Some tastes have a maturational component, changing from childhood to adolescence to adulthood, often without the need for experience. Remember your distaste of various veggies, the refusal of which at the dinner table often ended badly?
I remember it vividly: my father positively
relished the pronounced bitter taste of (overcooked)
belgian endives, something we kids could really do without. And while I still don't like to overcook those veggies for that reason, I must say that with the years 'bitter' in general has grown on me. A good example is the increasing number of dry-hopped IPAs and APAs turned out by US microbreweries. To me, these are a perfect match for (deliciously stinky)
Wisconsin Beer Kaese, but I'll admit that this may be an acquired taste.
So I have to agree that this phenomenon of changing tastes is an excellent argument to try previously disliked items again at a later age: you might appreciate the re-acquaintance.
