One day in my late 20s, I woke up one morning and liked olives. Overnight, or so it seemed, they went from despised balls of horrific salty bitterness to the radiant green orbs of the gods.
Ditto with the celery, especially when you reach that stage in adulting when you learn properly what salt is for!
I think the first olives I ever had were just not the right ones for me. When I was around 25 I just tried again. They were with onions and honey. And after I started trying different kinds of olives. Sometime I just eat a whole jar of them 😋
Apart from coffee, the only food I've really had to learn to like is porridge. I hated it as a kid but it has really grown on me. It's very nutritious and tastes great with some raspberry jam
Cilantro. I hated it for 20+ years. Brother made spring rolls with cilantro in them for dinner one night, and I ate it because I didn't want to be rude - realized I actually liked it after all that time.
Black eyed peas. We ate them every New Year’s day (I still do), and I used to hold my nose to eat them. I only ever had to eat “one for each year I was alive”. Now I absolutely love them.
Sushi for me. As a middle school weeb I tried it sometimes but I hated it, especially the seaweed. Some years later I tried it again and it was like a switch flipped and now I love sushi.
In my case it would be zucchini. I hated it when my mother cooked it. It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized that I didn't hate zucchini, but rather how my mother overcooked it until it into a mush
Broccoli. Broccoli is one of this foods that seems universally hated by kids, but whether it's the little tiny ones you get in your food at Asian restaurants or broccoli and cheese dipped in the drippings off my steak at Applebee's, I'm getting a taste for it if it's prepared right.
I used to hate unprocessed fish with a passion, mostly because they were inconvenient, full of bones, and the taste was just not worth it. These days I'm starting to like it (especially milkfish) even if it wasn't deboned. I'm not even sure if I "love fish" right now, but my relationship with it is now better. Back then, I would simply refuse to eat if it was all we had on the table.
Almonds, I freakin love almonds and have them everyday now. The thing that sucks the most is because it's a nut and high in calories, I have to be careful with the portions.
Almonds, I freakin love almonds and have them everyday now. The thing that sucks the most is because it's a nut and high in calories, I have to be careful with the portions.
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