When did your tastebuds start to change?

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  • melaniedscott
    melaniedscott Posts: 1,458 Member
    AnvilHead wrote: »
    not_my_first_rodeo wrote: »
    stevencloser wrote: »
    They don't. That's just your brain.

    Actually they do change. They definitely change as you age.

    For some people, I guess. I wasn't a picky eater as a kid and I'm not a picky eater as an adult. I still like (and dislike) all the same things I did from clear back to my childhood. I honestly can't think of one thing I didn't eat back then that I eat now, or vice versa.

    It might be more preparation than preference. I thought I hated eggplant and asparagus when I was a kid. Was introduced to these as an adult well prepared and love them. My mom's cooking sucked kitten.
  • HeidiCooksSupper
    HeidiCooksSupper Posts: 3,839 Member
    edited October 2016
    melaniedscott wrote: »
    It might be more preparation than preference. I thought I hated eggplant and asparagus when I was a kid. Was introduced to these as an adult well prepared and love them. My mom's cooking sucked kitten.

    Ah, yes, fond memories of Mom's leaden meat loaf, shoe-leather liver, pork chops so thoroughly cooked you could break them. Oh, and the color coordinated meals. Fish, potatoes and cauliflower. Salmon, carrots and sweet potatoes. Summer squash was always thoroughly boiled and then mashed into a watery slurry. Mom's a dear woman thoroughly enjoying the dinners she now gets in her CCRC's dining room.

  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
    It took a few weeks for me to stop craving carbage, and by the end of the first year the taste of most of it didn't taste good any more.
  • Therealobi1
    Therealobi1 Posts: 3,262 Member
    taste buds not changed yet. still cant stand olives, avocado and cottage cheese.
    mcdonalds i eat but not every week same with kfc. still enjoy them.
    oh well
  • GottaBurnEmAll
    GottaBurnEmAll Posts: 7,722 Member
    edited October 2016
    My taste buds are weird with some things. I go through phases where I adore coffee, and then I suddenly loathe it. I'm in a loathing spell right now.

    I've never liked anything overly sweet, even as a child. This isn't to say that there aren't sweet things I do like. I just don't like super sugary items.

    I also was never overly fond of fast food, except for McDonald's fries. They have gluten in them, so I can't have them, and there are better french fries out there anyway. I also appreciate a good baked potato just as much and that's much easier to fit into my plan regularly.

    So... I don't know. My tastes have evolved over the years of just trying different foods. I tend to naturally like healthier foods, but I do like some treat-type items as well.
  • salembambi
    salembambi Posts: 5,585 Member
    When I went vegan years ago it took about a year for me to notice that dairy and eggs now completely repulsed me the smell of dairy products now just makes me feel ill same with eggs

    I lost my taste for fast food when I went vegetarian a good 12 years ago no desire at all for any of it . If I want burgers ,fries,burritos I'll either make my own or go to a vegan restaurant and get the good stuff.

    My tolerance of sugar has dramatically decreased as well .I no longer want heaps of candy like I used to frequently eat... although I've never lost my taste for ice cream it's just changed to the vegan kind
  • canadianlbs
    canadianlbs Posts: 5,199 Member
    i went off chocolate somewhere back there . . . i'm not even sure when it happened. idk, maybe it's a sign that my been-there-done-that t-shirt is in the mail from the menopause gods.

    but, yeah. it's a little bit weird because my head still remembers what the chocolate fans are experiencing. but it just isn't there anymore. chocolate's genuinely turned into this thing i might nibble a small corner of if i were being polite, but that i'd just as soon not have to deal with at all.

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