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What’s a food you hated as a kid but now love?

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Feb 5 at 4:22amWeb
Show threadBluegrass_AddictFeb 5
asparagus
Show threadMarshezezzFeb 5
Eggplant
Show threadJayGray91🐉🍕Feb 5
Same. It’s like nature’s custard.
Show threadMarshezezzFeb 5
Yeah I tried it again later in life cos I always heard everyone loving it and was like “wtf have I been doing with my life?” I cannot get enough of it now, so versatile and delicious
Show threadQuirkyRaccoon1156Feb 5
Brussel sprouts
Show threadb34kFeb 5
My mom just never made em good. Cook em up right (don’t overcook so they go all sulfury) and add some good seasoning (and onions), and you’ve got something really tasty!
Show threadFondotsFeb 5
Also depending on when and where in the world you grew up, the Brussels sprouts of today’s may be a very different variety than the ones your mom served you as a kid, they’re a lot sweeter and less bitter now.
Show threadiamericandreFeb 6
I still don’t really enjoy them
Show threadSlurryBravoFeb 5
Avocado
Show threadVictorFeb 5

All the veggies.

Onion. Garlic. All the bitter foods.

Still hate coffee though. And I never could like beer. Both too bitter.

Show threadstarlingukFeb 5

But onion and garlic aren’t bitter.

Don’t get me started on grapefruit, though.

Show threadVictorFeb 6

But onion and garlic aren’t bitter.

I know, I meant onion, garlic, and all the bitter foods.

Show threadButteryMonkeyFeb 5
Fish. But I hated it because it was shit preparation, and it took me a very very very long time to learn that.
Show threadFishercatFeb 5
@queenofthenerds avocado
Show threadidiomaddictFeb 5

Rye bread.

I hate caraway seed, and all of the rye where I grew up had caraway in it. I now live in Germany where caraway is much more generally prevalent, but it’s not automatically included in all rye bread, and it turns out that rye is a really nice grain for sturdier bread that keeps way longer than wheat. Dinkel/spelt/farro is also great.

Show threadstelelorFeb 5

We have an ethnic dish that’s basically mushrooms and chicken meat simmered in a thick white sauce, with optional sour cream.

As a child, I gagged and retched every time my grandma was cooking it. The smell was indescribably awful to me, like if she were cooking rotting garbage. I could barely bring myself to taste it.

Now it’s one of my favorite meals. I make it with any variety of Agaricus bisporus. Maybe it’s because my grandma used different species of mushrooms? Who knows what was sold at farmer’s markets in Eastern Europe in the 90s…

Show threadfroh42Feb 5
Mmmh tasty Cesium 137.
Show threadLushed_LungfishFeb 5

Alcohol.

Also pickled tea leaves salad.

And finally sardines.

Show threadGrantraseroFeb 5
Beets
Show threadhenchman2019Feb 6
Tuna fish casserole. Made me gag. None of my friends ever heard of it back then and not many now. I think it’s like an old Betty Crocker type recipe. Today, I love it, but only my mom’s.
Show threadsober_monkFeb 6
Raw tomatoes. I was eating them in kindergarten when I overheard a teacher describe the explosive diarrhea a kid had that day in graphic detail. Took me 20 years to shake that mental association out of my head.
Show threadikiddFeb 7
Pretty much every vegetable that my parents cooked into slime, instead of semi-crisp. Brocolli, beets and brussel sprouts especially. Plus, apparently, steak doesn’t need to be the texture of shoe leather. Whoda thunk.