My taste buds don't appear to be maturing...

nitro2k01 · Post by **nitro2k01** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 7:09 pm

If you keep on eating junk food, your taste buds will never mature. Simple as that. When you're used to a diet with too much fat and sugar (Junk food often contains a lot added sugar just for this reason) other things will taste slightly sharp, or bitter, or sour, or whatever you want to call it.
So, yeah. Try to stay off the junk completely. (That includes sodas, even diet sodas) and you'll see how quickly your taste buds will mature.

Electric Rain · Post by **Electric Rain** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 7:43 pm

bicostp wrote:
Electric Rain wrote:...Water is kind of expensive too.
Not when you get it out of that metal thing sticking out of the counter by the sink.

So THAT'S what that thing is for...

Actually, as long as it's cold, I can drink tap. I can't do it straight from the faucet, but ever since we moved into a house with a freezer that dispenses chilled water and ice, I've stopped drinking bottled water. I drink water during the day and diet root beer at night... It could be worse, right?

themadhacker · Post by **themadhacker** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 7:53 pm

I HATE vegetables...except for corn...and potatoes. I like most fruits though, and enjoy fruit smoothies. But mostly I eat meat and junk( but hey, I'm skinny, AND I excersize excesively every day, so who cares?)

khaag · Post by **khaag** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 9:06 pm

bicostp wrote:
Electric Rain wrote:...Water is kind of expensive too.
Not when you get it out of that metal thing sticking out of the counter by the sink.

Yeah, seriously... who pays for water?

Electric Rain · Post by **Electric Rain** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 9:07 pm

khaag wrote:
bicostp wrote:
Electric Rain wrote:...Water is kind of expensive too.
Not when you get it out of that metal thing sticking out of the counter by the sink.
Yeah, seriously... who pays for water?

Again, Americans.

themadhacker · Post by **themadhacker** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 8:44 am

Electric Rain wrote:
khaag wrote:
bicostp wrote:
Electric Rain wrote:...Water is kind of expensive too.
Not when you get it out of that metal thing sticking out of the counter by the sink.
Yeah, seriously... who pays for water?
Again, Americans.

I don't pay for water, an I'm an American.

tom61 · Post by **tom61** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 11:04 am

themadhacker wrote:
Electric Rain wrote:
khaag wrote:
bicostp wrote:
Electric Rain wrote:...Water is kind of expensive too.
Not when you get it out of that metal thing sticking out of the counter by the sink.
Yeah, seriously... who pays for water?
Again, Americans.
I don't pay for water, an I'm an American.

Heh. Someone else pays the water bill for you?

Anyway, back to the original topic, while tastes do change over years, eating vegetables and eating healthy being the automatic thing when you get older is a myth. It's gone being the default, along with many of the things that used to be considered part of being an 'adult' of generations past. You will start to like things you didn't, but it won't happen overnight. Sugar and salt were highly lacking in our ancestors diet, so much so that we always crave it, as the ones that didn't crave it died for a lack of it.

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 11:55 am

You could always try

MIRACLE FRUIT

Electric Rain · Post by **Electric Rain** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 12:34 pm

That stuff seems awesome...

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 1:53 pm

I was going to order some a while back, but I need to get verified via Credit Card by eBay (I should probably get one anyways).

Someone try it and tell us about it! (I like eating lemons anyways!)

grossaffe · Post by **grossaffe** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 2:12 pm

They had the miracle fruit on G4, apparently it makes Guinness taste like chocolate milk.

Aguiluz · Post by **Aguiluz** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 2:39 pm

Looks interesting but....

http://www.wired.com/science/discoverie ... 6/12/72251

"We used the miraculin tablets, then started trying every sour thing we could find. I remember straight lemon juice as being pretty good. I also tried vinegar and sauerkraut juice. [...] The next morning we awakened with ulcers in our mouths, barely able to talk. Sure, these things tasted sweet, but they were still highly acidic."

Rekarp · Post by **Rekarp** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 2:49 pm

Stop eating preprocessed foods (Pop tarts, beagle bites ect)

I will basically refuse anything thats super sugary. I eat roughly 2.5 lbs of steak a week ($6 steaks are AWESOME)

Also I try anything I haven't had before. I consume what is set in front of me.

Electric Rain · Post by **Electric Rain** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 4:07 pm

...You had to bring up Bagle Bites...

I didn't know what they were, actually... then I looked them up, and now I want them.

Let's take this one step at a time. Breakfast... I'm getting sick of Pop-Tarts anyway, but they're cheap and quick. So tell me, what can I eat for breakfast that still cheap and quick, but also healthy?

Valium · Post by **Valium** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 4:13 pm

Rekarp wrote:Stop eating preprocessed foods (Pop tarts, beagle bites ect)

I will basically refuse anything thats super sugary. I eat roughly 2.5 lbs of steak a week ($6 steaks are AWESOME)

Also I try anything I haven't had before. I consume what is set in front of me.

Beagle bites? I thought Chinese food was good for you ;D