Eating Bad Tasting Stuff = Getting Old

Do you ever get the urge to try eating one of those foods you know previously repulsed you? Perhaps it's raw tomatoes, perhaps it is onions, perhaps it sauerkraut, perhaps it's bread mold. Whatever the case, I'm beginning to think that part of getting old is acquiring a taste for things which simply do not taste good. It's silly, I know. But think about it! Here are a few everyday examples:

• Standard, coffee-pot coffee? A bitter, black bean water with almost no nutritional value. Practically intolerable without creamer, sugar, etc.
• Beer? Oh yeah, jamming the cheapest grain product in a barrel to rot for a few months then drinking it sounds like a great idea... (apparently there is an art to it, but conceptually...) And might I say, "Yuck"?
• Leafy greens? I'm not talking about lettuce, I'm talking about those "Dude, man! I run those over with the lawn mower!" vegetables. Even cows leave those leaves alone.

This time, my post has no "call to arms." It seems that this trend probably started somewhere near the beginning of time. Why else would your mother have insisted you eat your vegetables? Why, she grew inexplicably fond of them as she age. Fighting this would be futile. Who knows what I'll injest next week!