Topic: Changing tastes

[Mimi]

My tastes have changes quite a bit over the years but more in what I prefer to eat than what I like or dislike.  Im one of the 'babyboomers'' so post war parents had had years of waste not, want not.  We were almost forcefed with stew when I was little (being the eldest of 5 kids folks just couldnt afford waste of anything)  Mum made stews with shine beef and to this day its the only thing that I loathe.I will try most things  and love to cook when there is a houseful. 
OH has had a major change with foods.  He loathed yoghurt and anything that looked or tasted like it.  Now after a couple of years on probiotic drinks ...........he adores the stuff.  Weird.  He is also reverting to a childhood dislike of veggies  :o  (who could loathe veggies) its beyond me.   He will now only eat peas.

[Annadl]

My dad was from the north of Italy, mum from the south.  I ate EVERY combination they came up with.  But got really sick of tomatoes in the pasta sauces & beef and after the age of 30 couldn't stomach anything with tomato in!!

The only thing I can't stand is the smell of banana peel (very rarely eat it) and anything with grated coconut in it.  Yet I love fresh coconut but not the juice.

Nope, I think I am a rarity.  My tastes haven't changed at all.  Except since I have watched what I eat and tried to elliminate sugar & refined carbohydrates in my diet I can really taste the sugar in things I haven't eaten for a while, such as biscuits, cool drinks (taste like poison to me now), shop bought cereals & muesli bars, tomato sauce etc...  Everything tastes so sweet.

Gosh I shouldn't have answered this question ???  You've got me started!!!

[dandelion]

My tastes haven't really changed either. I like almost everything and always have. But then my parents would take feed me snails and frogs legs on holiday in France when I was 6! The only thing I'm not too keen on is raspberries. It's like eating perfume...

My youngest daughter's favourite food has been olives and pickles since she was a toddler. I can't leave a bowl of olives on the kitchen table ...she'll secretly eat them all ;D.

[Mrs Ava]

oooooooo, forgot about things like rollmops and pickles!  CAN"T STAND THEM!  Hate vinegar, UNLESS it is in my own homemade pickles or chutneys, or a little splash of GOOD balsamic in dressings or sauces.

Wouldn't eat whelks when I was a child, but loved winkles, but now don't mind whelks, altho would rather have a pint of winkles!  Used to like turbot, now cannot stand the taste, and yet, I love all other fish!!

[robkb]

Just recently I've had major conversions to custard and bread and butter pudding - hated them when I was a kid but now I love them both! Although being diabetic I probably shouldn't... :o

Cheers,
Rob ;)

[terrace max]

Imagine if allotments were banned - I don't think I could change back to supermarket 'fruit' and 'veg' all year  :P

[wardy]

Too true TM.  I have managed without buying any carrots which I ran out of about August due to poor planning on my part  :(  Rather than buy them I've managed without, using celeriac, leeks, spuds and onions.  It grieves me now to have to buy supermarket tomatoes - although I do look for the tastiest  :)

Rob   Have you made bread and butter pudding with jam - you just spread the bread with butter and your favourite jam.  Lovely  :)

[katynewbie]

....Or bread and butter pudding with thick cut good marmalade spread on the bread. Gives it a bitter/sweet tang........slurp!!

 ;D

[Derekthefox]

Just realised, I don't drink tea now either, yet I used to live on the stuff...

Derekthefox :D

[robkb]

Rob   Have you made bread and butter pudding with jam - you just spread the bread with butter and your favourite jam.  Lovely  :)

That's the special low-sugar diabetic version is it Wardy? :o ;D Sounds delish though, must give it a try... and I saw a recipe somewhere the other day that had plums in it, just the picture made me drool... is it lunchtime yet?

Cheers,
Rob ;)

[Carol]

I am an extremely boring eater and it should be 'what do i eat' because I haave a restricted diet due to absolutely rotten innards and fussy taste buds.  My diet has been gone over by a dietician and was told I do eat healthily.  I do not drink alcohol, tea or coffee.  So my drink is water as lots of you know!!!  I dont eat fish (cant stand it).  I eat chicken, beef, lamb, turkey.  I eat most vegetables except onions although I do flavour my stews with Onion and my soups.  I cant stand Pasta in any form.  Chinese, Indian or any foreign cooking.  I do not like cooked tomato or cheese.  My innards do not like Cauliflower, although I used to like it with a sauce.  I have started to like cooked Rice but not got round to eating it with aa meal.  So really I  eat to live and not the other way round like most folk.  Live to eat!!!!

[wardy]

Gawd I envy you Carol  ;D  I live to eat ,and as I over indulge in all departments, the middle aged spread is well - spreading  ;D  I live on tea, coffee, alchohol, eat everything except turkey.  Don't get me wrong I adore turkey but I'm allergic to it and if I eat it I get carted off in an ambulance  ;D

So I wish I was a tee total fussy eater  ;D

[Delilah]

Mince pies, chrissy cake and pud - only tried them again last year and love them now ;D

EJ - I loathe aniseed, got rip roaring drunk  :-[ on pernod and black when 17 and can,t even cope with the smell now!!

Have never eaten meat, got in loads of trouble when a child for not eating it (was always told to eat up my meat but not the veggies if I wasn't hungry, hows that for strange logic).  fIf I walk past a butchers shop and get a wiff of raw meat it turns my stomach...yuck!

Aiken -  ;D :D :)

[Derekthefox]

I agree on the mince pies and fruit cake Delilah, but you forgot to mention the rhubarb wine ...

Derekthefox :D

[wardy]

I was once in a Pernod drinking competition - guess who won  ;D  Ridiculous carry on and I've never repeated the exercise  :-[

[Derekthefox]

Pernod arrrggghhhh!!!!!!

Derekthefox :D

[Delilah]

, but you forgot to mention the rhubarb wine ...

Derekthefox :D

and Brandy, just suddenly found a taste for a little tipple now and again ;D

and pepper, hated it as a child, now can't eat a meal without black pepper :)

I take it you won the pernod comp then Wardy - hope you weren't as ill as I was after my pernod session :(

[undercarriage plan]

Very curious, also had bad experience with pernod.....well think the experience was darn good, was the mornng after..... ::) and at 17, so same here, can't go near it....used to love it though....am smiling though,  cos what a blast!!!! ;D ;D ;D ;)

[Delilah]

We ve been through soooooooooooooo much together Lottie ;D

[moonbells]

Pernod arrrggghhhh!!!!!!

Derekthefox :D

Definitely me too!
I can't stand aniseed or liquorice - never could - and it sadly led to an embarrassing incident just after I was 18 and allowed to drink legally.  Chap in pub asked if he could buy me a drink and me having no idea what I liked, I said surprise me.

You can guess the rest.

Dunno who was more embarrassed.

Have to admit that when it comes to drinks I once had too much of and now can't touch, mine's Tequila.  Student friend had a bottle at a party one Sat night and asked me if I would like a tequila slammer (salt, lime etc). Two of those and a couple of glasses of wine were enough to give me the hangover from hell.  Still being ill at 6pm the following day...  but then again 2 glasses of wine still give me a hangover so I don't exactly have the world's greatest alcohol tolerance!

moonbells