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

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

I hated music without lyrics.

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

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

I like men now ;)

Dark chocolate is tasty all of a sudden

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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!)

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.

-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.

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.

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

Hated broccoli. Love broccoli.

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.

boobs ---> ass

Pickles

Olives. I fucking love olives.

Pop music. As a kid I was only about classic rock, alt rock. I hated pop the most and kind of looked down on my peers that listened to it. Now I like so many different kinds of music that at the time I didn't think was for me. Like pop music is just fun to listen to and makes you happy. I was such an angsty and pretentious teen.

Adult Likes (Disliked as kid)

• Salad 🥗
• Asparagus
• Tomatoes 🍅
• Cucumber 🥒
• Spaghetti 🍝
• Meat Loaf

Kid Likes (Dislike as adult)

• Oreos (inside is Crisco & sugar - Eww!)
• Icing
• Mac and Cheese
• Excessively sweet food & drink
• Braunschweiger

Still Dislike (as kid & adult)

• Lima Beans 🫘
• Brussel Sprouts
• Liver Meat 🍖
• Mushrooms 🍄

Yoo-hoo. Loved that shit when I was a kid. It tastes like the most horrible take chocolate sugar drink now.

I have always described my palate as "hidden pickiness" because I like so many foods it doesn't seem like I am picky but I do care & have things I will not eat.

As I have gotten older, it's mostly bitter things I can now appreciate (always liked spicy even when young) - mangos used to taste too much like vomit but now I taste only the delicious flavor and not the puke (though papaya remains out of reach) and I like mixed drinks with more of a bitter edge than before, and even chinotto soda. It's like the bitter element has decreased in volume, faded into the background and adds something delicious rather than just making anything bitter taste like bile. Swiss cheese, I used to dislike but now like, I taste a pleasant nuttiness to it, delicious. Still hate ketchup.

And only when very young could I like very sweet things. Kids can eat straight sugar, but once grown that is unpleasant as heck.

In music, I'd say my taste has broadened, certainly. I like more different kinds of music as I get older.

The older I get, the more I like and enjoy spiciness in food. Used to hate hot sauces or anything vaguely hot, now I love it.

Pineapple on pizza. I used to hate it as a child since the fruity taste seemed weird on it. After a deep introspection, I came to accept that it's still food and the taste ended up growing on me.

Oh, but I still put ketchup on pizza, with pineapples or whatever on it.

I used to like pretty much anything and everything when it came to video games. But the older I get, the fewer games I find I really enjoy. Sometimes I don't know if it's the industry that's simply gotten shittier or I've simply explored enough variety to know what kind of stuff I don't like, so never even bother to try. Mostly because a lot of times I do try something just because it is popular, and I hate it.

Anchovies.

I suddenly love broccoli with no cheese

As a kid I hated: Raw onion, Cream cheese, Sauerkraut, Guacamole. Now I love them all.

Still hate: mayo and sour creme, cooked fish.

Also can't deal w/ sweet now that I'm an adult, was a huge sugar addict as a kid.

I suddenly got craving for things I never had but have been around like potato's, salads, cucumbers with lime and salt.

Also when it gets hot outside I crave a topo chico with lime and salt, something that not too long ago I wouldn't even consider drinking.

i got into mushrooms, which turned out to be a big stepping stone into making more posh dishes seem accessible

i still hate mustard, mayo, pickes, relish, ranch, etc.

Specifically food tastes?
I need food with lots of spices now. When I was younger I wanted the most bland foods, now I crave those strong spices like cayenne, cumin, pepper, fresh basil, and fresh garlic.

Lifestyle tastes?
I like to keep my social circle and setting small now. Like 5 total. That's enough.
I also like to do solo hobbies now with quiet reflection or listening to podcasts instead of music...

I like coconut and dark chocolate now, I just really liked white chocolate growing up

Hated. Vehemently hated mushrooms. Now I grow and eat them daily. Same thing with sauerkraut. Started adding it to stuff and horseradish

The first time I ever tasted molasses as a bab I was like "wft is this grandma candy". Now though? Blackstrap in my coffee nearly every morning. The flavor profile is amazing.

Used to hate olives and love peanut butter.

I used to not like mustard, onions, or garlic but now I do. So, tastes do change. Some foods just taste better when prepared differently from when you were a kid though. Growing up, any time I had asparagus or squash, it was boiled. Yuck. But once I grew up and put those on a grill and they became magnificent.

When I was a kid, I hated onion, to the point where I could tell if a dish hung out too long next to some. Now, I can't get enough of them.

I used to listen to a lot of heavy metal. Lots of mid-late 2000s era metal and old school stuff. By the time I had reached college, and a friend group with diverging tastes, I got into indie rock, hip-hop, electronica, reggae, post-rock, indie pop, etc.

My 14 year old self would’ve been disappointed. I really cut it down from my life. But I’ll still catch metal show and listen to it every once in a while. Or for workouts. Just not something as aggressive and angry that much.