Changing Taste Buds

[Narragansett]

I have noticed certain changes in my likes and dislikes. I have been a coffee drinker all of my life. I put the pot on every morning. In the last few months I don't care if I have coffee or not, and go without several days a week. I seemingly don't feel that I miss it.

I am a big seafood fan, but never liked fried scallops or prepared any other way. Now, they are great.

Never touched sweet potatoes. Did not like them. Now I prefer them to white potatoes.

Still won't get near beets or anything I used for bait like mussels or squid

 

[s&wchad]

Scallops, sweet potatoes, beets, mussels... Yum!

Squid is much more appetizing if you call it Calamari!

 

[oldbrownhat]

... I have been a coffee drinker all of my life. I put the pot on every morning. In the last few months I don't care if I have coffee or not, and go without several days a week. I seemingly don't feel that I miss it....

IMHO that's a serious sign of The Beginning of the End

Squid is much more appetizing if you call it Calamari!

Not being an adventurous eater, I remember I was fairly well "lubricated" the first time I tried calamari, many decades ago. It wasn't as repulsive as I thought. My conclusion: "Deep-fried rubber bands."

 

[lihpster]

Only times I have eaten Calamari, was at a Greek restaurant that used to be in downtown Portland. It was very good. I'm sure the ouzo had nothing to do with it.

 

[ameridaddy]

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Squid is much more appetizing if you call it Calamari!

I call them pencil erasers.

 

[spricks]

I ate Calamari at a buffet once. I thought they were weird onion rings until the wife informed me that they were octopus.... first and last for me!

 

[LVSteve]

Well into my 20s I wouldn't touch broccoli or cauliflower. Now I'll eat both providing they are not overcooked. I still won't go near Brussels or cooked cabbage, though.

 

[taz666]

Remember when you were young and Boone Farms was the stuff?

 

[s&wchad]

I ate Calamari at a buffet once. I thought they were weird onion rings until the wife informed me that they were octopus....

Huh???
I guess it's safe to assume that your wife isn't a marine biologist.

Remember when you were young and Boone Farms was the stuff?

MD 20-20.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Radiation incinerated over half my taste buds. It was almost 9 months before I could handle semi-solid foods. It took almost 3 years to reclaim my palate.

For a while all foods tasted like what I imagined Flip-Flop Paté would taste like.

Since then my menu has grown exponentially.

Bon appétit. 🍽

 

[Xfuzz]

Couple places here on the island have great
fried calamari.
Usually get it as an appetizer.

Can't drink enough anymore to go with raw oysters on the
half shell.

Now..."Snot on a rock"...Wife can knock out half dozen like
they are grapes.

 

[bigmtnman]

I remember my mother complaining (in her 70's) about "things don't taste the same anymore". I feel I have lost a LOT of taste for, and of, things now also. Coffee used to be a morning necessity!! Panic might ensue if it was not available. I kept a back up coffee maker just in case of failure of #1 maker. Now I can take it or leave it ...no big deal. I can't taste peanut butter anymore as well as a lot of other things. I was recently shocked at a Thai restaurant when I had some red curry shrimp for the first time. The EXPLOSION of flavor was amazing I guess spices that were newer to my palate awakened some unused taste buds I also remember my mother and step father becoming enamored of baked sweet potatoes. When visiting in Florida with them one time a lot of discussion was devoted to the price, quality, variety, and preparation of sweet potatoes ! I also have gone through through my geriatric "sweet potato" phase. A few years ago I complained to a manager at a restaurant that their "special" ginger house dressing on their cobb salad had no taste at all. Now I realize it was probably just my dead taste buds .... sorry pal

Speaking of calamari ..... I once adventurously ordered the "stuffed calamari" at a high end Spanish restaurant in Wash. D.C. My thoughts after choking it down with lots of wine were .... I think I just ate an old piece of bicycle inner tube stuffed with hamburger helper !!

 

[Rustyt1953]

If I could afford them I would have raw oysters weekly.

 

[Tom S.]

The total amount of coffee I have consumed in my life would not fill a single cup. For some strange reason, I like the smell but hate the taste.

 

[Onomea]

I read an article fairly recently that said people in the US didn't start widely eating squid until the 1980s when someone had the bright idea of calling it, after the Italian, "Calamari." (And frying it.)

Sure enough, it took off. (I like it, too.) Now there's a squid shortage.

 

[paplinker]

The total amount of coffee I have consumed in my life would not fill a single cup. For some strange reason, I like the smell but hate the taste.

I feel the same way about liver. Smells great cooking.I try to convince myself this time I will like it.

I cannot even swallow one bite.

 

[Nightowl]

I read that one loses half of their taste buds by the age of 50! True or not, I have no idea, but, like others here, things don't taste like they used to!!

 

[s&wchad]

Picky eaters... I married one.
If you don't like liver, Calamari, duck or wild game, it was probably overcooked or not handled properly.

If you need to have your meat/seafood well done, you probably don't like meat or seafood.

 

[rockquarry]

Calamari is delicious. If it has a rubbery texture, it was probably cooked too long.

 

[kozmic]

There are less and less foods that I won't at least choke down once. I will even try things like beets, sweet potatoes and cranberry sauce at Thanksgiving. I figure I can always wash them down with a couple fingers of bourbon or a big wedge of pecan pie.
BTW, Uummmmm, calamari. Loved it from the first time I had it at a little dive bar on Long Island sound after a productive day of striper fishing.