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?

[jessmarimba]

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).

[GLC1968]

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!!

[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.

[indysteel]

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.

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.

[PamNY]

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.

[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.

[zoom-zoom]

I also used to like Fluff. PB & Fluff was my favorite sandwich. How I ate that is beyond me...ICK!!

Can I have your share, then?

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.