Yesterday morning, scrambled my mom the most beautiful scrambled eggs you've ever seen. For the life of me, I couldn't bring up the "mental picture" of what they taste like, so no problems there with temptation!
Not sure when I lost this ability to remember the taste, but, as of spring this year, it will be two years since I found out about the egg problem, so it must've happened sometime after the original discovery, but then I'd not scrambled or fried an egg any time recently, so no way to track the fadding of this memory.
Has anyone else experienced this after a long time of being off of an "allergen?"
I can't exactly say I remember what wheat tastes like either, so guess it's mostly the texture of things that I remember most, and it's possible to make/find other things with the same "mouth feel" of some of these missing foods, like for instance, requesting avocado slices to make up for missing cheese on a gfdf taco, for example.
Also, the "allergen-free" orange-cranberry cake/bread Ii mentioned recently, perhaps on the general board, that comes from a gf, etc. mix has a mouth feel that more or less like the consistency of cornbread, to me. It may come out slightly different for my sister and I as we have to substitute egg replacer.
Anyway, I believe that a variety of textures in food is one more way of making meals more interesting, almost as important as things like making meals colorful, and otherwise eye appealing, and smell appealing, etc.
Too sleepy to write more.
Yours, Luce
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Luce,
I thought that the senses of smell and taste, (the sense of smell is a primary part of our perception of taste), were the strongest senses that we have, as far as memory is concerned. I can clearly recall memories of the taste and "mouth feel", of foods that I haven't eaten in probably 30 or 40 yearrs. I can recall events that are connected with strong scents, from as far back as when I was two or three years old.
I'm guessing that you have forgotten those things so quickly because you dislike them so intensely. We tend to forget things that we dislike. It's a quirk of human nature. The events that I can recall from childhood, that were connected with scents, were pleasant events, and the scents were pleasant.
Or, does someone have a better explanation?
Wayne
I thought that the senses of smell and taste, (the sense of smell is a primary part of our perception of taste), were the strongest senses that we have, as far as memory is concerned. I can clearly recall memories of the taste and "mouth feel", of foods that I haven't eaten in probably 30 or 40 yearrs. I can recall events that are connected with strong scents, from as far back as when I was two or three years old.
I'm guessing that you have forgotten those things so quickly because you dislike them so intensely. We tend to forget things that we dislike. It's a quirk of human nature. The events that I can recall from childhood, that were connected with scents, were pleasant events, and the scents were pleasant.
Or, does someone have a better explanation?
Wayne
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I too, seem to remember the taste of everything I've given up. I often dream I'm eating them (and wake up panicked that I really did).
We do forget things we don't like, like labor. If us women remembered that, there would mostly only children.
I've gotten so I enjoy smelling foods I can't eat and live vicariously through the other members of my family when they eat it. Pizza is a good example.
Love, Jean
We do forget things we don't like, like labor. If us women remembered that, there would mostly only children.
I've gotten so I enjoy smelling foods I can't eat and live vicariously through the other members of my family when they eat it. Pizza is a good example.
Love, Jean
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I have those same thoughts when I'm toasting bagels or english muffins for my family. I remember the familiar smell, but can't quite remember exactly how they would taste with butter or cream cheese. I guess I forgoten how bread tastes.
Thankfully, I'm past the point of feeling sorry for myself while preparing glutenous and dangerous meals for my husband and daughter. I've been thinking about how to convert them over (at least the gluten) somehow and talk to them about it often. They just aren't interested.
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Joanna
Thankfully, I'm past the point of feeling sorry for myself while preparing glutenous and dangerous meals for my husband and daughter. I've been thinking about how to convert them over (at least the gluten) somehow and talk to them about it often. They just aren't interested.
Love,
Joanna
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These are all interesting comments!
Perhaps one of the reasons that the egg taste doesn't come back to me is because it doesn't seem to put out much of a smell. If it DID have much of a smell, it would probably be rotten! Haha!
Can't say that about bread -- really like the smell of those loaves of bread they bring out fresh in restaurants, but it is enough for me just to enjoy the smell. Funny how I can separate the two in my mind now.
I used to really enjoy eggs, particularly once I was off of gluten and dairy as they were still one of my choices when I didn't trust the meat at a restaurant, for example, as they gave me a little protein.
Wayne, I suppose you mean that I NOW don't like them because they made me sooo sick in the past, right? Wow, you should be a therapist, Wayne! Anyway, that may be true on a subconscious level, but I'm never aware of any intense dislike of any of food allergens.
One thing that would be difficult if I had to bake for other people, etc., would be that it would be difficult for me to judge what something "needed" to be added to the recipe, etc., without tasting it.
In spite of all this, one of my favorite things to do is watch cooking shows on PBS and other non-cable shows. I enjoy them even if I could never use the recipe or want to, baking with all the usual no-no's at times. Just think it's interesting, and some of the things they do, I could actually put to use.
Yours, Luce
Perhaps one of the reasons that the egg taste doesn't come back to me is because it doesn't seem to put out much of a smell. If it DID have much of a smell, it would probably be rotten! Haha!
Can't say that about bread -- really like the smell of those loaves of bread they bring out fresh in restaurants, but it is enough for me just to enjoy the smell. Funny how I can separate the two in my mind now.
I used to really enjoy eggs, particularly once I was off of gluten and dairy as they were still one of my choices when I didn't trust the meat at a restaurant, for example, as they gave me a little protein.
Wayne, I suppose you mean that I NOW don't like them because they made me sooo sick in the past, right? Wow, you should be a therapist, Wayne! Anyway, that may be true on a subconscious level, but I'm never aware of any intense dislike of any of food allergens.
One thing that would be difficult if I had to bake for other people, etc., would be that it would be difficult for me to judge what something "needed" to be added to the recipe, etc., without tasting it.
In spite of all this, one of my favorite things to do is watch cooking shows on PBS and other non-cable shows. I enjoy them even if I could never use the recipe or want to, baking with all the usual no-no's at times. Just think it's interesting, and some of the things they do, I could actually put to use.
Yours, Luce