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A bunch of people were excited about use of cream cheese..for French toast. :confused: With maple syrup on top. I guess...
I used to enjoy cream cheese.
Now I dislike it alot. I know, I know there's quality cream cheese, etc. But now it tastes heavy, gummy, etc.
When I was a kid, my Mother used to make me liversausage sandwiches with ketchup. Now, I find it totally repulsive.
Velveeta sandwiches with Miracle Whip on Wonder Bread.
I think commercial cream cheese has in fact gotten more processed. Real cream cheese still tastes like it is supposed to.
they say your taste buds change every 7 years. I have a few foods I've never been that fond of that I'm now able to tolerate, or vice versa.
I can't say there's anything that I really enjoyed before, but now hate. I've always been iffy with garlic, but every few years I'm "ok" with just a little bit of it in sauces. I still can't do raw garlic, though. blech. Same with eggs. Some years I'm all for eggs, but others the gag reflex is just beneath the surface whenever I have eggs.
I go through "phases" with certain foods. Sometimes I can eat a certain food every single day without giving it a second thought. Other times, I "gag" at thought of eating certain things...even if it's something that I normally like to eat. Go figure. :confused:
When I was a kid, I used to love bologna sandwiches. Nowadays...wouldn't touch them with a 10-foot pole. Another favorite of mine, as a kid...fried hotdogs! Yup...I would take a hotdog, slice it lengthwise, and fry it in butter!!!! :eek::eek::eek: I haven't eaten a hotdog in probably 20 years.
I like everything. Except sea cucumber.
There are things I won't eat, but it's mostly because of what it is or where it came from, not how it tastes.
ETA: "Things my mom used to make" reminded me of scrambled eggs with grape jelly. :eek: It looked scary (Frankenstein green), and I don't think I'd make them now, but it probably tasted fine. What's tamago after all, but a very sweet omelet?
My mom used to make bologna and pickle salad with mayo. It was my favorite food as a kid...ICK.
Got food poisoning after a steak & blue cheese sandwich with onion rings last year. I can still eat steak, but the smell of onion rings or blue cheese is enough to make me gag.
Eggs are a weird one with me. Generally I like them. But if anyone says the word "eggs" to me when I'm feeling nauseous...they're cleaning up the mess. (My sister has proven on at least two occasions that repeating that word will make me vomit profusely...her husband finds it hilarious).
Yep, Velveeta and Wonderbread. I liked them as a kid, I hate them now.
I also used to like Fluff. PB & Fluff was my favorite sandwich. How I ate that is beyond me...ICK!! :eek:
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Originally Posted by nscrbug
Guess that's no different than the old habit of saving bacon fat...to pan-fry something else.
As a quick, lazy meal-snack once upon a time, I used to put small pat of butter in a plate hot rice with a jot of soy sauce.
Well, hey this is "fusion" food. Sorta. :p
Badger, I'm still trying to figure out raw garlic???? Haven't yet had a dish with raw garlic.
I can think of a few things I make where the garlic is raw. I have a batch of basil and spinach pesto in the fridge with raw garlic. Tapenades and hummus often have raw garlic. I make a oil and vinegar dressing with raw garlic, too. I'm sure I'm forgetting others.Quote:
Originally Posted by shootingstar
I read recently in an issue of Cook's Illustrated that there are ways to chop garlic that lessen its intensity. Of course, I can't remember what those ways are off the top of my head. I'll have to look for it when I get home.
Raw garlic is served in Korean restaurants. It's part of the bonchon (I don't know if I'm anglicizing that right) I think.
I don't know if you are meant to toss it on the grill with the barbecue -- I know some people eat it raw.
Yes, forgot about raw garlic in hummus and pesto! It does add flavour which I love.
I'm not sure, Oak what it would take to get me to like sea cucumber also. :p I can eat all sorts of other stuff happily that has a gelatinous feel (puddings, tofu, etc.)...
I can even enjoy for a meal, stir-fried bitter melon which has a powerful ..bitter like taste. But I must have some rice or noodles on the side!
Some oil (olive oil and pignoli in pesto; olive oil in tapenade; olive oil and tahini in hummus) cuts the heat of raw garlic.
I learned this years ago when we used to treat colds with raw garlic. Embedding the cloves in peanut butter or tahini made it much easier to eat.
yeah, hummus and tzaziki are especially bad with raw garlic. Greek and Korean foods aren't on the top of my favourites list because of the garlic factor.
I hate the smell of garlic, too. I can still remember and gag at the thought of my mother's pork chops with minced garlic on top. Whenever she made it I had to leave the house and eat something else.
Same with raw onion (I love cooked onion, though!). Ironically, I don't mind the taste of raw onion and garlic, I just hate the lingering aftertaste. It really does make me nauseous in the morning after a garlicky/raw oniony meal.
Can I have your share, then? :oQuote:
Originally Posted by GLC1968
I'm having a tough time thinking of anything I liked as a kid, but no longer like. Perhaps pimento loaf--that bologna stuff with olives in it.
I don't eat shrimp or salmon anymore, but not because I don't like them...I love them. I started having allergic reactions when I would eat them (hives, stomach cramping, runs), so I had to quit them cold-turkey. :(
I used to love peanut butter but it's not done it for me for a while & vegemite has become my love.
Mmm..vegemite..mmmmmmmm
Nutella. I must have gone through about 100 jars through university and finally OD'd on it. I still haven't recovered.
I used to hate peanut butter as a kid. But now I love it.
Oh, another one is those chocolate ice cups (you know, the kind you get at christmas and it "melts" in your mouth?). I couldn't get enough of them as a kid and out of nostalgia I bought a package of them a couple of years ago. I threw them out, they were WAY too sweet.
Well, anything I no longer eat is either because of allergies (lobster, shrimp, clams, crab) or because it's fattening/unhealthy (raspberry danish for breakfast, pastrami, bologna, sugared cereal, chocolate cupcakes with vanilla frosting every night, fries...). But, overall, my mom cooked very healthy meals within the context of what we knew about good eating in the '50's, '60's, '70's. Never had Velveeta in my life.
But, there's a whole lot of ethnic cuisine I eat now that we just didn't have when I was a kid. Back in the day, ethnic food was Chinese food (Cantonese) on Thursday and/or Sunday nights.
Come on, you Jews know what I am talking about.
Underwood deviled ham--my mother used to make my school lunch sammiches with it on occasion. :p
Marshmallow sandwiches - that is a marshmallow cut in half and raisins inserted to make a sandwich. My Grandmother made them for me when I was quite young. I was convinced that these were the reason Heaven was invented, so they could be served there.
As an adult, and thinking fondly of my Grandmother, I made myself one. It was really sweet. Really, really, really sweet. Totally inedible. The reason Hell was invented.
I think I've eaten my last marshmallow sandwich.
Gosh, this post should be retitled: "Wierd foods I used to love." :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by MomOnBike
the more i eat unrefined food and lots of veggies and no meat the more meat and refined foods tastes bad to me. i used to like potato chips now they are gross to me. as a child i liked steak now i really really do not like steak. i used to like dairy now i don't
i guess i think what foods we eat effect what foods we like and what we crave
I know I never appreciated the flavors of vegetables until I went on a strict allergy diet - meaning no salad dressings at restaurants, because I couldn't have vinegar at all, and couldn't be sure that oil didn't contain corn oil.
Now that I'm not so strict, a few drops on a fork is plenty to flavor a salad. It's not that I don't like the flavors of salad dressings, but I have no desire to smother the flavor of the vegetables, either.
Ice cream's another thing that I don't desire one bit. If I taste a half a spoonful of someone else's, in a vacuum I could say I enjoy the way it tastes. But I can't separate it from how awful it's going to make me feel. No desire at all.
Yep - and cornbread crumbled up in milk. NOW both sounds icky...Quote:
Originally Posted by sundial
i have problems with people trying to push garbage on my son. they act like he is being deprived because we give him whole foods to eat but at almost 3 he loves vegetables and is willing to try any new food we offer him and loves healthy foods. the grandmothers tend to get a bit freaked out by the lack of junk food in his diet though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Muirenn
That is true. I never really craved junk food, but I'd have it occasionally. Now it tastes fake and chemically.Quote:
Originally Posted by moonfroggy
A couple of things I enjoyed as a kid and now can't stand: chicken nuggets (now I find the texture just...icky), bologna. Velveeta is another one...just the thought of it now is grossing me out, especially the post about Velveeta and Miracle Whip on Wonder bread!! Yuck.
Oh, yeah...Miracle Whip...I thought that stuff was great. Now it makes me wanna hurl. I'm a Hellman's mayo girl, ALL the way!
I don't understand that reaction in people regarding kids who prefer real food to junk food. Is it REALLY so terrible if a kid willingly picks carrot sticks over potato chips?Quote:
Originally Posted by moonfroggy
I've noticed that as I get older, my tolerance for sugar gets lower. Its not just for chocolate or other junk food but for soymilk and juices as well. Most of my junk food is homemade now, just so I can control the sugar and salt content and do weird things like adding flaxseeds to cracker sticks and brownies. :p
Frosting. I stopped liking it when I was about 13--just too sickly sweet. There are a couple types I like, but I can't seem to get them consistently. (So it annoys the heck out of me when my parents would go ahead and get a birthday cake for me, with no input from me...I don't want the thing custom-decorated! I want to be able to eat it!) Root beer too. I find most brands taste vaguely like cough syrup. Virgil's is pretty good, though. Sausage is another one. I just can't eat the sausage that shows up in most breakfast buffets any more. I stick with bacon!
The too-sweet thing, I guess, would apply to half the candy my grandmother would send in a giant box from the UK.
I have a lot that went the other way, though. Walnuts (puked after eating too many of them when I was five and I didn't touch them for 10 years!), fish, tea, salt and vinegar chips.
Twinkies! Only ever got them when I was at someone else's house because I was deprived by a mother who made homemade cookies instead. Thought they were to die for. Bought some as an adult...what was I thinking?! ICK!
Can't eat Tapioca pudding. Just the sight of it makes me start to salivate and not in the good way. Mom (yep, her again) fed it to me after I had sustained a concussion. Needless to say after projectile vomiting the stuff it lost its appeal.
Oddly I HATED pancakes and french toast as a kid. Now I love them but can't have them. Life is sooo unfair.
Oh man, I have always loved tapioca pudding. Should we start another thread for lifetime favorites?
I am a total sucker for starchy sweets. I really don't like candy either, but baked goods, tapioca, cobblers... :eek:
Oh yeah, and I still will not do shots of tequila since that time when I was 17. :eek: I'm finally a little old for that now, I suppose, so I have another excuse. :p
Deviled Ham. Used to like it when I was a kid. Bought some for field food, and it was WAY too salty. Dumped it out off the side of the road where I had stopped for lunch, checked the site a couple of days later, and even the skunks didn't eat it.
* field food - I used to work as a field biologist - needed food that didn't need refrigeration for my lunches and wanted a change from PB&J. I would drive from one study site to another, then hike in.