This. Hated them until I was about 35 years old, now I eat a pot as a snack.
Blue cheese I was ambivalent about until, at about the same age in the late 90s, steak and Stilton burgers started to appear, and now my fave brekkie is Stilton on bagels.
Foods you hated, you now like...
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Blue cheese I was ambivalent about until, at about the same age in the late 90s, steak and Stilton burgers started to appear, and now my fave brekkie is Stilton on bagels.
Another one for Olives.
I've been told kids are programmed to favour foods that are high in sugar which is why they tend toward sweet things, but as you mature you gain an appreciation for those foods with a purely savoury taste. There again, it wouldn't be the first time someone has spouted sloblocks in my direction.
I've been told kids are programmed to favour foods that are high in sugar which is why they tend toward sweet things, but as you mature you gain an appreciation for those foods with a purely savoury taste. There again, it wouldn't be the first time someone has spouted sloblocks in my direction.
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I can't think of anything at the moment that I wouldn't eat but love now, although there are things I didn't especially like that I'm ok with now - mainly salad stuff and raw veg.
Oh, maybe raisins. I wouldn't eat them, didn't even like cake with them in, and I'm ok now, although I don't love them enough to eat on their own (maybe unless chocolate coated). I'm still not keen on sultanas. Squishy.
Something I've never yet conquered is mushrooms. I do try, every so often, but I still hate the texture. I'm not keen on the taste either (eg in cream soup where there isn't the texture) but I think it's because of associating the taste with the texture. It's actually annoying, I wish I did like them, and I can completely understand people who do, but I can't.
I'll keep trying. I know two people (my Mum being one) who couldn't bear olives until they were 50, and then suddenly loved them.)
Oh, maybe raisins. I wouldn't eat them, didn't even like cake with them in, and I'm ok now, although I don't love them enough to eat on their own (maybe unless chocolate coated). I'm still not keen on sultanas. Squishy.
Something I've never yet conquered is mushrooms. I do try, every so often, but I still hate the texture. I'm not keen on the taste either (eg in cream soup where there isn't the texture) but I think it's because of associating the taste with the texture. It's actually annoying, I wish I did like them, and I can completely understand people who do, but I can't.
I'll keep trying. I know two people (my Mum being one) who couldn't bear olives until they were 50, and then suddenly loved them.)
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[QUOTE 2055214, member: 259"]The only thing I can ever remember not liking when I was a kid was tripe. I love it now but I can't persuade anyone else in the family to eat it - apart from the dog!
Oh, and I've just remembered instant mash. I still retch at the thought of the texture of it - yuck.[/quote]
I have had the privilege to eat many types of unusual food,from the bizarre to brain,horse,croc,snakes etc and can compare the food to another meat an could say I didn't mind it or it was a bit tough,a couple of times this year in France I was subjected to andouillete a tripe ,chittering smoked sausage,it is the only food I can not eat the smell is tripe 10 fold and costs a arm and leg,well I would rather eat my arm than that muck,it made my hands smell for days after handling it,so whole hearted with the tripe haters
Oh, and I've just remembered instant mash. I still retch at the thought of the texture of it - yuck.[/quote]
I have had the privilege to eat many types of unusual food,from the bizarre to brain,horse,croc,snakes etc and can compare the food to another meat an could say I didn't mind it or it was a bit tough,a couple of times this year in France I was subjected to andouillete a tripe ,chittering smoked sausage,it is the only food I can not eat the smell is tripe 10 fold and costs a arm and leg,well I would rather eat my arm than that muck,it made my hands smell for days after handling it,so whole hearted with the tripe haters
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No, I think that's right. As a child, a human 'in the wild' needs to be sure they aren't eating unripe or poisonous fruit. Having lived to adulthood, they would presumably have learned through the community which less sweet foods were also ok.
Apparently that might be why kids will often eat all sorts of quite adult stuff when first weaned, because everything they are offered will have been vetted by a trusted adult. Once they get independently mobile, they become more fussy and regress to wanting sweet things, because in the wild they will have been capable of foraging alone, and might make mistakes.
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Avacado, asparagus, mushrooms are ones I love now that I hated as a kid.
I can eat olives now although they are not a favourite. A lot of fish still makes me wretch though.
I can eat olives now although they are not a favourite. A lot of fish still makes me wretch though.
HLaB
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I wouldn't eat carrots as a kid, I think it was psychological after throwing up after eating them 
, I actually quite like them now .
, I actually quite like them now .
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Meat.
As a kid I wouldn't eat meat and my parents worried I might grow up 'weird' but I eat meat now and wonder if I shouldn't.
It was the same with pickled stuff.
Going the other way, I used to love escargo but can't stomach them now.
As a kid I wouldn't eat meat and my parents worried I might grow up 'weird' but I eat meat now and wonder if I shouldn't.
It was the same with pickled stuff.
Going the other way, I used to love escargo but can't stomach them now.
MossCommuter
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Liver of any animal but that might be because it is prepared in better ways than either school or mum could manage.
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Honey, Celery
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Mushy peas
I was a really fussy eater as a kid, and most of the things I hated I eat and enjoy now -but I put most of that down to my mother's shocking cooking!
Liver and onions now love, cabbage yummm, pastry on pies -not sure what that was about. I never had a curry until I was 25 because I was convinced I didn't like them.
I still won't eat brussell sprouts and more recently I've really gone off peaches because the thought of the texture makes me shudder.
Chronic heart burn in pregnancy has put me off apples too.
Liver and onions now love, cabbage yummm, pastry on pies -not sure what that was about. I never had a curry until I was 25 because I was convinced I didn't like them.
I still won't eat brussell sprouts and more recently I've really gone off peaches because the thought of the texture makes me shudder.
Chronic heart burn in pregnancy has put me off apples too.
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