As a kid I hated veggies but as I got older I really enjoy some veggies, especially broccoli, roasted in a drizzle of olive oil and a little seasoning.
As an American, I also used to abhor vegemite when I tried it until I learned how to properly spread it on toast during my visit over there and I’m obsessed now!
What did you hate, but gave a second chance to? I’d love to try some new stuff!
I hated sea food as a kid, and still mostly do, but now I can stand shrimps and mussels.
And vegetables too, like a lot of people (apart from pumpkins and stuff like that, those are still nightmare for me)
Brussel sprouts used to be truly awful, made me literally wretch. Now I eagerly make and order them as a bar snack.
To be fair there are two reasons beyond my changing tastes for this. First, my mom liked to steam brussel sprouts whole and serve them with margarine, salt, and pepper, now I generally cold sear them or roast them in the oven with much better seasoning. Maybe even some bacon pieces and blue cheese mixed in. Second, brussel sprouts did actually change over time to get less bitter and awful since I was a kid.
Sweet potatoes. Something about them made me gag. Every Thanksgiving a heaping pile of them would wind up on my plate and I’d have to power though or else face the wrath of my grandmother.
Nowadays I love them. Dunno when the switch happened.
I heard that stuff like green vegetables are unpalatable to children because they taste more bitter to them.
As you grow up you become more insensitive to those flavors and start tasting the other compounds that you actually like.Eggplant. I tried cooking it until just tender, like zucchini - and it was nasty as hell; I never got it and never wanted to.
Then I encountered some actually properly cooked stuff in a pasta dish when eating out and ohmygod.
Yes! My wife recently got a huge eggplant, but it into slices and then turned them into eggplant pizzas with a little sauce and cheese melted on in the oven.
Anchovies on pizza. Just a couple though, like fish sauce, a little goes a long way.
Olives. I still am not a fan of black olives, but I’d eat an entire jar of green.
Kale. I hated it as a kid, but that’s because my parents never removed the stems, and then boiled it down into mush, neither of which is the correct way to cook kale. Now that I cook my own, I love it and eat it regularly.
I don’t know that I’ve ever truly had kale. I’ve always heard it tastes like dirt but I’d be willing to give it a try.
How do you recommend making it?
This is my favorite way to cook it: Beans & Greens
Or just saute it in a little olive oil with some garlic. The key is to remove the leaves from the stems and only cover the pan for like 5 minutes. You don’t want it overcooked, that’s when it gets nasty. I feel like too many people think kale should be cooked down like spinach and it just comes out a mushy mess.
Well, I do love some olive oil and garlic. I might have to give this a shot. Thank you.
Tomatoes or mushrooms. Both were a texture thing. I made some diet changes as an adult, so I’m not sure if that helped in changing my opinion, but now I’m fine with mushrooms and grow tomatoes in my garden every year!
The texture of garden tomatoes are so much better than the texture of the ones you get at the store, too.
So true. Both the flavor and texture of home grown are so much better.
Mushrooms are just not for me, sadly. It’s texture and taste.
Blue cheese
Brussel sprouts
Cauliflower soup
Green peas
BrocoliCauliflower soup? I am guessing it’s a creamy soup? I’ve never heard of that one before.
I agree with the rest, especially blue cheese!
Not 100% sure of the ingredients, but yes, it’s creamy. Involves a lot of milk, that’sall I know as I make it from these portioned bags with powder. Topped with a litte bit of bacon.
Most fish. I always liked salmon, but didn’t like most other fish; now I like all fish I’m aware of.
Bananas and potatoes. I can’t say that I enjoy bananas now, but I tolerate them kinda and eat them regularly.
We ate potatoes for just about every meal when I was a kid so I started to dislike it, but now I love potatoes in every form and eat it as much as I can.
tomatoes. hated them as a kid. juicy burgers were may gateway into them.
Same with vegetables, but also steak and bacon. I hated steak and bacon as a kid idk what was wrong with me
Friend, I still don’t like steak that much but I definitely don’t balk at it like I used to!
Fish in general. As a kid I absolutely disliked the strong taste and oily texture.
I’m very open with my foods and like to retry everything I disliked in the past, things I still don’t like are Olives (weird metallic taste I don’t like), Tomatoes (slimy texture at normal size, cherry tomats are fine), unaltered boiled egg yolks (so dry, so so dry), Oatmeal (texture issue), and a couple others I can’t think of at the moment. I enjoy most of the texture based ones as soon as the texture is altered.
A lot of fish types grown on me. I still love a salmon with a slight glaze and some veggies.
I’m with you on tomatoes. I only eat them if it comes sliced on a burger or else I just do not like them.
