Acquired Taste

I found this "little" discussion via FetusX.
It´s something I´ve been thinking about a lot lately.
Some thoughts:
Taste isn´t entirely subjective. This may come off as elitist, but I think taste is something we acquire - not just the socalled "acquired tastes". I liked a lot of movies (for example) when I was young, that I don´t like anymore, and I think that´s because I have acquired taste over the years, by watching many many more movies and by thinking about and talking about them, and reading about them. There are always gut reactions that account for movies that are technically bad, but you like anyway. I think as a young´un before I have seen many many movies I depended more on this gut reaction, and gut reaction isn´t wrong or bad, it just has nothing to do with taste.
I think taste is something we acquire when we engage ourselves with any given subject, on a emotional but also intellectual level - when we learn something about the craft of anything - basically literary studies or film studies or comic studies exist to make the students more "tasteful" (which doesn´t mean you can´t do that outside of academia - anyone can read Scott McCloud´s "Understanding Comics" or similar books on different subjects).
To the discussion about "Art": I kinda like the (old) greek word for "art" - "techne", which of course is where "technology" or "technique" comes from - that means I´m fond of good, better or best craftsmanship, and that is something you can learn or at least learn about, which again would be "acquiring taste".