I've been thinking about taste buds lately.
How some change and some don't. For instance: When I was growing up the only birthday cake I would even consider was angel food or white cake. Now all I crave for my birthday is German Chocolate. I hated (not a strong word in this instance) that cake when I was growing up. Pecans (any nut for that matter) and coconut? Not if it was the last food on the planet! Now, I must have frosting for each bite of the slice. How does that happen? I love every nut now, except for walnuts because they give me cankers, and can't get enough coconut. Love coconut cream pie and coconut cake.
And onions. Still to this day, I cannot eat a raw onion. Not on a burger, in a salad. I love them grilled, caramelized, I cook endlessly with them, love the aroma (especially paired with garlic), but raw, forget it! I can't figure it out. Maybe it's the oozing juice, the crunch. Can't do it. Tried, but just can't. I'll get sick. Weird, huh.
