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11-10-2017 05:50 PM
The threads on what we eat at Thanksgiving got me thinking. I grew up hating cranberry sauce in any form, or cranberry-flavored anything. Maybe 10 years ago, for some reason, I had some cranberry sauce tasted at a family gathering and now, I can’t contemplate a turkey dinner without it. I put it on everything - the turkey, the potatoes, the stuffing-dressing 😜, you name it. I even use it for chip dip.
I have noticed that I am favoring more sweet/sour than I used to. I could probably even eat marmalade, which I also used to detest. I will always love sweet things, but what kind of sweet and how much is changing - things I used to never be able get enough of, now I do, and enough is really enough.
Most kids hate avocado; I did. But my adult taste buds love it and it’s something else I’d have on everything if I could.
What foods/drink did you hate as a child that you like or even love now?
11-10-2017 05:55 PM
Peanut butter always made me gag as a kid. Recently I was on a restrictive diet for a thyroid procedure, and, out of desperation, I decided to try Adams natural creamy peanut butter (the kind that needs to be stirred) on slices of honeycrisp apples. OMG...soooo good.
11-10-2017 06:05 PM
@tansy wrote:Peanut butter always made me gag as a kid. Recently I was on a restrictive diet for a thyroid procedure, and, out of desperation, I decided to try Adams natural creamy peanut butter (the kind that needs to be stirred) on slices of honeycrisp apples. OMG...soooo good.
Peanut butter & apples are so good together!
11-10-2017 06:22 PM
I hated carrots and never even had brussel sprouts as a kid. Love them both now.
Still am a picky eater. I just enjoy my hot sauce on much of my boring food.
11-10-2017 06:24 PM
I have broad taste in food, pun intended. :-) My mother was the cook in the family, and she was rather adventurous, at least compared to my friends' fare.
But oh, did I hate eggplant because of the way she prepared it. It was always dipped in bread crumbs and fried. All I remember is that the breading scratched my throat, so I didn't like eggplant. I love it now -- Italian, Asian, any preparation except the scratchy one.
11-10-2017 06:56 PM
I hated asparagus, turnips, sweet potatoes and we didn't have avocados around back then but I would have never eaten anything so green....today, I love all the above and if I were on a deserted island with one food, it would be avocado..
11-10-2017 06:58 PM
I'm another cranberry convert. I started with Craisins and have been working my way up to cranberry sauces and relishes. This has also occurred over the past 5 years or so.
I wouldn't touch a tomato when I was a kid and my dad grew very good ones. I like them now...mostly raw and in sauces. I still can't abide stewed.
Same with cantaloupe. Wouldn't touch even good home grown ones as a kid. Love them now
11-10-2017 07:20 PM
As a kid, I couldn’t stand the smell or the taste of Parmesan cheese. Now love it and couldn’t eat pasta without it
11-10-2017 07:24 PM
11-10-2017 08:03 PM
I used to be a typical chocoholic but now would not miss never having chocolate again. Can't stand dark chocolate and don't have nearly the taste for sweets I used to have.
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