Changes as we age

I used to love my school milk, icy lumps or luke warm. Even after a boy standing behind me was sick over my head, while queuing up to tell the teacher it was making him feel ill...

POGS - I also hated school milk it made me puke, warm in summer, lumps of ice in winter. My mother wrote to the school asking if I could be excused from having it, but to no avail, being a Catholic school they believed in suffering from an early age . Sadly born too early to be liberated from the vile substance by Thatcher the Milk Snatcher, when I heard that she had done away with school milk I felt insanely jealous of the generation of school children who would not have to face the daily horror of ingesting milk

I really want to hear more about the unfortunate beetroot related incident

I couldn't eat anything involving offal, innards, blood, 'orrible bits. Apart from that, I don't like fat, whelks or eels, so I've always been easy to please.

I can still eat pork, baked beans and mushy peas, but just don't seem to care for them any more. I used to love the last two.

I can't see myself ever being happy to eat kidneys. Yuk!

I hated milk as a child , being 'forced to drink school bottles of milk even if it made me urge!. I couldn't even put it on cereal but I can now albeit in the past few years.

Garlic! It was yukky, smelly devils spawn but now I love garlic bread etc.

Still detest Avocado and olives and try as I might I don't think they will ever work for me.

When I mentioned Mivvies there, I was actually thinking of Soleros. hmm]

Hulahoop, we should get together, i love all the things you don't. Love sea food, tripe, eels etc etc.

Tripe sea food eels am not a lover of fish only really like haddock and cod wish I did like it more salmon always looks nice but don't like the taste. Don't like any fat on meat either !,

NanKate

There are less than a hundred calories in a Mivvie! What's not to like?!

I find that I have an almost physical reaction to tomato ketchup. It tastes metallic and tangy now. So no more beans. I've also gone right off McDonalds, partly because of the tomato ketchup but also...i dunno...that kind of food just doesn't hit the spot any more thankfully.

Red wine, how can I not like red wine. I didn't like it when a lot younger, then found a taste for it, but it has gone.

I loathe skin on anything, wobbly fat, most things which come out of a shell or an animal's head, most meats in fact and hot curries. I have recently reacquainted myself with beetroot after a lifetime of disgust following an unfortunate incident at boarding school 55 years ago,so long as it hasn't been near vinegar and have discovered fennel which I love. I have an unhealthy passion for macaroni cheese and have recently gone off mushrooms, runner beans and onions. Strange thing taste

I've just discovered I like lemon drizzle cake

I've never been a fussy eater but I've noticed, in the last year or so, that sometimes I really can't face some foods. (Hasn't affected my chocolate consumption yet though!)
I wonder if it is an age/hormonal thing?
I would never ever eat jellied eels!

Be not very

My D in L has recently introduced me to roast beetroot it is really good and has an earthy taste.

I can't eat those ice creams covered in ice lolly they used to very called a Mivvy yuk.

Oysters look like sn*t in a shell so I won't ever try them.

Otherwise I eat most things.

Sweetbread, tripe, black pudding, haggis (being Scottish haggis shouldn't repulse me, but it does!).

The more I think about certain foods the more I think it wouldn't take much to make me vegetarian.

As a child I would never eat cheese because I didn't like the look of it. I love it now unfortunately for my waistline. These days I couldn't eat a fried egg, a runny boiled egg, prawns, squid, belly pork (yuk), liver (although I used to love it) offal of any description or anything fatty or slimey.

Bread pudding, summer pudding, or anything that requires bread to be soaked in liquid of any sort. I have never been able to stomach the thought of it. Jellied eels, and anything with tentacles (though I do like squid, but only if I don't have to eat the tentacles). That's about it really. I have always loved any kind of shellfish including whelks. I don't think my tastes have changes as I've got older, but my stomach is now less tolerant of spicy foods and I am less inclined recently to drink beer or red wine. I'm going off alcohol . Never saw that one coming!

I will never like anything remotely spicy. Or as GS describes it "fizzy on my tongue" I haven't yet noticed my taste buds changing.

I'm with you Swanny can't stand the thought of whelkes etc and how people can eat snails, however they are served up, amazes me. Oh, I don't like the look of oysters too.

I'm a tea drinker and if I have coffee it has to be decaf.

Me too Swanny - gone off coffee and more onto tea. Last time that happened was in the early days of pregnancy! (NO I AM NOT!)

Used to like potatoes, especially chips and roast potatoes but don't like potatoes at all now. How strange that our tastes should change and I wonder if watermeadow has hit on something to do with our ageing bodies. Hormonal changes perhaps? Interesting.

I could never stomach the thought of eating whelks, mussels, winkles etc. Used to eat (and enjoy) prawns but then developed an allergy to them about 30 years ago so that was that. Not very keen on fish in general.

In recent years I've been drinking more tea and less coffee, which is a change I did not anticipate at all

I agree, any sort of beetroot for me, no matter how well disguised it is.

Custard, and also any milky puddings. I am not really a fan of desserts, any type unless it was fruit.

I would also add fried and poached eggs to the list and also tea. I am a coffee fan.