Do some people just naturally not like sweet tasting foods?

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by Aery11

I just can't stand sweet drinks - not even fruit juice. All way too sweet. I think I 'trained' myself that way though - I used to, in my 20s, drink lousy workplace coffee and the only way to swallow that stuff was to put sugar and cream in. Then I decided I needed to lose some weight and dropped all the 'fixin's forever - and if someone mixes up my drink and gives me sweetened iced tea for instance, it is awful. I now drink only black coffee, tea plain, and water these days.


I am not a chocoholic - could take it or leave it - but if I do eat it, it is always the highest cacao content I can find - so the least sweet. The same goes for most candy but once a year when the new crop maple syrup/candies come out (and they are VERY sweet) if I allow myself some (since I can find myself craving that 'taste') it takes me at least 4 days of nothing sweet to wean myself off it (and I will indulge till I get tough with myself). At any rate, they just don't understand me when I tell them thanks but no thanks when they offer me their goodies. I do bake for them though on occasion - and leave it with them!


I am not into sweet salads or salad dressings. I find them cloying. But, I do like a bit of sweetness in a fiery Thai curry for instance - helps to balance it all out. I use coconut sugar usually. It is less sweet.


I went for dinner at my neighbour's house not long ago. I noticed that almost everything we ate was sweet - the salads, the ribs, even the potatoes seemed a bit 'doctored' (almost sweet potato sweet). And around here, the women DO love their baking. I think this is a regional thing though .. and perhaps a bit 'old fashioned' - I remember my mother's coleslaw when I was a kid - no sugar per se but the apples and raisins were sweet enough.


Wish I could just drop the other bad carbs as easily as I dropped sugar. I could still stand to lose a few pounds.

sweet drinks: no way: I do drink OJ but that is about as sweet as I want. OK, when I need some form of juice for breakfast and have no choice I drink a small glass of apple juice, but never soda, lemonade, etc. Breakfast, normally it is veggie juice or grapefruit juice. As much as I love my wine, even it has to be heavy and dry: no sweet ones, no after dinner liquoirs, (spelling) nothing like that.

[Aery11]

I can't have grapefruit juice any more (medical reasons) but that was the only juice I used to drink. I miss the idea of that juice perhaps. When I was a kid, if my mother gave me OJ, the first thing I did was water it down to the point that a glass became almost a quart - and the taste was very faint.


And yes, me too with the wine. When I drink (and I don't much these days - not enough in fact) it has to be very dry - mellow old dry for me.


I see that somehow one sentence in my last post ended up attached to the wrong paragraph. Can't edit it but I guess it won't matter in a day or so. Sorry 'bout that. Must have been tired when I wrote it.

[MarciaMarshaMarcia]

My sister didn't care for sweets at all...only one in the family like that. I thought that her sweet tooth was quelled by the many cigarettes she smoked...which killed her.

[Nanny Goat]

I have a tamed sweet tooth. You can train yourself to like or dislike most foods. I started cutting back on sweets significantly years back and my sweet cravings dropped substantially. I think many people are addicted to sugar. I eat a little, a cookie, a graham cracker here and there, but very few desserts like cake or pie. They're only treats occasionally.