what foods did you hate as a kid, and did you overcome them?

[Anonymous]

Did you change your mind about them, and how?


For me (growing up in a midwest household where we had potatoes, a vegetable, and meat as the standard supper--it was always my job to get the potatoes from the basement and peel them):

peas, period (creamed vegetables were a thing, my mom did it with green beans and peas, both always canned) except raw garden peas
corn unless it was on a cob
tomatoes in any form except spaghetti and pizza sauce --but my mom's stewed tomatoes with pieces of bread was the absolute worst
canned peaches (encountered my first fresh peach when I was 17, at a friend's. With cream on it. I swooned with pleasure)
creamed corn (I boycotted hot lunch at school after the principal forced me to swallow BOTH creamed corn and canned peaches)
coconut

In my teens I started challenging my aversions. For peas and corn TV frozen dinners were the start. And my first encounter with a fresh peach, shipped from Georgia to my friend's parents, with cream on it, was amazing. Raw tomatoes--I really tried. Unsuccessful. Cooked--pretty much anything paired with other ingredients. Coconut--still nope.

DS was totally opposed to mushrooms until he had morel soup from a foraged foods company that had a food truck at a music festival. Now he loves mushrooms, and keeps bags of seasoned dried mushroom chips around as a snack. He was poor with vegetables so I used canteloupe as a vitamin A and fiber source a lot (it's still his favorite fruit) but became a kale-and-berry smoothie drinker and plays around with grilled vegetables and loves green salads.

[Anonymous]

Tomatoes
Cilantro
Parmesan cheese

Absolutely love all of them now. I really dislike almost all pork meats though (except sausage) which must’ve been the trade off.

[Anonymous]

I hated plain potato chips as a kid but now I like them. Also didn’t like tomatoes but I still don’t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tomatoes
Cilantro
Parmesan cheese

Absolutely love all of them now. I really dislike almost all pork meats though (except sausage) which must’ve been the trade off.

I think roast pork is great when it has just been made, doesn't hold up as a leftover IMO. I like it with chunky homemade applesauce on it.

[Anonymous]

I hated mushrooms and now I love them.

[Anonymous]

Mushrooms - I now love them
Peas - I tolerate them
Cooked onions
Anything spicy

[Anonymous]

I hated raw tomatoes. They were pink and mushy from the grocery store. Tomatoes improved immensely in the 90s, it seemed.

[Anonymous]

Cabbage. I will eat cabbage now, but I still don't like it.

[Anonymous]

I didn’t like vegetables and now I love them. Except for kale; I still don’t like kale.

Didn’t like fish but now I do.

I’m still afraid of liver.

I liked junk as a kid but have mostly trained myself out of it and now prefer healthy foods.

[Anonymous]

Mushrooms, avocado -- now I love them
Mayonnaise, mustard, beets, alcohol in general -- still picky about them but will tolerate
Fish -- moved to Japan, discovered I like Japanese fish preparation methods just fine (still can't stand it cooked with butter or cream sauce, though)
Lettuce, squash, beer -- still think they're nasty in any form

[Anonymous]

Bittermelon! 🤢

[Anonymous]

Peanut butter.

As a kid I couldn’t stand it, I tolerated it in candy sometimes and now as an adult I think it’s delicious! Peanut butter cookies especially are amazing.

[Anonymous]

I really despised string beans as a child, and still hate them now.

[Anonymous]

Beans—black beans, chick peas, lentils, all of them. Now I like them a lot.

[Anonymous]

Shrimp, sauerkraut, braunschweiger, bologna, deli Swiss cheese slices, and mushrooms. Love shrimp, mushrooms, sauerkraut (and all fermented vegetables) now.