I've always been a fan of chili, either con carne or plain, but it has always been a challenge because it always seemed like it was either super insanely spicy, or plain to the point of being bland.
I lucked out just a few years ago when a local diner that I typically visit once a week makes a chili that I find to be close to perfect-- just spicy enough, that if it was, say, 10% spicier, it would be just over my limit.
As to sweet things-- I was a serious sodaholic as a kid and into my 20's but I finally gave it up after the carbonation started really messing with my digestion. (Expensive dental bills were another nice encouragement to stop drinking them also, but I still do miss them on occasion).
You can certainly acclimate to very sweet things if you consume them regularly. Being diagnosed as diabetic a few years ago forced me to be far more careful about any type of carbs, and now after some time has passed, I find I can no longer tolerate any intensely sweet food or drink, it's just too much!!, even though I ate/drank such things for years, and they tasted normal to me.
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Date: 2022-06-08 06:31 am (UTC)I lucked out just a few years ago when a local diner that I typically visit once a week makes a chili that I find to be close to perfect-- just spicy enough, that if it was, say, 10% spicier, it would be just over my limit.
As to sweet things-- I was a serious sodaholic as a kid and into my 20's but I finally gave it up after the carbonation started really messing with my digestion. (Expensive dental bills were another nice encouragement to stop drinking them also, but I still do miss them on occasion).
You can certainly acclimate to very sweet things if you consume them regularly. Being diagnosed as diabetic a few years ago forced me to be far more careful about any type of carbs, and now after some time has passed, I find I can no longer tolerate any intensely sweet food or drink, it's just too much!!, even though I ate/drank such things for years, and they tasted normal to me.