25 years ago, Offspring wanted to share some too-sweet-to-bear candy with me, saying “You loved this when you were little!” And I had to say, “But, that was then and this is now. It’s too sweet for me now.”

A week later, I stumbled on a sciency article about taste. It said we effectively have new taste buds every 5 years, give or take a little bit. So, we talked about that and the candy.

To my great delight, since then they have been willing to try stuff they didn’t like before if it had been 5 years since the last attempt. Sometimes the response has been “Nope. Still don’t like it.” But, sometimes, it’s been “This isn’t as bad as I remember.” or (even better) “Oh! Wow! This is good!”