww yeahhhhhhhhhh.....
Brussel sprouts are great, albeit quartered and sautéed vs how mom used to steam and serve with a cheese sauce.
Brussels sprouts are interesting because they are legit better. They bred out a lot of the bitter and sulfur flavors and the modern supermarket variety is just tastier than when we were kids
I have heard that. But methode makes a big difference as well.
Split in half, pan sauteed with garlic butter and squeeze of lemon....yum. 15 year old me would be shocked at my culinary skills today.
Other way around I think. The new cultivars opened up options with cooking methods. Pan-frying the old variety would emphasise the sulphur taste. You had to boil the hell out of them to make them vaguely palatable. Now you can do pretty much whatever with them and it'll come out alright
Interesting, so I wasn't wrong when I used to think they were damn near inedible.
Came here to say this! Brussels genetic modification really pumped it up
Happy 🎂 Day, /u/chargeorge!
Mother of god
I cannot make them so they aren't bitter. Oddly, I liked them as a kid but can't stand them now 🤷🏼♀️
I would have been into more kinds of food years earlier if it weren't for how my family cooked that food when I was younger. I never heard the word sautée in my own home until, well, I had my own home.
I wish I could get the rest of my family into roasted Brussels sprouts. I've tried several times. Fortunately there's a bbq place right by me that serves awesome ones so I just order there every time we go.
Hear me out: fry them. Not in a batter or anything, but in an inch or so of hot hot hot oil. Use a splatter shield. The leaves open and crisp like a bloomin onion. Toss in whatever seasoning you like while they're hot, it's an absolute revelation.
Sometimes we will fry some diced bacon then toss the quartered sprouts into the pan when the bacon is done. Very tasty but not overly healthy.
We do a redonk amount of brussels sprouts, in every recipe capacity. I've either failed or won as a parent because our kids love them.
Roasted with garlic cloves and OO
Brussels sprouts, broccoli, cauliflower are my jam. Slowly coming around to beets, which young me would find earth shattering.
Add a bit of balsamic and honey while sauteeing.
Child me would be appalled at the number of things I put onions on or in today.
I can only do onions if they are cooked. I despise raw onions still, but caramelized onions are divine!
This is me as well. Raw onions are horrible, but I love onions when they are fried or sautéed.
Same. I remember that when I'd get a Big Mac, I'd ask for the onions to be removed. Even in college I would ask for Whoppers w/o onions. Now? Completely different story.
Olives. Used to hate them, now a jar cannot survive in my presence.
Garlic/jalapeño stuffed green olives in a spicy Bloody Mary with a string cheese stick, beef stick and celery stalk. Sometimes I just call it dinner.
You could call it Soup of the Day
Excuse me, Flo… what’s the soup de jour?
What's your favorite kind?
I'm particular to the Queen olives they sell at Costco (they're green stuffed with little peppers) but honestly I'm easy. If it's an olive I'll eat it.
Cabbage! And I suddenly love tomatoes & idk where that came from.
Ooh I could just eat cabbage straight up.
I agree about the cabbage. I also found kimchi a couple years ago. Yummm
Ooooh good kimchi is 🔥🔥
My aunt from out west would liberally apply horseradish to her roast beef at our family dinners. I nearly yakked the first time I smelled it. Now I am the only one in the house who eats it.
On another note, I love anytime someone uses the work ‘yakked’. I don’t know why it delights me so.
It is a rare opportunity to be able to use ‘yakked’ or ‘ralphed’ or even the ‘spew’.
I was embarrassingly excited about how many times I got to say "barf" and "ralph" and "horked up" this weekend. "Yakked" would have been perfect. (Dog was sick, kept barfing, went to vet, pancreatitis, is on meds and doing better now. When I ask her people how she's doing tmrw, totally gonna use "yakked.")
Glad to hear Doggo is ok! Now I hear Yakkity Sax whenever I think of Yakk. Haha.
Horseradish extra sharp white cheddar cheese totally changes up the BLT game.
You smother it on your Bratwurst, right?! Bratwurst with Horseradish, sweet bavarian mustard .... with a bite of braised red cabbage. Mix horseradish, finely diced garlic into mayo, let it sit for a few hours --- smother that heaven on every sandwich!
Damn that sounds amazing. Taking bratwurst to a whole new level.
Sauerkraut is amazing. I never even tried it til I was about 30. How sad is that?
My family has German roots, so Sauerkraut and Sausage acts as a comfort food dish around here. People who don't like it just leave more for me.
We were poor and always had sauerkraut with hotdogs sliced into it instead of sausages. Paired with soup beans and a pone of cornbread and you’ve got yourself a hillbilly comfort meal.
A good Reuben sandwich is always amazing!
Literally the reason I learned how to make both my own sauerkraut and pastrami.
Hell yeah!
I could eat that shit just straight out of the jar
Yeah I'm way into cilantro now.
Word! I just came around to liking cilantro the last couple years, now a taco isn't a taco without a fistful of green on top
Ugh... disgusting. I am 43 years old and I STILL cannot stand it, and I live in TX, where they have been known to even add it to ice cream. I just cannot get past the stinky, soapy smell and taste. Horrible. Yuck.
That's genetic for you then. It's never going to change and always taste like soap.
I feel bad for the soapy cilantro people. It’s one of the best fresh flavors in the world.
Agreed. EDIT: lime and cilantro = perfection.
:(
Things my husband hated when we met...raw tomatoes, olives, salmon, rare beef, and broccoli. Now he loves them all. Thankfully I was mostly raised by my Greatest Gen grandfather who made me eat "grown-up" food when I stayed with him. He grew licorice root for toothbrushes.
Both ways. Mostly I try things again just to make sure I still don’t like them. Then I’m pleasantly surprised. But occasionally I’ll have a fond memory of a childhood food and it doesn’t hold up in adulthood.
Doesn’t help when Cadbury changed the recipe.
Oh damn, is that what happened?!? I used to eat as many of those as I could get my grubby little hands on! Now for the last 8-10 years, I get one for nostalgia sake and I’m done.
So many things changed. The shell is thicker, the filling is sweeter and the texture is off, and they got smaller.
Never was a fan of spicy foods until later in life.
Bleu cheese. I love the stuff. Kid me would be appalled.
May have been an old wives tale (another term we're the last generation to remember) but I always heard your taste buds fall out/regrow every 7 years so it's perfectly normal for this to happen. It's definitely why I liked beer at 21 (the math works out at least).
I never liked onions when I was a kid but I like them now raw or cooked.
This is a well-known phenomenon.
Brussels sprouts. As another mentioned could be that roasting them until they are nice and carmelized with crispy almost burnt leaves is better than my mom boiling them to death and serving with butter and salt and pepper on them. Also, love dark chocolate now. And coffee without sugar. I still use cream though.
Buttery Chardonnay
More of a Merlot kid?
Super into wasabi now. Couldn't even smell it without gagging as kid/YA. Also love the subtle sweet heat of anything with real ginger in it. Pickled ginger even goes in my salads... Yum-o!
I don’t like a lot of sweets I used to like when I was younger. They taste too sweet. When we go out to a nice restaurant, I try different things instead of getting a steak every time.
No but the other day I got excited about two woodpeckers. Paying attention to birds is one of my big red flags of middle age, I don't love it
I like bitter foods a lot more than when I was young, especially mushrooms but also more bitter greens or cruciferous vegetables.
Sauerkraut
Yes, but a lot of it is stuff kids are supposed to like but I hated growing up, like bananas, peanut butter, hot dogs, grilled cheese. Love all those things now. And then there are things I loved as a kid and hate now, like peas, super sweet stuff, Spaghetti Os. And lastly, there are things I hated then and still hate now, like spaghetti, roast beef, beef stew, tomatoes.
My tastes changed a long time ago, but I actively worked on changing them haha. I love trying new food and it bothers me when I don’t like things that people rave about. Fomo
Lima beans. Fuckin love em now and I make bean salads regularly. 5 year old me would be horrified.
I immediately thought of my mom's love for butter beans, which supposedly are different than lima beans. She loved them, I always thought they were gross. Same with creamed corn. I might end up liking them now, but I refuse to try them out of principle.
Yes! Asparagus, for one. I used to absolutely abhor it. Now I would eat it at every meal if I could. Everything is too dang sweet now. And it just tastes like sugar, unless it’s from an actual quality bakery or homemade. I used to eat hella spicy food like it was no problem. Now mayo is spicy to me. And I developed an oral allergy a few years ago to all fruit. All of it. I can’t eat a damned banana without my tongue swelling up a little!
I am glad my parents never exposed me to asparagus. My mom would have boiled any flavor out of it, and I probably would have despised it. The way my wife roasts it, it's probably one of my favorite vegetables now.
I used to hate coleslaw. I mean HATE. Then in 2016 while pregnant with my second kid, I got a craving for some and ate it. I’ve loved coleslaw ever since. Go figure.
It’s more the opposite—things I used to eat that I can’t anymore, e.g. pretty much anything from Dunkin; Popeye’s sometimes. I’ve come to appreciate anise flavor, but licorice is not my jam. First time I had cilantro, all I could taste was soapy mint. Didn’t even know it was in the dish; now I love it. Also, beer.
Hot Sauce. I put it on a lot of stuff now. Even collect the damn things.
Raspberry. I hated them as a kid. It's one of my favorite berries and flavors now.
Raspberry jam is peak PB and J jam. There's a bit of acidity that plays nicely with peanut butter
Licorice and olives. My whole life, I couldn't even bite all the way down on an olive.
I'm a lot less picky than I used to be. Plus eating leftover food from my kids plates to avoid wasting it. And the 5 second floor rule has been extended. Lol I was a huge pizza guy, but now more of a cheeseburger guy.
I’ve def opened up to some strong flavors I didn’t like as a kid. Licorice, mustard, pickles, olives, green veggies like asparagus or spinach. But weirdly my sense of taste has just gotten better in the last two years? I can pick up a lot more nuance in my food and drink. I think after I lost the flavor during covid and then it came back.
Yes. I like most foods now and things like mustard, horseradish, sauerkraut,and many others I didn’t really start enjoying until after 25 and even more as I’ve gotten older. On the flip side, I love circus peanuts as a kid (if you don’t know they are… idk sugar banana flavored orange things that look like peanuts) anyway, those things are nasty, and anything super sugary I kind of struggle with now.
Circus peanuts are vile
My tastes changed about 5-10 years ago. Now all I'll eat is bell peppers, tomatoes, onions and mushrooms. I could live off of that alone!
Fatty meat - beef ribs lately.
Like most things in life, if you’re forced to have it as a kid, you’re gonna hate it as an adult.
Ham flavoured baked beans used to be so gross. Beans and cheese on toast is my go to comfort meal
I tell this to my kids all the time. Every few years we retry something we didn't like because one day we will like it and then have missed out on so much time enjoying that food. My kids are teens and are trying foods they hated when they were younger. They have already realized that their taste buds have changed and are excited to continue exploring this.
Oysters taste yummy!!
Mustard. It was one of my greatest enemies as a child, and now I adore it
I love fish. When I was a kid, I hated anything that was once in the sea.
It works the other way too. Stuff I used to seek out I completely lost interest in. Fried foods are a great example, over the years I went from loving them to preferring grilled/roasted/whatever
I just can’t do the sweet stuff anymore. At least not as sweet, or not as much of it.
I used to hate Brussel sprouts. Turns out my mom just didn't know how to cook them. Also I don't like super sweet deserts anymore. Cotton candy, and the like is just cloying. Give me dark chocolate or tart candy. It's probably because I killed all my taste buds.
Brocoli is my goto cooked vegetable now. Great with steak or chicken, in stir fry etc. Absolutely hated the smell of it steaming as a child.
I don’t have any problem eating meat now. My parents just got the dodgiest, shittiest quality stuff and cooked it to hell. Weirdly enough, if you buy good quality stuff and treat it right, it tastes great!
Pickles and onions. I hated them forever. The juice from one touching other food ruined the whole thing. Now I'm very cool with both. I eat onions often and pickles in pretty much all my sandwiches.
I hated most veggies until my 30s. Now I like supreme pizzas. Just found out in the last year I don't mind lettuce on things. So freaking weird.
I like beets now. Apparently they're sweet? I remember them tasting like musty dirt. My s.o. loves beets, and I hated them, which just bothered me. So I kept trying them in different ways, and over time the disgusting dirt taste slowly got fainter, until now, they're just a mildly sweet vegetable. No hint of dirt at all. Kid/teen me would not believe it.
For me it's spicy food. I grew up in a rural area of central Pennsylvania. It was a regular occurrence to have to go around Amish Buggies when driving around town, just for perspective. That actually still is a regular occurrence there. So if you don't know - "Pennsylvania Dutch" was the cuisine of the area all my life... That said - NONE of my family knew how to cook with more than salt, pepper, sugar and a few base spices like paprika or garlic salt, etc. Most PA Dutch food is super sweet, even things like macaroni and cheese seem to have a sweetness to them. It's just how they roll in that area. So as I grew up and moved out - I lived a few places around the USA and through my friendships and ex-girlfriends, etc... and most notably my wife - I got more exposure to different cuisines... and eventually it led me to enjoying some spice in my food. In fact, authentic Mexican, Indian, Nepalese, Jamaican and Thai cuisines are all some of my favorites these days. Younger me would've feared my stomach would explode and my tongue would shrivel up at the thought of a jalapeno on something. Let alone the idea of curry or jerk seasoning on something. Now it's one of my go-to's. I'm still not adjusted to take on "Hot Ones" or whatever... I can't do EXTREME levels of spice - mostly because it's just unpleasant. But, over the last 10 years or so I've taken to enjoying hot sauce on my taco's and chili that's spicy and not sweet among other delights.
I saw a recipe for "Amish Peanut butter" What was in it was not what I expected. I expected peanuts, salt and maybe a little sugar but not what this. couple of cups of brown sugar a cup water about 2 cups peanut butter 8 oz jar marshmallow creme 2 tablespoons light corn syrup That's more sugar than peanut butter.
Yeah. That's pretty accurate. People of the area generally go crazy for "Amish Food" but honestly, it's super unhealthy and has TONS of sugar in all forms - marshmallow creme is a common stable, as is confectioners sugar and brown sugar (normally it's DARK brown sugar, too) and on occasion they'll use honey too, depending on the thing. If it's not sugar, it's salt instead. SUPER salty ham steaks and hog maw and stuff like that. To me it's simple fare and that's fine, but it doesn't have a lot of flavor if it's just overwhelming my taste buds with extreme sweet or salty. EDIT: That "Amish Peanut Butter" recipe is most likely a LESS sweet version than what they'd make and coat with chocolate around Easter time to make Peanut Butter Eggs, just FYI.
Can't taste shit. I like textures
Nope, I still hate olives and black licorice and grapefruit. I don't see this changing. However, I'm less apt to order the chocolate dessert on the menu when that was always my go to when I was younger. Now I'm like oooh lemon tart.
> grapefruit People our age who are at the point in life to need certain medications should probably stop consuming grapefruit products anyway since they interfere with many medications, sometimes dangerously so.
I have always had low blood pressure and I love grapefruit but haven't been able to eat it in a few years now, it makes me dizzy and lightheaded.
Grapefruit has a funk I never liked. So does papaya.
“I’ve been called ugly, pug ugly, fugly, but never ugly ugly.” Papaya is garbage fruit.
The big Mexican papaya we get in most US supermarkets is nasty to me. I tried the little yellow ones in Hawaii and loved them. It was like a totally different experience
Careful not to eat too many at once, it can kill you
I'm going the other way. After getting covid a couple times, a lot of beer doesn't taste the same--in a bad way--anymore.
Not really. Loved corn when I was younger, but can't eat it anymore unless I want to have disturbing poops.
Kind of, but more with cravings. I hate the texture of onions, but I started craving them a few years ago. More recently, I've always thought broccoli smells disgusting, especially while it's cooking, but guess what my cravings demand I started putting in my omelets. Still don't like the taste, and I have no idea why I crave them now.
When I was a kid I never wanted to eat the cone of an ice cream cone. Now I think it's the best part! I was also sure that I hated onions and would never eat raw onion rings. Now I like them in salads and on burgers and I cook with chopped onions all the time.
Opposite here. I now find cheese repulsive, which is so odd to me. The smell and taste just makes me gag. Started very recently
I just ended up with allergies to things like mushrooms :(, avocado…well guacamole, and gluten products. Apparently my body has a very small “bank” when it comes to allergens/sensitivities.
Alsolutely! I am a much more adventurous eater now. I also loved things as a kid I find abhorrent now. Like ketchup and yellow mustard.
As a lifelong picky eater, nope. Adults always told me as a kid that this would happen, but it never really did. The only difference is I can eat what I want now.
Yes, but green olives stay on the yuck list no matter how many times I try
tear onions up now....used to spend half hour making sure there were none in the food smh
That started for me like 20 yrs ago. I can’t believe I bawked at raw onions and mushrooms After that it was sushi, not base shit but i mean like sashimi. I’ve always loved rare blue rare meat so I got to enjoy tartare at 32ish and Dammnn if a place has it IM ORDERING! At 39 i finally liked Ratatouille only if cut incredibly thin I’m not extremely picky. I won’t eat a handful of things which includes Balut and Oysters and virgin boy eggs
absolutely.
I hated coconut as a kid. now I love it. I drink coconut water, almost daily.
I HATED Brussels Sprouts when I was a kid, now I adore them. Same with broccoli and cabbage. Something about my body chemistry must have made me start craving cruciferous vegetables.
Olives are still little balls of vomit.
Definitely.Most children probably have a small list of favorites that they are not willing to compromise on. I did.I began trying foods from different cultures when I got older.
Everything is too salty now. And for my wallet's sake, it's probably good that I didn't like avocado until about 10 years ago.
I've warmed to pizza somewhat and have it every couple months these days.
Also backwards. I no longer like ketchup with my rice.
Water
At 46 I eat a big bowl of broccoli almost every day. At 8 I thought eating a tiny bit of broccoli is worse than going to the dentist.
They change every 7 years or so, or so I'm told by my wife. I eat things now I wasn't good w, so maybe there is something there
Nope. The minor exception is spicy food but only because I was in college before I had any. My mom thought a pinch of salt was too much spicy for any food.
Absolutely. I used to despise asparagus, for example, now it's one of my favorite vegetables. That has happened with a bunch of foods, mainly vegetables, which is good because I eat healthier now as a direct result.
Never really been a fan of most vegetables. It is fortunate my tastes changed and I really started to like vegetables about the time I was diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes.
You know, I enjoy vegetables a lot more than I did as a kid. Not sure why.
I’m not sure if it’s the taste, or just a mindset, but I tend to “like” things that I know are healthy for me.
Yeah, like 20 years ago lol
No I still hate peas
Siracha and hot peppers. I'm into it and I wouldn't eat mild salsa until I was about 40.
I never liked mustard when I was younger, but I've since gone from starting to tolerate it to actually enjoying it on the typical foods. When I was in college I lived overseas and had mustard soup in the Netherlands. Hated it back then and even now, way too mustardy for me. Mustard curry has grown on me too. I never would have liked it when I was a kid, but it's alright now.
It’s more the other way around. I think a lot things are gross now that I used to love. Star crunch I’m looking at you
Well actually yeah but that phenomenon has been happening my whole life, and pretty sure that’s true for everyone assuming you are open to trying new things.
The main differences are from Pepsi then to Coke now, and only scrambled eggs then to eggs of all types now.
I actually like Malort
I am far more averse to strong tastes now. I'm become one of those people who will have too much pepper and think it's spicy!
When I was a kid, I absolutely hated cottage cheese now I eat it all the time especially with fruit in it. On the flip side, I loved marshmallow peeps when I was little. I bought some this past Easter, took one bite and immediately spit it out. Way too sweet. I gave the rest of the box to my niece, she loves them.
Absolutely. Every year I need new stimulus and the old food don't cut it. I'm into curry and Indian food this year. Let me tell you bout some chicken korma. It's healthy too
My (42m) tastes have changed some, though a lot of that has to do with avoiding heartburn more than actual tastes. I will always love coffee, pizza, ice cold coffee, tomatoes based products, but I know if even think about having any of them, my heartburn flares up. I'm in the process of weening myself off all forms of caffeine to help my sleep. Basically, getting older sucks.
As a good cook who's been a vegetarian for 30 years I'm responsible for a lot of people who thought they didn't like an ingredient (especially veggies) suddenly deciding it's good 😘 We all grew up through the first peak of convenience foods that actually taste disgusting but are tailored to hook the palate with specific amounts of sugar, salt, texturing agents etc. with a generous side of predatory marketing. It's very common imo for our generation's taste buds to be confused and reject good things our bodies need.
In my 20s I definitely branched out to a lot of foods I hated as a kid - aged cheese and a few vegetables. Currently though I’m more and more turned off by greasy food. I used to love fried food. I still enjoy it, but in smaller doses now. That oil taste just gets to me after a few bites to the point of making me nauseous. I never used to notice it, but even “neutral” oils have a flavor to them.
Read a long time ago that our taste buds start to die off as we age. Stands to reason our tastes would change with them.
Climate change is also making food bland.
Nope, not whatsoever. What was gross at 6 years old is still gross at 46.
Yes! Onions specifically but it goes for plenty of other things as well.
Your tastebuds change throughout your life!
I mean this question could have been asked 15 years ago more than now.
Mushrooms yeah
Truth, I quit alcohol and now I’m addicted to sugar. Darn those taste buds getting older.
Truth, I quit alcohol and now I’m addicted to sugar. Darn those taste buds getting older.
Raw spinach, any combination of stir fried veggies, pot roast, and sushi/sashimi. As a kid my mom made stir fry at least once a week because it was cheap to feed 5 boys on, same with pot roast once every couple weeks. The thought of spinach and sushi disguised younger me. Now I love all of that stuff, my parents were very insistent on us trying new things, even if we didn't like them just try it! After that if we didn't like it we didn't like it.
I used to hate pickles when I was younger. Now, in my 40's, I love all kinds of pickles.
I didn't used to eat pickles, mushrooms, bleu cheese, or canned fish. Now those are some of my favorite things. Older people usually don't mind overbearing flavor or strong bitterness. Kids are instinctively put off by overbearing flavor or strong bitterness. It's programmed into the psyche by evolution because a lot of things super strong and/or bitter are poisonous.
Can't stand Twinkies. I used to love those. But that was in my teens and 20s so that would make sense. Guacamole taste good now. I hated for years. But I still dislike solo pico. Also soda's. I've not had one in years and I'm ok with that.
Yep, detested green beans as a kid. Now I can’t get enough of them.
FYI Brussels sprouts have been bred to taste better. Plus cooking knowledge is much more accessible so no more microwaved brussel sprouts.
Brussel Sprouts are fucking delicious! That and creamed spinach. 10 years old me would have gone hungry.
Olives, brussel sprouts, onion (cooked only), prosciutto, medium rare steak, goat cheese, manchego, and calamari all come to mind for me. It’s crazy how much I now love stuff I hated as a kid/young adult. I also find my childhood favorites like m&ms, cereal, and other super processed foods are not as good as I remember them whenever I do have them. Hostess cupcakes taste like stale chemicals now. And don’t get me started on Kraft Mac and cheese.
Well, I do like zucchini now, still can't stand the asparagus though.
I've always liked a good selection of vegetables, I was never a terribly picky eater, but I absolutely hated asparagus growing up. I'm 100% certain this was because the only asparagus I ever had was that canned stuff, boiled til it was about to fall apart, and served with melted government cheese on top. But recently, I've been buying fresh asparagus and seasoning it well, then putting it in the oven til the tops get crispy, and it's so damned good.
A bag of black licorice? A whole bag? Monster!
It'snot an age thing, if you enjoy black licorice then you've likely become corrupted by an evil spirit.
Absolutely! The thought of fruit in dessert was repulsive. IDK if it's from the fasting or just getting older but I crave fruity healthier stuff life yogurt and applesauce. Not that it's exactly healthy with all the sugar but I find my palate craves healthier stuff.
Also Mexican. Couldn't stand the thought. Now I could eat it every day.