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My theory on acquired tastes is that it's a Pavlovian thing. The first time you try something like coffee or beer you don't like it but your brain quickly learns to associate the strong flavor with the reward (the drug).

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05-08-2017 , 02:55 AM

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Originally Posted by JayTeeMe

Yeah, but I acquired a taste for squash and spinach. No drugs there.

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05-08-2017 , 03:02 AM

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Originally Posted by VoraciousReader

Yeah, but I acquired a taste for squash and spinach. No drugs there.

You're buying the wrong kind.

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05-08-2017 , 04:50 AM

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That only works on the idiots who think JFK and Hemingway were drinking these:

When they were really drinking these:

the bottom ones arent made with a generous helping on sugar?

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05-08-2017 , 06:05 AM

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Originally Posted by VoraciousReader

Yeah, but I acquired a taste for squash and spinach. No drugs there.

Well obviously food is its own reward for your body. That's why Pavlov used it.

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05-08-2017 , 07:25 AM

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When I'm driving, and the passenger puts the sun visor down, I am instantly enraged and snap it back up. While it doesn't block my field of vision in any signficant way, I simply hate it.

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05-08-2017 , 07:33 AM

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Especially when talking about how great super sweet drinks are, which is a taste acquired through sugar being loaded in everything in our modern diet from bread to peanut butter to tripled up in candy in our lifetimes. All you have to do is cut it out for a while and see how crappy that syrupy crap tastes when you try it again.

Go have a banana.

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Originally Posted by Johnny Truant

Yes you do.

I don't think very many people "liked" their first beer, onion, black coffee or hard alcohol.

I liked beer the first time I had it. I don't remember ever not liking onion flavor. I can't stand coffee, never have. I have the same taste for hard liquor now that I did when I was 17.

What else should I have acquired a taste for?

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05-08-2017 , 08:20 AM

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These are just a few delicious things that I assume people dont like first time:

Olives.
Anchovies.
Smelly cheeses.
Neat Malts
Neat liquors of various types that have been matured for the requisite time period. (Brandy, Rum etc)
Ales (lager is quite accessible imo)
Mussels.
Liver.
Probably a load more.

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05-08-2017 , 09:15 AM

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Who dislikes mussels? And who thinks liver is delicious? Except for chicken liver.

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05-08-2017 , 09:20 AM

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Avocado also.

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05-08-2017 , 09:28 AM

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**** amoebas.

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05-08-2017 , 09:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Didace

Go have a banana.
I liked beer the first time I had it. I don't remember ever not liking onion flavor. I can't stand coffee, never have. I have the same taste for hard liquor now that I did when I was 17.

What else should I have acquired a taste for?

I guess people are different. check this list of things I didn't like when I first tried tthem that I grew to enjoy a great deal and you tell me.

Beer at all, then stronger IPA later as I got older
Many vegetables-broccoli, Brussels sprouts, squash, asparagus, spinach...lots more
Sushi
Fish in general
Spicy sauces and foods
Curry
Smoking, though I gave it up
Hard alcohol
Dark chocolate
Coffee, then coffee with less sweetener, then none
Cunnilingus
Mustard

If I stuck with my first impression on all of these my life would be less rich.

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05-08-2017 , 09:44 AM

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smoking is a pretty good example of being acquired. I acquired it smoking menthols, the minty menthol hit hid the Tobbaco taste well, after smoking a lot I switched to regular smokes and hand rolling. After quitting there were the inevitable relapses and the longer it had been without smoking the worse they tasted and smelled. At this point I'd have to really want it to start smoking again.

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05-08-2017 , 11:39 AM

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Originally Posted by problemeliminator

Whenever someone acts like it's effeminate to not like "acquired" taste drinks (or conversely to like less 'manly' drinks) I just remind them that Hemingway and JFK's favorite drink was the daiquiri. Always shuts the idiots up.

They weren't drinking **** that was made in a blender, electric blue, and had a squirt of whipped frosting on top. Also, I don't give a **** about them.

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05-08-2017 , 12:44 PM

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**** amoebas.

Lol I love it! Expected this to be a new account when I clicked on it.

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05-08-2017 , 12:46 PM

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My point was about whether sweet drinks are ok, not what color they are.

Do you give a **** what other people drink?

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05-08-2017 , 12:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Punker

When I'm driving, and the passenger puts the sun visor down, I am instantly enraged and snap it back up. While it doesn't block my field of vision in any signficant way, I simply hate it.

I hate it too, and it actually makes me feel like I've lost significant vision. Usually cause the old lady is dicking around in the mirror!

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05-08-2017 , 03:22 PM

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- American businesses naming themselves after someone extremely distinguished, as if there is no possibility that they will fail.

- Bowie covers.

- Historically bad posters ****ing with my chi.

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05-08-2017 , 07:50 PM

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Lol too funny, I can picture it perfectly, someone getting **** for ordering a daiquiri and defends with jfk n Hemingway

There's definitely feminine drinks but mostly just a thing u give **** to friends for. One time me and some total douche were playing bj with a sexy dealer, this guy's like late 40s and thinks he's the ****, hitting on and flirting with dealer. I havent said a word, just enjoying the eye candy and the action, when the waitresse brings him a Michelob ultra and I say, who'd you order that for, Your wife? Me and the dealer just laughed and laughed, took the wind out of his sail like popping a baloon

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05-08-2017 , 08:21 PM

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People from the Midwest who offer advice on Italian restaurants.

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05-08-2017 , 09:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Howard Beale

People from the Midwest who offer advice on Italian restaurants.

Whatcha got against unlimited salad and breadsticks!?

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05-08-2017 , 10:43 PM

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Whatcha got against unlimited salad and breadsticks!?

I moved from New Rochelle, NY which is half Italian, half Jewish and 15% w/e and we had the BEST Italian food that you can find anywhere. Then I moved to Phoenix, AZ where the chefs who get a 'D' at Italian Chef school get sent bec nobody knows the difference. When I first got here I'd ask for recommendations, go visit the place, it'd be terrible, ask again, terrible again, until I learned to do this:

'Does anybody know a good Italian restaurant?'
'Try 'Vitto's', it's fantastic!'
'Where are you from, originally?'
'Wisconsin.'
'I should give you a slap.'