as a kid I really hated mushrooms bc of the texture. now I love them so long as they aren’t on their own (on a burger or smth like that).
I have a mushroom phobia. Can’t even see them without getting goosebumps.
Farming. I worked on the neighboring farm as a teenager. Then, after a long series of jobs and education, became a software engineer. Being a software engineer taught me something: I miss working on a farm.
Yeah, there’s the joke that jr engineers want to be sr engineers and sr engineers want to be farmers (or woodworkers or whatnot). I like both, but I definitely need the balance of doing something physical and working with my hands.
Curry.
Asparagus. It turns out that canned asparagus is gross but steamed is great.
Gardening.
Previously my only gardening experience was my mom yelling at me to weed outside in the hot summer sun.
Now that I live alone, I started getting potted plants, and there is something wonderful about sharing my space with green growing things. I have a few that have really taken to the environment and amount of sunlight, watching them grow is wonderful. Marveling when one of my little planty bois randomly flowers, and there’s something so stress-relieving about digging your hands into soil when it’s time to re-pot.
Yeah, I’m getting back into gardening despite the whole being yelled at to help garden as a kid! Also if the plants die, when I cry over them, I won’t be told I’m being melodramatic!
I’m not going to say I “love” them now, but I appreciate onions’ use in cooking and flavour profiles now. Whereas when I was younger, anything I ate had to have no onion in it whatsoever.
Thought I hated pasta, turns out, it was just the cheese, not the actual pasta.
Tomatoes! I dunno of Mom started cooking them better or my palate got less restrictive but I’ll eat them a lot these days.
Turn-based RPGs.
Although only very few of those are in my top favorites, but back then DESPISED the genre, because of a really bad experience playing one as a child.
Cheese. Until I lived in Europe and discovered there was more than American and cheddar.
Also the “cheddar” that is normally found in USA is really just another heavily processed American-style cheese with a different color. It’s very different than an English cheddar or a vintage cheddar.
Old people cars… I’m old people now I guess
No Rain by Blind Melon
Mobile gaming. I still kind of hate it but after finding some good games and using emulators, I’ve grown to except it and I do actively play games on mobile now.
Bacon. My first taste was of boiled bacon. It was like chewing on a fucking pencil eraser. I hated it, but my mom would insist on putting some small cubes on the beans to “give a taste” (it didn’t). Took me some time to finally experiment one that was fried to a crispy dryness. Infinitely better.
My first taste was of boiled bacon. It was like chewing on a fucking pencil eraser.
🤮🤢 That sounds terrible. I would have been thrown off by that too. I like the crispy kind myself. I found a soggy piece of bacon when I was eating some green beans as a kid. I stopped eating it for a few years after that.
Pickles. Used to hate em, now I will eat dangerous quantities in one sitting.