Absence makes the food grow weirder

[beetiger]

I love sushi. A lot. One of the "secondary wedding vows" that bard_bloom and I have -- you know, those commitments that don't end up in the ceremony but you both know they are true-- is that at least once a month he gets me sushi. But sushi isn't really a safe food for pregnancy, so when we started trying to actively manifest the Rhyslet, just about a year ago, I went off raw fish. Not that I hadn't been gorging myself on what our local place charmingly calls "none-raw sushi" all year, tamago and eel and ume shiso rolls and California rolls and cooked scallops and all, but not the uncooked stuff.

I never had sushi before college. My boyfriend David -- the most Davidy of the Davids I've dated in my time -- took me with his parents to one of the higher end Manhattan places. I thought that sharp stinging taste that shot up the back of your nose and throat was the taste of rawness, though I later figured out that it was actually wasabi.

Anyway, last night I finally decided that I was up to eating raw fish again. Bard ordered a basic sushi-for-two platter from our local place, the only restaurant around here in which we're known as regulars, and came home with a container of raw tuna and whitefish and such on its little rice pillows, together with congratulations from all of the waitresses.

I found myself aiming for extra pieces of the California rolls and the eel rolls instead, and wolfing down miso soup and edamame. The raw fish tasted strangely raw, to me, and I guess in the aftermath of an experience with lots of blood around and a certain rawness of body, and a year eating all of my food well done, raw didn't appeal to me. I had been craving sushi, and it's not like I forgot what tuna tasted like, but it didn't have at all the gustatory effect I remembered on me. I ate it, as I wasn't finding it disgusting or anything, just much less appealing than before. I'm rather boggled to have lost the taste for it.

I assume my liking for raw fish will come back as I reacquaint myself with it, as will my enjoyment of artificial sweeteners and caffeine once I return those to my diet, after I finish breastfeeding. I haven't tried drinking wine yet, although I'm allowed to now.

Gods grant that I not lose the taste for the things I enjoy in all the rest of my old life as I settle into the new adventure of motherhood.

Comments

[pyat.livejournal.com]

You make me hungry for sushi.

Hmm. I think I'll saunter down to the local buffet at lunch...

[melskunk.livejournal.com]

Me too. Shame I don't eat it anymore

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Why not?

Maybe Blooskunk is pregnant! Yah! *activates rumour mill*

[runnerwolf.livejournal.com]

I find I am liking not having caffeine in my diet. But that's just me.

[tikvah.livejournal.com]

If you're nursing, your tastes might still be somewhat other than what they were before Project Mothra was launched. That happened to a friend of mine. Her tastes immediately after the birth changed somewhat, but not entirely back to pre-pregnancy. Once she weaned the kid, her post-nursing tastes started to more closely resemble her pre-pregnancy tastes.

[aynjel.livejournal.com]

Well, for what it's worth (and this is reason #487 that I do not want to have kids), my boss said that she used to like her steaks rare, and has not managed to get back the liking of rare steak post-preganancy (it didn't appeal at all while she was preggers). Granted, she went for nearly three years without eating rare steak, so it's possible that it will come back, just not immediately. She also has found that wine tastes funny now and that it's something she must've developed a taste for that she lost after three years (she didn't drink at all while she was breastfeeding).

I hopehopehope that you will regain your enjoyment of the things you loved previously. It'll give me hope that if I do, for some reason, become preggers that maybe I won't find myself eating nuts and berries for the rest of my life afterwards. :)

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

I completely lost my taste for alcohol when pregnant with my first, and drink a lot less than I ever did since then.

I also was unable to read tarot cards when pregnant. And even then, afterwards, it just wasn't the same.

Sushi though I bet you will get the taste for again, I did! And I had to cut on carbs because of gestational diabetes (3 times) and I never met a donut I didn't like, even afterwards! ;)

[rowyn]

I hope you get your love for raw fish back! (Mmmm, raw fish. Harder to come by good raw fish in Emerald City). I confess, years ago I switched from regular Coke to Diet Coke. I like Diet Coke a lot now, but I don't love it the way I used to love regular Coke. But the sugar-stuff tastes wrong now. It's just not the same.

[hakeber.livejournal.com]

I had switched to water years ago to spare my poor tummy (acid reflux, bah.) I find I still like the flavor of my favorite sodas, but because of my tummy, I keep it to a minimum. I, too, avoided raw fish, but have found I'm pretty much back to loving it. I can't go near artificial sweeteners (migraines), so I have no idea if I would like them or not. Instead I just try to watch the carbs in general, which is hard when you're lactating.