acquired taste?

[Rashaddd 5,000+ posts]

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

I think this is your first legitimate post which both made sense and was rather informative. Please tell me there are legitimate sources out there to back this up.

 

[cotjones 10+ year member]

I think this is your first legitimate post which both made sense and was rather informative. Please tell me there are legitimate sources out there to back this up.

Well the source is what i remember from psychology, but if this is the first post of mine that was interesting, you should look harder, eh MOT deleted the best one.

 

[yne721 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

this completely makes sense. thank you.

 

[groundpound4200 5,000+ posts]

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.

X2 on everything except I eat olives

 

[lilmaniac2 5,000+ posts]

Smell is a large contributing factor to taste.

 

[Rashaddd 5,000+ posts]

Well the source is what i remember from psychology, but if this is the first post of mine that was interesting, you should look harder, eh MOT deleted the best one.

lies.