Food enjoyed, now disliked alot

[Owlie]

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.

[FlyingScot]

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.

[OakLeaf]

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...


Oh yeah, and I still will not do shots of tequila since that time when I was 17. I'm finally a little old for that now, I suppose, so I have another excuse.

[bmccasland]

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.