Foods you used to dislike but now enjoy

[Morning Glory]

Tastes change as we grow older. In particular, childhood dislikes can change when we become adults.

In my case it would be seafood. I was vegetarian from the age of 11 until mid 20's and my family when I was growing up, never ate seafood so I had no experience of it. I started eating meat again but somehow, the idea of shellfish in particular, I found difficult. I'm not even sure why. But miraculously, in my 40's, I managed to eat an oyster. I can't remember where or why I did, which is rather odd for such a momentous occasion. Oysters are now in my top favourite foods list.

Are there any foods you used to dislike or shun but now enjoy?

 

[Barriehie]

I used to abhor boiled okra because it was so slimy but could eat raw oysters like nobody's business. Now I have no qualms about it.

 

[Gone Hiking]

I used to abhor boiled okra because it was so slimy but could eat raw oysters like nobody's business. Now I have no qualms about it.

Years ago, I bought my first okra and boiled it on the stove. The boiling rendered it into elephant snot, and so that was also the last okra I ever bought.

As to a food I didn't like, but now do? That's easy... sushi. The thought of eating raw fish was gross until I actually tried it in my late 20s. I don't love all of it (raw octopus is too chewy, for example), but I get hankerings for it pretty regularly.

 

[SoCalZone10]

I don’t like okra and yam, they are not my favorite food to eat but I eat them. But I’m definitely a “see food” person, have very strong appetite about food. One food I particularly don't like now but don’t remember if I dislike them in my youth is pineapple.

 

[karadekoolaid]

The boiling rendered it into elephant snot,

I've just laughed for a full minute!

 

[karadekoolaid]

I hated blue cheese until I went up to university and was presented with a whole Stilton... and port. Never looked back.
I never ate fish (damned bones!) until I was about 26-27, when I took on a bet from the language school's deputy director. I won the bet, and he took me to a very decent fish restaurant, where I ate ( I think) a salmon trout.

 

[badjak]

Olives
I hated those things. I could just about handle them very thinly sliced on a piece of pizza. Too small to remove.
Then much much later, in my 30's, I had to collect a package and had a glass of wine with this person. She then brought out cheese (which I don't like), something else I didn't like & olives.
Now I could not refuse all, so I picked the least offensive thing and ate the olive.
Then another one, and another one

Spinach is another one. Slimy stuff. The only thing nice about it was the egg that came with it
It didn't help that big brother sat opposite me on the table and he hated spinach and let it drool out of his mouth if mum wasn't watching.
Then at university, we took turns cooking. This one girl cooked spaghetti with a spinach sauce (bacon, garlic, mushrooms, creamed spinach). It was that, or no food. So closed my eyes, took a bite, then wolved the meal down and I still cook it like that occasionally

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

I’m struggling to think of anything. I could venture into the ‘it’s grown on me’ but probably not get as far as ‘enjoy’ with perfumey flavoured things so things like rose and lavender in food. Use to think oh yuck that’s now turned into a hmm

Oh I thought of something - dried fruit in savoury dishes (particularly saggy skinned raisins ), however apricots, dates and cranberries yes enjoy those.
Turned onto them by tagine, a spiced sticky date and lamb stew and the cranberries being perfectly acceptable tasty substitute for raisins or currants.

 

[Barriehie]

badjak Try some spinach with garam masala if you can get that seasoning.

 

[badjak]

badjak Try some spinach with garam masala if you can get that seasoning.

Oh, I eat spinach these days.
And yes, I can easily get garam masala and many other Indian spices (I actually even have some in stock)

 

[Z-Cook]

Are there any foods you used to dislike or shun but now enjoy?

Have always eaten pretty much anything and everything One of the very few things I didn't like when I was wee and grew to is yogurt. And chili, but that's pretty usual. My main dislikes have been/are about gloopy textures.

 

[Puggles]

I used to not like cocktail sauce because of the horseradish. I still don't like horseradish; I want to, but my taste buds just don't like it; however, I love cocktail sauce, especially with fresh lemon juice in it. It makes no sense, but it's true.

 

[Puggles]

Oh, I eat spinach these days.
And yes, I can easily get garam masala and many other Indian spices (I actually even have some in stock)

A great way to get spinach into your diet is Spanakopita. One of my specialties.

 

[badjak]

I used to not like cocktail sauce because of the horseradish. I still don't like horseradish; I want to, but my taste buds just don't like it; however, I love cocktail sauce, especially with fresh lemon juice in it. It makes no sense, but it's true.

It totally makes sense
Some ingredients are great in combination with, but terrible on their own.
Now if I just culd come up with a sample ..

Just Joking:
generally I don't like cloves, but some dishes just need them.
Same for cinnamon

 

[Barriehie]

It totally makes sense
Some ingredients are great in combination with, but terrible on their own.
Now if I just culd come up with a sample ..

Just Joking:
generally I don't like cloves, but some dishes just need them.
Same for cinnamon

Cloves are good for toothache.