"Green beans. Turns out fresh ones are a completely different taste from the canned ones."
"Meat loaf. We had it as a kid and it made me gag. My wife then made it and I thought this is fantastic! Years later my mother made it for us again. I gagged. Sorry Mom."
"Capers. I don’t like green olives and for some reason I assumed they tasted like green olives since someone told me that once."
"Scalloped potatoes. I had been made to eat the instant box kind as a kid, and the texture and taste made me gag.
Turns out that I love homemade scalloped potatoes."
"Rhubarb Pie."
"Cheesecake!! Cheese in cake form didn’t sound appealing. I was 34 when my eyes were opened!!"
"Cooked carrots, add some butter and salt, god damn!"
"Kimchi, turns out it’s delicious!"
"Indian food. A whole cuisine.
…to clarify: The smell put me off for years. Not because it was bad just because it was pungent I think. I adore Indian food now, nothing compares. Greek is a strong second."
"Dates. 30+ years thinking they’d be nasty. I eat them regularly now."
"Sushi, until i actually had it 10 years ago. its so legit. not an acquired taste at all. hits like a good steak , or lasagna or something. easy to enjoy"
"Ceviche"
"Eel.
I was with a friend eating from a big platter of sushi and telling him how I would never eat eel, because it just sounded gross and creepy. “Not like this – this is good. What is this?”
”Eel.”"
"Spam!! I love it. I always thought it looked nasty. Then I grew up."
"Salt and vinegar potato chips.
My sister had really bad ingrown toenails when we were kids and she soaked her feet in white vinegar every night. I couldn’t imagine why someone would want to put something that smelled like that on a potato chip. I found it revolting.
Then one day, I tried a vinegar chip accidentally and it changed my whole life. The sour flavor is actually amazing!"
"My grandfather would never eat pizza because he didn’t like how it looked. In his late 80s we took him to dinner with us for my brother’s birthday for..pizza. So he ended up trying it. After that he loved it and said he wished he’d tried it years ago!"
"Sauerkraut and cabbage. Then I ate at a German restaurant and the sauerkraut was good and they had something called rokult (pickled cabbage) that is really good."
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