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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.

Cottage cheese and olives. (Not together -- I still wouldn't eat that!) Now I love both.

LIVER!!!!!!!

Still won't eat angel food cake or rice cakes. What's the point?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

Most all vegetables due to how my mother prepared them:( Nowdays, vegetables are front & center on my plate!

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.

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.

anything creamed, but especially creamed celery.
To this day it takes only the thought of it to make my stomach turn over.

lima beans

peanut butter, marshmallows or jell-o

It took me a couple of tries to like goat cheese. I have a life-long hatred of mayonaise and hot dogs.

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.

Raw Onions

Now I love onion. Especially Slices of nice purple onion on a Steak & Blue Cheese Salad!

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.

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)

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...

beets, pickled or roasted. now I love them!

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!