# Foods you came to like

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-came-to-like/771782>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 13, 2016, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-came-to-like/771782 "2016-11-13T07:44:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-came-to-like/771782/41 "2016-11-14T20:45:28Z")

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Raw tomatoes and blue cheeses. Hated both as a kid, but over the years I’ve developed a real taste for both. Probably because I was finally exposed to what they could taste like when they aren’t messed with. An heirloom tomato picked fresh from the garden has absolutely nothing in common with the precancerous softballs they sell in the grocery store. Don’t know what triggered the blue cheese love, but now I scarf the stuff down like there’s no tomorrow.

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**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-came-to-like/771782/42 "2016-11-14T22:44:54Z")

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Mushrooms  
Hot dogs: (Only Hebrew National)  
My BIL is a chief. He made the only Ruben I’ve ever liked.

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**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-you-came-to-like/771782/43 "2016-11-14T23:25:21Z")

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I never liked chicken on the bone as a kid. Now, it is preferred, wings especially.

> [@Fenris](#):
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> Olives, the only kind I like are some variety of purple-ish olives that are hyper-salty. I don’t know what they’re called but they’re in greek salads usually.

Kalamata olives, probably.

> **[Kalamata olive](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalamata_olive)**
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> The Kalamata olive is a large, dark purple olive with a smooth, meaty texture, named after the city of Kalamata in the southern Peloponnese, Greece.\[failed verification\] Often used as table olives, they are usually preserved in wine vinegar or olive oil. Typically the term "Kalamata" legally refers to a region of Greece where these olives are grown, but a few countries (mainly outside the United States and European Union) use the name for such olives grown anywhere, even outside of Greece. Wit Ka...

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