Even as a child there was pretty much nothing I wouldn't try at least once, and I usually liked it. I can say, however, that my taste in chocolate has changed. When I was younger I enjoyed every type of chocolate, but I have found as I get older, that I like my chocolate darker and darker. Milk chocolate, even the good stuff, just tastes sweet and lacks real chocolate flavor.

As I've gotten older, I've lost my taste for sweet foods altogether. Sad, isn't it? Now and then I will get a craving for ice cream and I'll stop at the local homemade place and get a small bowl and that will take care of the craving. Lately I've had cake on my brain, so I made the 3 minute Microwave chocolate cake in a mug - and that sort of took care of the craving. Most sweets are just too....well, sweet for me now.

Sweets in general. I'm from a family of sweet tooths (teeth?) and I had a major sweet tooth until about the middle if high school. I definitely enjoy the special baked goods around the winter holidays and I'm a sucker for dark chocolate, but I can think of far worse fates than to be told I can never eat dessert for the rest of my life.

I never used to eat sweets of any type. I find as I get older I'm wanting them more and more. Something must be wrong with me and I know that's why I went from a skinny minnie to, well, let's just say well padded.

My taste for hot (spicy) foods waxes and wanes. Sometimes I can't get enough of the super hot stuff, sometimes even just a little bit of heat turns me off. Right now I'm just entering a "bring on the heat" phase. I don't know why my taste fluctuates like that.

And like others above, my preference for milk chocolate has migrated to dark. That doesn't mean I won't eat milk chocolate, but just that it's not my first choice.

Wait---someone fill me in---what's the Seven Year Rule??

If there is a food that you've never liked - say olives - then you need to try that food once every seven years to see if you still have an aversion to it.

Of course, that rule does not apply to me and big ole honkin' lima beans!

Teresa

It's the notion that you should re-try foods you don't like every seven years because your taste may have changed. Personally I think life is short and seven years is a very long time to be wasting. If you're committed to trying to overcome food dislikes perhaps once a year is more reasonable. I try olives about once a year, this past year I actually swallowed a couple and who knows, maybe next year I'll enjoy them. On the other hand if you have no interest in liking the food then why bother, even after seven years. I probably haven't tried sardines or pickled herring in 30 years but then I've also not seen them anywhere other than in dusty jars/tins on grocery shelves since then, so who cares? Not like I'm awkardly scraping them to the side at dinner parties!

The seven year rule does not apply to Lutefisk either!

FOAS, I taste olives every year at least once, but I still don't like them.

I never did care much for milk chocolate, I'd buy the Hershey's Semi-Sweet bars even when I was a child, and I've never learned to drink chocolate milk, I was the only kid in my class that got white milk.

About the only thing I can think of is fried foods. I think it's because I stopped eating much of it and so I lost my taste for the "grease" aspect. A local restaurant sells onions rings that I used to think were the best thing I ever ate. I stopped eating them in my effort to get healthier and when I ordered them again, as a treat, they just didn't taste like I remembered. They were too greasy.

Other than that, nope. I still like the things I've always liked and I've added things that I've never liked to my list of things I'll actually eat now.

No Jello, though, not ever. I'll put that up next to FOAS' sardines and pickled herring (which I DO like, incidentally).

Annie

Pork chops or roasts, except for the one that Jim makes with two thick Costco boneless chops tied together and stuffed, but I think it's the stuffing that I like. I grew up eating pork chops in various styles, I cooked them years ago. Now, if I never had another one, I don't think I'd ever crave it. Jim wants them, so we fixed some on Saturday, and I ate about 3 bites. Whenever I'm out of town, he'll always fix pork chops for himself. But if I ever said anything positive, he'd want to have them a couple of times a month, I just know it.

Nothing wrong with them, I just don't care for them any more.

As I age, I find I like weird things more. The stranger the better. Jaded taste buds? Medium hot Thai food, Greek lemon tinged everything, real calamari steaks, shirred eggs, chorizo "hot dogs", gnocchi and spaetzle, Napa dumplings, pickled red cabbage, herring in sour cream, tomatillo salsa verde, grapefruit compote, kumquat marmalade, fresh peach chutney, half-sour pickles, Mediterranean cucumber sauce (tzatziki), watermelon with salt, asparagus with mint, bacon wrapped chicken livers, onions grilled with sour cream and horseradish, seven dried fruits "bread" slathered with cream cheese, puckery lime cookies, Worcestershire baked pumpkin seeds; ad infinitum.

Since I bake sweet treats weekly and sell jams at the local farmers market, I have to taste everything before offering it for sale. By the end of the weekly two/three-day marathon for the whole seasonal 9 months, all I want to eat is vegetables and meat/poultry/fish. No more sweets for me, not even naturally sweet fruits (with a few exceptions noted). Must be the perfect way to diet - O.D. on sweets and you'll never consume more than a couple teaspoons a month, if that, on purpose.

Nancy the nancedar

I no longer care much for just plain chocolate... of any kind; I much perfer it accompanied by some other prominent flavor.

I don't like deep-fried foods anymore either; I guess my body is telling me that it can't handle all that grease.

I still don't like sausages, but occasionally will try one. YUK!

As I grow older (I'm 46.75) I'm trying to train my taste buds to like healthy foods. So far red wine and salmon are winning.

I'm also still trying to eliminate the taste for salt and sweets and am doing pretty good. I went out to lunch today and had some very salty (to me) turnip greens that were delicious but I won't make something that salty at home.

My love for sweets has become concentrated: no carbs but pure sugar. A couple toffees after a meals is satisfying and I don't care for pastries or cake anymore. I mean, I still love them but they don't fulfill the need for a great sweet too often.
Not that I don't find bread pudding tasty it's just that a piece of dark chocolate or caramel is equally satisfying- maybe more-as it's more intense.
Often, I find a cup of tea with plenty of splenda equally satisfying to my sweet tooth.

7 year rule? Maybe 7 weeks. The great love I had for smoked oysters over Christmas is greatly diminished now and I'm not really sure why. Maybe the slug connotation.

25 years ago I adored pure fat: double cheeseburgers for example. Now, after years of trying to like healthy eating, I want great taste. Cheeseburgers don't do it for me anymore and the "fat" has to be highly flavorful to be enjoyed (but not necessarily in great quantity).

When we first came to this area of Texas
In the 60's,
I loved Mexican food.
Couldn't get enough of it,
Learned to cook almost all of it.

Then, somewhere along the line,
Restaurants started adding Cilantro to everything.
That stuff is just plain repulsive to me.
So I quit eating Mexican food out,
Then stopped cooking it at home, too.

If I were to never have another taste of any Mexican food
(Especially Pinto Beans)
For as long as I live, I would not miss it at all!

Don't like chicken fried steak anymore, either.

And speaking of Cilantro,
Because so many here on the CF seem to like it,
I have tried,
And tried really hard!
To like it.

It ain't happening!
Think I'll give up trying.
No sense in torturing myself. ;>)

Rusty

As soon as I opened this thread, I thought of green beans. One day a couple of years ago, DH said he had eaten so many green beans in his lifetime, that he was tired of them. I realized that I was too and there are so many vegetables we like more than them so I stopped making them. Just like that - THE END for green beans.

If we're at someone's house for dinner and they serve then or they're vegetable that comes with an entree in a restaurant, we'll eat them but I can't remember the last time I bought green beans, although I still occasionally buy and make fresh yellow ones.

Like Rusty, Cilantro is the only herb I've tried to, at least, tolerate, but it hasn't happened yet. And I doubt it ever will.

But Heaven forbid I ever lose my taste for chocolate. Motioning the sign of the cross.

Sol

Cilantro? I've never liked it. That's the thing I hated the smell and taste of starting in pregnancy. Most people develop their hate over something they love, but no, not me. I first tried it when I was pregnant. I might've disliked it before (I just didn't know that was what it was), but just the smell of it made me gag. And it's still the same reflex now, years later.

I've always loved most everything and it's still the same. Except sugar. I'm more inclined to say, Whoa, Overkill on the sugar! that I used to say. Still love chocolate, but it pales in comparison to my mom's unrequited love for it.

I love most seafood, grew up on fresh fish(there was a diver in the family). I could never handle oysters. Every few years I would try them different ways, smoked, fried, baked(raw is out of the question), I still don't like them...or caviar(can't say I've ever had a premium one). My DH is a Finn and loves it although we can't afford it, but he also loves a caviar paste that comes in a tube. He will spread it on plain bread or add it to a ham sandwich(shudder). I have never been able to eat it.
I will always love chocolate, dark chocolate more these days.