"It's an aquired taste..."
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Plenty, beer, wine, sardines, there's a whole heap of other things too. It's not like you expect to suddenly like something that you previously hated but sometimes it does happen. I never liked coffee and I still don't. I can drink the stuff, and I do when I need to pull all nighters but I can't stand the after taste or the lingering coffee breath. It reeks and I hate people that always smell like stale coffee.
Beer. Coffee. All vegetables ever, including olives. Whiskey. Wine. Dark chocolate. Soft caramels. Pretty much all of these things I absolutely detested when I was younger, but now some of them are my favourite things. Sometimes it happens over time - I gradually started eating more of the vegetables on my plate, I kept tasting a sip of beer when it was offered to me, because every time I did, it seemed to taste a little less bitter. Sometimes it happened abruptly, like the time I woke up one morning, and thought "y'know, I could really go for some coffee right now", after a lifetime of detesting the slightest smell of the stuff. Or how I always hated the taste of olives, right up until the day I saw a picture of a turkey sandwich with plenty of olives, and thought "hey, that doesn't actually look too bad..." And then I liked olives. Just like that.
It seems strange, but hey, it happens. Something being an "aquired taste" really isn't just a load of bullshit, as it turns out.
It seems strange, but hey, it happens. Something being an "aquired taste" really isn't just a load of bullshit, as it turns out.
You'd be right. Maybe I just don't understand the concept of eating something until I "get used to it". If you have to learn to tolerate the taste of something why eat it? This is not to say you should never try something again, but why force yourself to like something?WrongSprite said:
Now in complete disregard for what I just told WrongSprite, I forced myself into tolerating beer. Up until my senior year in high school I really disliked every beer I drank, but drank them anyway for obvious reasons. Eventually I learned to like beer, but with normal food I'm not sure why you'd put yourself through the same gauntlet to get to that point.VanityGirl said:
This. And vodka. Being able to drink something with a fair amount of vodka, or even just vodka straight... that took me a few tries to finally enjoy. I still don't terribly enjoy straight vodka but I love drinks with vodka mixed in.VanityGirl said:
My friends have all acquired a taste for tea. I've been trying to make myself like it but it's yet to actually work.
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. (Cookie for reference) But seriously thanks for posting, the whole evolution spin is interestin' I might just have to hop over to my local Google search and look that up.manythings said:
Beer for me, I used to feel sick whenever I drank it, and then at Download Festival in 2007 it was pretty much all I drank for the whole time I was there, now I can drink it whenever
also how you use your taste buds changes over your life. As a child we use more of the taste buds on the tip of our tounges (which are for sweeter foods) where as we use more of the ones at the rear of the tounge (for savoury foods) as we get older.manythings said:
Simpsons. It has analogues. Why do you think people from different cultures can consider each others delicacies to be vile? None of the people inherent to the groups have developed a societal mistrust of their own foods, since that is what they live on, but conversely have attached memetic disgust to things that are considered unclean by their society. Jews and Kosher food is a pretty common example whereas a person of catholic descent, namely me, loves a good pork chop.scoHish said:
alcoholic drinks, be it wine, beer or stronger. Which is a bit strange since i drink all kinds of beer and a few choice hard liquers, but i still wont touch wine, sometimes i still try it because someone claims to have a "really fine wine" and i still put it down after a sip.
cigarettes are an aquired taste too. Allthough i guess the whole addiction aspect has a major impact in that too.
cigarettes are an aquired taste too. Allthough i guess the whole addiction aspect has a major impact in that too.
My guess will be some people want to acquire a test for 'fancy' foods to make themselves look classy or dignified in front of others. For instance, you wouldn't want to spit out a plate of snails in a fancy place.scoHish said:
I'm just assuming people want to acquire tastes to just fit in with their peers or with the group they would like to associate with.
I think you have the meaning of 'aquired taste' a little lopsided. It literally means that one aquires the taste, ie, the thing isn't universally considered 'tasty'. It doesn't mean that you will one day change your mind, yet you might aquire the taste for it one day, who knows. There's no sense in getting upset about it. The person wasn't belittling you or anything. For example, Vegemite (from Australia) is an aquired taste. Not everybody likes it. Natto (from Japan) is an aquired taste. I find it repulsive though millions of people love it. Some love it BECAUSE it's repulsive. I think that that last example sheds some light onto what an 'aquired taste' can be. But yes, people's interests and preferences to change over time for various reasons, but I don't consider the 'aquired taste' to be necessariyt part of that process. I lover listening to Scandinavian Viking Folk Metal. That's an aquired taste. In fact, I didn't love it right away, but it 'grew on me' and now I adore that kind of music.
I like Brussel Sprouts now. Though apparently as you get older you no longer taste a bitter chemical in them so it's not really an acquired taste.
Beer is an acquired taste... Wine, especially reds, are an acquired taste. I, however, never acquired the taste for beer. It's pretty much swill in my book - to be drunk only in the event that there is nothing else available. Now vodka, on the other hand...VanityGirl said: