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.

Comments

[stimps.livejournal.com]

Cilantro - same as you. Used to hate it, now I love it. It used to taste like dish soap to me, now it doesn't. Also mushrooms... I didn't really start enjoying them until I was about 12.
Television - I used to watch it religiously and profusely as a child, and then watched it less and less until now we don't even get a signal in, and haven't for a few years. I don't like it at all anymore.
Movies - I used to watch a lot of movies, but that was when I was less agoraphobic and less intolerant of others. I wish I could go to as many movies, but people drive me nuts. I like watching them on DVD and tape, but I still have to be in the right mood or they give me long lasting mood changes that suck. I used to have more tolerance for action movies and bad arnie movies, but now I just have none at all.

I have no idea how I used to eat velveeta cheese or squishy white sandwich bread now. I can't stomach haagen-dasz ice cream -- it leaves a thick lard coating on my tongue that makes me feel positively ill. I guess I'm a food snob now. Oh well. =)

There's lots of music I used to like in a more serious way than I do now, but I still enjoy and think is funny. Like the Smiths -- I used to get quite sad listening to it, but now I sing like a Leutonian whenever Morrissey starts wailing, and I have fun. =) I guess I just don't take so much of it as seriously as I used to, versus actively disliking much of it.