# I thought I didn't like this! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [February 3, 2024, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-didnt-like-this/997070 "2024-02-03T18:08:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![aruvqan\_myers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@aruvqan\_myers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan_myers)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2025, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-didnt-like-this/997070/61 "2025-10-21T14:27:11Z")
Now it is only with liver smell or italian peppers and sausage smells =) ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2025, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-didnt-like-this/997070/62 "2025-10-21T16:24:21Z")
I wasn’t much for eggplant until later adulthood, when I began growing the long, slender Asian types and roasting them with garlic and other spices. An Italian heirloom variety called Rosa Bianca is creamy-textured and delicious. Supermarkets generally carry only the standard Black Beauty, which is…OK when prepared right, but not especially tasty. Mini-plant rant: why do people bother growing things like Black Beauty eggplant, iceberg lettuce, Delicious apples and other varieties easily available from your local grocery store? It’s not like they’re going to be markedly better if you grow them yourself. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2025, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-didnt-like-this/997070/63 "2025-10-21T18:06:21Z")
It has happened to me at least twice: Once with mayonnaise, when I was a kid I hated it, the mere sight of that bland yellow-white paste made of who-knows-what disgusted me. Then one fine day, when I was very recently married, my wife made home-made mayo… > [@20-something Frodo](#): > > So it’s eggs, oil and lemon juice? let me taste it. It was delicious, and even if store-bought mayo cannot reach those heights I still eat it now that I’ve overcome my childhood (and adolescence) irrational dislike. The other was avocado, I tasted some raw avocado when I was nine or so and didn’t like it, so I avoided it. Then, eleven years later, I traveled to Ecuador for work and was offered “Aguacate (avocado) soup”, since I knew it by the name “Palta” I said I would try it, not knowing that Aguacate was Avocado. It was exquisite, so creamy and rich. Moral of the story: Every so often check your likes and dislikes and see how rational they are and if a new tasting cannot make you change your opinion. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2025, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-didnt-like-this/997070/64 "2025-10-21T18:22:59Z")
> [@aruvqan\_myers](#): > > Wow … though I am like that about soft shell crabs [6 years old, driving trip to Florida to visit grandparents, down the Eastern Shore - nope nope nope, not eating shells and guts, They clean out the guts. But you are eating the [soft] “shells.” ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2025, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-didnt-like-this/997070/65 "2025-10-21T21:45:12Z")
> [@aruvqan\_myers](#): > > Have you tried bacon wrapped asparagus? I mean, bacon-wrapped anything. My like for the bacon would probably outweigh my dislike for the asparagus. Though I’d much rather have some other vegetable wrapped in bacon. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-thought-i-didnt-like-this/997070.md?page=3)