What is a food you just didn't like eating as a child, but as an adult, you can't get enough of it now?
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Food you hated to eat the most as a child but now you love it
- Thread starter Squarehard
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Aubergine - I eat fried/roasted aubergine 3/4 times a week and makdous (Stuffed and cured baby aubergine around the same). Hated it pre 18 or so.
Olives - Hungry in an Italian place around the age of 18 and they gave them free with bread. Thought they tasted disgusting pre that, and now I can't imagine a pizza or most pasta dishes without them along with all the mezze.
Also all the brassica but that was half because back when I was a kid no one roasted them with salt and pepper/herbs and maybe some garlic. Lets boil and ruin them.
Olives - Hungry in an Italian place around the age of 18 and they gave them free with bread. Thought they tasted disgusting pre that, and now I can't imagine a pizza or most pasta dishes without them along with all the mezze.
Also all the brassica but that was half because back when I was a kid no one roasted them with salt and pepper/herbs and maybe some garlic. Lets boil and ruin them.
There's a few things I wouldn't touch as a kid but I tried as an adult and ended up loving them. Peppers (bell and mildly spicy), onions & scallions, mushrooms, honey mustard (still don't like regular mustard), and even fried eggs come to mind. Boredom led me to try new things, and some I ended up liking. There are some foods I still hate, though, including Lima beans and peas.
Mushrooms, the smaller, round, white/brownish ones. No idea what they are called in English but here we call them champignons.
I will add bell peppers as above. I'd pick the fun (Spicy) peppers every time but as a kid I found them weird and a bit too sweet or weird. As an adult I can't imagine having Mexican/Tex Mex without them and they are fine in Middle Eastern dishes/Thai etc.
Coleslaw and liverwurst.
Not together but like I'd always give the slaw I got at restaurants and stuff to my dad or grandpa growing up and I thought liverwurst was gonna be really gross cuz of the whole thing in cartoons and stuff where kids have to eat liver and onions and they treat it like it's basically a war crime to eat this stuff.
Then I tried them as an adult and like ????? No???? Coleslaw is awesome and liverwurst is great on sandwiches.
It was literally only a couple years ago that I tried and realised I like coleslaw btw.
Not together but like I'd always give the slaw I got at restaurants and stuff to my dad or grandpa growing up and I thought liverwurst was gonna be really gross cuz of the whole thing in cartoons and stuff where kids have to eat liver and onions and they treat it like it's basically a war crime to eat this stuff.
Then I tried them as an adult and like ????? No???? Coleslaw is awesome and liverwurst is great on sandwiches.
It was literally only a couple years ago that I tried and realised I like coleslaw btw.
Plain potato chips. I always had to have sour cream onion , onion & garlic, salt vinegar or whatever. Now just give some plain UTZ chips and I'll finish half the bag in no time..
Asparagus. My mom overcooked it and served it with a mock hollandaise sauce. Vile.
My wife insisted asparagus was good, so I tried preparing it differently and whaddaya know... my mom just can't cook asparagus.
My wife insisted asparagus was good, so I tried preparing it differently and whaddaya know... my mom just can't cook asparagus.
Steak because my dad sucked ass at grilling. Now I grill prime filet mignon to a perfect medium rare and I fucking love it as does my family.
Onions, still not 100% on them, but I love French fried onions from a can, cooked down, and caramelized onions are great. I'll probably never warm up to raw onion, just something about the "bite" they have I don't enjoy on anything.
Sweet Potatoes. Loved them as a baby, but once I aged up I hated them. NOW, I love them again and roast some for grain and fish bowls almost every week.
Fish is another one I absolutely love now.
Sweet Potatoes. Loved them as a baby, but once I aged up I hated them. NOW, I love them again and roast some for grain and fish bowls almost every week.
Fish is another one I absolutely love now.
Broccoli, mainly. As a kid, something about the smell and flavor made me gag. Now I could eat a whole plate of it. I also didn't care for mayo or sour cream and now I think both are great.
Conversely, there's very little that I ate as a kid that I still eat these days. Partly a consequence of cutting way back on carbs and red meat and dairy, partly because I don't care for sweet things anymore but love spicy, acidic, pungent flavors.
Conversely, there's very little that I ate as a kid that I still eat these days. Partly a consequence of cutting way back on carbs and red meat and dairy, partly because I don't care for sweet things anymore but love spicy, acidic, pungent flavors.
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Seafood and mushrooms are the two big ones that come to mind.
I've discovered now too that you can develop a pallet later in life, so if I have a chance to have some of something people say is good all the time I'll have a little. Over time something just clicks in the brain so it's been good to really expand my tastes.
I've discovered now too that you can develop a pallet later in life, so if I have a chance to have some of something people say is good all the time I'll have a little. Over time something just clicks in the brain so it's been good to really expand my tastes.
Asparagus! Hated that shit forever. Even married I wouldn't eat it till a couple years ago. And it was amazing. Now I get pretty excited whenever we're having it.
