Food enjoyed, now disliked alot

[shootingstar]

A bunch of people were excited about use of cream cheese..for French toast. 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.

[Trek-chick]

When I was a kid, my Mother used to make me liversausage sandwiches with ketchup. Now, I find it totally repulsive.

[malkin]

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.

[badger]

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.

[nscrbug]

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.

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!!!! I haven't eaten a hotdog in probably 20 years.

[OakLeaf]

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. 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?

[shootingstar]

Another favorite of mine, as a kid...fried hotdogs! Yup...I would take a hotdog, slice it lengthwise, and fry it in butter!!!! I haven't eaten a hotdog in probably 20 years.

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.

Badger, I'm still trying to figure out raw garlic???? Haven't yet had a dish with raw garlic.

[shootingstar]

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. 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!

[OakLeaf]

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.

[badger]

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.

[crazycanuck]

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

[badger]

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.

[Crankin]

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.

[sundial]

Underwood deviled ham--my mother used to make my school lunch sammiches with it on occasion.

[MomOnBike]

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.