[Michael G.]

How much has your taste for food diminished?

We go out to eat once or twice a month, (wife is a awesome cook), but lately the taste
of food in any restaurant taste bland to us.

Are more meals reheated in a microwave?
Does freezing food loose it's taste?

Notice, I didn't mention meal prices, which we'll save for another day.

Cheers!

[JSR22]

Originally Posted by Michael G.

How much has your taste for food diminished?

We go out to eat once or twice a month, (wife is a awesome cook), but lately the taste
of food in any restaurant taste bland to us.

Are more meals reheated in a microwave?
Does freezing food loose it's taste?

Notice, I didn't mention meal prices, which we'll save for another day.

Cheers!

We eat out dinner out 2 to3 times a week and I attend luncheons 2 to 3 times per week. We tend to eat dinner at BlueFin, Chop, Harvest, Havana, Lopez and Mezza Luna. Once a month Stirrup's, IMO the best rest in Central FL at the World Equestrian Center. I am always pleased with the meals.
Lunches include the above restaurants plus Prima, Evans Prairie, Belle Glade and Sammy's. I am happy with all of them.

[Stu from NYC]

Go out a couple of times a week for dinner and regularly for breakfast and lunch and like the restaurants we go too.

[JP]

Old age

[Mrprez]

Did you have Covid? Loss of taste is a by product.

[RICH1]

Originally Posted by JSR22

We eat out dinner out 2 to3 times a week and I attend luncheons 2 to 3 times per week. We tend to eat dinner at BlueFin, Chop, Harvest, Havana, Lopez and Mezza Luna. Once a month Stirrup's, IMO the best rest in Central FL at the World Equestrian Center. I am always pleased with the meals.
Lunches include the above restaurants plus Prima, Evans Prairie, Belle Glade and Sammy's. I am happy with all of them.

We could be friends

[JSR22]

Originally Posted by RICH1

We could be friends

You like the same restaurants?

[RICH1]

Originally Posted by JSR22

You like the same restaurants?

Yes, we visit many of the same places..so many eateries so little time… we explore as we travel the state ( we discovered a laundromat in Gulfport that has a wine & cheese party on Wednesdays)

[JSR22]

Originally Posted by RICH1

Yes, we visit many of the same places..so many eateries so little time… we explore as we travel the state ( we discovered a laundromat in Gulfport that has a wine & cheese party on Wednesdays)

Sounds like fun!

[vintageogauge]

Okay. I'll be the first to answer your opening question. Yes, my taste has diminished, over the last several years I have found myself spicing up just about everything.

[davem4616]

Some of it certainly is due to us getting older and our taste buds changing

the wines I liked in my 20s and 30's I can't drink now

some of it also has to do with the way food is grown now....I read an article years ago that the bio-engineering of how cattle, chickens, hogs, turkeys etc. were being raised, and the new feed they were now given was bulking the animal up faster, and they were coming to market quicker, but the down side was that it had dramatically changed the taste/flavor of the foods

IMO, organic and free range is tastier than what these big producers like Tyson and others in the industry are putting out there...now I'm not suggesting that the inspectors aren't doing their job...it's a different product now

heck you don't have to look any further than the difference between a home grown back yard tomato and one of those tasteless store bought one...

farm fresh eggs beat the taste of store bought any day....as would meat from a locally grown/butchered steer, if put up against a similar cut at Publix...farm raised fish isn't as tasty as wild caught

One summer the camp that I was a counselor at had a farm...most of what we ate came from their farm....dairy, beef, chickens and a huge garden....wow, what flavor

Restaurants will always try to buy the best ingredients that they can....but they operate on a slim margin, and...the raw material they need has changed...

[Bay Kid]

Always take a couple bites before adding salt. Your taste buds will wake up.

[Michael G.]

Originally Posted by Bay Kid

Always take a couple bites before adding salt. Your taste buds will wake up.

Salt?
Buy Sam's Club chicken for a great price of $4.99 and you don't to add salt.

Unfortunately I have a son and daughter-in-law that always salts everything
before even tasting the food.
I use to be the same way in my younger days and now my wife doesn't
put the salt shaker on the dinner table.

[MDLNB]

Had a slight case of covid and ever since, my taste is corrupted. Anything with tomato sauce tastes terrible. My favorite food, pizza is no longer on my menu due to it's new taste. BUT, sweets taste terrific! Hopefully, this too will pass and I can return to my normal tastes. Don't know what I would do if pizza was totally eliminated from my diet. Go out to eat? Why bother when eating out is no better than eating at home?

[MrFlorida]

We go out at least twice a week, nothing has changed, my waistline proves it....