A matter of taste

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I had a bit of music running through my head tonight ("Small Town Spree" by Peter Case) and, reviewing the lyrics, realized that it wasn't as good a song as I'd thought back in 1986 or so when it came out. Reflecting on this, I further realized that a lot of what I thought of as "good" years ago I now don't like in varying degrees. So, a question for the Group Mind:

Assuming only adult tastes (none of what you liked or disliked at age 9), what tastes in music, or film, or food, or other arts have changed for you? Particularly, what particular artists or edibles or designs (cars, architecture) etc. have lost or gained value for you?

Examples for me include:

• Musical artists I adored 15 years ago that I now think are clumsy and overrated (the above Mr. Case and several others)
  
• Cilantro, which I thought was horrible at age 19 and now I can't get enough of
  
• Mercedez-Benz cars, which I once thought were the apex of beauty; now I think they're boring businessman's cars
  
• Science Fiction, which ruled my world in early college and now makes me gag almost every time
  

Comment away if you're interested, either with your own changes in taste or about the phenomenon.

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Lots of music:
Metallica - though I think it's pretty clear that they're the ones that changed.
Steve Vai - ditto, but more of a mutual thing
The hair metal - Dokken, Whitesnake, all of the terrible music I listened to to hear good guitar players before I realized that they were more silly than good.
Danzig - I thought his first solo album was a damn fine rock and roll album aned I still do, but a few years later a friend of mine had a promotional video with interviews with him from that time - i.e. image building. Had I seen that before I heard the music, I would not regard Glen as anything other than a pathetic clown.

I could go on with music all day, so lets go to food:
Cilantro - I used to be ignorant of its very existence, but my stepdad would fulminate "I don't know why anyone would ruin a perfectly good meal by putting cinlantro on it." And I have to admit: I'm not a big fan of the stuff. When a recipe calls for it, I won't omit it, but I will put less in than is called for
Tofu - my inital experience with tofu was small chunks of silken tofu in soup at Ooisu when it was on 17th st. I thought it was gross in its flavorlessness, and entirely the wrong color and texture to be food. Then I learned how to cook with it; It's always in my fridge and I make some about once a week. I still don't like it plain.
Spicy - My friends and I used to challenge each other: who could put the most wasabi on their sushi, who could tolerate the hottest sauce (this at the very beginning of the absurdly hot hot sauce trend) We discovered Sriracha sauce and homemade kimchee. At some point, I just dropped out of it...I like to taste my food, which is hard to do when your tongue is on fire. I still use wasabi and cayenne and crushed red pepper on pizza and I LOVE black pepper and I'll even pull out the old sriracha from time to time, but all in pretty measured doses - just another spice.