Spinach. Maybe it’s availability but growing up we only got it canned and my mom cooked the hell out of it. I hated the black slimy bitter salty …. Just not even a food . But now that I’m an adult and fresh spinach is available year round, I love a nice spinach salad and even slightly wilted spinach in a pasta
I’d say avocados, I still wouldn’t eat a slice of avocado but a little guacamole on a taco or something is OK.
School food ruined so many things for me. I used to hate rice and gyros but they are really tasty if prepared well
I did not like many vegetables at all as a kid.
Tomato and onion are two of my favorites
Broccoli and brussel sprouts for me
I’m pretty sure most of my vegetable phobia is being forced to eat them anyway as a kid. I love trying new foods, including vegetables, and new ways of preparing things from anywhere in the world, but vegetables, the way they’re always prepared here are just gross.
I don’t know if tomatoes are a good example but I have an immediate reaction to want to spit them out if I accidentally get some. Yet I love a good salsa, pico, marinara, etc
Broccoli is something i don’t even like touching
Pickles because of spirolactone, but not as much anymore, don’t got the balls for it anymore.
Two standout ingredients: avocados and horseradish.
I used to wonder how anyone could even enjoy horseradish until I tried it with salmon and was like “Ohhhhhhhhh, so that’s why”
Onions, like slices of onion on burgers or in a dish.
At some point it just didn’t matter anymore and they are kinda nice.
What’s it like to be dead Inside?
I was the same. The cellular looks of onions, especially when cooked made me want to retch. Now I put onions in nearly everything I cook.
As a kid i used to hate fuul with tamis (ful medames and naan bread) but now i can’t get enough of it. basically legal crack.
Mmmm smother it with garlic, cumin and some olive oil bro. Goes down beautifully
Olives. A greek salad with some big ol’ kalamata olives sounds really good right now.
Brussels sprouts.
No one in the 80s-90s knew how to cook them and always overcooked them. Now they’re made roasted and absolutely delicious.
I keep hearing this, have to bite the bullet and try sometime.
Oh! It’s not just that we got better at cooking them! Brussel sprouts were actually bred to taste better around the 1990s/2000s.
https://www.mashed.com/300870/brussels-sprouts-used-to-taste-a-lot-different-heres-why/
Oh super interesting! I love that we’ve bred all kinds of vegetables and fruits to be more palatable over the eons.
Life never gave us lemons, we made them ourselves.
No wait! I read something about this! Those were totally different brussel sprouts! I guess they came up with a new species that didn’t such so bad and that’s why brussel sprouts suddenly got tolerable.
Now I have to go see how much of this is true.
Edit: What do you know? All of it! https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/10/30/773457637/from-culinary-dud-to-stud-how-dutch-plant-breeders-built-our-brussels-sprouts-bo
Seconded. Oven roasted or air fried, they’re little balls of joy.
I always got boiled ones in the old days, same with spinach 🤮
Airfrying…thank you, good tip!
I always fry them in butter, small onion, garlic and little bacon, then add a very small amount of stock and steam them lid on till the stock has evaporated.
I use more onion and bacon when I am preparing them for Dutch Stamppot.
Soooo goooood… My go-to now for a really good really “bad” meal are Memphis style ribs with roasted brussel sprouts with butter and garlic.
…why can’t you be on sale now ribs lol
Pickled everything.
Korean food changed my perspective on pickling and fermentation, and my digestive system!
I always liked sauerkraut but I was weirdly against the idea of kimchi as a kid. I think the first time I heard of it, it was described by someone who didn’t like it because it sounded super gross, and I had zero spice tolerance. These days, I put it on practically everything or eat it by itself as a side.
A few years ago, I was working at a restaurant when it went under, so as sous-chef they let me take a few bits home with me. I took 5kg of kimchi home. I used to, like, come home drunk and eat a handful of it out the fridge, haha.
I LOVE home-made kimchi. Store bought kimchi is just… meh.
Kale, because my parents had no idea how to cook it. When I make it myself it’s awesome.
I’ve slowly become obsessed with olives.
Tomatoes. I disliked them for a long time but a few years ago I tried them again. I don’t remember how I made that decision - it may have been from forgetting to ask for no tomatoes on a burger but I ended up trying them more and came to like them. I don’t like all tomatoes and not in everything, but I do enjoy them in sandwiches, burgers, and a few other things.
It makes sandwiches a little too ‘wet’ for me, but I’ll drag 'em onto the side and eat them separately so they don’t ruin it.
I didn’t like cottage cheese until I was 38. I kept trying it, not sure what changed.
