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Taste Bud Changes

Moonchilde — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 22:50:06 GMT

The threads on what we eat at Thanksgiving got me thinking. I grew up hating cranberry sauce in any form, or cranberry-flavored anything. Maybe 10 years ago, for some reason, I had some cranberry sauce tasted at a family gathering and now, I can’t contemplate a turkey dinner without it. I put it on everything - the turkey, the potatoes, the stuffing-dressing 😜, you name it. I even use it for chip dip.

I have noticed that I am favoring more sweet/sour than I used to. I could probably even eat marmalade, which I also used to detest. I will always love sweet things, but what kind of sweet and how much is changing - things I used to never be able get enough of, now I do, and enough is really enough.

Most kids hate avocado; I did. But my adult taste buds love it and it’s something else I’d have on everything if I could.

What foods/drink did you hate as a child that you like or even love now?

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tansy — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 22:55:02 GMT

Peanut butter always made me gag as a kid. Recently I was on a restrictive diet for a thyroid procedure, and, out of desperation, I decided to try Adams natural creamy peanut butter (the kind that needs to be stirred) on slices of honeycrisp apples. OMG...soooo good.

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Moonchilde — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 23:05:17 GMT

@tansy wrote:
Peanut butter always made me gag as a kid. Recently I was on a restrictive diet for a thyroid procedure, and, out of desperation, I decided to try Adams natural creamy peanut butter (the kind that needs to be stirred) on slices of honeycrisp apples. OMG...soooo good.

Peanut butter & apples are so good together!

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threecees — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 23:22:37 GMT

I hated carrots and never even had brussel sprouts as a kid. Love them both now.

Still am a picky eater. I just enjoy my hot sauce on much of my boring food.

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suzyQ3 — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 23:24:00 GMT

I have broad taste in food, pun intended. :-) My mother was the cook in the family, and she was rather adventurous, at least compared to my friends' fare.

But oh, did I hate eggplant because of the way she prepared it. It was always dipped in bread crumbs and fried. All I remember is that the breading scratched my throat, so I didn't like eggplant. I love it now -- Italian, Asian, any preparation except the scratchy one.

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Stray — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 23:56:11 GMT

I hated asparagus, turnips, sweet potatoes and we didn't have avocados around back then but I would have never eaten anything so green....today, I love all the above and if I were on a deserted island with one food, it would be avocado..

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Ms tyrion2 — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 23:58:28 GMT

I'm another cranberry convert. I started with Craisins and have been working my way up to cranberry sauces and relishes. This has also occurred over the past 5 years or so.

I wouldn't touch a tomato when I was a kid and my dad grew very good ones. I like them now...mostly raw and in sauces. I still can't abide stewed.

Same with cantaloupe. Wouldn't touch even good home grown ones as a kid. Love them now

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Bri36 — Sat, 11 Nov 2017 00:20:32 GMT

As a kid, I couldn’t stand the smell or the taste of Parmesan cheese. Now love it and couldn’t eat pasta without it

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lulu1 — Sat, 11 Nov 2017 00:24:02 GMT

@Bri36 wrote:
As a kid, I couldn’t stand the smell or the taste of Parmesan cheese. Now love it and couldn’t eat pasta without it

@Bri36

It still smells like dirty feet!

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Kachina624 — Sat, 11 Nov 2017 01:03:24 GMT

I used to be a typical chocoholic but now would not miss never having chocolate again. Can't stand dark chocolate and don't have nearly the taste for sweets I used to have.

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september — Sat, 11 Nov 2017 02:14:02 GMT

I used to hate most foods as a child, but that was due to the way my mom prepared them!

I avoided cooking some veggies like brussel sprouts and sweet potatoes. I've now learned ways to cook them that are so much better.

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threecees — Sat, 11 Nov 2017 02:20:54 GMT

@Kachina624 Then I won't send you any of our leftover Halloween candy😊

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Moonchilde — Sat, 11 Nov 2017 02:36:07 GMT

Brussels sprouts and asparagus, as well as lima beans, I still don’t eat. In a pinch, if I must, a bite or two, but that’s it. For me, for those items, time and cooking prep don’t matter.

LOL I never, ever drank any type of whisky or Scotch my entire life because I don’t really like the taste, but gradually, because the household are whisky drinkers, I will drink it with 7-Up.

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Kachina624 — Sat, 11 Nov 2017 02:44:04 GMT

@threecees wrote:

@Kachina624 Then I won't send you any of our leftover Halloween candy😊

@threecees. Rats! I was hoping for a care package but would prefer steaks.

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rrpell — Sat, 11 Nov 2017 06:10:44 GMT

I was never fond of peas. One year, I decided to grow them in my garden. I couldn't believe they were the same mushy, icky green colored vegetable that my mother heated up from a can. I have been a fan ever since.

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Financialgrl — Sat, 11 Nov 2017 10:42:34 GMT

@lulu1 wrote:
@Bri36 wrote:
As a kid, I couldn’t stand the smell or the taste of Parmesan cheese. Now love it and couldn’t eat pasta without it
@Bri36
It still smells like dirty feet!:smileyha

@lulu1 @Bri36 - What Bri said is hilarious and true - but I love it too!

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chiclet — Sat, 11 Nov 2017 10:39:29 GMT

I have always hated onions and will always hate them. The biggest change for me came after menopause. I loved vegetables before menopause and now I could live happily without them. I used to love breakfast and now I don't. I am fatter but a lot more picky and eat less. Life is not fair.

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Financialgrl — Sat, 11 Nov 2017 11:33:41 GMT

@chiclet wrote:
I have always hated onions and will always hate them. The biggest change for me came after menopause. I loved vegetables before menopause and now I could live happily without them. I used to love breakfast and now I don't. I am fatter but a lot more picky and eat less. Life is not fair.

@chiclet Isn't that the truth! Not fair was always that BF who was much older ate whatever he wanted but bc he was taller he could distribute it better and I swear after menopause I'd gain weight just looking at or smelling food! The struggle is real so at this point I'm just trying to walk and be more active to get healthier and whatever will be will be! I think I've had 25-30 lbs to lose for the last 20 years - it comes, it goes but always returns.

As far as taste buds go, I'm a picky eater, I've always been a picky eater and none of that's changed and guessing at this point it never will!

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ID2 — Sat, 11 Nov 2017 11:44:42 GMT

Oh yes I had a taste change right after menopause! There are a few foods I really hated that I now crave and love. Weird.

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BirdieGal — Sat, 11 Nov 2017 18:12:47 GMT

I didn’t like peanut butter as a kid, at all. Love it now. Don’t eat it often.

I also could not STAND breakfast foods like eggs, bacon, sausage. My dad loved to go out to breakfast and we traveled quite a bit so we did go out a lot. I could not even tolerate the smell of those foods.

I like them okay now, but when DH and I go out for breakfast, most times I still order a lunch item. He still makes fun of me! The smell doesn’t bother me now. I DO LOVE biscuits and gravy though.

I also didn’t like red pasta sauce and it is still not my favorite. I make great sauce and DH loves mine. I usually make a different sauce for me if I eat. DD is the same as me.

I didn’t eat much when I was a kid. My mom was so afraid of food she literally cooked everything to death. Pork chops and steaks came out looking like boats they were so dry they curled up.

One of my dads favorite things she would make was fried hamburger patties with sautéed onions. She cooked them sooooo long they were like a rubber ball. I almost never ate. My parents always complained that I ate like a bird.

Probably that is when I have steak or red meat now I like it no more than mid rare. I am very particular to not make overcooked pork. DH likes his overcooked. I won’t eat it.