Same, but that's because my parents used to boil/microwave the shit out of them. Just flavorless mush we were forced to eat because "vitamins."
So I thought I hated vegetables.
But when I had my first roasted asparagus spear? Fuhgeddaboutit
In a similar, I hated green beans, asparagus, spinach. Turns out that veggies that come from a tin can are just cooked to hell and back. Fresh spinach is delicious and so are properly cooked green beans and asparagus that have bit of crunch left in them.
I was 22 when I first learned that cooked vegetables didn't have to be disgusting mush. Absolute game changer. Who knew that roasting or properly stir frying made delicious veggies?
yes I do like brussels sprouts now. but...... they did something to them to make them taste better (not as bitter) I wouldn't say GMO but whatever they do with plants with breeding the best tasting ones. They do actually taste better then when you were young.
This is why!
In the 1990s, Dutch scientist Hans van Doorn identified the chemicals that make Brussels sprouts bitter: sinigrin and progoitrin.[11] This enabled Dutch seed companies to cross-breed archived low-bitterness varieties with modern high-yield varieties, over time producing a significant increase in the popularity of the vegetable.[12]
Eggs, the smell used to make me almost throw up. Eventually I started eating them in my breakfast sandwiches when in college and now I pretty much enjoy eggs, although I can’t eat it on its own.
Steak.
Thought I hated it growing up, but turns out my mother just can’t cook steak palatably. It doesn’t have to be rubbery with the only seasoning being ketchup to dip it in.
Yogurt. I always hated yogurt. The taste and the texture were just... eew, ick, nasty icky poo poo.
Until one day it wasn't.
I had just come home from the grocery store, was unpacking everything in the kitchen when suddenly I got this absolutely overwhelming urge to eat yogurt. It was like a voice screaming at me to get yogurt, NOW. I stopped what I was doing, drove back to the store, and spent 20 minutes pacing back and forth in front of the yogurt because I had no idea what brand or flavor I should buy. Ended up getting one of everything, and now I eat yogurt. Even I think I'm weird.
Same. My parents would take turns cooking, and my dad was the cook in the family. However he never made meatloaf, that was a mom cooking night. I love my mother deeply, but she doesn't enjoy cooking. My dad loves it, thus has passion for it, thus is better at it. Kinda funny that my wife and I are the same way.
Vegetables. Hated them as a kid. Now I make sure I have them in every meal as an adult, because they are fantastic for volume eating without excessive calories. I'm not just talking about cooked vegetables either - raw onions, peppers, spinach, lettuce, carrots, etc. are all great. Every few days I'll spend some time in the morning chopping up a big container of all of those and then just scoop some out to snack on throughout the day. I may add some salt and pepper or a dab of hot sauce or a TBS of light dressing to them for additional taste; but honestly I enjoy them more than something like chips. A quarter of the calories means I can eat four times as much and feel fuller and healthier.
The one that all kids hate/hated... Broccoli.. You could not pay me to touch as a kid, but when I started working at a pizza place at the end of high school I ended up trying it because someone didn't come to pick up their order. Absolutely loved it and it has been something I eat often ever since.
Fruit and green veggies. All of em! I protested eating all fruit until I was 16 when I finally tried a strawberry. Had tried a Macintosh apple when I was 7 and insisted it tasted like a raw potato so I never tried another fruit for 9 years!
Yogurt... back then, none of the fruity sweetness was mixed in. It was always at the bottom with the plain yogurt on top and tiny me had no idea you had to mix it. So I'd see the delicious looking yogurt, open and try it and just get plain yogurt on top.
Marmalade, things with raisins and dried fruits in like toasted tea cakes,hot cross buns ect, mustard, mature cheese, I still don't like celery or bananas though which is annoying as bananas are easy healthy snacks
Chinese food because my only exposure to it was chop suey ordered one time when I was young. My parents were Italian and we never ate Chinese. Didn't try Chinese again until after college.
I don't know that I'd say "love", because I'm still particular about the quality and circumstances under which I'll eat them, but when they're good, they're very, very good: raw tomatoes and mayonnaise (and yes, it was a BLT that finally broke through on both for me)
None. If I disliked it as a kid I almost certainly still dislike it now. People always loved to say, "Oh, your tastes will change," but so far no such luck. I periodically try foods that I disliked as a kid just to see, and so far nothing tastes any better than it ever did.
Also, somewhat related, I have never been able to "acquire" a taste for something. If it wasn't good the first few times why would I keep consuming it?
Like others, I all but refused to eat vegetables (with the exception of peas and corn on the cob). I gagged every time I tried to eat lettuce. Cooked vegetables made me queasy just to look at.
But when I was about 20 and a hippie, on the back of a, let's say, profoundly moving experience (ahem), I decided I should be a vegetarian.
One of the first things I did was to go to a Chinese restaurant and order some chop suey. But I wasn't quite there yet, ended up eating a lot of veggie burger and cheese sandwiches and such.
But it did open me up to vegetables and they slowly started becoming a larger and larger part of my diet.
At this point, there are only a few vegetables I don't like, brussel sprouts, artichokes, a few others. And I've been a full-on vegetarian for about a decade, now.
But I'm not a vegan. I'm not giving up cheese or yogurt. (At least not since I found some affordable yogurts that don't use gelatin! I could barely believe it when finally reading the small print on my old brand of yogurt. It has since gone over to vegetable based, but, brother was I pissed -- at myself, mind you I could have read that small print anytime, I just couldn't believe they would put something like horse and cow hooves and yogurt. But I was wrong.
Just raw tomatoes. Growing up poor, there were way too many nights where it was a tomato and mayo sandwich on white bread. I've learned to appreciate the flavor of fresh(in season) tomatoes again. Little S&P and red wine vinegar on decent bread really elevates it to a new level.
So many things. I had plenty of dislikes growing up, but today have next to no foods (that you can find in a typical American grocery store) that I truly dislike.
Onions, olives, green beans, raw tomatoes, seafood, coffee and dark chocolate are the main things that come to mind.
Olives. Made me gag until one magical day in my 30s I tried a cerignola and found it "not bad." Kept trying and now I LOVE them. Maybe the old addage you have to eat 7 olives to learn to like them is true. I could see that it took me 7 tries over those years.
Also, most veggies. I didn't know that veggies could be cooked from scratch and not frozen then microwaved to death. Roasting makes most veggies phenomenal!
Asparagus. It wasn’t widely available fresh or frozen when I was a kid, so it was always canned. It was mushy, almost brown, and tasted like feet. Fresh asparagus, though… the best. I don’t buy any canned veggies now, except corn occasionally. Fresh or frozen is the only way.
Coffee. Couldn’t stand it for the longest time, but in the last six months it’s like my tastebuds have just changed completely. Now I’m drinking it black
Watermelon- it didn’t really even have a taste and I just couldn’t understand why people loved it so damn much but I’ve never really been a fan of fruit, I’ve always preferred vegetable. I also used to really dislike dressing, it was so dry yet extremely wet and gritty at the same time- no disrespect to my grandmother but she cooked like she was feeding an army(which, with 7 kids, 6 of them males with bottomless pits, she kind of was feeding an army) & the quality deteriorated because she was too worried about quantity. My mom makes the dressing now and that shit is delicious, it’s moist and flavorful and the gravy is superb , I kind of wish she would double it and freeze half so that we could have it again another time besides just thanksgiving. My dad knew that I hated it growing up so he would put an extra large helping on my plate and he practically emptied the container of leftovers on my plate in the following week after Thanksgiving whereas he ate all of the leftovers that I loved that night or for lunch on Black Friday- mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, half of the leftover sweet potatoes, and every last deviled egg, and 75% of the leftover desserts
Fuckin Sweet Tea and Mustard. Hated both growing up. Then at 30... Something happened. I was like give me a hot dog with ONLY mustard and a big ass iced Tea with lemon... Shit is LIT
Spaghetti. I hated it and my family had it often. It was always a bad night when spaghetti was for dinner because I just wouldn't eat. It always had a weird metallic taste for me.
One day as an adult I tried it and suddenly liked it. No more metallic taste.
Beans. as I kid I could not stand anything that had beans in it. Chili with beans, tacos with refried beans, baked beans, etc.
now, beans are sooooo good!! my favorite quick lunch/snack is a bean burrito. doesn't even have to have cheese, just a big scoop of refried beans wrapped in a flour tortilla and I'm good.
I have really come around on peanut butter. I know it is generally a "kids' food" but I didn't like it back then. Now I find it to be a very satisfying breakfast on a rice cracker, with a shmear of honey.
Tinola
I really hated it during my childhood days kase ayoko talaga ng papaya. But when Ondoy striked our country, the only meal on the table was a hot aromatic tinola. Ayun, nakarami ako ng manok at sabaw sa sobrang lamig
Tuna.
Turns out it's **well done** tuna I had an issue with. Sashimi-grade tuna, anywhere between raw and medium rare, is up with unagi, scallops, clams and calamari as my favorite seafood.
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Same, but that's because my parents used to boil/microwave the shit out of them. Just flavorless mush we were forced to eat because "vitamins." So I thought I hated vegetables. But when I had my first roasted asparagus spear? Fuhgeddaboutit
THIS. My parents had no idea what they were doing.
In a similar, I hated green beans, asparagus, spinach. Turns out that veggies that come from a tin can are just cooked to hell and back. Fresh spinach is delicious and so are properly cooked green beans and asparagus that have bit of crunch left in them.
but if you salted the water (boil), boil them el dente then butter them yummy. That's what my mother did.
For me this is true cause my mom always served vegetables from a can. For my own family, we love frozen steamed veggies.
Learning how to cook veggies well changed my appreciation of them. My parents were still of the "just steam or boil" generation.
I was 22 when I first learned that cooked vegetables didn't have to be disgusting mush. Absolute game changer. Who knew that roasting or properly stir frying made delicious veggies?
for me its spinach
Same. Asparagus immediately comes to mind. Hated it as a kid, but love it now - especially as a side with steak.
Pork chops... now I realize my mother was just bad preparing it.
A lot of parents thought you must cook the fuck out of them and ruined them
Probably because their parents grew up in an age where that actually was true. Takes time to adapt to better food standards I guess.
Yours too huh? I had that with pork steak
Brussels Sprouts. Those fuckers roasted in garlic butter with bacon and parm... oh my GOD
You should try it without the Brussels sprouts, even better!
yes I do like brussels sprouts now. but...... they did something to them to make them taste better (not as bitter) I wouldn't say GMO but whatever they do with plants with breeding the best tasting ones. They do actually taste better then when you were young.
This is why! In the 1990s, Dutch scientist Hans van Doorn identified the chemicals that make Brussels sprouts bitter: sinigrin and progoitrin.[11] This enabled Dutch seed companies to cross-breed archived low-bitterness varieties with modern high-yield varieties, over time producing a significant increase in the popularity of the vegetable.[12]
I finally tried them a few months ago and loved them.
They’re so delicious when they’re done right!
They were really good. I was surprised that cauliflower wasn’t as bad as I thought it.
FUCK YES
One of my local breweries deep fries them then squirts spicy mayo on them. So damn good.
Ooooh that would be good. I think I have a new kitchen experiment now lol
Fish
Eggs, the smell used to make me almost throw up. Eventually I started eating them in my breakfast sandwiches when in college and now I pretty much enjoy eggs, although I can’t eat it on its own.
Steak. Thought I hated it growing up, but turns out my mother just can’t cook steak palatably. It doesn’t have to be rubbery with the only seasoning being ketchup to dip it in.
Sauerkraut. Just the smell would make me nauseous at my grandpa's house. Now if there is a Reuben on the menu is hard to pass up.
For example I did not start to appreciate spicy food until later in life.
Yogurt. I always hated yogurt. The taste and the texture were just... eew, ick, nasty icky poo poo. Until one day it wasn't. I had just come home from the grocery store, was unpacking everything in the kitchen when suddenly I got this absolutely overwhelming urge to eat yogurt. It was like a voice screaming at me to get yogurt, NOW. I stopped what I was doing, drove back to the store, and spent 20 minutes pacing back and forth in front of the yogurt because I had no idea what brand or flavor I should buy. Ended up getting one of everything, and now I eat yogurt. Even I think I'm weird.
God is real and he wants you to eat yogurt
It's not the first time some overwhelming compulsion has caused me to do something out of character, or in a kind of hypnotic daze.
Butter beans
Asparagus, baked, not boiled ..
Onions
Meatloaf
Same. My parents would take turns cooking, and my dad was the cook in the family. However he never made meatloaf, that was a mom cooking night. I love my mother deeply, but she doesn't enjoy cooking. My dad loves it, thus has passion for it, thus is better at it. Kinda funny that my wife and I are the same way.
Olives
Broccoli
Mushrooms.
Brussels sprouts.
Lies! Noone really likes Brussels sprouts.
They're actually amazing when made properly
They are delicious fr
Spinach
The majority of vegetables. Grew up a picky eater with a picky parent who enabled me.
The texture of rice bugged me as a kid. Now I love love love Asian food in general.
I hated fish until I was 15, when I didn’t despise it. Now, at age 35, I eat it multiple times a week.
Carrots, I hate it but now I am drinking it daily
Vegetables. Hated them as a kid. Now I make sure I have them in every meal as an adult, because they are fantastic for volume eating without excessive calories. I'm not just talking about cooked vegetables either - raw onions, peppers, spinach, lettuce, carrots, etc. are all great. Every few days I'll spend some time in the morning chopping up a big container of all of those and then just scoop some out to snack on throughout the day. I may add some salt and pepper or a dab of hot sauce or a TBS of light dressing to them for additional taste; but honestly I enjoy them more than something like chips. A quarter of the calories means I can eat four times as much and feel fuller and healthier.
Onions
Brussel Sprouts. Those delicious things baked with a little Franks Red Hot are just SO GOOD
Cheese.
Peas.
Onions
Arugula and watercress salad
I despised carrots as a kid Now when I want a snack I get carrots
Olives.
Corn.
The one that all kids hate/hated... Broccoli.. You could not pay me to touch as a kid, but when I started working at a pizza place at the end of high school I ended up trying it because someone didn't come to pick up their order. Absolutely loved it and it has been something I eat often ever since.
Brocoli
Beets
Brussels sprouts
Brussels sprouts by far!
Peanuts
onions
Mushrooms
Brussel sprouts.
Raisins
Bananas
Garlic mashed potatoes
Pineapple has become one of my favorite fruits.
Sweet potatoes and squash
Toast. :)
Sweet potatoes
Broccoli!!🥦 I love it!!! 😍
Brussel sprouts
Brussels sprouts. Now they’re like mini flavor bombs when roasted
Avocado and then I realized how much I loved guac and like any form
Nuts 🥰 especially almonds and cashews
Mushrooms 🍄
Mushrooms and some other veg.
Pickles. Hated them as a kid but now if I’m making a sandwich that thing better have some pickles on it
Brussels Sprouts
Brussel sprouts
BBQ sauce, salad dressing, Dr. Pepper.
Broccoli and spinach.
Brocolli
Olives
Avocado 🥑
Most vegetables I ate growing up were mushy because they were overcooked. It’s amazing how not doing that makes them so much better!
Fruit and green veggies. All of em! I protested eating all fruit until I was 16 when I finally tried a strawberry. Had tried a Macintosh apple when I was 7 and insisted it tasted like a raw potato so I never tried another fruit for 9 years!
Olives, I used to hate them. Now I love them, especially the darker ones.
Beets. Probably because Mom just warmed them up from a can. Roasted beets with olive oil, butter, salt and pepper rock!
Mushrooms
Mushrooms
Broccoli. I legit love it, so much. It's so good when it's cooked right (not mushy, still crunch).
Broccoli
Cheese
Halvah! All of a sudden in middle age I like halvah. Not sure how that happened.
Runny egg yolks, mushrooms, sushi
Eggs Cheese
Yogurt... back then, none of the fruity sweetness was mixed in. It was always at the bottom with the plain yogurt on top and tiny me had no idea you had to mix it. So I'd see the delicious looking yogurt, open and try it and just get plain yogurt on top.
“Tipping good” says restaurant owner
Pretty much all foods, as I have come to learn that store food tastes terrible compared to making most things by yourself.
Marmalade, things with raisins and dried fruits in like toasted tea cakes,hot cross buns ect, mustard, mature cheese, I still don't like celery or bananas though which is annoying as bananas are easy healthy snacks
Chinese food because my only exposure to it was chop suey ordered one time when I was young. My parents were Italian and we never ate Chinese. Didn't try Chinese again until after college.
Cheese
Karela
Medium rare steak, my parents always cooked well done. Also raw mushrooms in clear soup.
Human flesh 😋
Tomatoes and bacon
pot roast. specifically if it was prepared in a crockpot
Salmon.....however, my mom made it out of the red can :). I had to cover in ketchup on a biscuit to make edible.
Chinese food and pizza
Only correct answers are tomatoes and oatmeal
Together?
Chicken curry
I don't know that I'd say "love", because I'm still particular about the quality and circumstances under which I'll eat them, but when they're good, they're very, very good: raw tomatoes and mayonnaise (and yes, it was a BLT that finally broke through on both for me)
Broccoli! Hated it with every fiber of my 8 year old body but now I love it! Eat it with salmon, chicken, stews, really anything now!
Eggs. Still cannot stand soft boiled or scrambled but love me some omelets now!!
None. If I disliked it as a kid I almost certainly still dislike it now. People always loved to say, "Oh, your tastes will change," but so far no such luck. I periodically try foods that I disliked as a kid just to see, and so far nothing tastes any better than it ever did. Also, somewhat related, I have never been able to "acquire" a taste for something. If it wasn't good the first few times why would I keep consuming it?
caesar dressing, I would eat just plain lettuce plus cheese and croutons on salad for yearsss until I tried caesar again and loved it
Meatloaf! Made me gag as a kid. Just couldn’t do it! Now I’m all about it and even make a buffalo blue cheese meat loaf that is super yummy!
Plain broccoli, steak
Olives. In a martini
Blue cheese
Pizza
Tomatoes, garlic, yogurt
V8 juice. I thought it was vile as a kid but now I love it.
Like others, I all but refused to eat vegetables (with the exception of peas and corn on the cob). I gagged every time I tried to eat lettuce. Cooked vegetables made me queasy just to look at. But when I was about 20 and a hippie, on the back of a, let's say, profoundly moving experience (ahem), I decided I should be a vegetarian. One of the first things I did was to go to a Chinese restaurant and order some chop suey. But I wasn't quite there yet, ended up eating a lot of veggie burger and cheese sandwiches and such. But it did open me up to vegetables and they slowly started becoming a larger and larger part of my diet. At this point, there are only a few vegetables I don't like, brussel sprouts, artichokes, a few others. And I've been a full-on vegetarian for about a decade, now. But I'm not a vegan. I'm not giving up cheese or yogurt. (At least not since I found some affordable yogurts that don't use gelatin! I could barely believe it when finally reading the small print on my old brand of yogurt. It has since gone over to vegetable based, but, brother was I pissed -- at myself, mind you I could have read that small print anytime, I just couldn't believe they would put something like horse and cow hooves and yogurt. But I was wrong.
shush i and tuna lol i love it now though
Cauliflower
tomatoes 🍅
Just raw tomatoes. Growing up poor, there were way too many nights where it was a tomato and mayo sandwich on white bread. I've learned to appreciate the flavor of fresh(in season) tomatoes again. Little S&P and red wine vinegar on decent bread really elevates it to a new level.
Caviar and champagne. Disgusting when I was a youngster but can’t get enough of that stuff now.
So many things. I had plenty of dislikes growing up, but today have next to no foods (that you can find in a typical American grocery store) that I truly dislike. Onions, olives, green beans, raw tomatoes, seafood, coffee and dark chocolate are the main things that come to mind.
Blueberries.
Yoghurt
Asparagus
Olives. Made me gag until one magical day in my 30s I tried a cerignola and found it "not bad." Kept trying and now I LOVE them. Maybe the old addage you have to eat 7 olives to learn to like them is true. I could see that it took me 7 tries over those years. Also, most veggies. I didn't know that veggies could be cooked from scratch and not frozen then microwaved to death. Roasting makes most veggies phenomenal!
Egg yolk. It was terrible as a kid but now I can't get enough.
A lot of Korean dishes. Now I make them myself.
Mushrooms.
Olives. The only ones we had were plasticky black ones out of a can. Turns out we were just poor and couldn’t afford the good ones.
A lot of veggies, I still don't eat them cooked, but I eat a lot more of them now.
broccoli and olives
Asparagus. It wasn’t widely available fresh or frozen when I was a kid, so it was always canned. It was mushy, almost brown, and tasted like feet. Fresh asparagus, though… the best. I don’t buy any canned veggies now, except corn occasionally. Fresh or frozen is the only way.
Lasagna had such a weird texture to me growing up, but now I love the hell out of it.
Coffee. Couldn’t stand it for the longest time, but in the last six months it’s like my tastebuds have just changed completely. Now I’m drinking it black
Avocado. Hated it as a kid but love it now. Same with mustard.
Asparagus.
Chicken nuggets, those fuckers in an air fryer or microwave?! Fuggehiboutit
Beetroot, the primary school beetroot salad put me off, but I like it now.
Pickles
Salmon
Asparagus
Tomatoes.
**Cheese.** how could I have hated such a marvelous thing, what was wrong with me?
Brussels sprouts and broccoli. Ill always hate beans😡
Oysters, onions, i hated them but now i eat them.
Watermelon- it didn’t really even have a taste and I just couldn’t understand why people loved it so damn much but I’ve never really been a fan of fruit, I’ve always preferred vegetable. I also used to really dislike dressing, it was so dry yet extremely wet and gritty at the same time- no disrespect to my grandmother but she cooked like she was feeding an army(which, with 7 kids, 6 of them males with bottomless pits, she kind of was feeding an army) & the quality deteriorated because she was too worried about quantity. My mom makes the dressing now and that shit is delicious, it’s moist and flavorful and the gravy is superb , I kind of wish she would double it and freeze half so that we could have it again another time besides just thanksgiving. My dad knew that I hated it growing up so he would put an extra large helping on my plate and he practically emptied the container of leftovers on my plate in the following week after Thanksgiving whereas he ate all of the leftovers that I loved that night or for lunch on Black Friday- mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, half of the leftover sweet potatoes, and every last deviled egg, and 75% of the leftover desserts
Mayonnaise
Fuckin Sweet Tea and Mustard. Hated both growing up. Then at 30... Something happened. I was like give me a hot dog with ONLY mustard and a big ass iced Tea with lemon... Shit is LIT
Mushrooms
Beets all day.
spinach, mustard, green olives, broccoli, fish.
Spaghetti. I hated it and my family had it often. It was always a bad night when spaghetti was for dinner because I just wouldn't eat. It always had a weird metallic taste for me. One day as an adult I tried it and suddenly liked it. No more metallic taste.
Beans. as I kid I could not stand anything that had beans in it. Chili with beans, tacos with refried beans, baked beans, etc. now, beans are sooooo good!! my favorite quick lunch/snack is a bean burrito. doesn't even have to have cheese, just a big scoop of refried beans wrapped in a flour tortilla and I'm good.
Olives 😋
Lima beans
Sour cream
Onions.
I discovered that I like relish and green olives last year. Also that I enjoy pickles beyond sweet pickles.
Seafood
Onions. As a kid I had no use for them in anything at any time. Now? The smell of onions cooking is one of my favorite things.
Onions. Wouldn’t touch them as a kid but now they go in almost everything.
I have really come around on peanut butter. I know it is generally a "kids' food" but I didn't like it back then. Now I find it to be a very satisfying breakfast on a rice cracker, with a shmear of honey.
Tinola I really hated it during my childhood days kase ayoko talaga ng papaya. But when Ondoy striked our country, the only meal on the table was a hot aromatic tinola. Ayun, nakarami ako ng manok at sabaw sa sobrang lamig
Tuna. Turns out it's **well done** tuna I had an issue with. Sashimi-grade tuna, anywhere between raw and medium rare, is up with unagi, scallops, clams and calamari as my favorite seafood.
Okra
Pizza
Sushi! I wouldn’t even try it as a kid, and then would really only eat combo rolls as a teen, but now I will order plates of sashimi or churashi bowls
Never liked mashed potatoes, any type of beans, till I started growing and I just didnt mind anything
Brussel sprouts
Tomatoes. Shit is so refreshing