acquired taste

What has happened to my "natural" taste--both my discovery taste and my acquired taste? This is where Melchionne's categories begin to break down.

The company's best selling products include yoghurt and eggs as well as Balkan specialities such as sirene (a white, feta-like cheese), kashkaval (yellow cheese), ayran (a yoghurt drink) and boza (very much an acquired taste: a fermented cereal-based drink resembling a thick milkshake).

"Jean-Yves [Naouri] is an acquired taste and a polarising figure.

"It's, kind of an acquired taste, but people who have tried it at (east one time - and tried enough to get a feeling from it - just love the way they feel," says Rothbauer, who credits his own home brews of the probiotic drink in the early '90s for helping his recovery from paralysis after a fall from a roof.

It's an acquired taste, like all of director Allan Moyle's movies.

It is not certain though if camel milk will be popular in Europe as it's described as an acquired taste.

When she manages to overcome this, the quirky quality of her vocals puts her in the same company as women like Tori Amos and Rickie Lee Jones, both incredible singers considered by many to be an acquired taste. Anais Mitchell, definitely another righteous babe, is a taste worth acquiring.

His adventures and misadventures with his pal Dan Bomkamp, from experiencing lutefisk for the first time (which can at its most generous be called an 'acquired taste') to hunting and being surprised when howling coyotes mistake their plastic decoys for a tasty catch, to saying goodbye when graduation and adulthood cause best friends to go their separate ways.

While minimalism is often dismissed as an acquired taste of the architectural cognoscenti, the appointment of David Chipperfield and the broad public support for this spare and uncompromisingly modern building suggest otherwise and confound the notion of a conservative American Midwest.

Some grubs are reported to have a nutty flavor, but they're undoubtedly an acquired taste. CONTACT: CABI Bioscience, (011)41-0-32 421-4870, www.cabi-bioscience.ch; World Agroforestry Center, (650)833-6645, www.worldagroforestry.org.

"Caviar is an acquired taste," he adds, "but it's one that's easy to acquire." For more information on Emperor's Roe, visit www.emperorsroe.com or call 866-5-CAVIAR.

According to Tom Thomas, CEO of Thomas Pharmaceuticals, you've had a taste of a private car if you've been on a private yacht or a private jet, "but a private rail car is all of that and then some." Thomas has chartered the Bella Vista for both business and pleasure trips from San Francisco to Denver and from Chicago to the Greenbrier in West Virginia, and he asserts that riding the Bella Vista isn't an acquired taste. "One takes to it immediately," he says.

88 Not one of the world's smoothest -- something of an acquired taste, with hints of plum my fruitiness at the finish.

Perception, whether through vision or any other sense, is an acquired taste. People learn to make visual sense of faces and other items of interest, often during infancy and early childhood but sometimes over much longer periods.

Rare are those people unable to feel the brief, sudden vertigo of that very moment when what one sees is suddenly reconfigured by one's mind into something wholly different: Sandback's art needs no explanation, it is not an acquired taste. Seeing a bunch of schoolchildren go out of their way not to cross the various thresholds that Sandback had laid out for his survey at Dia (in Chelsea) a few years ago, all behaving as though the virtual transparent planes delimited by the roped edges might electrocute them, I was convinced that the kids' caution had nothing to do with the "do not touch" warnings they had heard again and again during their cultural field trips.