# Food you used to dislike and now like. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 24, 2006, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-you-used-to-dislike-and-now-like/349674 "2006-03-24T03:04:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-you-used-to-dislike-and-now-like/349674/1 "2006-03-24T03:04:29Z")
A couple things for me. One is sushi. The first time I tried it, it was awful and I barely got through two pieces. I later learned that it was just crappy sushi made by someone who didn’t know how to make it properly. The second time I tried it, I liked it a lot more but the flavor of the seaweed was a little weird. Now, I love a good mixed veggie roll (lots of wasabi please!). Another is those Oskri coconut bars. I normally like coconut, but I tried one of those bars once and thought it was bland and dry. Who knows if I got an old bar or what, but a couple days ago I got an inking to try another. I did, and liked it a lot. ---
**Author:** ![supervenusfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@supervenusfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supervenusfreak)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-you-used-to-dislike-and-now-like/349674/2 "2006-03-24T03:15:15Z")
I would have to say grilled asparagus and green beans, fresh not canned. But I still will not eat the broccoli! ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-you-used-to-dislike-and-now-like/349674/3 "2006-03-24T03:23:38Z")
sushi, broccoli, brussel sprouts ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-you-used-to-dislike-and-now-like/349674/4 "2006-03-24T03:37:05Z")
> [@Amazon Floozy Goddess](#): > > I got an inking to try another. Just pretend that says _inkling_. Or you can imagine me getting a tattoo of a coconut and suddenly getting a craving for an Oskri bar. :smack: I don’t think I ever had an aversion to veggies. In fact I used to be quite fond of lima beans and considered it a treat if my mom served them with dinner. But then, I was a weird kid. I used to drink vinegar, too. Don’t ask me why, because I can’t remember or even figure out for the life of me why I liked it _that much_. ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-you-used-to-dislike-and-now-like/349674/5 "2006-03-24T03:45:16Z")
Cooked onions. Though I always liked onion rings for some reason. But if I end up with onions on pizza, say, I like them. I didn’t as a kid. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Goob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@Mr.Goob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Goob)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-you-used-to-dislike-and-now-like/349674/6 "2006-03-24T03:46:23Z")
My father grew up Catholic and had fish every Friday as a kid. He hated fish, as a kid I never had a fish fry until I was out of the house. I now love fish fries. Not quite to the OP but that’s what I got. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-you-used-to-dislike-and-now-like/349674/7 "2006-03-24T03:46:37Z")
I never liked fish. I liked tuna fish sandwiches, I liked dep fried, breaded, shrimp but never could really stomach fish it until I started trying it in a foreign “handling” and freshness in Germany and Greece at around 16 years old. Started tasting it at fish fries occasionally in America and finally developed a real taste in my Food and Bev experience sampling exceptional recipes and more variety around 20. Now I really have a deep appreciation amd taste for seafood. ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-you-used-to-dislike-and-now-like/349674/8 "2006-03-24T03:51:25Z")
I have a general abhorrence of vegetables which become “slimy” or “squishy” when cooked: eggplant, zuchini & summer squash (okay fried, but no other way), cooked carrots, cooked peppers (except on a steak sandwhich) and until recently, mushrooms. Lately mushrooms have been growing on me. Not for any particular reason, and I still wouldn’t consider a portabella mushroom on a bun very appetizing, but they’ve gone in my mind from being “barely edible” through “just okay” all the way to “pretty good” in the last 5 years or so. ---
**Author:** ![Nanoda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Nanoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanoda)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-you-used-to-dislike-and-now-like/349674/9 "2006-03-24T04:01:56Z")
Olives, beer, and deep-fried shrimp. Olives I used to hate as early as last year - Safeway got an olive cart put in where you can get the olives you like from bulk containers, and I used to hate even the smell nearby. Over about a month for no reason at all I suddenly started to like them. Yummy jalapeno-stuffed olives… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![JelleyBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ebca7d/32.png) [@JelleyBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JelleyBean)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-you-used-to-dislike-and-now-like/349674/10 "2006-03-24T04:06:58Z")
Asparagus. I discovered that asparagus, that soggy canned mess from my childhood is really great when fresh, and grilled or stir fried. Now I have it about twice a week. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-you-used-to-dislike-and-now-like/349674/11 "2006-03-24T04:15:16Z")
The cloest I can think of is beer. And it’s not so much that when i started drining it I didn’t like beer, jsut not the cheap, nasty, swill beers that were all around me. Once I started having _good_ beer, I found that it can be enjoyable. Of course, not that my distaste for cheap beer led to me drinking less of it…far from it. I mean, c’mon people, that ping pong ball ain’t gonna get itself in that cup! ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-you-used-to-dislike-and-now-like/349674/12 "2006-03-24T07:26:39Z")
All forms of alcohol. I am 26 and just started “drinking” about 4 months ago. All alcohol tasted nasty to me and made me queasy. For some reason, it doesn’t taste bad to me anymore. I actually like some beer, whiskey and scotch. I still can’t stand wine or champagne. I dislike most sweet (mixed) drinks. But, I now go to a bar at least once a week to hang out with two friends from work. Normally, I’d just have soda. Not anymore. Of course, I still can’t stand the feeling of being even mildly buzzed so I don’t drink a lot. As for actual food, my tastes seem to be trending opposite to the point of this thread. I haven’t gained any new interests in food. If anything, I’m realizing how much I hate food in general. It’s very common for me to just have cereal (bland) or a peanut butter sandwich for lunch and dinner (no breakfast - eating too early makes me queasy). I’ll sometimes have a hot dog for lunch. Most foods either gross me out or just don’t interest me. I’ve also mostly lost my taste for sweets and I used to have a massive sweet tooth. ---
**Author:** ![SurrenderDorothy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/surrenderdorothy/32/1221_2.png) [@SurrenderDorothy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SurrenderDorothy)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-you-used-to-dislike-and-now-like/349674/13 "2006-03-24T07:31:27Z")
hmm diet soda. I used to think it was awful. Now I live on it. Raw veggies and fruits. As a kid, I usually got a lukewarm bruised apple or banana or overripe orange with my school lunch and I never ate it. raw veggies were mostly in salads and only good if they were swiming in ranch dressing. Now I love fruit, skip the dressing, and eat lots of things raw. Who needs potato chips when you have cucumber slices? ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-you-used-to-dislike-and-now-like/349674/14 "2006-03-24T07:38:50Z")
Olives. I used to abhor the very appearance of them. Now I love them. I still don’t like them on pizza, though. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-you-used-to-dislike-and-now-like/349674/15 "2006-03-24T08:00:12Z")
Another new olive-lover, here. I remember trying them as a child and just wincing at the taste if I touched one with the tip of my tongue. Oh, it was very _daring_ to do so, you see. They were so nasty. I could never put them in my mouth. I don’t remember the circumstances that led me to try them again, but it was several years ago now, and I love them. All of them. Black ones, ones with the pits in ‘em, those lil’ green ones with the pimento inside. All good. Also, until a couple of years ago, I hated all seafood (except canned tuna, mixed with mayonaisse, on white bread only… anything else was nasty). I especially loathed lobster. For some reason, I decided to try a little, teensy, tiny bite of a friend’s lobster roll. I was shocked. Suddenly I couldn’t get enough of the stuff. I was stopping at every seafood restaurant in my area, trying out their lobster rolls. I love lobster now, not just in rolls. I’ll just eat it out of the shell, no butter or sauces needed. YUM! I also love haddock, salmon, scallops… and that’s about it. I still don’t care much for crab, cod is just okay, and I still loathe clams. Shrimp must be battered and small. NO, wait! Unless it’s that coconut shrimp! Oh dear _god_. That stuff is to. die. for. I had some last year with some kind of orange marmalade dip… _drool_ I’ve got a craving for coconut shrimp, now. Gallbladder comes out next week! Lookout shrimps! Here I come! ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-you-used-to-dislike-and-now-like/349674/16 "2006-03-24T08:14:45Z")
> [@Anastasaeon](#): > > Another new olive-lover, here. I remember trying them as a child and just wincing at the taste if I touched one with the tip of my tongue. Oh, it was very _daring_ to do so, you see. They were so nasty. I could never put them in my mouth. > > I don’t remember the circumstances that led me to try them again, but it was several years ago now, and I love them. All of them. Black ones, ones with the pits in ‘em, those lil’ green ones with the pimento inside. All good. > > Also, until a couple of years ago, I hated all seafood (except canned tuna, mixed with mayonaisse, on white bread only… anything else was nasty). I was the same way about seafood, too. I changed when my family was at a relative’s house and we had fried shrimp and some vegetables. I hate most vegetables, and these weren’t the kind I’d eat. I tried a shrimp in desperation. It was good! Now if it swims in the sea, it’s not really safe from me. 😃 I have a mad craving for scallops right now. I finally like crawfish, but I still can’t peel the boiled ones myself. Someone handed me one once, and I panicked and threw it across the table. It felt like a bug. I was so embarrassed. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-you-used-to-dislike-and-now-like/349674/17 "2006-03-24T08:17:42Z")
I have a confession to make. I’m 62 years old and I had never taken a bite of cooked cabbage until January 30. It always smelled so horrid when it was cooking! While visiting an assisted care facility, I decided to try a bite of it. It didn’t taste _anything_ like I thought it would! It was sweet with a pleasant consistency. I ate all of it. I’ve wasted all these years… I used to hate asparagus until I found out it didn’t grow in a can. Steam those veggies gently! Add a little homemade dressing or sauce! ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-you-used-to-dislike-and-now-like/349674/18 "2006-03-24T08:51:06Z")
> [@Telperien](#): > > I finally like crawfish, but I still can’t peel the boiled ones myself. Someone handed me one once, and I panicked and threw it across the table. It felt like a bug. I was so embarrassed. You know, I like crawfish, too, and one of the fellows my husband works with was so sweet and sent some home for me to eat one day when he found out I liked them. (My husband hates them). So I had this big bowl of beautiful crawfish… and I couldn’t bring myself to peel them. Lobster is one thing; they’re so darn big. It’s still a little awkward and weird, but I don’t feel like I’m eating a bug. The crawfish, though… they were so small. And kinda crawly-looking. I couldn’t do it. I kept putting them back in the fridge, and my husband would ask if I’d eaten them yet. No, not yet… Eventually, I had to throw them away. They were probably bad by then and shouldn’t be eaten. But when my husband came home, he asked if I’d eaten them, and I just didn’t have the heart to admit I couldn’t do it. So I said, “Oh yes! _MMMMMMM_, they were _sooooo_ good! Please thank [co-worker] for me!” I’m a _beast_. ☹ Thankfully, his co-worker never did send anymore home. Whew. They had such tiny eyes! And all those little legs! Eeeeerg! I’m such a Princess Poofypants when it comes to my food - if it still looks like the animal it started out as, I just can’t, _I just can’t_! ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-you-used-to-dislike-and-now-like/349674/19 "2006-03-24T10:11:51Z")
Fish in general. Used to be tasteless to me. Now, I quite like the stuff. I think discovering tartare sauce helped. ---
**Author:** ![fighting\_ignorant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ac8455/32.png) [@fighting\_ignorant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fighting_ignorant)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-you-used-to-dislike-and-now-like/349674/20 "2006-03-24T11:48:40Z")
> [@Hello Again](#): > > Lately mushrooms have been growing on me. You might want to get that looked into 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-you-used-to-dislike-and-now-like/349674.md?page=2)