Aquired tastes

[Colleen Thomas]

Ab's coffee thread got me to thinking about things that are considered delacacies or top shelf.

I always think of guiness extra stout as one of my aquired tastes. Why I tried it a second time I'll never know.

I was wondering if, in your opinion, these things are actually so good or if they are just expensive and thus reckoned to be better?

My own aquire tastes are few. i like guniess and Single malt scotch, that's about it. Never tired a gourmet coffee I liked batter than just plain ole A & p brand or a food that is considered something special that just blew me away.

How bout you guys? Is it all much ado about nothing? Or is there something to it? What tastes do you have that are usually labled aquired?

 

[cloudy]

Caviar is nasty (and way too salty).

Champagne gives me the sickest hangover I've ever had.

About the only thing I like that could even remotely be called an acquired taste is smoked salmon.

 

[zeb1094]

I don't know if this qualifies but Sushi, I have aquired a taste for Sushi. If ten years or even five years ago you told me I would be willing to scarf down raw fish wrapped in rice, I would have laughed at you.

Oh and brusselsprouts, hated them as a child, love them now.

 

[lil_elvis]

Colly - Single Malt is an acquired taste (both for the pallet and the pocketbook). I've enjoyed many different ones over the years, but could never develop a taste for Laphraogh (sp?). I think they make Robitussen on the other side of the distillery.

Cloudy - caviar = blech, and champagne does make for a mean hangover, so as long as I'm gonna have one, I'd perfer the gentler, kinder one from single malt.

Also, liver will make me wanna hurl, ghastly stuff in all so many ways, taste, texture and its purpose as an organ.

 

[Pure]

dark olives--used to hate them

 

[R. Richard]

I wouldn't exactly call it an acquired taste, but the first time I ever tried abalone I decided that it was for me!

 

[impressive]

None for food/drink.

 

[Guest]

None for food/drink.

sexy bitch.


sushi
escargot *yum!*
dark ales/lagers (minus guiness unless its in a car bomb)

yannow, i was thinking how so many people love lobster and how sick of it i am/was. growing up on the water, when we were poor, we ate lobster. we were poor alot. at one time, it was a food served to inmates because it was so plentiful and thought to be a poor man's food.

 

[zeb1094]

sexy bitch.


sushi
escargot *yum!*
dark ales/lagers (minus guiness unless its in a car bomb)

yannow, i was thinking how so many people love lobster and how sick of it i am/was. growing up on the water, when we were poor, we ate lobster. we were poor alot. at one time, it was a food served to inmates because it was so plentiful and thought to be a poor man's food.

I thought that was Monkfish? The poormans Lobster is it's nickname.

 

[cloudy]

sexy bitch.


sushi
escargot *yum!*
dark ales/lagers (minus guiness unless its in a car bomb)

yannow, i was thinking how so many people love lobster and how sick of it i am/was. growing up on the water, when we were poor, we ate lobster. we were poor alot. at one time, it was a food served to inmates because it was so plentiful and thought to be a poor man's food.

I don't like lobster, either.

And, I can't eat clams anymore without thinking of our dinner.

 

[Guest]

I thought that was Monkfish? The poormans Lobster is it's nickname.

i had never heard of that until i moved to texas. very odd. monkfish is godawful!

I don't like lobster, either.

And, I can't eat clams anymore without thinking of our dinner.

thats a good thing, i think. *grin*
im smiling just thinking about tit.

 

[Belegon]

I'm in with the scotch and the Guinness...I also have some palatte for coffee, but in the other thread Starbucks was referred to as "gourmet" and I almost choked...Starbucks is to a good roaster, say Cafe Moto, what Taco Bell is to real mexican food...

I think many straight alcohols are "acquired tastes"...

as to foods? While I certainly can say that my palatte has matured and my tastes have changed, I don't go for the caviar thing nor can I think of any other foods I indulge in that would qualify...

how about cigars? Have not had one in years, but they would seem to qualify...

 

[cloudy]

thats a good thing, i think. *grin*
im smiling just thinking about tit.

It's a good thing.

Mat calling them "snot" and you and I eating the roasted garlic ("like buttah").

 

[Guest]

I'm in with the scotch and the Guinness...I also have some palatte for coffee, but in the other thread Starbucks was referred to as "gourmet" and I almost choked...Starbucks is to a good roaster, say Cafe Moto, what Taco Bell is to real mexican food...

I think many straight alcohols are "acquired tastes"...

as to foods? While I certainly can say that my palatte has matured and my tastes have changed, I don't go for the caviar thing nor can I think of any other foods I indulge in that would qualify...

how about cigars? Have not had one in years, but they would seem to qualify...

as we age, our taste buds die, making it easier for us to like things that should probably be buried and long forgotten. *grin*

It's a good thing.

Mat calling them "snot" and you and I eating the roasted garlic ("like buttah").

mmmmmmmbaked garlic......mmmmmmmmmm

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

Just plain alcohol and coffee.

I started drinking coffee in high school for the caffiene. Loaded up with sugar and cream to make it palatable. Within a very short time I dropped those extras and looked forward to just the java. I assume some connection became wired between my brain's appreciation of the buzz and my palate's appreciation of the taste.

Same-same for alcohol. As a kid I occassionally got to "taste" dad's beer, or wine would be served for a special occassion, and it was "cool," but not intrinsically enjoyable. When I started drinking in my own right as an adolescent the beverage of choice was "pop-wines" that deliver the buzz with a child-like candy flavor. Now I love Guinness and similar brews for the flavor explosion, the more bitter the better. And also for the buzz (to a point!).

 

[rgraham666]

Surprisingly enough, it was tobacco for me.

I didn't start smoking until I was in my mid-twenties.

And always a pipe with the occasional cigar thrown in.

I've found most cigarettes to be very bland and I like rich flavours.

One thing I've ever acquired a taste for is cantaloupe. I know a lot of people love the stuff but even the odour is enough to make me gag.

 

[Mercurius]

I never used to like spicy food. My wife kept increasing the heat in her recipes over the course of a few years, and now I'm like, "Do you guys have some hot sauce I can pour on this? It isn't spicy enough. Order the extra-hot kind, they're good! More chipotles!"

 

[Guest]

Aquired taste:

Pre-cum.

Perdita .

 

[Alex De Kok]

Single malt Scotch whisky, for sure! Single-cask Balvenie top of the list. I was privileged to taste the 30-year-old last year, but at £250.00 per bottle I ain't buying any in the foreseeable future! I noticed a 'No' vote for Laphroaig in an earlier post. That was the first of the Islay single malts I ever tasted, and I still like it, but my favourite Islay malt is the Caol Ila 16-year-old. I had a bottle of the single-cask a few years ago, but at around 64% ABV it was the only whisky I've had where I felt absolutely compelled to add water. Apart from those, I still have quite a few to try!

Alex

PS: Partial to Guinness, too! And the basic French 'biere blonde'.

 

[Guest]

Seriously now.

Wine. My first taste was bitter. Sometime in my mid-20s I had a bottle of Beaujolais one new year's eve and can still call to mind the pleasure created in my mouth. I recall too the man who poured it for me.

Beer. Never cared for it. Tasted the real stuff in England a year ago. Went back for it (among other things) a couple weeks ago.

Opera. In my late 30s I was someone's date at a performance of The Marriage of Figaro. During 'Cherubino's aria' I felt as if the soprano was singing directly into my ears and the sheer pleasure of each note was better than really good sex.

Caviar and Champagne. You must have the best (Beluga and French). I was someone's guest for the Beluga, couldn't afford it on my own. Utter delight on the palate. Again, the only analogy is really good sex. As for Champagne, if it's good there is no hangover or headache. I drank it once continuously (though not enough for anyone to have judged me drubnk) from about 5pm to after midnight. Felt perfectly fine the next day (and remembered everything!)

Long Russian novels. I think it's oft' too late if you start past adolescence. I still remember how the world seemed transformed after I read The Brothers karamazov at 15.

Perdita

 

[lil_elvis]

Single malt Scotch whisky, for sure! Single-cask Balvenie top of the list. I was privileged to taste the 30-year-old last year, but at £250.00 per bottle I ain't buying any in the foreseeable future! I noticed a 'No' vote for Laphroaig in an earlier post. That was the first of the Islay single malts I ever tasted, and I still like it, but my favourite Islay malt is the Caol Ila 16-year-old. I had a bottle of the single-cask a few years ago, but at around 64% ABV it was the only whisky I've had where I felt absolutely compelled to add water. Apart from those, I still have quite a few to try!

Alex

PS: Partial to Guinness, too! And the basic French 'biere blonde'.

That was me, Laphroaig's just too medicinal for me. A very good friend gave me a bottle of Caol Ila 16 for Christmas - heaven.

Long Russian novels. I think it's oft' too late if you start past adolescence. I still remember how the world seemed transformed after I read The Brothers karamazov at 15.

Perdita

Good point, 'Dita. For me it was Crime and Punishment at 16.

 

[Guest]

Good point, 'Dita. For me it was Crime and Punishment at 16.

Golly, imagine if we were near the same age and had met then.

Perdita

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Golly, imagine if we were near the same age and had met then.

Perdita

He'd be the Lime in your Tequila?

 

[Guest]

He'd be the Lime in your Tequila?

Now I'm ever so thirsty again.

Slurping,

Perdita

 

[lil_elvis]

Now I'm ever so thirsty again.

Slurping,

Perdita

To know then what we know now. *sigh*