Yucky foods of the past
What was the one thing you did not like to eat when you were little but will now? For me it was sour cream I hated the stuff until I was about 17 now I use it alot. My daughter (8 yrs old) hates whipped cream. Any type of whipped cream and some things that aren't like creamy pies, but she loves ice cream. I just wonder if she will grow out of this.
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Broccoli
Cauliflower
Scallops
Broccoli Rabe
None of the above foods would make it all the way down my throat as a child. I only eat scallops on rare occasion when I'm in the mood for them but the other foods - can't get enough.
chiff0nade at 11:07AM on 01/31/08
I used to hate salsa. There was something metallic-tasting about it for me. I love it now.
Also hated parmesan cheese, but I think that's because I only tasted the kind in the green container. Once I tried the real thing, I was a convert.
Never made it past my distaste for coffee or olives, though.
Kerosena at 11:11AM on 01/31/08
never liked fish growing up and living in New England that was a major stumbling block, the first time i tried fish that hadnt been battered and fried though i was a convert!
huney_bumper at 11:15AM on 01/31/08
Cottage cheese and olives. (Not together -- I still wouldn't eat that!) Now I love both.
CookiePie at 11:16AM on 01/31/08
Green olives.
PerkyMac at 11:19AM on 01/31/08
LIVER!!!!!!!
Stiv61 at 11:24AM on 01/31/08
Blue cheese and anchovies come to mind.
izzy's mama at 11:30AM on 01/31/08
Still won't eat angel food cake or rice cakes. What's the point?
PerkyMac at 11:37AM on 01/31/08
Green peppers.
SSMom at 11:57AM on 01/31/08
Nowadays, there's almost nothing I truly dislike -- just degrees of likability. But there were several when I was a kid...
Cooked broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage were among my most despised foods. Pretty much all cooked crucifers, actually. We had the one-bite rule, and I'd literally pinch my nose shut to hide the flavor, and still gag as it went down. Love 'em now.
Potatoes. Bizarre, I know, but I'd only eat mashed, and that was simply a vehicle for loads of gravy. I didn't even like fries or chips! My dad would compromise on baked potatoes by scooping out the flesh for himself and letting me eat just the skin, which I loved. Drowning in butter, of course.
Most meats. I think because they were always super cheap cuts (e.g., round steak, etc.) that had been cooked to death.
Egg yolks. I'd eat the whites, but not the yolks. Except in egg salad, which I adored. I also despised scrambled eggs, but later learned it was because Mom cooks 'em rock hard. Eggs of all sorts and preparations are among my most favorite foods these days.
Uncanned asparagus (won't touch it now). Probably because uncanned meant frozen, which I still find inedible. I can't get enough of the fresh stuff. One of my favorite foods.
Mustard. Absolutely inconceivable to me now.
LoCo at 12:15PM on 01/31/08
olives. Yuck to this day.
My family thought I would starve when I went to live in Italy, because I don't like red spaghetti sauce (see food trauma) and I hate olives. I developed a taste for olive oil, after some months in Italy (but NEVER olives), and the only red sauces I like are the fresh tomato-like ones. Thank goodness I lived in Northern Italy, where pesto is king, and veggies rule the pastas!
cucinacecilia at 12:27PM on 01/31/08
Cheese. All cheese. I was adamantly anti cheese well into my 20s. I have no idea what I was thinking.
Eggs. Again, I had no idea what I was missing. Today a frittata with plenty of cheese in my favorite go to super fast meal.
VerasTastyFreeze at 12:28PM on 01/31/08
Onions. Can't live without 'em now.
Tomatoes. Might be able to live without now, but enjoy them nonetheless.
Mommyme, my son has the same aversion to creamy stuff: Won't go near mayo, sour cream, etc. (but will make an exception for whipped cream on a dessert). It extends to any kind of sauce. "No sauce!" I'm hoping he'll grow out of by the time he comes home from college. (He's 15 now.)
Dee at 12:29PM on 01/31/08
I couldn't eat bacon when I was younger..lol. Also, Mexican food. I'm weird I actually am easing my way into Mexican food now that I live in Texas.
FoodieCutie at 12:36PM on 01/31/08
I hated pickles and olives, any kind of fresh fish, brussels sprouts, and V8.
Then one day, many years after childhood, I had my first bloody mary, it was made with V8 and had an olive and pickle in it. Now, I am a self acclaimed bloody mary queen and am lost without olives and pickles. And I finally love fresh fish and brussel sprouts.
aungeinphx at 12:44PM on 01/31/08
Oh Dee, don't tell me about a no-sauce kid at 15 (grin). Mine is almost 9 and I keep hoping ONE of these years she will give up the no sauce thing. She will eat whipped cream, but no sour cream, tomato sauce, mayo, KETCHUP, anything of this ilk. She used to be equally averse to any beef product, but overcame first steak then roast, and now finally ground beef. She's the only 9 year old I know who won't even eat a McDonalds burger (and lord knows - THOSE aren't beef!)
For me, as a child, jam like products were evil - right down to cooked cranberries or even some fruit pies. Now, I like almost all of them - but still not so much on bread or toast. Croissants are OK (grin)..... I hated liver as a kid, and still only eat it as pate. I detested turnips, but now eat them raw no problem - cooked, I still am not keen on.
Maureen at 12:50PM on 01/31/08
Fish of any kind, cheese of any kind, peanut butter and sour cream - or any foods that touched each other on my plate. I'm over it. Of course now there are things I ate willingly as a kid that I won't touch now - but I guess that's another whole topic!
maryannm at 1:04PM on 01/31/08
I didn't like oatmeal, but would eat Cream of Wheat. Now it's the opposite.
I didn't like zucchini but now enjoy it in a variety of dishes as long as it's not overcooked.
misseditor at 1:11PM on 01/31/08
Creamed spinach. It was just big pile of revolting ickiness. Now? What better to fill a baked potato with? Or side a simple meal? I just love the stuff now.
chisai at 1:26PM on 01/31/08
The funny thing is I can remember hating pizza. Who hates pizza?
The only “yucky” item I can think of is Southern Comfort; yes I know that isn’t food – but reading the posts I somehow got to thinking about alcohol. Southern Comfort popped into my head and now I am all queasy and stuff.
I gotta go lay down.
jasonbrink at 2:12PM on 01/31/08
sweet potatoes/yams - probably because you only had them at Thanksgiving with all the sugar and sickeningly sweet syrup glop on them. Made my teeth hurt! Now I like them fine baked or even as fries.
SayWhat at 2:23PM on 01/31/08
As a kid, I hated cooked spinach and asparagus, olives of any kind, and cheese. Now I love cheese, and cooked spinach, but still won't go near asparagus or olives.
Diz at 2:39PM on 01/31/08
Hamburgers....shocking! Serioulsy, until I married my burger obsessed husband I refused to eat them. I hated them..only on a rare occassion I would eat a McDonalds cheeseburger. I especially hated the huge grilled, juicy patties my dad would make that everyone else raved over. Now I crave them...who knows?
Mustard is another one....which I can't fathom disliking now.
jcrisco at 2:55PM on 01/31/08
ditto on the salsa, actually any mexican-ish food, i think it might have been the cilantro but i love it all now. also, fat, as in i would sit at the table and cut off every little speck of fat on my steak/chicken/pork. now i crave crisp duck fat, it's one of my food luxuries. i also despised red delicious apples, it's all my mom bought in my youth, but i guess that doesn't really count since i still hate them.
protest at 4:42PM on 01/31/08
Dee
My daughter will eat ketchup and BBQ sauce but not mayo, sour cream, mustard, etc. But you dashed my hopes I thought she would out grow this before too long but since yours in now 15 I'm getting worried.
She also likes Mac & Cheese but don't sprinkle cheese on top or she won't eat it. She likes parmasan cheese and that is it. She will even take cheese off pizza. Actually, she takes everything off the pizza and eats them seperately. Is mine child the only odd one? :) :)
mommyme at 4:45PM on 01/31/08
anything with creamed soup in it. I find the stuff vile to this day. I also am not a fan of sour cream. And until recently I wouldn't eat alfredo sauce. I think I have an aversion to white sauces (that aren't dessert-y ala whipped cream or marshmallow fluff).
krispychikin at 5:07PM on 01/31/08
I never ate tomatoes until I was 18. Now, I can't go a day without eating them in something.
eatorama at 5:33PM on 01/31/08
Most all vegetables due to how my mother prepared them:( Nowdays, vegetables are front & center on my plate!
JEP at 5:52PM on 01/31/08
Fish no matter how it is cooked they say its brain food........... Now I know why my spelling is so horrid!!!!
rabbitriddle at 6:39PM on 01/31/08
I hated anything that looked whole-wheaty - now I'm a health freak.
I also hated tomatoes, the ones we could buy in the UK - were often unripe, bland and tasteless. That was before they started to promote the vine ripened ones. Now I love them!
I also disliked cheese, with an Oriental upbringing we rarely had cheese and when we did, it would be the disgusting, plasticy kraft-like slices - eurgh. Now I absolutely adore cheese, especially European ones - oh how I miss them so...
PS is it so bad that your daughter hates whipped cream? It's full of saturated fat and bad for your arteries.
ssnmr77 at 7:15PM on 01/31/08
we had daily battles at our house over orange juice. my parents would squeeze it fresh {oh, how i hated the sound of that juicer!} and insist that i drink it. it was waaaay too intense for my overly sensitive palate. as an adult i don't drink it very often, but when i do, i enjoy it and am still surprised that i do.
i also hated steak -- too chewy or something. now i love it. i also wouldn't touch anything even remotely spicy but now i put hot red pepper flakes in everything.
cybercita at 9:13PM on 01/31/08
I forgot about mutton. I was shocked when I tasted lamb as an adult and it is now in my top five all-time favorites, but I'd never eat mutton again. Guess it was cheap? Bread and water would have been an improvement.
PerkyMac at 9:21PM on 01/31/08
I have expanded my taste horizons a LOT since I was a kid. I used to hate the following:
brown bread
green olives (always loved black ones for some reason)
mustard
salsa
salads
raw veggies
strawberries (the seeds)
peaches and nectarines
blush at 12:27PM on 02/01/08
anything creamed, but especially creamed celery.
To this day it takes only the thought of it to make my stomach turn over.
fewteeth at 1:22PM on 02/01/08
I didn't start to like sushi and olives till I was about 20. I also didn't like raw tomatoes till I was a teenager.
KitchenKore at 1:36PM on 02/01/08
lima beans
Bosmer at 3:17PM on 02/01/08
Eggs! I hated them!
Hillary
Chew on That
Chew on That at 3:24PM on 02/01/08
peanut butter, marshmallows or jell-o
kathyvegas at 3:48PM on 02/01/08
when i was a kid you couldn't pay me to eat a tomato. (spagetti sauce, sure. but a raw tomato? ewww!)
now i LOVE tomatoes. eat 'em straight. just slice 'em and eat 'em!
redhead at 5:18PM on 02/01/08
It took me a couple of tries to like goat cheese. I have a life-long hatred of mayonaise and hot dogs.
beth1 at 5:22PM on 02/01/08
I hated fresh tomato slices, still do most often - they make my tongue freak out and break out into these horrible bumps.
I also hated BBQ sauce (I'll eat good not-from-the-bottle stuff now), runny egg yolks (still not super keen on 'em), pork chops (enjoy the odd one now and again, still won't eat pork ribs though), mayonnaise (hate to this day), and mushrooms (love them now).
I also did and still do pick my pizza apart and eat each component separately. I also am not a big fan of the cheese on it.
feriorrenna at 6:53PM on 02/01/08
Mayonnaise, it used to make me gag now it's hard to have a sandwich or burger without it (I've even dipped my fries in it)
Sauerkraut - in fact most of the traditional German fare my Oma made I found so gross I lied and claimed to be a vegetarian to avoid eating it. Which may be more because my Oma wasn't much of a cook she was infamous for making bizarre substitutions and never measuring anything (ie if the recipe called for cream of tartar she'd use tartar sauce) A trip a few years ago to Germany proved this to me as I ate way too much of everything.
stonechiper at 7:10PM on 02/01/08
Spinach, definitely spinach.
I hated all kinds of vegetables, especially spinach, when I was a kid. Now, spinach is one of my favorite foods, and it only ranks after chocolate, chocolate, and chocolate.
cacao at 7:17PM on 02/01/08
Raw Onions
Now I love onion. Especially Slices of nice purple onion on a Steak & Blue Cheese Salad!
Angie_Earthy at 9:07PM on 02/01/08
I hated kamaboko and carrots as a little kid. Right around the time I started hating onions, I came around and started to like kamaboko. The only way my mom got me to eat carrots was to tell me that if I ate them, my eyes would turn red like a rabbit. I began voraciously eating carrots.
I still hate onions, garlic, and parlsey/cilantro though. :P
Cassaendra at 11:47PM on 02/01/08
Hated mustard while I was growing up. But when I was 30 and pregnant with my first child, I craved it on Chik-fil-A chicken biscuits in the morning. Now I can't live without it.
Editmom at 5:21PM on 02/02/08
As a child, I didn't like:
Spaghetti (sorry mom)
Pot Roast (again...)
Asparagus (again?)
Prawns/oysters/shrimp/lobster/crab (basically - sea bugs)
Liver
Pears
bleu cheese
pork chops
And worst of all, powdered milk - yuk!
I absolutely love spaghetti and pot roast now. I like pears and bleu cheese too. Nothing else up there on that list
paris221966 at 6:14PM on 02/02/08
fresh tomatoes ( I liked soup and juice, but not fresh)
broccoli florets (I only liked the stems)
peas (I'd only had LeSueur Petit Pois in the can--revolting)
borscht--or beets in any form
caraway seeds
and, a drum roll, please:
ice water (I can't figure this out at all--but I used to HATE drinking water)
klg19 at 8:03PM on 02/02/08
Butter and mayo were guaranteed to make me gag, as were green peppers and green onion. The only salad dressing I would eat was Catalina, and the smell of cabbage cooking still can instantly bring me back to that bad childhood food space, although now I love the taste of it.
maered at 9:51PM on 02/02/08
As a kid, I used to hate raw tomatoes. I still do. Cooked is fine, but the texture and strange acidity of raw ones really bugs me.
Parsley and cilantro...didn't like it in my food at all. I'll take it in my food now, as their flavor is often integral to a dish, though I'm still not that fond of their grassy taste alone.
Oysters...I used to pick them out of my food. Now, I love raw oysters, but I'm still not keen on cooked ones, though I will eat them in a slightly masochistic hope that I will see what my parents love about them so much. I'm always reminded why I don't like them...
fuuchan at 10:03PM on 02/02/08
Definitely used to hate salad. And spinach especially. But salad in general.
I've also never liked seafood, and still don't to this day.
tonks442 at 12:46AM on 02/03/08
beets, pickled or roasted. now I love them!
saffron4859 at 11:54AM on 02/03/08
As a kid, i refused to eat:
creamed spinach -- would have a battle of wills with my mother, who would make me sit at the table until i finished my "vegetables" (like creamed spinach is particularly healthy?) and i would sit there for HOURS (love it today, tho!)
milk & yogurt -- i think this is because we always only had whole milk in the house, and i hated the film it left in my mouth
sushi -- closed mind, i guess
brie -- again, what was i thinking? i LOVE stinky cheese now! When at the cheesemonger i always ask "what is your stinkiest, runniest cheese? you know, something that smells like feet?"
:)
mh330 at 9:11PM on 02/03/08
I'm not sure how picky I was as a child about vegetables, because I was exposed to very few of them, but I know I hated olives, raw tomatoes, raw onion (still can't stand raw onion), and I wouldn't eat tomato sauce on pasta until I was a teenager. I wasn't really into "chunky" food - I was always skeptical of what the chunks might be, from fruit pie fillings to soups. I also picked my pizza apart and ate each piece separately! Now I love vegetables and pretty much everything except raw onion from my childhood...though as an adult, I've learned a whole new pile of things I won't eat, like mushrooms, eggplant, and turnips!
producestories at 9:15PM on 02/03/08
Asparagus. When I was a kid, even the smell would make me gag. It didn't help that my mom preferred big, fat, woody stalks--overcooked. I was well into my 20's before I could even bring myself to try properly cooked asparagus. Now, I love it.
RI Swampyankee at 10:09PM on 02/03/08