Things you used to eat, but now gross you out

Mexican food. I loved it when my mom made tacos when I was a child, now I can’t even stand the smell of it.

Oh yeah, Vienna Sausages. I used to love them. I hadn’t eaten any for a long time and for last year’s hurricane season I bought a couple cans because they were cheap and I figured if we lost power they would be easy source of protein since they don’t require cooking. After hurricane season was over I decided to eat some one night to get rid of them and because I didn’t feel like cooking anything else. They were not the same as I remember. The dog liked them though.
I confess that I still eat Wonder bread. I recently saw that they now have a whole grain option but it still has a Wonder bread type texture so I bought some and it’s perfect for peanut butter and jelly sandwiches which I recently went on a kick and started eating a lot after not having any for several years … okay, now I’m hungry for one.

Cottage cheese. My mom claims that I used to eat it all the time when I was little, like under age 5. I really don’t remember liking it but since then I have become convinced that cottage cheese should be only ever fed to prisoners convicted of the most heinous crimes, or perhaps as an interrogation tactic…but even then it might contravene the Geneva convention.

reheated pizza. Can’t stand the stuff. If it’s not fresh I won’t eat it. I used to all but live on pizza and would happily put most of it away to eat over a day or 2, but these days it just really disgusts me.

Yeah, milk in general but especially whole milk groses me out. It’s so thick. And do you know where it comes from? :eek: :wink:
Scrambled eggs completely gross me out now. Espically if there’s any uncooked sliminess left. I still like boiled eggs and egg salad but that’s it for eggs.

Oh yeah, Vienna Sausages. I used to love them. I hadn’t eaten any for a long time and for last year’s hurricane season I bought a couple cans because they were cheap and I figured if we lost power they would be easy source of protein since they don’t require cooking. After hurricane season was over I decided to eat some one night to get rid of them and because I didn’t feel like cooking anything else. They were not the same as I remember. The dog liked them though.
I confess that I still eat Wonder bread. I recently saw that they now have a whole grain option but it still has a Wonder bread type texture so I bought some and it’s perfect for peanut butter and jelly sandwiches which I recently went on a kick and started eating a lot after not having any for several years … okay, now I’m hungry for one.

Sorry for the double post, darn thing got stuck while I was posting and I hit refresh, should have just hit the back button.

Jello. I’ll see it now and think, “Oh, it can’t be that bad”, and the first bite is good and then on the second bite my brain registers the texture and I have to fight not to throw up.

And Vienna sausages, indeed. Somebody in another thread called them “potted meat food product with a hard-on”.

Canned beets, vienna sausages, and raw bell peppers straight from the bell pepper plants at my grandma’s house.

I cannot stand even the smell of beets or raw bell peppers now. Vienna sausages still smell okay, but the texture makes me oogy. shudder

All those horrific artificially-flavored candies and pops which theoretically are supposed to taste like “grape” or “orange” or “lime”, etc. If I try to consume any of those nowadays, the aggressive chemical flavors make me gag.

Tuna salad made with lots of miracle whip and sweet pickle relish, the way my mom made it. I thought it was great back in the day, but I can’t even imagine eating it now.

That’s my lunch today! There’s another way to make it? :smiley:

As a kid I loved escargot. I don’t remember the last time that I ate them, mainly because I don’t see them on menus too often anymore. What can be bad if it is soaked in enough garlic butter?

I barely remember as a kid getting some “candy” that was little wax coke bottle-shaped containers with a very small bit of colored, flavored liquid inside. There really wasn’t enough liquid to quench much of anything and when I asked another kid what were you supposed to do with the wax bottle, he said “chew it.” Chew wax? Why? That sounds like an insult… “Oh yeah? Well your mother chews wax.”

Now they seem gross and pointless.

I’m surprised no one has mentioned this yet- eggplant. Used to love it as a kid- eggplant parmigiana, grilled eggplant, breaded eggplant… Now it just tastes skeevy to me.

Olive loaf. Basically bologna with embedded pimento-stuffed olives. I tried it once as an adult. Bleccchh.

You liked eggplant as a kid? Eggplant strikes me as one of those other way around foods: something you despise as a kid but grow to appreciate as an adult. Not me though, I still hate it just as much as I did when my mother tried to force it on us.

“Frank, those aren’t raisins, they’re flies”, said Captain BJ Hunnicutt, of the things in his rice pudding.

When I was young, my mother would make us baloney sandwiches on Wonder bread with ketchup. Ew!

Deviled ham on white toast with a thick layer of mayonnaise. What was I thinking?

I also used to go to a local malt shop and get:
[ul][li]A butterscotch milkshake; and[/li][li]a bag of Chee-tos.[/ul][/li]
I would then dip the Chee-tos into the milkshake and eat them. shudder I still like Chee-tos, but butterscotch milkshakes? Not so much. And the thought of having them both in my mouth at the same time – bleargh.

Yeah, what can I say. I was a weird kid.
[Which is to say, I’m totally normal now. Completely. Yeah. The transformation occurred around the time I started hating eggplant.]

My mother’s vegetables. Cooked until absolute mush and are typically eaten with a spoon. Blech.

Yeah-Ma’s veggies were always like that! Another thing: I cannot take the candy and soda of my youth-it seems that this stuff is unbearably sweet! Like fanta orange soda-to me, it is like drinking sugar syrup! Do your taste buds get more senstive as you age?