A Drink In Seattle Vs. A Drink In Salt Lake City

[Calm]

But its a bad argument to say it all tastes terrible.

I have had an interesting experience in the last few years in that my tastebuds have dramatically changed for some reason (I am thinking medication and just age). I used to say I could live off sourdough bread and a good sharp cheddar. Any hard cheese makes me nauseous now. Chocolate doesn't taste all that great either. I have for some reason lost the ability to enjoy my favourite foods.

I am thinking that taste is something that varies not only from experience but even chemically. Of my three grandkids, one loved bland food as an toddler, one is always begging for Mom's highly spiced food and the other prefers salad and pretty much only salad. Except they all love the kraft variety of Mac and Cheese which has always made me want to fast.

Tastes are one thing, imo, we should never try to set some ideal standard of. If you ever watch the cooking reality shows, even the highly trained food critics and chefs have remarkably different reactions to the same food, some love, some hate, some okay.

Edited June 3, 2013 by calmoriah

[Calm]

Well. To be serious, I can not agree that only those tastes which give immediate satisfaction are worth acquiring. Shakespeare, Mozart, and Emily ****inson are arguably good tastes that require acquisition too.

Include spicy foods in there as well.

[mfbukowski]

I submit that, for one who was not exposed to it from a very young age, -- as most Americans are -- cola is an acquired taste.

For many years during my childhood, I mistakenly believed it was forbidden in the Word of Wisdom.

Though I know better, now, it still tastes nasty to me -- like paint thinner -- and I would not drink it, even if the caffeine content were not an issue to me.

And I'm like you. It's just one on a list of addictions I'm glad I don't have to deal with. I have quite enough bad habits to overcome.

"Don't confront me with my failures- I have not forgotten them."

[thesometimesaint]

Include spicy foods in there as well.

I like some heat in my food. But my limit is one with the seeds and the ribs removed Serrano. The people whom eat Ghost Chilies are nuts.

[ERayR]

I submit that, for one who was not exposed to it from a very young age, -- as most Americans are -- cola is an acquired taste.

For many years during my childhood, I mistakenly believed it was forbidden in the Word of Wisdom.

Though I know better, now, it still tastes nasty to me -- like paint thinner -- and I would not drink it, even if the caffeine content were not an issue to me.

And I'm like you. It's just one on a list of addictions I'm glad I don't have to deal with. I have quite enough bad habits to overcome.

For some reason those things are not addicting to me. However IMO Coke in any of its iterations doesn't taste good. I agree some with mfbukowski about some of those being acquired tastes.

[thesometimesaint]

None of my kids liked any carbonated beverages till they were about 6 years old. I don't know as it was taste thing or we just didn't buy them often enough for them to learn to like them.

[Kenngo1969]

Someone (Log?) used to call it "yeast piss", made me laugh.

I believe that was Lehi/LeSellers.

[Scott Lloyd]

None of my kids liked any carbonated beverages till they were about 6 years old. I don't know as it was taste thing or we just didn't buy them often enough for them to learn to like them.

Below age 6 strikes me as too young to be giving children carbonated beverages; the fizz would burn their throats and sinuses and is bound to be unpleasant.

But I have nothing but pleasant childhood memories about the taste of root beer and orange soda. Coke on the other hand? Blech! (Though I admit I never sampled it until late teenagerhood.)

[Bernard Gui]

I remember laughing with all my jaded friends about their first sips of all the above, and it was universally acknowledged that both of these were "acquired tastes".

My dad indulged in all the above before he joined the Church when I was about 11 years old.

For habitual or even casual users, I gotta say coffee, beer, liquor, or cigarette breath is pretty foul.

After he quit, he continually apologized to all the family for those smells he had brought into the

house. Because of his experience, I have never had the desire to use any of those substances.

Edited June 4, 2013 by Bernard Gui

[Bernard Gui]

Anyway, I am afraid its too late to convince me that you guys who speak so knowingly of how smelly and disgusting these beverages are that are forbidden to you, have any experience of tasty adult beverages. Like I said, its not a bad thing to stay away from it completely, because it can compete with the Holy Ghost in our lives. But its a bad argument to say it all tastes terrible.

Never have been able to figure out what it is that makes beverages, movies, whatever, adult.

[Bernard Gui]

Below age 6 strikes me as too young to be giving children carbonated beverages; the fizz would burn their throats and sinuses and is bound to be unpleasant.

But I have nothing but pleasant childhood memories about the taste of root beer and orange soda. Coke on the other hand? Blech! (Though I admit I never sampled it until late teenagerhood.)

You are all such wimps! At an early age my Colorado pioneer-raised mother made me drink a glass of sage brush tea every day. She believed it

had great curative properties. I dare you to go out, clip off a couple branches from a sage brush, boil it, and drink it ice cold. You will learn what

it means to be an acquired taste. One positive thing came from it...when my friends came over and asked what was in that pitcher in the fridge,

I could pull a Tom Sawyer and convince them it was something really delicious to drink!

I bet none of you know what a mustard plaster is, either.

[Senator]

I bet none of you know what a mustard plaster is, either.

You would lose the bet!

[ERayR]

You are all such wimps! At an early age my Colorado pioneer-raised mother made me drink a glass of sage brush tea every day. She believed it

had great curative properties. I dare you to go out, clip off a couple branches from a sage brush, boil it, and drink it ice cold. You will learn what

it means to be an acquired taste. One positive thing came from it...when my friends came over and asked what was in that pitcher in the fridge,

I could pull a Tom Sawyer and convince them it was something really delicious to drink!

I bet none of you know what a mustard plaster is, either.

I know all the above plus one or two. Did you ever try yarrow tea?

[Calm]

I believe that was Lehi/LeSellers.

Yes, definitely sounds more like Lehi.

[thesometimesaint]

You are all such wimps! At an early age my Colorado pioneer-raised mother made me drink a glass of sage brush tea every day. She believed it

had great curative properties. I dare you to go out, clip off a couple branches from a sage brush, boil it, and drink it ice cold. You will learn what

it means to be an acquired taste. One positive thing came from it...when my friends came over and asked what was in that pitcher in the fridge,

I could pull a Tom Sawyer and convince them it was something really delicious to drink!

I bet none of you know what a mustard plaster is, either.

You'd loose that bet. Not so fond memories of them.