Acquired taste?

Well kombucha or other fermented beverages are definitely acquired tastes, not many people enjoy the taste of vinegar, but you feel really good after so it grows on you.

 

If there was no such thing as acquired taste, there would be no adults eating vegetables anywhere in the world.
We have a 3 bite rule, and my kids have gotten to like many foods this way.

There are a lot of strong, in-your-face experiences out there that you might not like the first time around.

 

According to someone earlier in the thread, our childhood taste buds are the most pure. So High fructose corn syrup and yellow dye number five are just what nature intended. :biggrin:

 

And ketchup sandwiches. *nods*

 

I agree with this.

For example: When I first tried beer I did not like it at all, but as time has gone on I have acquired the taste for it and now it enriches my life.

 

I do not believe it. For one thing, unless you are drinking beer every single night to build a tolerance, when you take your first sip it is always going to be bitter. That is how beer works on the palate.

 

As if I care whether or not you believe it

 

I don't think you are very familiar with beer, or how it works on the palate.

The first time I tried this:

I thought it was disgusting. But after drinking a few "stepping stones" I acquired a taste for it. I came back to some of the beers I once called gross and I now love em.

 

Yep, this is how I felt about 'Old Rasputin'

 

Despite what everyone has said, I still agree there's doubt as to whether anything is acquired. You might stick with something you "don't like," but that may just be because it has a quality you do like. Whether it's good from the onset is a question of its essential nature, which may be no more acquired than anything else. You wouldn't call an apple an acquired taste, for example, but it's possible that one day you could appreciate an apple more than you ever did before, just like a good beer. Everything might have its downsides, for instance an apple's peel sticking between your teeth. Some are just easier to ignore than others.

 

Malta is an acquired taste.

I tried this once when I went to my boyfriend's aunt's house. She had this drink that looked like Coke and she asked me if I wanted some and I was like "Sure!" I tasted it and almost spit it right out. I didn't want to be rude so I kept sipping it while I mingled with other family members and eventually I was like "Hey, this isn't bad at all"

Actually, I could go for a malta right now...

 

things that come to mind when I think of acquired taste:

darker beers, red, fuller-bodied wines, sex (for girls, atleast.. unless any of them want to say it's felt awesome since day one.. in which case I'd have to disagree), a lot of experimental music, dark chocolate, certain drugs, stronger cheeses.


some of my most favorite things I had to acquire a taste for

 

Don't even bother people, we can just assume that the OP won't believe a word you are saying about your acquired tastes....

 

Is that your thesis? Oh, wait....

 

Mate (beverage) is another squired taste for me. Nasty at first but rather soothing after a while.

 

One of the best.

 

hell yeah

 

Acquired: Learn or develop.

I hate marmite, sage, faggots (are a traditional dish in the UK, especially South and Mid Wales and the Midlands of England. It is made from meat off-cuts and offal, especially pork. A faggot is traditionally made from pig's heart, liver and fatty belly meat or bacon minced together, with herbs added for flavouring and sometimes bread crumbs. The mixture is shaped in the hand into little balls, wrapped round with caul fat (the omentum membrane from the pig's abdomen), and baked.)

If somebody said to me: "They are an aquired taste."
It presumes that if I eat enough I will learn to like them.
That might be true. But it might not.
But to me it's a little presumptuous.
It's the presumption of the statement that irritates me.
I've listened to Reggae for 30 odd years, and I still can't bare to listen to it for more than 1 minute.
Yes, there are things I once did not like and with further immersion found I did like it after all.
This isn't the case with everything.

 

I love many different types of speciality teas, including Earl Grey. I found Earl Grey tea to be an "acquired taste," however.

Just in case anybody's never had it, Earl Grey is a Chinese black tea that's been flavoured with oil from the Italian bergamot orange (and occasionally other flavourings, depending on the brand). Supposedly it was given to the 2nd Earl Grey as a diplomatic gift from a Chinese mandarin.

Anyway, the tea is usually served without milk or sugar, and it's quite bitter and citrusy.

I first started to drink the tea as a young kid, after watching the character Jean-Luc Picard drinking it in Star Trek: The Next Generation. At first, I seem to remember being really uncertain about it. But I kept on drinking it anyway, as a kind of hero worship I suppose.

After many years, it's now one of my favourite drinks alongside jasmine green tea and lapsang souchong.

 

That, to me, is the point. Not somebody telling me. Me finding out for myself.

Me too (I never did get to like it, though)