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Poppinjay · 10-07-2008, 03:50 AM

Have you ever woken up one day and realized you no longer enjoy a certain food? With me, it was eggs. I used to love them, any way they were cooked.

At first, I thought it was my SO's method of cooking, but then I tried to prepare them myself, and no dice. I dislike them to the point of nausea. I don't know why. I wasn't touched inappropriately by a hen.

I still like foods that have eggs as an ingredient.

Has this ever happened to you?

fresnelly · 10-07-2008, 04:43 AM

Only with junk food. Cheapo flavoured potato chips, penny candy, chocolate bars... I just don't desire the sweetness. I can taste how cheap a lot of the ingredients are. Hershey's Kisses taste like wax and Wagon Wheels taste like sawdust.

I still like the idea of a Pop Tart but I could never buy one. Cereals like Honey Combs or Frosted flakes are too sweet and the saturated sugar milk left at the bottom of the bowl is noxious to me.The thought of downing a box of Nerds like I did as a kid makes me shudder.

PonyPotato · 10-07-2008, 05:29 AM

I used to love Mountain Dew and Pop Tarts, but can't stand them. Sometimes eggs make me nauseous, too. And shrimp and other seafood is VERY hit-or-miss.. it can make me gag one day and I'll be just fine with it the next. It's weird.

Most candy I enjoyed in my youth makes me feel a little sick now.. I can't even eat more than one starburst these days.

little_tippler · 10-07-2008, 05:47 AM

I have experienced the opposite. I used to detest spinach but now I love it. I read somewhere that this is normal, because as you age your taste buds change and you become less sensitive to the bitterness of greens.

I have never stopped liking something I loved, but I have become tired of eating a certain food, usually because I've eaten it a lot of times for several days in a row. Then I can't stand it. But after a while I like it again.

Amaras · 10-07-2008, 05:54 AM

Ditto on the sweets, I now longer can stand them when too sweet (for me, at least).
I like all sorts of veggies that I didn't before, like rutabaga, peas, and brussel sprouts.

Charlatan · 10-07-2008, 06:08 AM

I am with Fresnelly on the junk food. For some reason a lot of the junk food I used to love just tastes like chemicals now... I still eat some but most just tastes like crap.

vanblah · 10-07-2008, 07:21 AM

Key-lime pie. It's sort of like "A Clockwork Orange" ... it's really just torture that I don't like it anymore. I want to like it. I want to love it.

My wife made it so much when she was trying to perfect it that I can't stand it anymore. People tell me that hers is among the best they've ever tasted ... I wouldn't know.

My beloved key-lime pie ...

lostgirl · 10-07-2008, 08:45 AM

I used to love Pringles chips, and now I can't stand them. Same with a lot of other junk food and sugary cereals. Doritos, Captin Crunch, and Chocolate Lucky Charms, I just can't eat them anymore.

DSmith67 · 10-07-2008, 10:29 AM

Lasagna & Cheesecake - Used to love both and eat them whenever I could. Can't stand either one now. The lasagna, I know why - I got nasty case of food poisoning from it once and won't touch it now. As for the cheesecake, not so sure why. One thing is positive form this is that both would not be too good for my diet now.

10-07-2008, 03:50 AM	#1 (permalink)
Poppinjay You had me at hello Location: DC/Coastal VA	Hating foods you used to love Have you ever woken up one day and realized you no longer enjoy a certain food? With me, it was eggs. I used to love them, any way they were cooked. At first, I thought it was my SO's method of cooking, but then I tried to prepare them myself, and no dice. I dislike them to the point of nausea. I don't know why. I wasn't touched inappropriately by a hen. I still like foods that have eggs as an ingredient. Has this ever happened to you? __________________ I think the Apocalypse is happening all around us. We go on eating desserts and watching TV. I know I do. I wish we were more capable of sustained passion and sustained resistance. We should be screaming and what we do is gossip. -Lydia Millet

10-07-2008, 04:43 AM	#2 (permalink)
fresnelly Functionally Appropriate Location: Toronto	Only with junk food. Cheapo flavoured potato chips, penny candy, chocolate bars... I just don't desire the sweetness. I can taste how cheap a lot of the ingredients are. Hershey's Kisses taste like wax and Wagon Wheels taste like sawdust. I still like the idea of a Pop Tart but I could never buy one. Cereals like Honey Combs or Frosted flakes are too sweet and the saturated sugar milk left at the bottom of the bowl is noxious to me.The thought of downing a box of Nerds like I did as a kid makes me shudder. __________________ Building an artificial intelligence that appreciates Mozart is easy. Building an A.I. that appreciates a theme restaurant is the real challenge - Kit Roebuck - Nine Planets Without Intelligent Life

10-07-2008, 05:29 AM	#3 (permalink)
PonyPotato Soaring Location: Ohio!	I used to love Mountain Dew and Pop Tarts, but can't stand them. Sometimes eggs make me nauseous, too. And shrimp and other seafood is VERY hit-or-miss.. it can make me gag one day and I'll be just fine with it the next. It's weird. Most candy I enjoyed in my youth makes me feel a little sick now.. I can't even eat more than one starburst these days. __________________ "Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark." — Henri-Frédéric Amiel

10-07-2008, 05:47 AM	#4 (permalink)
little_tippler Leaning against the -Sun- Super Moderator Location: on the other side	I have experienced the opposite. I used to detest spinach but now I love it. I read somewhere that this is normal, because as you age your taste buds change and you become less sensitive to the bitterness of greens. I have never stopped liking something I loved, but I have become tired of eating a certain food, usually because I've eaten it a lot of times for several days in a row. Then I can't stand it. But after a while I like it again. __________________ Whether we write or speak or do but look We are ever unapparent. What we are Cannot be transfused into word or book. Our soul from us is infinitely far. However much we give our thoughts the will To be our soul and gesture it abroad, Our hearts are incommunicable still. In what we show ourselves we are ignored. The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged By any skill of thought or trick of seeming. Unto our very selves we are abridged When we would utter to our thought our being. We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams, And each to each other dreams of others' dreams. Fernando Pessoa, 1918

10-07-2008, 05:54 AM	#5 (permalink)
Amaras Junkie Location: At my daughter's beck and call.	Ditto on the sweets, I now longer can stand them when too sweet (for me, at least). I like all sorts of veggies that I didn't before, like rutabaga, peas, and brussel sprouts. __________________ Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. -Noam Chomsky Love is a verb, not a noun. -My Mom The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later. -Louis Aragon, "La Porte-plume," Traite du style, 1928

10-07-2008, 06:08 AM	#6 (permalink)
Charlatan Getting it. Super Moderator Location: Lion City	I am with Fresnelly on the junk food. For some reason a lot of the junk food I used to love just tastes like chemicals now... I still eat some but most just tastes like crap. __________________ "My hands are on fire. Hands are on fire. Ain't got no more time for all you charlatans and liars." - Old Man Luedecke

10-07-2008, 07:21 AM	#7 (permalink)
vanblah Junkie	Key-lime pie. It's sort of like "A Clockwork Orange" ... it's really just torture that I don't like it anymore. I want to like it. I want to love it. My wife made it so much when she was trying to perfect it that I can't stand it anymore. People tell me that hers is among the best they've ever tasted ... I wouldn't know. My beloved key-lime pie ...

10-07-2008, 08:45 AM	#8 (permalink)
lostgirl lightform Location: Edge of the deep green sea	I used to love Pringles chips, and now I can't stand them. Same with a lot of other junk food and sugary cereals. Doritos, Captin Crunch, and Chocolate Lucky Charms, I just can't eat them anymore.

10-07-2008, 10:29 AM	#9 (permalink)
DSmith67 Upright Location: Michigan	Lasagna & Cheesecake - Used to love both and eat them whenever I could. Can't stand either one now. The lasagna, I know why - I got nasty case of food poisoning from it once and won't touch it now. As for the cheesecake, not so sure why. One thing is positive form this is that both would not be too good for my diet now.