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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look, a lot depends on how people were raised. If they didn’t eat duck, octopus, carpaccio by a certain age, they just aren’t going to be foodies, they won’t appreciate fine dining ingredients, and they are not going to be adventurous. If you cook bc you like it fine, but you have to know your SO by now OP. You can slowly introduce him to new things when you go out to eat so that he develops a more sophisticated palate. But if he is fine eating basic foods, you need to change your expectations of him.[/quote]

I first tried the majority of foods available in the U.S. when I was 17, and many dishes even later (sushi at 25, pho at 34, etc). 
I am still a fairly adventurous eater.
The way a person grew up doesn’t define everything [/quote]

Agree.  And region doesn’t matter either.  Two of the least adventurous eaters I know hail from Seattle and Boston. Two of the most adventurous I know hail from Oklahoma and Boston.  The Bostonians did not/do not know each other but both grew up in Lexington and went to all of the same schools, similar socioeconomic, etc.  Parents cooked “American” at home but were both like the typical Americans for eating out at the time: Mexican, Thai, Chinese, Italian, etc.  They both exited that experience completely differently. [/quote]

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