Foods you don't like and changing your tastebuds

[bojangle]

As a kid I hated olives, mushrooms, asparagus, beets, seafood, maybe a few other things. Now the only thing I still hate is asparagus. I try it from time to time just to see if anything's changed. Never does. Pretty sure that shit wasn't meant for human consumption

You ever tried grilled asparagus? That's the best way to eat it!

 

[bojangle]

I love fish but once its eaten I almost puke at the smell of its dirty dishes and leftovers.
Raw salmon is delicious

I've never really had to 'get over' a food, but I've grown to hate one. Bell peppers. They get tossed into everything because The Color! I've grown to absolutely loathe them. The flavor overpowers everything else, but it's okay, because The Color! Feh!!!!!!









Peruvians, make the best ceviche. Hands down. Sea bass, touch of hot pepper, and with a nice yam in the center. Simple, tasty, best.

Raw salmon and ceviche are two of my favorite things. Food of the gods.

If you find them too bitter, try an orange or yellow, they're a little sweeter.

Balut...I consider myself a pretty adventurous eater, but I'd definitely struggle to take a nibble.

I make a pretty good stuffed pepper. My kids love it.

I refuse to eat Balut. I just have no desire. When I first started dating my wife, she tricked me into trying Dinuguan, or chocolate meat. It was pretty gross, but I ate a little. Then she told me the sauce was made with pork blood and I was done.

 

[mean dad]

Didn't read the whole thread, so if I repeat info, my apologies.

Years ago I read that your tastebuds sometimes need to be acclimated to food before you like it. My youngest kiddo did not like mushrooms, and I talked to her about having to get used to something new, and she said she'd give it a try.
So every time we had mushrooms, she'd have one or two pieces. It didn't take long at all for her to start liking mushrooms, and not just liking them enough to eat.
She enjoyed them.
I really like the fact that this taught her to not dislike things on first taste, and to try food a few times before writing it off.

 

[Agent Orange]

For me, it's 3 things:

-Durian
-Uni
-Eggplant

Never liked them, never will.

 

[squid vicious]

never liked artichokes. thought they were way too much effort v. reward. my SO would fix them all the time, and i would eat the leaves dutifully, but always got bored and irritated before the end and would push the remains over to him. he'd be like 'are you sure?' and gobble up the heart. one day i got curious, and ate it - looked at him and said 'you motherfucker'.

my wife had never had an artichoke until earlier this year and was watching us eat them with this perplexed look on her face. We got her to try one and she was like, "I don't get it". So I took mine down to the heart and passed it over to her. I swear I heard angels singing and strumming harps....


My "nope" food/ingredient: ginger. It smells and tastes exactly like soap to me. Even a tiny bit will ruin an entire dish.

 

[Abacinator]

My "nope" food/ingredient: ginger. It smells and tastes exactly like soap to me. Even a tiny bit will ruin an entire dish.

Philistine

 

[DReg350]

good. more for me.
I'll swap you every beet I ever had to eat.

They can have mine too.

 

[Brokenlink]

I'll eat anything. Most things I enjoy. I've had and enjoyed about. I also really like durian, didn't stink at all.

 

[stangmx13]

i cant stand Kraft mac n cheese, u know the stuff in the blue box. one day i was starving at someones house and they made me some. turns outs my opinions of how certain foods taste is dramatically different depending on how hungry i am. really, ill eat anything... ill just eat some stuff more.

 

[Bay Arean]

Most people don't realize that you can steam up baby artichokes and eat the whole damn thing without all that plucking and scrapin. Just a bit of trimming. Not always easy to find though. They don't have the "choke" part developed yet when dinky. Dip the whole thing in mayo and off ya go.

 

[DReg350]

Most people don't realize that you can steam up baby artichokes and eat the whole damn thing without all that plucking and scrapin. Just a bit of trimming. Not always easy to find though. They don't have the "choke" part developed yet when dinky. Dip the whole thing in mayo and off ya go.

Yeah, it's weird. When I was kid my mom would steam artichokes. They were awesome. Peel off a petal, dip it in mayo and enjoy. Back then I loved them. Today... I can't stand them. Maybe it's the mayo/butter. Rarely eat either any more. : dunno

 

[Bay Arean]

Yeah, it's weird. When I was kid my mom would steam artichokes. They were awesome. Peel off a petal, dip it in mayo and enjoy. Back then I loved them. Today... I can't stand them. Maybe it's the mayo/butter. Rarely eat either any more. : dunno

You still hafta shop carefully or you get tired ones, which get bitter. They just need to look really healthy to have the good flavor. I love em. I love the delayed gratification of finally getting to the heart after impatiently diggin out the choke with a teaspoon.. It's "busy" food, like eatin crab and shellfish, where work is involved. It's also funny because it truly is just a slightly traditional-GMO thistle after all....I always think asparagus is just a single stalk of lawn grass or something, just blown way up....In short, fun foods.

 

[DReg350]

You still hafta shop carefully or you get tired ones, which get bitter. They just need to look really healthy to have the good flavor. I love em. I love the delayed gratification of finally getting to the heart after impatiently diggin out the choke with a teaspoon.. It's "busy" food, like eatin crab and shellfish, where work is involved. It's also funny because it truly is just a slightly traditional-GMO thistle after all....I always think asparagus is just a single stalk of lawn grass or something, just blown way up....In short, fun foods.

Funny thing. As a kid I loved the petals, but hated the heart. Mom would step in and say "It's ok honey, I'll take care of that for ya." Today... I love hearts.

 

[Yakoo752]

Only 1 thing I do not like

Uni

Only thing I dislike and can't ever get used to eating is liver and chicken heart.

I've never understood offal, sure in pate form it's amazing, but cooked simple - not my cup o'tea.
Like Fried Liver and onions - I'll pass but you want to slice me some more headcheese? IN

 

[Bay Arean]

i cant stand Kraft mac n cheese, u know the stuff in the blue box. one day i was starving at someones house and they made me some. turns outs my opinions of how certain foods taste is dramatically different depending on how hungry i am. really, ill eat anything... ill just eat some stuff more.

It's either regional or ethnic on my part, but in my family we'd never eat anything by Kraft, it always tasted so phony. We had mac-n-cheez but it had to be Golden Grain (a local company). The way my reasoning went when so little, was that people is Wisconsin or whatever only ate phony-tasting foods or something, accounting for the Kraft concoctions. The original culprit was Miracle Whip. Having grown up on Best Foods/Hellmann's, I thought Miracle Whip was just the phoniest stuff ever. I was over at a friends house and his mom made a sammy with that stuff. I could barely eat it. Mostly because it was different really.

Then, they'd have this Kraft Hour on tha' teevee with dramatic productions. The commercials were long info-recipe commercials using all the fake Kraft stuff. We'd sit in the house and go "ewwwww" at the site of it all while the avuncular announcer read off the ingredients in a slow drawling tone.

I still am mystified that people can actually eat Velveeta or Cheez Whiz. To me, these were the original Frankenfoods, along with tha aforementioned Miracle Whip.

I laugh now because we were West Coast effete food snobs before there was an Alice Waters or Jeremiah Tower. And we were just ranch folk.

 

[Yakoo752]

I still am mystified that people can actually eat Velveeta or Cheez Whiz. To me, these were the original Frankenfoods, along with tha aforementioned Miracle Whip.

agreed but Miracle Whip is not mayonnaise, it's a dressing. Both in name and recipe and by Federal law

 

[stangmx13]

gotta love whoever made Kraft stop calling their stuff "cheese" in favor of "processed cheese products". i cant stand all that "food" either. at least with sandwiches, i can cover Kraft singles w/ mustard and not even taste the processed nastiness

 

[Johndicezx9]

gotta love whoever made Kraft stop calling their stuff "cheese" in favor of "processed cheese products". i cant stand all that "food" either. at least with sandwiches, i can cover Kraft singles w/ mustard and not even taste the processed nastiness

But for some reason it's so good on a hamburger....

 

[CocoLoco]

I'll try any food once and most twice.
Funny thing is I won't touch Vienna Sausages but love me some fried bologna.

 

[bojangle]

I'll try any food once and most twice.
Funny thing is I won't touch Vienna Sausages but love me some fried bologna.

Isn't it pretty much the same thing?