Foods you hated as a kid...

[Low-N-Slow]

...that you love now.

Bleu cheese
Black olives
Sour cream

The school cafeteria used to try to get us to "experience" new foods by adding them to our trays, and expecting us to eat them. We'd typically avoid eating them by hiding the black olives in our milk cartons. If we were being monitored, we'd eat them, but use our chocolate milk to wash them down.

I swore off sour cream for years after watching Twilight Zone and Outer Limits back-to-back while munching potato chips and French onion dip one evening, to the point I barfed. Kind of put me off TZ for a while as a result, too.

[edible complex]

would not eat lettuce until age 16 when a salad in Hawaii converted me.
watermelon is still off limits.

[Schuarta]

As a kid who ate all sorts of seafood (loved oysters) and cannibal sandwiches, ate asparagus and brussels sprouts, there wasn't much I could add as I grew, other than sushi. I think I would have liked sushi as well given the chance to try it.

[wish I never left]

I used to strongly dislike pineapple as a kid. Now, I can't imagine what the problem was and enjoy it quite a bit.

One of my brothers would be perfect for this post: growing up, he wouldn't eat anything green and mostly seemed to subsist on bologna and whitebread sandwiches. Now, he runs his own kitchen and turns out some really interesting dishes.

[Alex]

beets, I could not stand them.

[sbu22]

Canned green peas - disgusting!! To this day. Remember, at about age 7, being in a diner in Oklahoma with my mother and "new" stepfather who insisted I eat the peas that went with dinner. Boy, did I surprise him (and me) and set the tone for the next couple of decades by projectile puking. The subject of peas never came up again - until basic training as a draftee, but that's another story.

[Titchou]

Can't think of anything I wouldn't eat then that I'll eat now...it's more the other way around. Tons of stuff I used to eat that I won't touch now: red meat, hot dogs, Hostess twinkies, peanut butter, white bread, ice cream, sweet tea, fried chicken..............

[Schuarta]

Took senior daughter (11/4/64) to a Birthday Dinner last night, at The Esquire Grill (Governator eats here one or more times each month), near the Capital in Sacramento last night. Known for its Steak Tartar.

Though still on the web site, the dish had been removed from the menu last night (reason unknown). After some discussion the chef prepared three orders for my daughter and I (an extra as a birthday gift).

My three daughters grew up (like dad) with varied tastes like this, but the youngest in recent times "read" too much, and "changed" to become a vegetarian. (Nothing negative meant to Suzy and any other Vegie fans.)

http://www.paragarys.com/go/prg/locatio ... ire-grill/

[Isabella Maja]

Took senior daughter (11/4/64) to a Birthday Dinner last night, at The Esquire Grill (Governator eats here one or more times each month), near the Capital in Sacramento last night. Known for its Steak Tartar.

Though still on the web site, the dish had been removed from the menu last night (reason unknown). After some discussion the chef prepared three orders for my daughter and I (an extra as a birthday gift).

My three daughters grew up (like dad) with varied tastes like this, but the youngest in recent times "read" too much, and "changed" to become a vegetarian. (Nothing negative meant to Suzy and any other Vegie fans.)

http://www.paragarys.com/go/prg/locatio ... ire-grill/

Happy Birthday to your daughter!

[Pas Bon]

That'd be a long list. As a child I subsisted primarily on rice & gravy and peanut butter & jelly sandwiches.