I’ve started to really like just mustard and sauerkraut on my hotdogs and racing games over FPS because they’re a little slower paced.
When you’re a kid you want the icing. When you’re an adult you want the cake.
Am adult, want icing.
Also adult, also want icing, also wish I could still do it in the quantities I like without guilt and consequences.
Child me didn’t know how good they had it.
“I wish there was a way to know you’re in the good old days before you’ve actually left them.”
I want good icing, not that awful shortening-based shit you get on most commercial cakes. And to be honest, I mostly only want good cake too (ie, homemade or from a bougie bakery).
I want all of it. Stay away from my cake!
I was that weird girl who never wanted icing. I’d always scrape it off and just eat the cake
Instructions unclear, lost interest in both.
Fat > sugar, IMO
I was never interested in frosting, but then I met buttercream frosting, cream cheese frosting, and the like. When used sparingly, without overwhelming the cake/cupcake, it’s divine :D
I used to be a boobs guy but as I have grown older, I have really started to appreciate the ass. 🤌
Why not both? ¯\(ツ)/¯
I hated music without lyrics.
Now most of the music I prefer has no vocalist, or is extremely limited.
I was browsing random stuff on Spotify the other day and found some really relaxing music. Just the best music to listen to while chugging along at work. Eventually I looked at the album name… It was literally waiting room/elevator music.
Nothing wrong with a bit of smooth jazz.
You should check out brain.fm The whole site is basically non vocal. Music, but it’s engineered to get you to focus. When I first saw it, I assumed it was just some gimmicky way to advertise, but I swear it actually helps me to focus better. But yeah. Sounds like you’d enjoy the music they provide.
Check out Brian Eno - Ambient Music for Airports
Vaporwave, synthwave, outrun. That kind of stuff. Almost all without vocals.
Vaporwave can have people speaking but it’s almost always short or garbled speaking.
I just need the music to occupy a part of my brain so I can think.
Less and less do I like those damn kids playing on my lawn.
I mean kids are kids, I can live with their silliness. What I can’t stand is adults walking their dogs and not picking up the dog’s shit. Absolute assholes!
I remember being that kid on the lawn, and I understand where they guy was coming from. Lawns are a lot of work!
lol kids don’t play outside anymore
Dark chocolate is tasty all of a sudden
When I was a kid, I hated dark chocolate and loved milk chocolate. As an adult, I csnt stand milk chocolate, but I love dark chocolate.
I still can’t do high-percent dark chocolate. It tastes good for a split second and it’s then like every bit of moisture in my mouth, perhaps the whole room, is just sucked dry.
Fun fact: dark chocolate has tannins. The same kind you find in red wine.
Dark chocolate and a cab Sauvignon is the ticket
Have always loved dark chocolate. As I got older I liked the darker stuff more. 85-90%. (Fyi 100% is no good. Lol.) Milk chocolate has always been a no for me. Best I can do is tolerate it if the flavor is mostly masked by whatever it is encasing.
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.
I went from basically a home made milkshake called coffee in the morning to 100% black, can’t stand a grain of sugar or drop of milk/creamer in my coffee.
Also think I became a coffee snob too :(
I like men now ;)
Amen.
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.
I used to avoid spicy food too. I couldn’t handle all of the heat.
Then I came down with COVID, recovered, and later went out to a restaurant called Dave’s Hot Chicken with my brother and some friends. We got their Carolina Reaper chicken and I was hooked. Before I knew it I was making my own Carolina Reaper hot sauce and loving the burn.
I’m not sure if it’s due to the COVID or just changes in my preferences but the timing sure was coincidental.
On the FPS front, I used to love playing games like Call of Duty and I was pretty good at them, then I moved to slightly slower paced shooters like Battlefield, and now I don’t play much FPS games at all.
These days I’m more a fan of slower paced games that make you think a bit. I really enjoyed Factorio and also had a lot of fun with Stormworks. Making microcontrollers and getting to write my own Lua code to power my vehicles is a hell of a lot of fun.
Lemons were only good for lemonade when I was a child. Now they make the best cakes and cookies too.
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.
So many food things! Oysters, all kinds of cheese, guacamole… way too much to list.
I hated avocado because all I’d had was guacamole, it was sour nonsense and I didn’t like the look of them and also thought a fattening vegetable was an awful thing (anorexic teen). But once I actually tried an avocado, not guacamole, I was hooked. Ate them all summer when I was 20 and didn’t gain a pound, LOL. Now I do also like fresh guacamole but still won’t eat the processed crap.
Same boat. I couldn’t even stand the look of guacamole. Now you have to keep it away from me for the opposite reason!
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.
According to my doctor I’m experiencing severe depression so… Everything changed.
I had doctors for my depression for years, and they would occasionally say things like “some people feel a little better when they exercise. It’s the endorphins”
What I wish they had done instead was grab me by the lapel, slam me agains the wall, slap me a couple of times, and yell “You fool, you’re depressed because your brain has atrophied from lack of movement! Your natural state is very happy but you evolved to be moving your body!”
When I finally did connect those dots, and finally saw the research on hippocampal neurogenesis, I upped my running from 2 miles maybe every other week, to like 30 miles a week.
And the depression was gone. For the first time in decades. The effect was so much more powerful than the meds.
Read up on exercise, BDNF, hippocampal volume, and depression.
Or just trust me, and go run like a caveman chasing a deer to exhaustion.
I’m actively rowing almost every day that I can and trust me it’s much more demanding than just running.
Thank you for your advice but sometimes life just fucks you up and spits you out the other way.
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!)
That’s definitely a sing of growing up lol! I swear it is programmed into our genetics or something. My close friend group and I, all started drinking mineral water after we’ve hit 25. I have never liked it before I got older, now I am drinking it everyday.
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.
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
Similar story here. Them diseases do fuck with enjoying life.
Have you tried probiotics to help your IBS symptoms? I had horrible IBS as a child and through my teens but it eventually went away as I ate more yogurts. Now the occasional probiotic pill keeps my gut happy.
I have and I remember it really helped but I had to stop because I couldn’t afford it anymore for a while and I didn’t start again. I had a quick look and apparently yogurt can help treat IBS but it’s bonkers, like 600g a day for 400 days or so. So, I should probably give your solution a try
