Acquiring a taste, you have to build up a tolerance, it's what some would have to do to enjoy this marvelous root. I remember as a child the contests some of us had to see whom could eat the biggest spoon, today the challenge is water over the dam. Either I burned out all those receptors or my tolerance level is sky high. Kind of like Toney here, he loves the ghost peppers and habanero's, his tolerance came from constant exposure and an addiction to the peppers flavor, if I were to venture a guess. You know you've hit the big leagues when you can take a table spoon in your mouth of the homemade and then without blinking an eye rest your spoon back on the table and say, pass the Kielbasa please.