Couple examples from personal experience:
Spicy Food
I didn’t like spicy food for a (relatively) long time until I was 25.
2/4 of my roommates did. We’d order two pizzas, one spicy and one not. But the asshats who liked spicy would eat half the non-spicy pizza first knowing the other one was safe from us.
Well… we’d see about that!
I bought a jar of pickled little yellow banana peppers. At first all I could manage was a tiny little bit of one. But I had that tiny little bite every evening, every day. Eventually my tolerance grew until I was eating a whole one, then multiples. In a few weeks I realized I was crunching through them and loving it. (Didn’t love the first time I overindulged and found out what goes in can still burn going out, oof, lol.)
Beer
First time I had beer I did the movie-style stereotypical spit-take. Tasted like something I’d never want again. I drank when I was 18-19yrs old but it was usually Smirnoff Ice or some other “bitch-pop” as was said at the time by those around me.
When I was in my early 20s I supervised for a company that had us do a lot of traveling. Particularly three months of the year I was in a hotel more than at home.
There was a consistent crew of people who lived in a town nearby that I saw fairly frequently for those three months but not too often elsewise. As I said I was in my early 20s, 21-23ish. And they were in their late 20s to mid thirties.
They were inveterate drinkers, and they loved beer. And they undertook a self-imposed mission to teach me to love beer too. Them being older and me being impressionable, I went with it.
Every evening after work we’d hit up the local pub and I’d order three beers, based off their recommendations. One was an inveterate drinker as mentioned, the other a mid-thirties redheaded British woman I grew rather fond of and who was rather fond of me, along with some other crew. Basically, people who knew beer and in the case of the brit, someone who I would’ve listened to for a few reasons.
Didn’t take too long but I certainly “acquired” a taste for it. Eventually acquiring my own preferences to the point I was recommending them ideas.
Music fan here. Pretty eclectic but mostly leaning towards metal and prog. The melodic kind.
Currently experimenting with deathcore like Lorna shore and stuff. Just to see what the fuss is about and if I can find something beautiful in it.
Do you like bands that you need to acquire the ability to read their names on event posters?
I’m into hardcore and metalcore mainly. I started listening as a kid a bit ironically: it was loud, offensive sounding, and I was an idiot who sometimes sought attention. Fast forward and I really fell in love with it. I like screaming, although not all screaming. But Josh Scogin and Keith Buckley kinda opened the doors for me, and they were two of the best for sure.
I’m also into metalcore! Love that stuff although I do agree that not all screaming is good. So generally I lean to the more melodic tracks. Thanks for the tip! I’ll check Josh and Keith out! Have you heard of Enter Shikari? I really really love that band although they’re not really metalcore. More genre bending.
I definitely remember Enter Shikari. I feel like I still am in into the offshoot of their genre, bands like Dwellings, Ben Quad, Hail the Sun, just guitar heavy, melodic, progressive stuff. They’re all kind of offshoots of emo while also being post hardcore in the vein of DGD and that whole swancore movement. And Hail the Sun don’t really deserve to be lumped in, Donovan is a crazy talented musician and has certainly pioneered the genre on his own.