Liking food when you're 30.
I've heard that children instinctively dislike bitter foods as it's an evolutionary safeguard; bitter things are often dangerous things, so little cave kids who spit out bitter things are more likely to survive than those who munch away on the deadly berries and the like.

The safeguard fades when you reach adulthood. So if you hated veg when you're a kid, but love it now you're grown up, this is probably why.

A story.

I used to eat meat, yum yum, until a ghastly nightmare about a year ago put me off it for about a fortnight. Then, after that, I simply got into the habit of not eating meat and didn't bother going back to it even when my stomach didn't turn at the thought of it any more. Later, I tacked on the "say, this is a pretty nice thing to do for all the animals" bit (but I still wear my leathers for biking, though, so that moral principle isn't absolute).

The strange thing is, now if I look at meat and think about eating it I get the same sickly feeling I did in that fortnight after the nightmare. I've been told it's because your body gets used to not having it, so rejects it. Not sure if that's true, but interesting if so.
(Musuko, Mon 5 Mar 2007, 10:24, Reply)