{"id":16948,"date":"2018-02-05T21:43:53","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T05:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=16948"},"modified":"2018-02-05T21:59:25","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T05:59:25","slug":"new-food-i-saw-you-standing-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2018\/02\/05\/new-food-i-saw-you-standing-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"New food, I saw you standing alone"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

We were talking the other night about the idea that if you eat a food that you don\u2019t like ten times, you\u2019ll start to like it. Was thinking about that again just now, and thought I would look it up for more info.<\/p>\r\n

There are apparently studies that suggest that that can be true for at least some kids, at least if they're under a certain age; see, for example, What kind of exposure reduces children's food neophobia?: Looking vs. tasting<\/a>. But for adults, TSOR isn\u2019t bringing up solid information; I vaguely think that that try-it-ten-times idea is something that some particular writer stated as fact and it\u2019s become a widespread belief.<\/p>\r\n

And I hear that it works for many people and many foods, so I can\u2019t say it\u2019s not true. I\u2019ve even had a little bit of that experience myself; for example, I now actively like cranberries in one particular context (cranberry\/walnut bread), and don\u2019t mind them in a bunch of other contexts. Though it took many more than ten tries for that to happen for me.<\/p>\r\n

But off the top of my head, here\u2019s a partial list of foodstuffs that I\u2019ve tried lots more than ten times but still don\u2019t like. All of these are things that many many people love; I intend no aspersions about them, they\u2019re just not to my taste.<\/p>\r\n