re: Acquired tastes as you age

Coffee—hated anything with a trace of coffee. No mocha, no tiramisu, etc. Then at 50, started with iced caramel macchiatos and now require strong perked coffee with a little sugar and splash of cream.

Gin—did not like the medicinal taste. My friends got me started on French 75s. Now I have decided the juniper kind of makes gin a health tonic, and I drink G&Ts.

Cheese. I DGAF what it is, I'm going to try it.

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BenGay

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For how long?

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Greens. Turnip, mustard, whatever. Couldn't stand them when I was a kid, probably because we had them nearly every day at school. Now

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Same here. Until I saw someone put hot sauce on it. Game changer for me.

Honestly it never really changes in velocity of what all you get interested in. It's just always something else for me. About once a year. And it's spooky how once you get older you start to recognize what they were saying when you were younger was a lot more profound than you could possibly understand at the time.
Old folks know stuff you do not. You will. But you'd be well advised to listen early.

Seek help

Pickles and bananas. Not together. Still hate liver.

Pickles and Steely Dan

Broccoli, brussel sprouts, cabbage. I guess we're inately disgusted by the brassica family as children. I read that you have millions more tastebuds as a child, and as you age the tastebuds die off or become damaged.

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“As we get older, our taste buds begin to shrink and decline in number,” says Dr. Hadney. “In addition, the mouth produces less saliva over time. A drier mouth and fewer taste buds lead to a gradual decline in our ability to taste food.

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I guess that's why everything tastes good when we're old. Idk, I always liked the taste of pussy.

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Yep. In my case, a 59 yr. old woman (come this Saturday)

Others:
-- Modern Jazz (Brubeck, Miles Davis, Wes Montgomery, Vince Guaraldi, Horace Silver, etc.)
-- Steely Dan
-- Ancestry
-- Cigars
-- Old Fashioneds
-- Intense pride in (and love for) all things "Southern" including Pimento Cheese, Pecans, the Allman Brothers, and as someone above posted, greens.
-- Pub Trivia (that wasn't even a thing when I was younger, though)

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Dang, I was going to pretty much post the same thing. Only difference with me is 40 year old women, I'm a bit younger, and I still don't like greens.

Crazy how time delivers you into the hands of Steely Dan, Cigars and Jazz.