Changing Tastes

[Puzzicato]

I think I'm going to start eating more traditional cheese's and breads, like Asiago, fresh paramsean, Havarti.

That's something else - as I have aged, my taste in cheese has become stinkier. Lovely pungent stilton & gorgonzola, properly matured cloth-bound cheddar, aged parmesans. Yum!

On the other hand, since I left Australia I have lost some of my tolerance for chilli. We used to eat a lot of Thai and Vietnamese food, packed with chilli, but it is harder to come by where we are now and we can go days without putting chilli in things. I definitely can't tolerate as much heat as I used to.

 

[Chainsaw]

Oh, reinstituting meatless Fridays for myself.

 

[Unca Dusty]

I used to consume very coarse whiskeys--rough stuff that tasted more of wood alcohol than oak barrels. Even when my means improved and I got into drinking single malts, I liked the rough, peaty smoke of the classic Islays...
But now, I like smoother mellower beverages. Not to say I don't like complexity, I just don't want all that complexity shouting on my palate at once.
I drink more brandy than I used to, as well. Stuff used to be too sweet for me (unless it was rough stuff from a plastic mag).

 

[swinggal]

Hmm, I grew up in a household with a mum who was a great cook and made all sorts of dishes from scratch and we always had big bowls of exotic fruit in the house...yum. She made Italian, French, German even Chinese in the late 70s. I guess I was lucky to have been exposed to so many foods...and when I travel - eating the local food is part of the excitement.

Anyway, when I was a kid just about the only thing I hated was pumpkin. Now i love it. I guess we didn't have the varieties in the shops that we have now back then, so it always seemed sour to me. I LOVE Butternut pumpkin now.

One thing I now hate that I DID like as a kid is sultanas. Can't stand the little buggers. I will however, eat them if they are dried in cereal but I cannot eat them when they are smooshy and soft in hot-crossed-buns, bread and butter puddings, cinnamon scrolls or out of the box etc. It's the texture in my mouth I can't stand. To me it is what I imagine a mouthful of snot would feel like....YUKKK!