Sweets in general.
As an alcoholic, when I was drinking I never cared for sweets. Now that I've been sober for some time, I crave candy and ice cream and sweet cereals.
Probably has something to do with the way I process alcohol / sugar.
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Spinach. Maybe it’s availability but growing up we only got it canned and my mom cooked the hell out of it. I hated the black slimy bitter salty …. Just not even a food . But now that I’m an adult and fresh spinach is available year round, I love a nice spinach salad and even slightly wilted spinach in a pasta
School food ruined so many things for me. I used to hate rice and gyros but they are really tasty if prepared well
I'd say avocados, I still wouldn't eat a slice of avocado but a little guacamole on a taco or something is OK.
I did not like many vegetables at all as a kid.
Tomato and onion are two of my favorites
Broccoli and brussel sprouts for me
I’m pretty sure most of my vegetable phobia is being forced to eat them anyway as a kid. I love trying new foods, including vegetables, and new ways of preparing things from anywhere in the world, but vegetables, the way they’re always prepared here are just gross.
I don’t know if tomatoes are a good example but I have an immediate reaction to want to spit them out if I accidentally get some. Yet I love a good salsa, pico, marinara, etc
Broccoli is something i don’t even like touching
Pickles because of spirolactone, but not as much anymore, don't got the balls for it anymore.
Two standout ingredients: avocados and horseradish.
I used to wonder how anyone could even enjoy horseradish until I tried it with salmon and was like "Ohhhhhhhhh, so that's why"
Brussels sprouts.
No one in the 80s-90s knew how to cook them and always overcooked them. Now they’re made roasted and absolutely delicious.
I keep hearing this, have to bite the bullet and try sometime.
Oh! It's not just that we got better at cooking them! Brussel sprouts were actually bred to taste better around the 1990s/2000s.
https://www.mashed.com/300870/brussels-sprouts-used-to-taste-a-lot-different-heres-why/
Oh super interesting! I love that we’ve bred all kinds of vegetables and fruits to be more palatable over the eons.
Life never gave us lemons, we made them ourselves.
No wait! I read something about this! Those were totally different brussel sprouts! I guess they came up with a new species that didn't such so bad and that's why brussel sprouts suddenly got tolerable.
Now I have to go see how much of this is true.
Edit: What do you know? All of it! https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/10/30/773457637/from-culinary-dud-to-stud-how-dutch-plant-breeders-built-our-brussels-sprouts-bo
Seconded. Oven roasted or air fried, they're little balls of joy.
I always got boiled ones in the old days, same with spinach 🤮
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Soooo goooood.... My go-to now for a really good really "bad" meal are Memphis style ribs with roasted brussel sprouts with butter and garlic.
....why can't you be on sale now ribs lol
Onions, like slices of onion on burgers or in a dish.
At some point it just didn't matter anymore and they are kinda nice.
What's it like to be dead Inside?
I was the same. The cellular looks of onions, especially when cooked made me want to retch. Now I put onions in nearly everything I cook.
Olives. A greek salad with some big ol' kalamata olives sounds really good right now.
Pickled everything.
Korean food changed my perspective on pickling and fermentation, and my digestive system!
I always liked sauerkraut but I was weirdly against the idea of kimchi as a kid. I think the first time I heard of it, it was described by someone who didn't like it because it sounded super gross, and I had zero spice tolerance. These days, I put it on practically everything or eat it by itself as a side.
A few years ago, I was working at a restaurant when it went under, so as sous-chef they let me take a few bits home with me. I took 5kg of kimchi home. I used to, like, come home drunk and eat a handful of it out the fridge, haha.
Oh man, that's the dream. I buy it from a local guy who started making his mom's recipe for friends during the pandemic and now sells at farmers markets and stuff, and I go through about a gallon every month or two. I need him to start selling me buckets of it.
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As a kid i used to hate fuul with tamis (ful medames and naan bread) but now i can't get enough of it. basically legal crack.
Mmmm smother it with garlic, cumin and some olive oil bro. Goes down beautifully
I've slowly become obsessed with olives.
Kale, because my parents had no idea how to cook it. When I make it myself it's awesome.
Tomatoes. I disliked them for a long time but a few years ago I tried them again. I don't remember how I made that decision - it may have been from forgetting to ask for no tomatoes on a burger but I ended up trying them more and came to like them. I don't like all tomatoes and not in everything, but I do enjoy them in sandwiches, burgers, and a few other things.
It makes sandwiches a little too 'wet' for me, but I'll drag 'em onto the side and eat them separately so they don't ruin it.
I didn't like cottage cheese until I was 38. I kept trying it, not sure what changed.
Mushrooms - I once puked them up on the table when my mom made me eat them...canned mushrooms FTW! I now, of course, can not get enough of them - sautéed, baked, sliced/raw on a salad...gimme some fungus already!!
I get so jealous when people post pictures of their locally owned supermarket selling chanterelles and morels... I'm just sitting here like a chump eating button mushrooms which are apparently the only mushrooms that exist according to all the store owners in my city. ;-;
Cheese.
Sadly, most cheese does not enjoy me.
Same same... but I suffer. very worf
Cilantro. I'm still not convinced that I'm not one of the people to whom it tastes like soap, but over the years I started to tolerate, then enjoy it.
You'd definitely know it if you were one the people who have that trait. It's like liking a bar of ivory soap.
Broccoli is awesome.
Hummus
Sauerkraut! Used to be toilet cheese, now it's a delicacy that's earned its place on my sandwiches.
mustard. that weird sourness wasn't friendly to my kiddie tastes.
bread and butter. couldn't get the charm of it.
onions. shallots to be specific. it has that fragrance.
eggplant. mutabal is now great.
goya. still work in progress.
While it is nice that you're getting around to the works of Spanish painter Francis Goya, I think this thread was only about food
hahah, that's a good one! also til about the artist.
Onions are definitely underrated imo
Underrated? Onions are in, or are the base of so many dishes and sauces its not funny. Thats almost like saying 'people should try using garlic or salt in their recipe more often'
Avocado, young me thought it was a Kiwi so it might just have been the surprise of how different it was.
I have eaten 9 grapes.
I used to work as a sullen kid picking grapes for a winery in the summers. Hated the very thought so never ate any, not because I had any respect back then. As a poor kid, you aren't forced to try something if it would waste food: give it to the people whom it can benefit.
Now then, decades later, and we're touring another vineyard, me and my wife. "Here," says the tour guide, handing me one. "Try it."
Wife knows the deal - squick - but knows I won't be impolite while this man shows off his livelihood. Her eyes flash a dare but I didn't need that. I ate my first grape about 14 years ago from st hubertus winery in Kelowna. Didn't make a face so as not to offend. It was meh.
Since then I've had one or two more. And then we go to this fancy pants restaurant and the appetizer on the pricy-ass set menu is this Italian salad thing with all.kinds of green grapes. Fuck me but it was expensive. Ate the whole thing because we don't waste food in my family. She chuckled and rolled her gorgeous green eyes as she stole a few. That's the last 6.
So 9.
I may have had 1 hundred strawberries too. I'm livin it up.
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