if this is cross posted, please disreguard-computer troubles
Anyhoo, I’m 23 years old, and I have never had a Big Mac…until today. And can I say-YUMMY!!!
What kinds of things did it take you forever to try?
I was deep into my teens before I discovered fried okra, in my twenties before I would eat eggrolls (I don’t much like cabbage and I don’t much like hot mustard … why on earth would I have though I would like them together?), a little later in my twenties before I started drinking beer (thanks Robert B. Parker!), still later in my twenties before I would consider mushrooms, banana peppers, and squash, and in my thirties before I would eat Mexican fried rice.
I’m 27 years old. My family was poor. My first few jobs paid fantastically badly.
Last year, I ate my first steak.
There were so many choices on the menu, and since it was my first steak, I asked the waiter to help me choose. He recommended, since it was my first experience, that I try the filet mignon.
I did.
Words fail me.
But it was a positive experience.
I grew up in a small town in TN and never had a bagel until I moved away at age 21. I regret those years. 
I also never tried eel sushi until last year. The idea of it grossed me out until I found out it is cooked. Don’t know why, since raw tuna, etc, don’t bother me. Anyway, eel is now my favorite sushi ingredient. It is amazingly delicious.
When I was a kid, the only candy that I would eat was M&M’s and Snickers. Only recently have I tried butterfinger, kitkat, and others.
I also detested anything that tasted like mint when I was young. I started eating mint ice cream within the last year.
And there are many vegetables that I refused to eat until I became a vegetarian two years ago, including broccoli, spinach, and squash.
I work at McDonalds-I’ve been there for almost 3 years now. I’ve never tried a filet of fish, chicken nuggets, a quarter pounder, big extra/big and tasty, or a double quarter. I strongly doubt I ever will either.
I just had my first mushroom on a pizza the other night. I didn’t like it. I think I’ll stick to my pepperoni…
I didn’ eat an egg (not counting stuff that’s baked, like cookies) until I was 21. I shared an omelette with a friend and discovered that all eggs weren’t slimey!
Pesto. I didn’t have it until I was in my 30s. My husband told me I’d like it, but I’d turn up my nose and explain that I hate basil. Then I was having dinner at his cousin’s house and that’s what they served so I ate it to be polite.
No one told me that basil with olive oil, tons of garlic, parmesan, pine nuts and walnuts was ambrosia! So now I make tons of it every summer. It’s heavenly.
I waited until I was 35 to try whale. I don’t approve of whale hunting, but I was in Japan, and it was available, and I had read Moby Dick and all, so I figured what the heck.
I think I was 39 when I tried my first silkworm larva. They sell 'em on the sidewalks here in Korea.
I don’t plan to repeat either of those experiments, but they weren’t really all that bad. The larvae were kind of mealy and grainy, though.
I am happy to say that, at the age of 44, I have never eaten a Big Mac. And I fully intend to keep my record unblemished.
Me, too, Eve! Though I suspect our reasons are different…
I was 18 before I tried chulent for the first time. It was served in my own home every Sabbath for lunch, but I couldn’t bring myself to eat the stuff, which looks, let’s face it, like barf. Then, when I was 19, I went to a newly-married cousin’s house for Sabbath, and, not wanting to hurt his wife’s feelings, I tried her chulent. Delicious!
Now, in my house, I make the chulent every week for Sabbath.
There were a number of things I never tried until I moved to California during my sophomore year in college, including artichokes, avocados and many common Mexican dishes like enchiladas and tamales. I also never had a cup of coffee until I was a junior in college.
Sex.
I was 28 before I tried guacamole. Oh.My.God. Yum!!! I have to resist the urge to buy several avacados at the store each week and whip up a batch because I will wolf the entire bowl with a bag of chips. mmmmmmmmm…
(Now I have guac on the brain. Darn it!)
Zette
Holy Crap, **Zette[/]! I never tried Guacamole until recently either(I’m 22). It’s great!
I never tried it simply because it’s green. But man, once I tried it, it was great!!!
Didn’t get into sushi until nearly my 23rd birthday. The first few times I tried sushi, it was some horrible ersatz cucumber rolls at a CHINESE buffet. Duh!–no wonder I didn’t like it.
Then I got my hands on the real deal. Now sushi is one of my favorite meals.
Also - never had baba ganaouj, hummus, or falafels until I was 25. These I liked right off the bat.
Tried escargot for the first time at 29. Flavor was good - but it was hard for me to get excited about what I was eating. I have no idea why. I could eat it again, though, for social reasons. I would never just order it for myself, however.
Well I was probably around thirty before I tried mashed potatoes, the idea of them being mushed with milk and butter seemed vaguely repulsive to me, of course it helped that the only ones I had before were the original dehydrated ones…and you could use them for glue if you needed to.
Another delicacy that I’ve come to late, within the past three or four years is espresso in all its forms: straight, cappacino, latte, iced whatever. I have always drunk coffee but it has only been recently that I have liked the stronger blends, but thats because I am buying good coffee now and grinding it rather then relying on Maxwell House and Folger’s. I can sure taste the difference when I go to my mom’s and she has the Folger’s out :shudder:
And to get back to the original post, its only in the past few months that I have found I do have a fondness for the Big Mac…I hate to say it, but its true. Please don’t hold this against me 
Keith
Grits. I should have waited another 100 years.
Count me in as another late-to-life guacamole eater! That stuff’s great! I also fairly recently discovered sour cream.
Things I have never eaten:
liver
beets
sauerkraut
pears
caviar
mussells
(I’m about two months away from my 29th birthday, by the way.)
I’m 22 and until about a year and a half ago, my diet was centered on things from the meat and potoato families almost exclusively, with some chicken thrown in. But since then I’ve discovered…
Guacamole
Seafood (esp. crabcakes… God I love crabcakes)
Sushi
Yogurt
Hot dogs (I’ve had them before, but never had GOOD ones.)
Relish
Mustard (those two both related to the hot dog discovery)
Amaretto sours
REAL Mexican food (not from there, but cooked by actual Mexicans)
The last two are courtesy of my Texan girlfriend. I eat less red meat now, but still enough so that my stomach doesn’t go nuts when I eat it.