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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.

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[–] foggy 107 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

When you're a kid you want the icing. When you're an adult you want the cake.

[–] shimian 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] MagpieRhymes 6 points 1 year ago

I want good icing, not that awful shortening-based shit you get on most commercial cakes. And to be honest, I mostly only want good cake too (ie, homemade or from a bougie bakery).

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[–] Fez 81 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used to be a boobs guy but as I have grown older, I have really started to appreciate the ass. 🤌

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why not both? ¯\(ツ)

[–] leapingleopard 64 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I hated music without lyrics.

Now most of the music I prefer has no vocalist, or is extremely limited.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I was browsing random stuff on Spotify the other day and found some really relaxing music. Just the best music to listen to while chugging along at work. Eventually I looked at the album name... It was literally waiting room/elevator music.

[–] SpeedLimit55 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nothing wrong with a bit of smooth jazz.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

You should check out brain.fm The whole site is basically non vocal. Music, but it's engineered to get you to focus. When I first saw it, I assumed it was just some gimmicky way to advertise, but I swear it actually helps me to focus better. But yeah. Sounds like you'd enjoy the music they provide.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Vaporwave, synthwave, outrun. That kind of stuff. Almost all without vocals.

Vaporwave can have people speaking but it's almost always short or garbled speaking.

I just need the music to occupy a part of my brain so I can think.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Less and less do I like those damn kids playing on my lawn.

[–] d00phy 8 points 1 year ago

I remember being that kid on the lawn, and I understand where they guy was coming from. Lawns are a lot of work!

[–] madcaesar 6 points 1 year ago

I mean kids are kids, I can live with their silliness. What I can't stand is adults walking their dogs and not picking up the dog's shit. Absolute assholes!

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] Creyapnilla 31 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Dark chocolate is tasty all of a sudden

[–] dingus 12 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] 200ok 8 points 1 year ago

Fun fact: dark chocolate has tannins. The same kind you find in red wine.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

Lemons were only good for lemonade when I was a child. Now they make the best cakes and cookies too.

[–] Zarxrax 24 points 1 year ago

When I was a kid, I loved pizza rolls but hated bagel bites. I have recently tried them both again, and now pizza rolls taste like shit, but bagel bites are pleasantly delicious.

[–] mediocre_magi 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Used to not like coffee. Then I started to love the taste because I associated it with caffeine. Now I get too jittery so I drink decaf. Life is ironic.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I went from basically a home made milkshake called coffee in the morning to 100% black, can’t stand a grain of sugar or drop of milk/creamer in my coffee.

Also think I became a coffee snob too :(

[–] fubo 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Guacamole was disgusting to me as a kid; not for the taste but for the texture and appearance. How can adults really want to eat lumpy green slime? This is almost as gross as smoking cigarettes!

Well, smoking cigarettes is still disgusting, but guacamole is awesome.

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[–] okfuskee 17 points 1 year ago

I loved booze as a young adult. I didn't quit drinking for some noble reason, I just didn't like it anymore. And cold cookies, as in put that girl scout cookie into the fridge until it gets nice and cold, then eat it. Who knew..

Also, switched from liking rap music to preferring extreme metal, like grindcore or tech death metal.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

When I was a kid, I hated salads. Now I love them.

[–] d00phy 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have a friend who says chicken Caesar is his favorite food. While I still think that’s kinda weird, I also do like chicken Caesar salads.

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[–] BromSwolligans 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I didn't like pickles on my mcdonalds burgers. I don't know why, they're great.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I can eat a whole plate of lighty steamed broccoli with nothing on it. I barely ate any veg all the way up to my 30s

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] yukichigai 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] Vaggumon 9 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I used to hate fresh tomatoes. Now I love it. I used to love really spicy hot stuff, but now it makes me sick if it's too hot.

[–] cheeseblintzes 6 points 1 year ago

If you live somewhere you can grow tomatoes, do it. There’s nothing like a fresh off the vine tomato you grew yourself.

Also they taste way better than grocery tomatoes (assuming you’re in the US)

[–] zoobiedoobie 6 points 1 year ago

I used to hate fresh tomatoes and basically anything with tomato when I was a kid. Now I’ve got used to every thing that’s made out tomatoes but still can’t eat fresh/raw tomatoes. I think it’s the texture for me and sometimes it’s okay to not like some things.

[–] CurlingCoin 6 points 1 year ago

I hated tomatoes growing up. As an adult I realized it all comes down to the texture, my parents would always cut them with dull knives and manhandle them until they were all mushy. Cut them with sharp knives and keep them slightly firm and they're suddenly 1000% better.

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[–] Auduras 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I started to like Seltzer water. No idea how it happened, I tried it one day after always hating it, and it was like a light switch went off. Now I am always drinking it (still like flat water too!)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

According to my doctor I'm experiencing severe depression so... Everything changed.

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[–] ClarissaXDarjeeling 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

-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.

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[–] Hackerman_uwu 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hated broccoli. Love broccoli.

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[–] Phogger 8 points 1 year ago

For the life of me I can’t bring myself to enjoy fruit now, any of it. I used to be an apple a day person but I have completely lost that kind of sweet tooth. Conversely, I spent the first 20 or so years of my life avoiding anything that resembled lettuce, and the next 20 happy to have a Caesar salad once in a while, but only Caesar salad. At this point I find myself making a salad every evening out of whatever veggies I can think of to put in it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I was very picky as a child, when I got my own place I tried cooking and started to like more and more stuff because I knew how to prepare them correctly. Now I have a bad case of IBS and I can't eat much variety because of it. The irony is not lost on me

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[–] PlantDadManGuy 6 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

boobs ---> ass

[–] zoobiedoobie 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Cheems 6 points 1 year ago

Olives. I fucking love olives.

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