acquired taste?

[jdawg 5,000+ posts]

I used to hate onions up until my early 20's, now ill eat an onion sandwich

 

[funkyab 10+ year member]

anyone that talks about how they once hated beer but started to like has to be 17 years old or younger.

 

[rtillaree 10+ year member]

idk, like when I was a kid, I hated mustard and loved ketchup, now I cant stand ketchup and love mustard, got like 40 different kinds in the fridge, that's acquiring the taste for something, isnt it?

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

i hate when you say you don't like something because it tastes like shit, and their reply is "it's an acquired taste"
let me break it down for you. it's an acquired taste, because you thought it tasted like shit too. You just forced yourself to keep eating/drinking it for whatever reason, probably to be accepted by somebody.

i'm sure if you ate rotten eggs for long enough, they'd eventually become "an acquired taste" also.

Thousand-Year Old EggsIf the thought of eating food that could have been served to an Emperor during the Song dynasty offends your culinary sensibilities, relax. Thousand-year-old eggs aren’t really that old. A more accurate name for this pungent hors d’oeuvre would be salted or preserved eggs. Thousand-year old eggs (also called century eggs or hundred-year old eggs), are made by preserving duck eggs in ash and salt for one-hundred days. This turns the white of the egg a darkish gray color, giving the eggs an ancient appearance. Definitely an acquired taste, thousand-year old eggs have a strong salty flavor.

yup

 

[crunktimes.com 5,000+ posts]

I have always been like this with all kinds of alcohol. Never will like it but after a few it starts to taste better and better until it is like water //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

I hate onions, peppers, mushrooms and tomatoes and will never eat them.

 

[vgeek 10+ year member]

Beets? How does one acquire a taste for dirt clods?

A+ I remember my dad telling me they were cranberry sauce when I was little, I couldn't get the taste out of my mouth. There really is a condition called pica where people have the craving for dirt, maybe beets are a healthier alternative?

 

[bdawson72 5,000+ posts]

Technically they are "malt liquor" but that's the order in which I started drinking.

Not all 40's are malt liquor //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

Also your taste changes every 7 years I believe. I just hope I start to like onions soon, its the texture that kills me. But they are in everything thats good it seems.

Its true.

idk, like when I was a kid, I hated mustard and loved ketchup, now I cant stand ketchup and love mustard, got like 40 different kinds in the fridge, that's acquiring the taste for something, isnt it?

Maybe

 

[cobra65427289 10+ year member]

I used to hate mustard when I was younger. All of the sudden one day I liked it. Not all tastes are acquired.

 

[Johnny Law.Lulz 5,000+ posts]

your taste buds change every 7 years too Suposidly - Taste buds FTL

 

[SPLV 10+ year member]

sushi and rare steak. you have to try it at least 2-3 times before you start to develop a taste/craving for it.

 

[lvjeffro 10+ year member]

I try something, if it tastes like shit to me, i don't try it again so there is no way for me to aquire a taste for anything that isn't tastey from the start...

 

[iDesignBoxes 10+ year member]

I have never ate a salad before in my life... I've tried to taste it but I don't enjoy eating lettuce, tomatoes or olives. I don't like mustard or mayo either. When I think of eating lettuce, I think of eating leaves or grass.

I've recently found ranch dressing to be quite a delicacy. French fries and hot wings with ranch dressing is awesome.

Sometimes I wonder if I'll ever be able to chow down on a salad without gagging.

 

[Pootie 10+ year member]

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[TIeclipseMOJO 10+ year member]

beer and monster were both aquired tastes for me. I didnt like the taste of etiher at first, now i actually like the TASTE of beer, as in i can drink one with dinner because i like the taste

 

[cotjones 10+ year member]

Total misconception by the OP here, you are thinking of taste wrong...

The alignments of a person's taste buds are only influencial to the intensity of certain taste sensations they have absolutley nothing to do with what tastes good or bad to a person.

All tastes are aquired. The process of aquiring a taste is mearly becoming familiar with a food.

The foods that a person does not like are the ones least familiar to them.

So if you are asking, no cause i've liked things I've never tried before, It is always because that food has one or a combination of familiar flavors. The more familiar a taste becomes, the better it tastes untill you become tired of it.

When you are a baby, your brain has over twice the synapses as when you are an adult, and its essentially very flexible. During this time it is easy to make a babies mind more familiar with different tastes so he will be less picky when he gets older.

There is an exception. Nearly 95% of people have refused to try a food because of the way it looks.

Edit: second thought, don't quote me on that 95% i'm not sure if i'm remembering that figure correctly