Foods you forget you don't like

[Orual]

I'm currently burning 2 sticks of incense to drive the nauseating stench of garlic out of my room.

All day I've been thinking about pasta. Fettuccine alfredo, to be precise. I simply had to have fettuccine for dinner. So I got some, thinking that it would be a nice treat. Until I started eating it, at which point I remembered a couple of things:

1) I haven't enjoyed fettuccine alfredo since adolescence.

2) Although it contains all of my favorite food groups (i.e. starch, butter, and cheese), it combines them in such a way that leaves me sick to my stomach after one and a half bites.

It occurs to me that I have similar feelings about Peking duck.

Does this happen to other people? Having food stored in your memory banks under 'I like this', when in fact you haven't enjoyed it in years?

[What Exit?]

No, that's just plain weird.



Not foods but something similar with restaurants has happened. I go to a place I haven't been in years forgetting why I hadn't been there in years.

[Zuul]

I have the same thing with fettuccine alfredo. It sounds so good. Every time it comes up I think I want some. Every time I have it I hate it. There isn't much flavor to it except fat and garlic and it makes this sort of slimy, pasty mouthful.

Also: crab. In theory, I love crab. I like stuff with crab in it, after all. But if I eat something where the flavor of said crab is really showcased I will invariably want to spit out the very first bite.

[Trojan Man]

I had a similar thing with alfredo, actually. I used to live off the stuff. Loved it. Then one night, after an intense drinking session, it came back up, really, really, roughly. I decided not to eat it ever again.

About 5 years later, I could smell this delicious pasta smell from my adolescence. Salivating. Had some. Stomach started spinning like a tumbledryer. Never, ever again. For real this time.

[Orual]

It seems that fettuccine alfredo is the Hypnotoad of foodstuffs.

[Taumpy]

Well, I love fettucine alfredo.

I can't say this has happened to me ever, but I'm not really a picky eater and I have few strong dislikes. I guess I'll second Jim in that it's happened with restaurants.

[Zuul]

It seems that fettuccine alfredo is the Hypnotoad of foodstuffs.

This kind of begs to be a signature.

[artifex]

I have to ask, are y'all talking about commercially made or freshly made alfredo? I've never bought a premade alfredo that didn't taste weird and chemical, but alfredo I just made from scratch is amazing.

I don't think I have any foods I forget that I don't like. I sometimes have evolving reasons for hating food, though: I used to hate cottage cheese because of the squeaky curds. Now I hate it because it tastes bland and saltless and slightly soured.

[Orual]

artifex, it was from the local pizza/pasta joint. It looked pretty good, didn't taste like it came out of a jar or anything. It just was not at all yummy after the first bite.

I tried to make alfredo sauce once. It turned out weird and lumpy, probably because I was 17 and we didn't have the right ingredients.

[What Exit?]

I love a good Fettuccine Alfredo with Chicken but even some of the good ones leave my stomach churning within an hour. My mom made a great one though. I miss it. I haven't had hers in over a decade.

[CatInASuit]

So, it's effectively pasta and cheese with a bit of extra butter. What's wrong with that?

[Zuul]

artifex, it's been stuff from a restaurant or prepared by someone else. I assume the other person preparing it took it out of a jar. I made it myself once and actually did enjoy it that time.

[Inner Stickler]

Raw potatos. Every time I'm slicing uncooked potatos for something, I always think, oh I bet these would be a great snack. No, no they would not.

[Orual]

So, it's effectively pasta and cheese with a bit of extra butter. What's wrong with that?

It's more of a cream sauce with cheese and garlic. It's very rich, in the 'you can feel your arteries hardening as you eat it' way.

[RabbitMage]

I had dinner at Olive Garden last night, they have a new portabello alfredo-y sauce that is delicious.

For me, hot dogs. Don't get me wrong, I like hot dogs. But I always eat an extra one, or that last bite I shouldn't have had, and I always feel like ass afterward.