Changing Tastes

An individual's general taste in foods usually evolves over time.
While it is normal to have changing tastes, they are usually more subtle in nature:
Like developing a liking to goat cheese after tasting the best stuff out in Italy. Like acquiring tastes for particular wines or fine dining ingredients that you disliked when you were younger.
I think that it is more uncommon to go from completely loving a specific food to suddenly never craving that food anymore.

For me personally, my tastes have really changed over the past year. It is most likely due to medications (a lot of odd changes are usually due to medications), and I was told that my tastes may change, so it wasn't entirely unexpected, and yet I am still surprised.
I used to love love love a glass of wine every few days. Chocolate wines from Walla Walla, Rieslings from New Zealand, and any reds from Portugal - I loved wine.
Now I can barely have a 4oz glass of ANY of my former favourite wines. It feels like I have lost that taste.

Chocolate is the most surprising. I have never really been able to stay away from chocolate for more than a few days at a time. I did not always need anything big or some massive amount, but I would always need a taste. If there was Nutella in the house - forget it. An entire jar would be gone within a couple of days only - hives and rashes be damned.
Now... (and I can't believe I am actually saying this) I am more inclined to lean towards vanilla over chocolate. Not only that, but I rarely ever crave chocolate anymore. My body is also feeling the difference of reducing chocolate intake - I have fewer hives on my body on a regular basis, I have fewer abscesses on my face, and I do not have to worry so much about my allergic reactions worsening over time.

Then there are snacks like yogurt. For the longest time I ate yogurt every single day. Now I don't think I have craved yogurt for over a year.

I am totally turned off by too much basil or rosemary, and I have enjoyed using more cumin. That may not seem like much, but I used to put the former two on every single meal I cooked. The cumin I don't think I have used more than 5 times in the last ten years - until this year. All of a sudden I am adding it to several long-standing recipes.

Pasta sauce. I think this is the most dramatic difference. I mean, with chocolate, I still like it, I just don't crave it to the point of being incapable of saying no. With tomato-based pasta sauces, I cannot do it. Even a couple bites - unless it is spaghetti sauce full with beef or meatballs - actually makes me nauseous. I cannot eat it. I find it disgusting now.
We made ravioli last night and in order to eat leftovers today, I had to rinse off allllllll of that sauce. I used to LOVE pasta sauce on everything. You could not look in my pantry without seeing 3 or 4 bottles of pasta sauces. Now - if it is not cream based I won't even bother.
My tastes have become a little simpler. Little salt and pepper, maybe a little parmesan, and that's it.

Speaking of simpler - foods or drinks that are too sweet now do the same thing. I used to think there never was a 'too sweet'. Kool-Aid, frozen lemonade with less water than recommended, Tang, and any punch made with Sprite was a total hit. Now, my goodness, I cannot have any sugary pop with anything. If I am mixing fruit juices with a carbonated beverage, I find myself reaching for club soda.
I used to despise club soda - until this past year.

It is amazing how our tastes change overall over a certain amount of time, but a lot of these (and others not mentioned) seemed to change abruptly and drastically.

Have you ever had your preferences change due to medications in such a way that you could not bear to eat foods you once thought you could never live without?