Why doesn't food ever taste as good as when you were a child?

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Because food that you do not have to pay for....cook....or clean up after...Always tastes better...hehehehe

And no one cooks as great as Mom.....It is the love that she puts into the pot that makes it taste great

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Coyotegray	Posted Jun 22nd, 2009 at 4:41PM Taste buds actually dull with age. It is why adults generally like foods that young ones generally do not like - for instance vegetables. Kids are very sensitive to the bitter falvors in many vegetables and do not like them for that reason. Adults are less so and can enjoy other flavors that are present instead. Rated: +3Vote for this!
Navybrat	Posted Jun 22nd, 2009 at 9:50PM because the tastes were new to you.. and as you get older its just a taste... so yeah, your used to it. Rated: +2Vote for this!
qazrazl	Posted Jun 22nd, 2009 at 9:50PM I beg to differ, somewhat. While I do think our tastes grow and shift, I did have a blast from my past recently. I had a Snack Pack pudding. It's taste brought me right back to 7 yrs old and the fondness of it in my lunchbox. On the other hand, the chemical flavors and oils are not so tastey to my whole food palate. Grama's homemade pudding still rules. Rated: +2Vote for this!
puzzles100	Posted Jun 22nd, 2009 at 9:50PM Your taste in food changes as you grow up Rated: +2Vote for this!
underconstruction	Posted Jun 25th, 2009 at 10:49PM Perhaps because in those days food was free of pesticides and other chemicals and our taste buds hadn´t gotten used to synthetic flavours. Rated: +2Vote for this!
unicorn59	Posted Jun 22nd, 2009 at 9:51PM To me, it tastes better to me, now...than when I was a child....I think I appreciate good food more, now. Rated: +2Vote for this!
squigglefish	Posted Jun 22nd, 2009 at 9:51PM I think it tastes better now. Rated: +2Vote for this!
edgargeorge	Posted Jun 22nd, 2009 at 9:51PM We actually lose taste buds as we age. Hence the picky child eater grows up to love many more foods than when he was a child -- because the flavors aren't as intense. Rated: +2Vote for this!
Phembroe	Posted Jun 22nd, 2009 at 1:34PM Look into the Chinese Medicine diagnostic skill of Tongue Reading. That should offer some hints. More if you're willing to flesh them out. Rated: +1Vote for this!
SeriouslySappy	Posted Jun 22nd, 2009 at 12:38PM For some of us, maybe alcohol dulls the taste buds. I mean it's one thing I can think of I have done as an adult, not a child. Or maybe we just get so preoccupied with all those aggravating details of being mature & responsible, we lose the ability to appreciate the simple pleasures in life. Rated: +1Vote for this!
g9	Posted Jun 22nd, 2009 at 12:39PM There is no anticipation of taste , the tiny morsel are larger to their little mouths . Everything is fun , new and exciting . Rated: +1Vote for this!
Comprehensive2	Posted Jun 22nd, 2009 at 12:39PM It depends on who's cooking it. My mother used to throw down but as she got older she didn't. My oldest sister though, oh boy! She's got cooking down to a fine art and as good as her food tasted when I was growing up it tastes just as good now. She makes the best sweet potato pie in the world and makes most of her dishes from scratch in these days of nuke it and instant. You can't beat that!! Rated: +1Vote for this!
koyptakh	Posted Jun 22nd, 2009 at 12:42PM Hi all childhood sensations are more powerful because you are experiencing and remembering first impressions - sharper, clearer more meaningful. As you grow older you experience life differently and because less experiences are remarkable then our experience of time is that it speeds up. Summers that went on for ever as we lived every moment as new are replaced by Seasons that flash by. Food just part of that :) Rated: +1Vote for this!
trixiegirl	Posted Jun 22nd, 2009 at 12:42PM Food always tasted better when your mommy made it 'specially for you. Take for example something as simple as toast. When someone else makes it , it smells so warm and inviting. When I make it , well, it's toast for cryin out loud. Rated: +1Vote for this!
EricS	Posted Jun 22nd, 2009 at 12:51PM That is assuming that all kids got "good' or "tasty" food as a kid. Not all of us did. Rated: +1Vote for this!
Shoreboy	Posted Jun 22nd, 2009 at 1:16PM Children have significantly stronger 'senses' than adults do... taste, smell, eyesight, hearing, touch are all measurably better during childhood. Survival mechanism crossed with longer term exposure to the world's environment 'dulling' the senses I would guess. Rated: +1Vote for this!
rusted	Posted Jun 22nd, 2009 at 2:10PM Not true. Broccoli, asparagus, coffee and lots of other stuff taste better now. Rated: +1Vote for this!
JADEDRUCKUS	Posted Jun 22nd, 2009 at 2:26PM It has been said that our tastes in food changes every 7 years so I would think that is why food doesn't always taste the same and of course, it could be the additives in the food..there are new ones all the time Rated: +1Vote for this!
kylae77	Posted Jun 22nd, 2009 at 2:29PM cuz as a kid you didn't have adult stressors - u lived in the moment & usually ate after working up an appetite playing. Rated: +1Vote for this!

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