Food that you had to eat as a child that you hated then, and hate now?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

Okra! 🤢

[OLDMDDEM]

1. Hmmm

I like okra.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

5. 😢

[sanatanadharma]

46. Curried lady-fingers

Finger licking good 'curried lady-fingers'

[iemanja]

126. the cookies?

[sanatanadharma]

134. Lady Fingers, a name for Okra

In India okra is called bhindi; great recipes

[MaryMagdaline]

2. Corn beef hash

[Floyd R. Turbo]

6. One of my favorites! 😂

[Freddie]

3. Brussels sprouts

I know they’re supposed to be yummy roasted with olive oil. Tried that, nope. Still disgusting.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

7. 😋

[underpants]

48. Brussel sprouts recipes all have one goal

Make them NOT taste like Brussel sprouts.

Satan’s cabbage. 🤬

[hlthe2b]

110. Roasted with garlic and olive oil until they are caramelized are crave-worthy

I made them for Thanksgiving and am already craving them so I will do so again soon. They are even good cold. (One of Whole Foods deli's bestsellers--albeit highly overpriced)

I find most cruciferous vegetables can be rendered quite acceptable as long as you don't overcook/boil them, and you season them while including flavorings like garlic, bacon, olive oil, etc.

[electric_blue68]

129. Try cutting the base off, halve them, and separate the leaves...

a quick saute with olive oil, and a bit of garlic is supposed to bring out some sweetness says the chef who suggested it.

I like them roasted, but I have to try this version.

[RandomNumbers]

139. Agreed. I can't fathom the recent infatuation with them.

I have tried them in restaurants where someone *insisted* I would like *this* version.

Nope, not even close.

As for making them at home, why bother? I like almost every other vegetable on earth just fine - plain, just steamed is fine. Why would I go to a lot of work just to eat something I otherwise have no need for?

[bamagal62]

4. Mushrooms

[Floyd R. Turbo]

8. 😋

[we can do it]

9. Tomatoes

[Floyd R. Turbo]

12. 😋🍅

[electric_blue68]

130. I was an extremely Picky eater as a child/tween...

I loved tomato soup, and ketsup ( not together! 😄 ),
but didn't like tomatoes until my early '20s!

When I found out about heirloom tomatoes in my mid late 30's even better!
The pallid supermarket tomatoes in the winter are pretty sad.

The heirlooms do have some definitive taste differences, too.
Just a thought. 👍

[sakabatou]

144. I hate tomatoes by themselves. Mixed with other things, not so bad

[redstatebluegirl]

10. Spam, yuck!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

13. 🤔

[Farmer-Rick]

11. Lima beans

So dry and hard.

Fresh spring Lima beans not so bad but those fall butter beans everyone uses in succotash....yuck.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

14. 😋

[Farmer-Rick]

17. Is there anything you don't like?

Hehe....you love those hard little Lima beans?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

18. Okra!

[Farmer-Rick]

42. Oh, I missed that.

I use to hate okra until my spouse made okra and tomatoes for me. Then I even grew it.

There are purple and red okra too. The things grow upside down on a tall stalk. Weird little plants.

[iemanja]

127. Not even fried?

[Goonch]

15. Pickle & bread soup.....

we were kina poor

[Floyd R. Turbo]

16. That's a new one on me! 🤔

[3catwoman3]

93. That sounds really...

...vile.

[bucolic_frolic]

19. Stuffed green peppers

[Floyd R. Turbo]

20. 😋

[bucolic_frolic]

69. And there was some kind of Japanese dish called suki-yaki, and shrimp creole

How these international dishes entered our diet I have no idea, maybe the Carmen Miranda era

[exboyfil]

21. Lima beans

I will tolerate them now, but there is something about the taste that really got to me. As a kid I refused and got a major blow up by my dad (beating etc). I think we were having financial problems at the time.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

23. 😋

[TheFarseer]

22. Mashed potatoes

I have no idea why people like them. It’s a mushy gritty tasteless mess.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

29. 😋

[TexasBushwhacker]

79. Delicious if you use the right kind of potatoes

and make them right. IMHO the best are made with a hand masher or potato ricer. Using electric beaters can sometimes give them a "gluey" texture. Tasteless? Don't skimp on the salted butter and consider adding an egg yolk or 2.

[pdxflyboy]

24. Jellied pigs feet.

It was a Slovak dish my Mom made.

[Duncanpup]

26. I'm with you on this

Vomiting 🤮

[Floyd R. Turbo]

32. 🤢

I get ill thinking of my mother sitting on the front porch in the summer eating them from a mason jar.

[Diamond_Dog]

25. Swiss steak

[Duncanpup]

31. Weirdo

[Diamond_Dog]

36. LOL

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My mother did not love to cook.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

33. 😋

[Midnight Writer]

27. Mush.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

34. 😋

[Submariner]

28. Beets and turnips

[Floyd R. Turbo]

35. 😋

[Duncanpup]

30. Hot tuna casserole

I’m ok with cold tuna

[Floyd R. Turbo]

37. 🤔

[LakeArenal]

51. Same here. Hot it looks like vomit.

[hlthe2b]

38. LIMA BEANS! Just, no! (and I pretty much like every other bean but not those)

[Floyd R. Turbo]

43. 😋

[katmondoo]

39. Oatmeal and Cream of Wheat

I can't stand the color of Oatmeal and the look of it. Even today I if I were starving I could not eat it. They always serve it in hospitals.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

44. 😋

[sanatanadharma]

40. Liver, never eat it it now

Liver, never it it now
Never eat any part of cow
Once enjoyed once living flesh
Now curried brussel sprouts are best

[Floyd R. Turbo]

45. 😋

[Freddie]

61. Mom never made liver

Her mother made her eat it and she hated it. Thanks Grandma!

[Raven]

41. String beans, lamb and runny eggs.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

49. 😋I'm with you if you mean runny egg whites!

[Raven]

54. Yes! And I forgot to mention liver. My Mother adored liver and onions and

when she got ready to fry it up, we all left the house.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

57. Love liver and onions! 😋

[Raven]

80. I guess you either love it or hate it or have anemia.:-)

[Floyd R. Turbo]

81. 😂

[LakeArenal]

47. Oysters, calamari, banana bread.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

50. 😋

[sarge43]

52. Squash

[Floyd R. Turbo]

53. 😋

[sarge43]

75. "We don't get to choose the ones we love", Jamie Lannister

I like most of the foods that other DUers hate. Go figure.

[Stuart G]

55. Bacon..I haven't had it in 45 years. Too much ..fat.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

58. 😱🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓😋

[Tommy Carcetti]

56. Zucchini

I usually don't have much aversion to vegetables, but zucchinis are the big exception.

It's the cucumber's bastard cousin, but instead of crisp and sweet, it's just bitter and mushy and miserable.

The only way I can enjoy zucchini is if it's ground up so fine past all recognition and then baked into a delicious cinnamon and brown sugar bread.

Also, mushrooms. Didn't like them then, still don't like them now.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

59. 😋

[Ocelot II]

60. Brussels sprouts!

And don't tell me that they'd be really great if I roast them in olive oil or some damn thing. I've tried it and I still hate them.

Also raw onions, especially the red ones, which are not even food.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

63. 😋😂

[jmowreader]

108. There's only one way to eat those damned things

Raw.

[RandomNumbers]

140. I'll admit, haven't tried that one.

My "one way" would be: don't.

[jmowreader]

141. They're just cabbages

Therefore, anything you do to cabbage works with them.

[RandomNumbers]

142. Ha ha ha

Sure.

Except I can eat cabbage, without wanting to throw myself off a cliff.

[Nay]

62. Any meat that is globby with fat. (Pork chops, I'm looking at you.) nt

[Floyd R. Turbo]

66. 🤢

[ProudMNDemocrat]

64. SPAM

I don't like it.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

67. 🤔

[grumpyduck]

65. Canned beets.

No matter how much they were drained, they still released purple water all over the plate.

Now... fresh beets... that's a whole different world.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

68. 😋

[doc03]

70. Can't think of anything I didn't like then nt

[Floyd R. Turbo]

71. 😋

[Cartoonist]

72. Cream beef on toast

AKA shit on a shingle.

A favorite of my dad's that he picked up from the service. Just one of our many disagreements.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

82. 😋

[Applan]

73. Meat

All of them Katie

[Floyd R. Turbo]

83. 😋🥓🥩🍗🍖🌭🍔🌮🌯🫔❗️

[lark]

74. Thank you, I totally agree.

One of the things my sister and I were united on was our hate for okra. Mom and dad loved it! There were a number of times where Brenda and I had to stay at the table for hours because we wouldn't eat our okra. Mom got tired of that, because we would't budge, so after that just put okra on our plates and we got nothing else until this was eaten. We liked that better, not eating for the night was far preferable to sitting at the table for hours.

After those attempted forced bites stopped, I have never had even one bite of this pernicious, snotty, food and never will.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

84. 👍🏻

[Shrike47]

76. Pumpkin pie. It's so....slimy.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

85. 😋

[Runningdawg]

77. Tuna. Just passing it in the store makes me cringe.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

86. 😋

[LizBeth]

78. Lima beans. And I see I am not the only one. I got a frozen dish that had

quite a few of them in it the other day. I hadn't noticed when I bought them. Since it has been over 5 decades since having them, I tried, and then dug them all out. Grossest ever and only thing I cannot eat.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

87. 😋

[Wicked Blue]

88. Sult

Sült is a traditional Estonian meat jelly dish made with pig feet. It includes pieces of gristle and usually is eaten with white vinegar. I've always found it to be horrible.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

89. 🤢And head cheese!🤮

[csziggy]

90. I'm with you! Okra is nasty stuff, especially when stewed with tomatoes

Fortunately my father also hated okra so we only got it at relatives houses when we had to be polite and eat at least some of it. But yuck!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

96. 🤢

[Irish_Dem]

91. Beets.

Ugly red, slimy.

I could barely stand looking at them on my plate.

One time my mother said I could not leave the table until I ate my beets.
I just sat there for over an hour refusing to touch the beets, and she finally said OK.
Leave the table. So I was saved from a fate worse than death, eating the beet creature.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

97. Lucked out! My mother would've given them to me for breakfast.🤢

[Irish_Dem]

105. I guess I should have looked on the bright side of this situation.

It could have been much worse.

I'm not a breakfast person and I would have upchucked to see a beet creature on my plate
in the morning. Slimy red thing. I would have just sat there and looked at it.

Besides, she was married to an first generation Irish American (My dad) and she knew how damn hard headed and stubborn they are.

[Danmel]

92. Two eastern European Jewish poverty foods-ptcha and borscht

Both of my parents were very poor as children and continued to eat borscht, with a plain boiled potato, the sight and smell of which just terrified me. And ptcha, a jelly made from a calfs foot, which was horrifying to watch being made, was not clarified and had an overcooked hard boiled egg encased in its smelly quivering blob.

Other than that my mom was actually a very good cook.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

99. 🤢

[Marthe48]

94. Canned spinach

Canned spinach was ok until that time my Mom dumped a can into a pan to heat it, and there was a very large, complete and cooked caterpillar in with the spinach. I have never eaten it since.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

100. 🤢🐛

[LeftInTX]

95. Spam and canned pork & beans, canned peas, canned carrots

canned mixed vegetables, canned spinach..

I'm fine with fresh or frozen, but canning turns most vegetables to mush. It really does a job on legumes....Canned carrots are disgustingly sweet..

[Floyd R. Turbo]

101. 😋

[quaint]

98. Canned salmon and crushed soda cracker patties.

Mother was an Okie and Father was a Catholic.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

102. 🤢

[3catwoman3]

103. Liver - gag! My mom used to serve it, even tho she didn't...

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...like it either, because it was supposed to be good for you. One time, she tried to tell me it was fish, which I did like. All the ketchup in the world did not help.

Cream of vegetable soup
Canned peas

Milk toast - a favorite of my mother's from her childhood. Her mother would make it for her when she was sick, and she loved it, and thought it made her feel better. She'd make me eat it, certain it would have the same effect on me. It didn't. I remember being puzzled that my opinion that it was awful was completely disregarded.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

104. 😋

[Carlitos Brigante]

106. Hot dogs. Never got it. To me, if I asked a computer to recreate a

sausage. That's what would come out.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

115. 😢🌭

[qwlauren35]

107. Lima Beans

Hands down. I have never had them prepared in a way that appealed.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

116. 😢

[Maraya1969]

109. Bell Peppers, Pimento, Cilantro

[Floyd R. Turbo]

117. 😢

[electric_blue68]

128. Does cilantro taste like soap to you?...

Some people have a ?gene that makes cilantro taste like soap to them!

I get the faintest taste of soap but it's overcome by cilantro's tangy greeness for. which I'm glad.

[Maraya1969]

132. I can't say. I don't see it tasting like soap but...........

[electric_blue68]

143. 👍

[MissMillie]

111. Was never made to eat anything I didn't care for

Was not a fan of hot dogs or asparagus, now I enjoy both.

My son went in the opposite direction. When we were transitioning from baby food to normal food, he ate anything I put in front of him. Within 5 years, he developed a long list of dislikes (mostly vegetables). It was frustrating as hell.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

118. 🤔

[bluedigger]

112. Beets.

I would not have thrived in Mother Russia.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

119. 😢

[electric_blue68]

145. Probably not in The Ukraine either...

I was a very picky eater into my mid teens.

My dad (1st gen Ukie-American) and I went to a Ukrainian restaurant. I tried the borscht, and found it was ok.
I do eat canned sliced beets at times now, too.

(For Ukrainian 💖 food I way prefer pierogies and kielbasa!)

[mainer]

113. Hmm. I love all these "hated" foods you mention

I must be an undiscriminating eater.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

120. 😁

[ruet]

114. Canned Green Beans And Canned Spinach.

Two of the most vile "edible" substances on the planet. I can eat fresh spinach and green beans all day.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

121. 😋

[CJW]

122. Lamb chops

Pork chops were fine. Lamb chops not so much.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

123. 😋

[VGNonly]

124. Okra

I find that well cooked down into soup/stew, it is quite tasty. Makes a good base, with a somewhat peppery flavor. With cumin and basil, even better.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

147. 🤔

[iemanja]

125. egg fu yung

with soy gravy.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

148. 😢

[electric_blue68]

131. Liver, organ meats, oysters, clams, mussels, fishy fish, 99% raisins.

I was an extremely picky eater as a child/tween.
Little me would be horrfied as my taste buds totally expanded in my late teens, and further on! 😄

I single out liver bc cause I never had it it looked awful!
I do however love liverwurst (haven't had it in years)!

Then the rest of the organ meats!
There's a traditional Greek Easter Soup that has them.
Once we went oand visited one of our favorite cousins who cooked us a while Greek Easter Meal including that!
I managed to eat them but never, ever again! 😄

Those particular shellfish? Don't know if they taste "fishy" which I'd avoid!!! But the texture? NOooooo!
I can only eat white albacore tuna salad, and tilapia, or white fish if fried.

Raisins - my mom used give me those little '??sunshine' , ?sun maiden raisin boxes when we were playing in the park. Blarg.

I only like them in these little brown rolls with walnuts.

[iemanja]

135. fishy fish is spoiled fish

I think it's why so many landlocked folks say they don't like fish. They haven't had it fresh.

Same with shellfish, which I love. If they taste or smell fishy, you shouldn't eat them. I had some bad oysters at a restaurant lately.

[electric_blue68]

136. Hmmm....

Well, I do know that when someone used to open a can
of non albalcore tuna in HS 2 tables away away from me - eeewww.


I do love shrimp, scallops, crab and lobster.

I'm not land locked - I live in NYC! 😁

[Floyd R. Turbo]

149. 😢

[OriginalGeek]

133. I still hate

broccoli, lima beans, black eyed peas and green peas and kidney beans and sweet potatoes.

but I like lots of other beans and peas and greens and normal potatoes.

I hated spinach and asparagus and brussels sprouts as a kid but I love them now. Hell, I don't even need to roast sprouts in garlic and olive oil - my wife just boils frozen ones until they are about mush and then we dump on a lot of butter and salt and pepper and go to town. We call them baby heads for added fun.

I don't like _all_ squashes but yellow squash steamed with zucchini and onions is lovely.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

150. 😢

[momta]

137. I hated okra as a kid, but love it now.

I wish I had liked it then, because my grandmother grew it in her garden.

Stuff I hated, and still hate:

TUNA!
Mayonnaise and mustard
grapefruit and cabbage
mushrooms
raw onion
cauliflower



I have always been a picky eater

[Floyd R. Turbo]

153. 🤔

[bluecollar2]

138. Calves brains

No way in hell I'll ever eat them again.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

154. 😱

[electric_blue68]

146. Licorice...

Omg! Gah. 😄

Basically in 1st grade I had a bunch of jelly beans. Fine, until, I bit into the black one. 😵 😄 Spit out! Never again!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

155. 🤢

[MrsCoffee]

151. Menudo.

Every Sunday morning my stepmom would make it. To this day just the smell of it makes me gag. My brother and I would try to escape on our bikes lol.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

156. 🤢

[VGNonly]

152. Stuff that I once ate but don't now

all animal products.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

157. 🤔