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Have your taste buds changed over the years?.

hi all my dad used to buy kippers in the pub on a saturday night and come home cook and eat them, i hated the smell, it used to make me feel sick, but i love them now yummy

regards anniekei
 
Yes I think tastebuds do change and not for the better. A lot of the things mentioned were no favourites of mine either. These days I find things quite tasteless, perhaps it is an age thing. Does anyone remember how good Oxo's were? These days they are synthetic rubbish. I know the old ones were hard to disolve, but the gravy was wonderful mmmmmmmm. I never buy them now and don'e enjoy my gravy either.

Maggs.
 
Speaking personally, it'd be nice for me to enjoy anything at the moment, as I was diagnosed recently with IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) and I just ain't interested in food - very unlike me.

I dream at night of tucking into a couple of great big beautiful Craster kippers, or braised brisket of beef at Chung Ying's, but when I wake the desire's gone.....

It's a rotten complaint.

Big Gee
 
Big Gee said:
Speaking personally, it'd be nice for me to enjoy anything at the moment, as I was diagnosed recently with IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) and I just ain't interested in food - very unlike me.

I dream at night of tucking into a couple of great big beautiful Craster kippers, or braised brisket of beef at Chung Ying's, but when I wake the desire's gone.....

It's a rotten complaint.

Big Gee
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Poor you! Life doesn't get easier in some ways does it? I have to eat very bland food too. However, I do not mind too much as spices etc., don't appeal. Eating out isn't easy. I often pay the price the next day especially with meat.

Maggs.
 
hi all
as a child my mother would feed me liver and onions even though i hated the stuff even to this day i carnt stand the smell of liver and i always tell my mother that she menatly scared me lol

i would never eat fish in any shape or form not even fish fingers but now if i find a nice bit of cod with no bones i will eat it but thats as far as it goes
i do remember my dad coming home from his fishing trips with eels in a bucket and he would kill gut cook and jelly them :-( and he used to go to the fish market in the bullring and buy cockels and musscels

as for brains on toast my nan still cooks thems the smell turns my tummy but she seems to loves them
i did used to eat pigs trotters when i was a kid used to look forward to them on a friday night but dont think i could eat them now
 
Hello Celia,

How I agree, I didn't like the things you mentioned either, and would not eat them to this day. As my father was a butcher he used to bring brains home and have them on toast...all that cholestrol! Pigs trotters I did eat, dad boiled them for what seemed like hours, so greasy, but like you, I wouldn't eat them now. My husband loves liver, but I won't cook it. Meat does not feature greatly in my life these days. Fish, I can take but not too often. I do like a fish finger sandwich though.

Regards

Maggs.
 
I am very fussy what I eat in my old age but I do find that I now like sprouts, cheese and one or two other things that I could never touch years ago.
The only fish I really have is Cod. Meat is ham so you see it is a very poor choice.
 
I hated vegetables as a child. I can remember my mom making me put a piece of meat in my mouth followed by cabbage. She said if I chewed the meat I wouldn't taste the cabbage. It didn't work though. Now I love all vegetables so I do think our taste buds change.
Rustie
 
Referring to my previous post when I was moaning about my IBS and the fact that I'm right off my grub as a result. Last Thursday I had a check-up and met the new GP at our group-practice. She reviewed by IBS history and straight away put me on a new medication called Buscopan. Evidently this is made from the extract of a flower and could possibly be considered an alternative medication. Anyway, within 24 hours all the horrible sensation of nausea and bloating had gone, and have stayed gone, and I'm in the process of eating my wife out of house and home. I can only thank my doctor for restoring to me one of my great pleasures in life - the love of food. And anyone else who suffers with IBS might take note.

Kippers for breakfast tomorrow!

Big Gee
 
Happy for you,Big Gee,however, don't over do it and become,Bigger Gee,then on the other hand,why not?
 
Thanks for your kind wishes, Maire and Ray.

As I'm 6'4" and 17 stone (normal weight) and as I've been off my grub for weeks if not months, I don't feel guilty about pigging it for a while!

Regards,

Big Gee
 
That is really good news Big Gee. I will pass this information on to my friend who also suffers IBS.

Maggs.
 
I have noticed that I can't get much taste out of tea bags lately, but have often wondered if they are the dust sweepings anyhow. Have just bought a packet of the real thing, so out came the old tea strainer and I believe it is better. No problem with the leaves, they will go on the compost heap.

Maggs.
 
Maggs,
Try Yorkshire tea and Malvern water,have a relative in Malvern who swears by it,and I must say he makes a grand cup of tea.
 
Thank you Ray,

I'll give it a go. I think the Queen drinks Malvern Water. so it must be good. We do have the Yorkshire tea in bags. Tesco here only sell their own finest loose tea. I must go and look for Yorkshire loose tea.

Maggs.
 
Maggs,
The Queen does indeed take Malvern water wherever she goes.
There is an Italian resturant opposite Trinity College that does a nice pot of tea,thought you might like to know.
 
Well how about that then Ray! How do you come to know the tea shop opposite Trinity then? I wonder why one is so often unaware of what goes on where we live. We hardly ever go into Cambridge, we live in a village about 5 miles out of the city itself. If we go shopping we head off to Norwich, London, or Kings Lynn. We go to the Art's theatre a couple of times a year and that's about it.

Maggs.
 
Glad to hear that you are feeling much better Big Gee. You have found a treatment that suits you. That's great.
 
Did some family research,in Bury St.Edmunds,last year,and spent some of the time in Cambridge,I found the restaurant by luck.
It's my new thing,travelled everywhere abroad that I want to see,my aim now is visit every county in England using my bus pass.
 
jennyann said:
Glad to hear that you are feeling much better Big Gee. You have found a treatment that suits you. That's great.
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Thanks very much, Jennyann. The thing about IBS is that it creeps up on you without you hardly noticing. Not nice.

Big Gee
 
When I was young, I couldn't get enough of mom's pickled herring and now the very thought of it makes me feel ill. Fish or seafood of any kind doesn't sit well with me.

I used to love broccoli but rarely touch it now. I always hated cabbage as a child but will eat it sometimes. Brussells sprouts, I have always loved!

Those are the things that stand out in my mind as having changed over the years.

Norma
 
My range of tastes has increased over the years, mainly through travel. I'll try most things once and if I like them I'll have them again. Some things I have an allergy to and I must avoid them to stay alive.

Graham.
 
What did you think of Bury St Edmunds then Ray? Only just found this
because it didn't come with my name on. I assume it was a reply to the tea shop opposite Trinity.
 
You are right,it was a reply to you.
Bury St. Edmunds,was a very nice town,it was my first visit but not the last.It was a very clean town,and a feel of real England,proud to say my Barrett ancestors came from there,albeit,a long time ago.Also Green King is my favourite brew.
 
I am allergic to shell fish so never will eat it - Didn't like lamb, cod, offal, cabbage or steam and milk puddings when i was a child and still don't.

Basically my diet consist of a lot of fruit and veg - other fish or beef. . .
 
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