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 remember being that kid on the lawn, and I understand where they guy was coming from. Lawns are a lot of work!
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!
lol kids don’t play outside anymore
I like men now ;)
Amen.
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.
Lemons were only good for lemonade when I was a child. Now they make the best cakes and cookies too.
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 :(
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
When I was a kid, I hated salads. Now I love them.
I have a friend who says chicken Caesar is his favorite food. While I still think that’s kinda weird, I also do like chicken Caesar salads.
I’ve never cared for chicken caesar salads. My favorite is regular grilled chicken salad with honey mustard dressing. 😋
It’s not my favorite, but if it’s well done, grilled chicken Caesar salad is super yummy and also healthy. But the dressing and parm chz has to be quite good, and the chicken almost as good.
Lesa and less do I like those damn kids playing on my lawn.
I remember being the kid at the salad bar at school who would just load up on croutons and cheese. I felt like I was the only one that didn’t like anything that I saw there!
i still don’t understand salads. why would i want to eat cold leaves when i could have a tasty hot cooked meal
Salads can be made tasty and when paired with the right cheeses, nuts and proteins, they’re healthy, filling, and downright heavenly.
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.
This exact combo of genres hit me like a truck within the past two months or so. I used to not care much for Jazz at all and now it’s been nothing but jazz and 80s inspired synth/vapor wave. I think it probably is for similar reasons. Hearing certain combinations of synth or certain jazzy combos really transports me back in time to specific eras of my child and young adulthood.
Mitch Murder - Then Again
Instantly takes me back 30 years.
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.
