What wouldn't you eat as a child?
I was just watching my niece and noticing that she begs for things that I would never eat as a child (I remember being really annoyed if I got ketchup on anything). I eat ketchup on the normal things now. So, I was wondering what other people wouldn't eat as a child, and if they ate that thing now.
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9 Comments:
The Christmas Eve fish dinner. My father went nuts on the Italian American seafood feast and I used to hide in my room away from the smell with a pepperoni and cheese sandwich on white bread with mustard. My parents would tell me, "One day you're going to love this food!" which of course I didn't believe and of course they were right.
Lia C at 8:37PM on 01/21/07
I wouldn't eat mayonnaise. I would, however, eat sandwiches made with nothing but a thick layer of yellow mustard between two slices of squishy white bread. As much as I wouldn't eat mayonnaise back then, I wouldn't eat mustard sandwiches now.
Calichef at 2:28AM on 01/22/07
I hated raw carrots. Cooked? Fine. Raw, no way. I remember in kindergarten, we all took turns bringing in a daily snack for the class. One day, a classmate brought in raw carrots (endearing him, I'm sure, to a class used to noshing on cookies, cupcakes, etc.). I tried eating the carrots to be polite, but the thought of it made me sick while I was eating them, and I had to run to the bathroom to puke. I remember my teacher yelling: "Sick student coming through! Sick student coming through!" Luckily the kindergarteners had a private bathroom in each classroom and I didn't have to run any farther than a few yards. I eat carrots now.
Until pretty recently, I hated seafood. I don't know why. Maybe it was the thought of weird, cold, slimy beings making their way through a mysterious, murky underwater world that freaked me out. This saddened my dad to no end, I'm sure, since he's been an avid fisherman since his boyhood in Wisconsin (a huge fishing state, what with all the lakes and such there and in nearby Minnesota). It wasn't until I visited Japan in 2002 that I started eating seafood with a vengeance after being forced, out of politeness to dinner hosts, to eat sushi and sashimi one night and then shishamo (small, grilled pregnant smelt) the following night. Perhaps it's counterintuitive, but I had an easier time with the sushi/sashimi than I did with the grilled smelt. But, after choking down the shishamo, head, tail, eggs, and all, I pretty much broke through the anti-seafood mental block and have been enjoying fish/shellfish since. It opened a new world of things to eat, but I still prefer raw to cooked. After telling my dad about this, he was like, "What!?!? You ate RAW fish? All these years I've breaded and fried all those good fish and you're eating them raw?"
Adam Kuban at 8:56AM on 01/22/07
I was a very picky eater as a child. Off the top of my head, here are some of the things that I wouldn't eat: meat, fish, carbonated drinks, mellon (especially canteloupe), raw tomatoes, nuts (except for roasted almonds, which were a staple in our family), grape-flavoured anything. I also had an aversion to anything sticky. I now eat fish several times a week, as well as nuts and tomatoes. I still do not drink carbonated things (this means that I've never tried, for example, coke) or eat mellon. I'm not sure about grape-flavour. The issue has probably not come up since I was a kid.
I guess I'm still a pretty picky eater, but I've integrated it into my life. I was a vegan for years, and now I eat fish but still not dairy. Still, I like to think that my dietary choices are a bit more refined now than they were then.
caley at 10:07AM on 01/22/07
Peanut butter (which I now love) and egg whites (which I now tolerate).
Lucia at 11:36AM on 01/22/07
Crab legs. My family used to go to Red Lobster for ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT crab legs when they had it. I would not even try them. I remember my mom saying someday I would regret it! Of course now I LOVE seafood of all kinds and just laugh when I look back at all the meals missed!
ThatGirl153 at 12:28PM on 01/22/07
Would you believe it? Chinese food... and lobster. Clearly two of the most important food groups on the planet, both of which I now absolutely love.
Peter at 12:36PM on 01/22/07
fruit. and i still don't eat it! i love the taste, but the textures i just cannot stand. fruit is really the one thing i will not consume- unless it is in smoothie form.
i was also a vegetarian from the time i was 7 until 14- so i was a pain! i survived off tomato soup, grilled cheese, and granola bars.
Stacy at 1:18PM on 01/22/07
I have to agree with Stacy on fruit...the textures can be so fraught...mushy, slimy, too crisp...is that a brown spot? Mostly what I disliked as a kid was onions in any form whatsoever...and fat on meat. I would cut a good one inch of meat off along with the teensy strip of fat that was on a piece of steak....just to be sure!
cedarbend at 7:13PM on 02/03/07