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http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2010/12/08/55-lenell-smothers/?hpt=Sbin
OK - here's another weird thing about me: the only food I ever hated as a child I still hate 60+ years later.
That's right. I have only ever disliked, hated, despised one food in my entire life. I have hated since I was first introduced to it at the age of 4, and I still hate it.
I have gotten to be an excellent cook of it. Some people beg me to make okra for them because (they claim) no makes a better batch of fried okra.
I love gumbo and most other Cajun and Creole dishes, but I have to make my own because I make them sans okra.
I do try to eat it every now and then, because I know our tastes are supposed to change as we age. Indeed, foods fall in and out of favor with me, but I'll still eat them when presented with them and be pretty happy about it. There are so many foods out there I can't possibly eat them all constantly. Some have to wait their turn. Some are eaten only for special occasions. Some are eaten with special people. Some are eaten seasonally. Some are so expensive they are reserved for truly outstandingly special occasions. Some are fad foods that I eat voraciously for a while and then just stop. I still eat them now and then but no longer with the former fervor. Some I tire of because they are cheap and plentiful and practically invisible, and I just want a change. I don't hate them, though; not the way I hate okra.
As far as I know, I have no food sensitivities, or intolerances, or allergies, outside of the THC in marijuana (which meant no toking, ever, or being around people who toked - I was not good out of a sense of virtue, but from a case of serious gastrointestinal distress - this was apparently the foundation of my allergies to anesthesias and analgesics.). I can eat anything - except okra.
I'm not allergic to okra. I have no sensitivity or intolerance towards it. I simply can't stand the taste, texture, and synesthetic combination it gives. It's like broken fingernails on chalkboard or the feedback of microphones mixed with slimy sisal rope and the flavor of stale grass. That hasn't changed in all the years I've tried to eat okra.
My taste in things other than food has changed a lot, though.
I used to have a favorite color. I don't, anymore. I have a favorite range of saturations and shades of color. Being a tetrachromat with synesthesia, I can perceive more colors than I can name.
I have favorite textures, and favorite fragrances, and favorite critters, and favorite artists, and favorite fashions, and favorite lots of other things - and my tastes in those have matured and changed over the years, deepened and often widened. I have a better understanding of why some things are my favorites and others not. I can even predict what will become my new favorite things and what will most likely fall out of favor based on my experiences.
How about you? Have your tastes changed since you were a teen (if you're still a teen, how often have they changed?)?
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