I’ve started to really like just mustard and sauerkraut on my hotdogs and racing games over FPS because they’re a little slower paced.
Well I find the chocolates and candies too sweet. I can’t eat a whole bar at once and I’m slowly moving towards chocolates with less sugar or no sugar. Also I hate white chocolate now.
Yoo-hoo. Loved that shit when I was a kid. It tastes like the most horrible take chocolate sugar drink now.
I inherited a complete loss of the sweet tooth kicking in in the early 20s. Child me would be horrified.
Through a disease I also started liking onions which I hated with a passion before.
Spicy foods! When I was younger, birds eye chilli in my meal would spoil my meal as a teenager, and I grew up in a spice loving family. Nowadays I love the kick that chill adds to foods, and I’ve even dared tiny bites of a Carolina Reaper (and have survived to tell this tale).
Gaming wise, I don’t prefer FPS games to my old standbys of strategy and turn based RPG games, but I actually find some enjoyment in playing them now, even though objectively my reaction time is worse. I just accept I’m a mediocre player, haha.
When it comes to books, I crave reading more sci-fi and fantasy books. I don’t avoid ‘heavy’ topics in these genres, but I don’t find contemporary literature appealing and prefer a bit of escapism. Maybe I’m just looking at the wrong book recommendations.
I used to avoid spicy food too. I couldn’t handle all of the heat.
Then I came down with COVID, recovered, and later went out to a restaurant called Dave’s Hot Chicken with my brother and some friends. We got their Carolina Reaper chicken and I was hooked. Before I knew it I was making my own Carolina Reaper hot sauce and loving the burn.
I’m not sure if it’s due to the COVID or just changes in my preferences but the timing sure was coincidental.
On the FPS front, I used to love playing games like Call of Duty and I was pretty good at them, then I moved to slightly slower paced shooters like Battlefield, and now I don’t play much FPS games at all.
These days I’m more a fan of slower paced games that make you think a bit. I really enjoyed Factorio and also had a lot of fun with Stormworks. Making microcontrollers and getting to write my own Lua code to power my vehicles is a hell of a lot of fun.
Hated. Vehemently hated mushrooms. Now I grow and eat them daily. Same thing with sauerkraut. Started adding it to stuff and horseradish
Friend of mine got kicked out of his apartment for the smell, but I once helped him make a batch for his sauerkraut business, and to pay me he gave me a couple jars from a previous batch.
Holy shit that stuff was delicious. I ate one of the jars on my way home walking down the sidewalk.
But yeah. His neighbors weren’t too happy with the smell.
I will make some at some point. Any recipes you recommend? I’ll grow my own cabbage and then go from there.
Currently have gherkins and onions in the pantry.
Cabbage and yeast. We pounded the cabbage with wooden thumpers to release enough liquid to cover the shreds, then put weights on top of the cabbage to keep it under the water line.
That’s all there is to it. I’m not even sure if we added yeast — it might have been naturally occurring bacteria that caused the fermentation.
According to my doctor I’m experiencing severe depression so… Everything changed.
I had doctors for my depression for years, and they would occasionally say things like “some people feel a little better when they exercise. It’s the endorphins”
What I wish they had done instead was grab me by the lapel, slam me agains the wall, slap me a couple of times, and yell “You fool, you’re depressed because your brain has atrophied from lack of movement! Your natural state is very happy but you evolved to be moving your body!”
When I finally did connect those dots, and finally saw the research on hippocampal neurogenesis, I upped my running from 2 miles maybe every other week, to like 30 miles a week.
And the depression was gone. For the first time in decades. The effect was so much more powerful than the meds.
Read up on exercise, BDNF, hippocampal volume, and depression.
Or just trust me, and go run like a caveman chasing a deer to exhaustion.
I’m actively rowing almost every day that I can and trust me it’s much more demanding than just running.
Thank you for your advice but sometimes life just fucks you up and spits you out the other way.
-Here’s the weirdest one: I used to hate the French language (too “mushy”!) and was super excited that my college offered German. I took THREE YEARS of German. Now I’ve forgotten it all, but I’m really into French and actually considering a French immersion program to get more conversational.
-Also, I used to love loud & stimulating environments (metal shows, night clubs, etc.) while now I appreciate tranquility. Gimme a used bookstore or nature walk any day! I went to a drag brunch recently cause it seemed like the kind of thing I should like as a gay-ish Millennial woman. But it was SO not my thing … the lights, blaring music, close bodies, and cell phones documenting every second just ruined all the nice/chill things about brunch. And I can’t survive an actual concert without earplugs.
-Food-wise, I hated seafood as a kid. Now I love it, including oysters and scallops and octopus and sushi/ceviche of any kind.
May I just say that I love that liking German went with loud environments and metal shows, and liking French went with used book stores and tranquility. It just search so fitting in a way.
Haha now that you mention it…yea.
As a teen/early 20-something, I had a lot of energy and anger in general, which probably influenced my aesthetic and cultural preferences. Now I’m more chill, more content, but much lower energy.
I still enjoy hard rock & metal, but it’s more in a sentimental way, or to have in the background so I clean the bathroom more efficiently ;) I’m not exactly seeking out new bands in that genre.
Pineapple on pizza. I used to hate it as a child since the fruity taste seemed weird on it. After a deep introspection, I came to accept that it’s still food and the taste ended up growing on me.
Oh, but I still put ketchup on pizza, with pineapples or whatever on it.
You had me until you mentioned ketchup on pizza, why? I find ketchup is just so overpowering, all I ever taste is a sweet tomato-ish flavour and nothing else. I feel like it defeats the purpose of eating unless the food is super bland.
It’s just something I never grew out of. I need it to soften and enhance the taste of whatever I’m eating, mostly meat or fried dishes. If I don’t put it on the stuff I usually eat, then eating food feels like a chore and tastes kind of bland.
Not that I put it on everything I eat. Just that I use it on a lot of the stuff I eat.
Pineapple and jalapenos on pizza is an A++ combination, if you’ve never tried that.
Add pepperoni and you’ve got my favorite
Smooth Jazz and 80s music. I had to work real hard to like vegetables. It’s an ongoing saga. But one day smooth jazz and 80s music just hit me, and woke something up deep in my spinal column. It’s purely nostalgia, and the initial delivery method was probably Spotify being very liberal with recommendations based on vaporwave and synthwave stuff. But synth and sax and all the stuff I used to find tacky and irritating as a child just made me feel at home. The word nostalgia gets abused these days but my sudden appreciation for the sounds of my childhood and the way they consistently make me feel like I’m nestled snug into the beige carpet of a Huber home, just existing without a care in the world…that’s some deep nostalgia. And it’s also nice to mentally congratulate myself on evolving to appreciate stuff I was too snobby or dense or whatever to like growing up.
Mitch Murder - Then Again
Instantly takes me back 30 years.
This exact combo of genres hit me like a truck within the past two months or so. I used to not care much for Jazz at all and now it’s been nothing but jazz and 80s inspired synth/vapor wave. I think it probably is for similar reasons. Hearing certain combinations of synth or certain jazzy combos really transports me back in time to specific eras of my child and young adulthood.
I suddenly love broccoli with no cheese
The first time I ever tasted molasses as a bab I was like “wft is this grandma candy”. Now though? Blackstrap in my coffee nearly every morning. The flavor profile is amazing.
I used to listen to a lot of heavy metal. Lots of mid-late 2000s era metal and old school stuff. By the time I had reached college, and a friend group with diverging tastes, I got into indie rock, hip-hop, electronica, reggae, post-rock, indie pop, etc.
My 14 year old self would’ve been disappointed. I really cut it down from my life. But I’ll still catch metal show and listen to it every once in a while. Or for workouts. Just not something as aggressive and angry that much.
Mushrooms. When I was younger I just knew I hated them, then as I got older I realized it was because after I had more than a mouthful of them my throat started burning. I figured it was an allergy and that was that… then I fell in love with a woman whose third favorite food is mushrooms. She spent years trying to find a way to get me to appreciate mushrooms, and not a casual effort I should add. First we figured I was fine with Enoki mushrooms (the little beansprout-like ones you get in Miso soup sometimes), then it was Oyster mushrooms which are pretty damn versatile, if low on flavor. Started incorporating those into my cooking, and for years that was the extent of it until one day I had something with white mushrooms in it and realized the damndest thing: my throat wasn’t burning. I’m not sure how or why, but whatever problem I had with mushrooms had gone away. Now I have mushrooms almost every day, usually as part of my breakfast.
TL;DR: Mushrooms kick ass.
I thought this was going to go a very different direction. Mushrooms are good though, in both contexts. I also used to hate them as a kid but my parents would always eat them. Over time I learned to love them and now I always have mushrooms on hand. They go with every meal.
The other type is also good to have on hand, but does not go as well with meals in my opinion.
Funnily enough the one time I had the other kind of mushrooms I was expecting them to taste awful based on all the warnings and my own issues with mushrooms. Turns out I don’t mind the flavor that much.
Pop music. As a kid I was only about classic rock, alt rock. I hated pop the most and kind of looked down on my peers that listened to it. Now I like so many different kinds of music that at the time I didn’t think was for me. Like pop music is just fun to listen to and makes you happy. I was such an angsty and pretentious teen.
Dark chocolate is tasty all of a sudden
Dark chocolate and a cab Sauvignon is the ticket
Have always loved dark chocolate. As I got older I liked the darker stuff more. 85-90%. (Fyi 100% is no good. Lol.) Milk chocolate has always been a no for me. Best I can do is tolerate it if the flavor is mostly masked by whatever it is encasing.
I still can’t do high-percent dark chocolate. It tastes good for a split second and it’s then like every bit of moisture in my mouth, perhaps the whole room, is just sucked dry.
Fun fact: dark chocolate has tannins. The same kind you find in red wine.
When I was a kid, I hated dark chocolate and loved milk chocolate. As an adult, I csnt stand milk chocolate, but I love dark chocolate.
