A taste for tobacco, coffee or wine, on the other hand, may be examples of an acquired taste. Let’s take developing a taste for dry wine as an example. For many Chinese, especially those whose idea of a good alcoholic drink is a binge in baijiu, or the Chinese white liquor, the first dip in dry red wine is often one of bitter experience. One friend still winces recalling his first sip: “Ugh,” he says, “it was horrible. Never had anything so distasteful before. Sour, sweet and acidic, sharp and repulsive. I took a mouthful and would’ve spitted it out at once if I was alone. It’s not unlike my first taste of a Chinese medicine soup. Quite unbearable.”
As time goes on, however, this friend begins to enjoy dry red wine more and more. “It’s a variety of smells, tastes, flavors mingled together.” Instead of spitting it out immediately, he now enjoys retaining wine in the mouth, “savoring its changing impact on the tongue and palate – delicious.”
All right, here are a few media examples of an “acquired taste”:
1. One day in 1979, the King of Cool decided to fly.
Before anyone knew it, Steve McQueen was living with his girlfriend in a hangar at the Santa Paula Airport. During the day, he learned to pilot a World War II-era biplane. In the evening, the tough-guy superstar would crack open cold beers with grease monkeys, fledgling pilots and aging flyboys who still had a few loop-de-loops left in them.
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