Food conversions: used to HATE popcorn, now love it...

[Flaxbee]

used to LOVE chocolate, now only like it in moderation...

hated cheese, now can't get enough of gorgonzola, sharp cheddar, goat cheese, brie, etc.

How about you? Any food switches?

[Cuban_Liberal]

1. Hard salami.

Didn't used to like it, but now I love it.

:)

[Bombtrack]

2. Orange Juice

I'm not a fiend of it or anything, but I used to gag when I'd taste it, now I enjoy sort of as a ritual every now and then.

Also, w/ alcahol.

[intheflow]

3. Discovered deviled eggs in my early 20's, complete reversal.

Then just in the past 4 years since I've lived in Colorado I've come to adore guacamole. I just don't think restaurants in Massachusetts "got it". Very yummy--one of my favorite foods now!

[fortyfeetunder]

4. Sweet potatoes

My mom would only prepare them one way...that ooey gooey sugar dripping crap with marshmallows on top. My siblings and I went on a ooey gooey sweet potato strike that still exists today. I don't even like sweet potato pie!

But my aunt, in an attempt to help her husband out with his new diet, came across a recipe of mashing sweet potatoes and adding freshly minced garlic...Damn that was good. And then I learned from my Japanese friends about how to roast them till just tender. And African roasted sweet potatoes with chicken.

From my cross cultural experience, I found new ways to eat sweet potatoes and probably a helluva lot healthier too!

[yellowdogintexas]

5. used to hate saurkraut, now I love it, also hated pimento cheese

as a kid, now it is one of my favorites.

did not learn to like coffee until I was in my 20's, of course love it now.

hated pineapple as a kid, like it now.

hated okra as a kid but now like it fried

never did learn to like beets, sweet potatoes, crab or grits

[jdots]

6. olives,pickles

good question do you think we don't try or like some food because we remember someone who liked it or didn't ?

[Flaxbee]

12. I don't know... some of it is upbringing, I think.

My mother has a very strong aversion to sushi, "weird" cheeses (anything non-sliced American), tofu, etc. She's a meat-and-potatoes kinda gal from central Illinois who never really experimented with food. I didn't either until I really was on my own, in grad school in Los Angeles, though a boyfriend in college made lots of very good food, like mango-chutney-chicken pizza, etc. Was a wake-up call for my tastebuds.

The first time I had Indian food, in LA, was just amazing. I had no idea food could taste so good!

But for more standard foods, like popcorn and chocolate, I don't know where those changes came from. I used to hate olives, too, until I had kalamata olives chopped into hummus.

[GRLMGC]

7. Hummus

I thought it was gross at first and now I like it

[Left Is Write]

8. Jalapenos.

I didn't used to be able to tolerate them, but now I love them.

[Cadence]

9. I used to like

pasta, spaghetti, lasagna. Now I don't. I think marinara tastes bitter and the noodles do something weird to my blood sugar.

I used to hate spinach, now I like it.

I used to love pizza and now I prefer Indian food.

I used to hate sushi, now I love it.


I have always hated cauliflower and peas and I STILL do! Blech!

[Flaxbee]

11. saag paneer and you've got spinach, Indian style. Yum!

n/t

[Cadence]

16. That's what I'm eating today.

Saag Paneer with some Naan. Yummm. :)

[Reverend_Smitty]

10. Beer

I'd say really up until this year I hated the taste of beer, but now I love it...just in time for my 21st birthday!!! :P

[forgethell]

13. I couldn't stand peanut butter as a kid.

Learned to love it in the Army. Eating C-rations. It's hard to screw up peanut butter.

[Magrittes Pipe]

14. When I was a kid, I didn't like a lot of what are my favorite foods now.

Olives, bacon, brussels sprouts. YUM!

[da_chimperor]

15. I basically love anything that isn't really sweet

Chocolate is OK occasionally, but I have sort of an anti-sweet tooth. I love salty or sour stuff. Olives are my personal chocolate. I used to be a bit more into candy as a kid, but I was never nuts about it. Oh yeah, asparagus. I had some badly cooked asparagus as a kid and never ate it for at least 10 years. Then I had some wonderfully done asparagus and fell in love. :loveya:

[eoberhauser]

17. Never had a beet and was sure they would be disgusting

A chef at on of our italian restaurants here served us a pickled beet salad with gorgonzola and walnuts - it was SO delicious. I've been craving pickled beets ever since.

Erin

[Jessica]

18. I hated mustard as a kid ...

Now, bring it on - especially on hotdogs.

[amazona]

19. go through stages with chocolate

Sometimes it's good...sometimes it's too much. It comes and goes.