how our food tastes change with life.

[vash]

the biggest milestone was when my tastebuds changed and I started like whiskeys. weird.

yesterday another one happened. oysters. I think I dont like them anymore. super weird. I bbq'd some, shucked some raw, and I didnt enjoy any of it. so strange! just like that, it changed.

my wife still loves them, and I still like shucking them so we dont expect any troubles there, but used to love them. relish them. now, I was "nope".

somewhere a few years back, I quit enjoying a big beef steak. I can only do small portions and I am done. we took to grilling one steak and serving it family style.

I havent had a steak to myself in 5 years.

[KFC911]

My tastebuds changed

BTDT ....

[brp914]

Happily drank black coffee for decades. Then a couple months ago...wait...yuck. Switched to Celsius, a carbonated fruit drink with 200mg caffeine.

[masraum]

I don't think I've stopped liking anything. As I've grown older, my horizons have only widened. I used to work in a group, and someone would occasionally bring up a food, and my response was usually, "I love ____". One of the guys that I worked with was mostly a meat and potatos kind of country boy, and after a while when I'd say that I liked something, he'd respond with "there isn't anything that you don't eat/like."

I have never liked the anise/black licorice/sambucca flavor, and still don't.

Most of the stuff that I haven't enjoyed eating, at least when I was younger was due to the texture/consistency, like the fat from beef or pork. I still trim my steak before I eat it.

Oysters raw, I've had them a few times, but only when I could chase it with a shot of something. Cooked, and they are good. I've had several different styles in NO and like them.

When I was a kid, there was stuff that was too strongly flavored that I wouldn't eat, that I eat now. (can't remember anything specific, but I know there was stuff).

[onewhippedpuppy]

Definitely agree with my tastes broadening as I get older. Partially based on having money for good food and being more adventurous. Also a factor of trying to lose weight and becoming far more conscious about what I’m shoving into my gullet!

Whiskey is a good one! I used to only have it with Diet Coke, now I absolutely LOVE a good bourbon neat or on a big rock. Oysters check, sushi is another one that I never ate when young. I never used to like seafood in general and now love it. Prime rib is another random one, probably because I grew up poor. Similar story with calamari, they don’t serve it at fast food joints. Indian food, I rarely know what I’m eating but it sure tastes good. Unsweet tea, I can blame my wife for that one. Back to alcohol I used to hate IPAs when they first got popular, now I love them a little too much. Guacamole is another good one.

[Seahawk]

I had an a particular, abrupt, schism in my tastes as I aged: I went from Orange flavored Metamucil to Apple.

Game changer

Lots of real changes in diet and taste, however. A good thing.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

I had an a particular, abrupt, schism in my tastes as I aged: I went from Orange flavored Metamucil to Apple.

Game changer

Lots of real changes in diet and taste, however. A good thing.

I used to eat at least 1 apple a day most of the year. When sumo oranges are in season (short season) I switch because they are so tasty. Part of it was that I took my lunch to work, and would eat an apple which cleaned most of the crap out of my teeth, then I'd floss to get any bits of apple skin out. So the apples were keeping my mouth clean and keeping things moving along. These days, I eat less fruit because I'm either not in the office or not eating in the office, but I've replaced a meal a day with one of those bags of salad. I like the variety of stuff and flavors, and again, they keep things moving right along.

[KFC911]

Kansas Seafood .... it's an acquired taste

[WPOZZZ]

I used to be a meatatarian, but don't eat much beef nowdays. I used to salivate at the thought of a prime rib. Now, I'll choose chicken, fish or tofu. I made some airflown Japan wagyu steaks for Xmas dinner for the gf, myself and my dog. Totally tender, but it was so oily from all the marbling. The dog loved it, but I think the gf and I will stick to New York strip if we cook steaks.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by KC911

Kansas Seafood .... it's an acquired taste

Yeah, I'm not big on seafood restaurants once I get too far from the coast.

This is a gas station on Interstate 10 in Central Texas. We're fairly close to the coast, but I would have to be hungry to go here for some seafood.

[Bill Douglas]

I used to eat crazy chit hot Indian food. Like chicken vindaloo. But after 3/4th of a lifetime it occurred to me it's only the chilli I'm tasting. It might as well been chilli cardboard and it would taste the same. So now I eat Indian food at about medium hotness level.

I'm also less fussy. I'll eat most foods just to avoid cooking it myself and doing the dishes.

[WPOZZZ]

Originally Posted by Bill Douglas

I used to eat crazy chit hot Indian food. Like chicken vindaloo. But after 3/4th of a lifetime it occurred to me it's only the chilli I'm tasting. It might as well been chilli cardboard and it would taste the same. So now I eat Indian food at about medium hotness level.

I'm also less fussy. I'll eat most foods just to avoid cooking it myself and doing the dishes.

I wish my gf would understand that. She's from Korea and whenever she travels home, she tells me she has gotten so weak because she can't handle the hot stuff. I told her a little heat is nice, but not when it obliterates your taste buds.

[id10t]

Think my only real change has been in my liquids... when I eliminated excessive sugar and stopped drinking coke, sweet tea, and sugar in my coffee. With my coffee, I went from lots of cream (and even that flavored stuff) and sugar to just milk or cream and sugar, to just milk or cream, and then about 6 months ago for some reason I started drinking it black.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Bill Douglas

I used to eat crazy chit hot Indian food. Like chicken vindaloo. But after 3/4th of a lifetime it occurred to me it's only the chilli I'm tasting. It might as well been chilli cardboard and it would taste the same. So now I eat Indian food at about medium hotness level.

I'm also less fussy. I'll eat most foods just to avoid cooking it myself and doing the dishes.

I like spicy food, but not so spicy that my only experience is pain. I like to taste the food, so yeah, I eat what I'd consider "medium" although I've eaten stuff that many folks called "too spicy". But I've also had a couple of times where I ate something that was SPICY! One of these days, I want to buy one of the collections of hot sauce from the YouTube show "Hot Ones" just to see where my taste sits on that scale. My son eats really spicy food. I think he likes the experience rather than the flavor.

What I've heard is that 1 you can train yourself to eat more and more spicy stuff just by eating more spicy stuff and spicier stuff than you're used to. Also, how people experience capsaicin is a genetic thing. Some folks just don't have the receptors for it, so it doesn't do anything to them. I would assume that some folks may have more receptors than others which would probably affect the intensity of the effect.

[onewhippedpuppy]

Originally Posted by KC911

Kansas Seafood .... it's an acquired taste

What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger!

[GH85Carrera]

As a kid I was a very picky eater. Once I became an adult, and had my own place and only ate my own cooking, I loved going to other people's house to eat just about anything I did not have cook.

One girlfriend had her birthday the week before Thanksgiving. I was invited to her parents house, and got along fine with them. Her mom cooked a great meal, and I complimented her cooking and asked for seconds. I told her I had learned from a buddy to compliment the cook, and ask for seconds, and you will get invited back. A week later was Thanksgiving, and my mom went to Africa with a big group from the local zoo. Dad went to some other relatives house, so I was invited to my girlfriends house. Her mom pointed out it worked this time, but not again! Her dad hired me to help him with his computer.

I will never forget when we went to a local Cajun restaurant that has great food. As a side dish I ordered the delicious squash Rockefeller. My mom feigned a heart attack at me ordering squash as I was not a fan of it growing up. Now I like broccoli, asparagus and cauliflower, but not as a kid.

As an adult I can't think of any food I don't like that I used to. I used to drink soda. I have not had a soda in decades, they are just too sweet, and the diet crap sucks.

[Evans, Marv]

I've always been a hard core meat eater. These days, not so much. On the occasions when my wife & I have a steak, it's usually a thin cut rib eye under 3/4 lb. that we share. It seems my tastes for foods has changed (enlarged) through my life to a point there was nothing I wouldn't eat. In the last several years I've lost the desire for meats & sugar. I never had a taste for coffee (although I drink it with stevia and cream) and tea. It seems that there are lots of things i have lost the ability to taste distinctly. I think it's probably a fairly universal thing as we age.

Today I was in Albartson's. They had cow leg bones (no meat attached) for $23 and hooves for $2.99/lb. I didn't know the tastes of the population had changed that much.

[cabmandone]

I find as I get older that everything still goes pretty well with beer.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy

What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger!

I think many fellas here approached mating with that philosophy.

[cabmandone]

FWIW, at 53 I still haven't gotten old enough to like cranberry sauce. Might take another 53 years. Doesn't go well with beer or anything else I've tried it with.