> It's a very acquired flavor...
I don't think that it is actually "acquired". You liked it as a child, and still do. I find it to be vile and inedible, and always have. This preference seems to innate and fixed.
I don't think that it is actually "acquired". You liked it as a child, and still do. I find it to be vile and inedible, and always have. This preference seems to innate and fixed.
I don't know when I started liking black licorice but surely I didn't eat that as a toddler. I remember my parents giving it to me when I couldn't sleep pretending it was a sleep medication. It worked haha
It's really nothing like "aging into" the preference for coffee, beer, whiskey or wine. It's more like the preference for coriander / cilantro, which is genetic.
I appreciate that your experience of liquorice is different to mine, but I ask you to stop explaining my experience of liquorice to me.
However you seem to reject the idea people can go from disliking it to liking it, which isn't the case.
Nobody claimed you can force yourself to enjoy it :)
I'm saying that I have never seen this happen when the person has the "liquorice averse" reaction, which is not simple a regular food preference or toddler with unfamiliar food thing. And so I am very sceptical.
You say it "isn't the case" but ... nothing more. Ok, that does not convince me.
A common hack to get your kids to eat anything, is to force them to try it at least 10 different times. They always keep spitting it out or crying they don't like it. Eventually one time you feed it to them and they get used to it and like it, as if they never threw a fit with it before. Not everybody's parents did this. That's why there's grown adults that eat nothing but pizza or steak and potatoes...
P.S. that being said, I still don't like broccoli.... Might be one of the only foods I've never liked in any shape or form...
P.P.S. I've had that salty black licorice before when I visited Sweden. I enjoyed it in very small doses.
We only have the GP's words: and at face value, as they should be taken, they do seem to literally mean that.
If someone said something along the lines of "I would kill my son if they did that", would you take that literally, or as a hyperbolic idiom meaning they would be mad at them and punish them?
I think the actual meaning of the statement in question is ambiguous given the above, and providing for the option that you misinterpreted someone's meaning when condemning their speech likely does a lot to keep the discussion civil and useful.
That's manifestly untrue in some cases. If you like coriander / cilantro, and your child does very much not, would you just feed it to them regularly so that they "get familiar with it"?
That would be bad parenting, and also pointless cruelty to force them to eat "soap" fifty times. Show some empathy, and recognise that your tastes are not necessarily other people's tastes.
https://www.britannica.com/story/why-does-cilantro-taste-lik...
Over the years, I must have. It's invariant. This is _not_ an "acquired taste" thing, it is simply unpalatable to some, and you can kindly stop pushing it.
Therefor, if there is a gene that makes one sensitive to the extreme pungency of liquorice in bad way, then you don't have it. You just fall somewhere on the range of preferences that you might find for any taste.