I’ve started to really like just mustard and sauerkraut on my hotdogs and racing games over FPS because they’re a little slower paced.
When you’re a kid you want the icing. When you’re an adult you want the cake.
Am adult, want icing.
I want good icing, not that awful shortening-based shit you get on most commercial cakes. And to be honest, I mostly only want good cake too (ie, homemade or from a bougie bakery).
Instructions unclear, lost interest in both.
Fat > sugar, IMO
I was never interested in frosting, but then I met buttercream frosting, cream cheese frosting, and the like. When used sparingly, without overwhelming the cake/cupcake, it’s divine :D
I used to be a boobs guy but as I have grown older, I have really started to appreciate the ass. 🤌
I hated music without lyrics.
Now most of the music I prefer has no vocalist, or is extremely limited.
Less and less do I like those damn kids playing on my lawn.
I remember being that kid on the lawn, and I understand where they guy was coming from. Lawns are a lot of work!
I mean kids are kids, I can live with their silliness. What I can’t stand is adults walking their dogs and not picking up the dog’s shit. Absolute assholes!
lol kids don’t play outside anymore
Dark chocolate is tasty all of a sudden
When I was a kid, I hated dark chocolate and loved milk chocolate. As an adult, I csnt stand milk chocolate, but I love dark chocolate.
Dark chocolate and a cab Sauvignon is the ticket
Have always loved dark chocolate. As I got older I liked the darker stuff more. 85-90%. (Fyi 100% is no good. Lol.) Milk chocolate has always been a no for me. Best I can do is tolerate it if the flavor is mostly masked by whatever it is encasing.
When I was a kid, I loved pizza rolls but hated bagel bites. I have recently tried them both again, and now pizza rolls taste like shit, but bagel bites are pleasantly delicious.
Guacamole was disgusting to me as a kid; not for the taste but for the texture and appearance. How can adults really want to eat lumpy green slime? This is almost as gross as smoking cigarettes!
Well, smoking cigarettes is still disgusting, but guacamole is awesome.
So many food things! Oysters, all kinds of cheese, guacamole… way too much to list.
I hated avocado because all I’d had was guacamole, it was sour nonsense and I didn’t like the look of them and also thought a fattening vegetable was an awful thing (anorexic teen). But once I actually tried an avocado, not guacamole, I was hooked. Ate them all summer when I was 20 and didn’t gain a pound, LOL. Now I do also like fresh guacamole but still won’t eat the processed crap.
Same boat. I couldn’t even stand the look of guacamole. Now you have to keep it away from me for the opposite reason!
I loved booze as a young adult. I didn’t quit drinking for some noble reason, I just didn’t like it anymore. And cold cookies, as in put that girl scout cookie into the fridge until it gets nice and cold, then eat it. Who knew…
Also, switched from liking rap music to preferring extreme metal, like grindcore or tech death metal.
Used to not like coffee. Then I started to love the taste because I associated it with caffeine. Now I get too jittery so I drink decaf. Life is ironic.
I went from basically a home made milkshake called coffee in the morning to 100% black, can’t stand a grain of sugar or drop of milk/creamer in my coffee.
Also think I became a coffee snob too :(
Spicy foods! When I was younger, birds eye chilli in my meal would spoil my meal as a teenager, and I grew up in a spice loving family. Nowadays I love the kick that chill adds to foods, and I’ve even dared tiny bites of a Carolina Reaper (and have survived to tell this tale).
Gaming wise, I don’t prefer FPS games to my old standbys of strategy and turn based RPG games, but I actually find some enjoyment in playing them now, even though objectively my reaction time is worse. I just accept I’m a mediocre player, haha.
When it comes to books, I crave reading more sci-fi and fantasy books. I don’t avoid ‘heavy’ topics in these genres, but I don’t find contemporary literature appealing and prefer a bit of escapism. Maybe I’m just looking at the wrong book recommendations.
I used to avoid spicy food too. I couldn’t handle all of the heat.
Then I came down with COVID, recovered, and later went out to a restaurant called Dave’s Hot Chicken with my brother and some friends. We got their Carolina Reaper chicken and I was hooked. Before I knew it I was making my own Carolina Reaper hot sauce and loving the burn.
I’m not sure if it’s due to the COVID or just changes in my preferences but the timing sure was coincidental.
On the FPS front, I used to love playing games like Call of Duty and I was pretty good at them, then I moved to slightly slower paced shooters like Battlefield, and now I don’t play much FPS games at all.
These days I’m more a fan of slower paced games that make you think a bit. I really enjoyed Factorio and also had a lot of fun with Stormworks. Making microcontrollers and getting to write my own Lua code to power my vehicles is a hell of a lot of fun.
I didn’t like pickles on my mcdonalds burgers. I don’t know why, they’re great.
I was the same with pickles, and now I’m getting through a jar a week.
I strangely went the opposite way on that, I liked them as a kid but find them too sour now.
That bite when you find the pickle
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Smooth Jazz and 80s music. I had to work real hard to like vegetables. It’s an ongoing saga. But one day smooth jazz and 80s music just hit me, and woke something up deep in my spinal column. It’s purely nostalgia, and the initial delivery method was probably Spotify being very liberal with recommendations based on vaporwave and synthwave stuff. But synth and sax and all the stuff I used to find tacky and irritating as a child just made me feel at home. The word nostalgia gets abused these days but my sudden appreciation for the sounds of my childhood and the way they consistently make me feel like I’m nestled snug into the beige carpet of a Huber home, just existing without a care in the world…that’s some deep nostalgia. And it’s also nice to mentally congratulate myself on evolving to appreciate stuff I was too snobby or dense or whatever to like growing up.
Mitch Murder - Then Again
Instantly takes me back 30 years.
I used to hate fresh tomatoes. Now I love it. I used to love really spicy hot stuff, but now it makes me sick if it’s too hot.
I used to hate fresh tomatoes and basically anything with tomato when I was a kid. Now I’ve got used to every thing that’s made out tomatoes but still can’t eat fresh/raw tomatoes. I think it’s the texture for me and sometimes it’s okay to not like some things.
I hated tomatoes growing up. As an adult I realized it all comes down to the texture, my parents would always cut them with dull knives and manhandle them until they were all mushy. Cut them with sharp knives and keep them slightly firm and they’re suddenly 1000% better.
If you live somewhere you can grow tomatoes, do it. There’s nothing like a fresh off the vine tomato you grew yourself.
Also they taste way better than grocery tomatoes (assuming you’re in the US)
I used to hate tomatoes too. Couldn’t figure out why my brother and mother would eat them all the time, they dipped them in salt even. At some point I started liking foods made with tomatoes like pizza and so on. The point at which tomatoes started making sense to my is when I worked out they were a fruit, so rather than waiting for a savoury taste I knew I was getting a slightly less sweet grape. And then I deduced from that you could have a grape and Camembert sandwich. If you haven’t tried this combo, you’re missing out.
What do you have on it besides camembert and grapes? My favorites camembert sandwich is with mayo, Tabasco, smoked ham and olives. And the bread has to be super fresh, I’m already drooling!
I just do Camembert and grapes in a bit of buttered French stick but your combo sounds very tasty.
I need to try that. Sounds like a good way to start the day :)
For the life of me I can’t bring myself to enjoy fruit now, any of it. I used to be an apple a day person but I have completely lost that kind of sweet tooth. Conversely, I spent the first 20 or so years of my life avoiding anything that resembled lettuce, and the next 20 happy to have a Caesar salad once in a while, but only Caesar salad. At this point I find myself making a salad every evening out of whatever veggies I can think of to put in it.
Mushrooms. When I was younger I just knew I hated them, then as I got older I realized it was because after I had more than a mouthful of them my throat started burning. I figured it was an allergy and that was that… then I fell in love with a woman whose third favorite food is mushrooms. She spent years trying to find a way to get me to appreciate mushrooms, and not a casual effort I should add. First we figured I was fine with Enoki mushrooms (the little beansprout-like ones you get in Miso soup sometimes), then it was Oyster mushrooms which are pretty damn versatile, if low on flavor. Started incorporating those into my cooking, and for years that was the extent of it until one day I had something with white mushrooms in it and realized the damndest thing: my throat wasn’t burning. I’m not sure how or why, but whatever problem I had with mushrooms had gone away. Now I have mushrooms almost every day, usually as part of my breakfast.
TL;DR: Mushrooms kick ass.
