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[quote=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.   [/quote]

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