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Invisible Acquired Tastes
Life is filled with foods and fools you’d not likely enjoy if you hadn’t been repeatedly exposed to them.
The book, Acquired Taste (Peter Mayle — Bantam Books), points out that an affluent society contributes to the exposure to life style adjustments, some of them naughty, that would not even be realized as possibilities if the wealth were not there to buy the temptation. To the individuals who are able to afford these extravagances these behaviors soon become acquired tastes. Often a self destructive way of life contrary to the normal human condition.
According to Merriam Webster an acquired taste is something or someone that is not easily or immediately liked.
Well intending parents try to take this concept into consideration when coaxing a wee one to try the broccoli.
Just one mouthful. The airplane is flying. Open the the hanger! A ‘Nyeeeeerm” sound made by dad’s lips aquiver, spraying spittle, trying to approximate the sound of flight. Kid’s lids locked only to open briefly for the landing, then ejecting the green cluster to have it crash land back on the plate from where it originally took off.
Just well-meaning parents trying to force acquired taste in food on their child.
