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Saxywildcat
Member
05-30-2005
| Saturday, July 22, 2006 - 8:34 pm
So, I just had this totally random thought for a thread today. Recently, I have realized that I like some foods that I didn't used to. I thought it would be fun to see if other people are that way at all! I've learned that I, in fact, do like peas! I used to hate em with a passion! I also found that I now like blueberries, which I used to hate as well. Even broccoli (cooked) is growing on me. It's kind of funny how things happen, ain't it? LOL Hope we have some fun with this thread!
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Max
Moderator
08-12-2000
| Saturday, July 22, 2006 - 9:04 pm
As a kid, I hated tomatoes. Now I love them. In fact, last night's dinner was sliced tomatoes with basil, balsamic vinegar, olive oil, and fresh mozzarella. Yum! Used to hate coffee, but love the smell. Now I LOVE coffee AND the smell. Can't think of anything I don't like now that I didn't like then. Hatred of lima beans has been universal throughout my life! 
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Oldtex
Member
03-06-2006
| Saturday, July 22, 2006 - 9:10 pm
Saxy, food is always a good topic! Hated spinach - Now love it Hated milk - Now love it "Liked" pinto beans - Now hate them (it's their texture I really hate) Hated asparagus - Now love it
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, July 22, 2006 - 9:47 pm
Hated asparagus, artichokes, zucchini, love them all now.
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Saturday, July 22, 2006 - 11:50 pm
I'm pretty consistent with my hate. LOL I've hated raw/solid tomatoes all of my life, along with mushrooms, and most seafood too. Don't like rhubarb, or zucchini. Can't handle spices or curry. The only thing I can think of that I have changed my mind on, is brown bread. Used to hate it. Now I like it. That said, there are a lot of foods I like, that others don't, like liver and brussel sprouts.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, July 23, 2006 - 12:21 am
Spinach, still don't like just plain cooked spinach but I love it raw or cooked in something. Seafood is one thing I still don't enjoy. I'll eat a little but I'd rather not eat most of it, lol. I still have a little kid mentality though about food. If it's new, looks funny or smells funny, I hate it before I try it. When I finally do try it I stick it in my mouth just knowing I'm going to hate it, lol!
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Shadoe
Member
11-04-2004
| Sunday, July 23, 2006 - 3:11 am
I am eating one of them right now - porridge! Since I got on my health kick, I have been eating many foods that I avoided in the past. The majority of my diet is foods I either avoided or did not like. While I used to avoid fish and hated yogurt, I am now eating lots of both and am very particular about the varieties. Much has to do with what is introduced into your diet when you are young. I once was told that anything you have not tried by the time you are 5 will be tough to try and like later in life. For that very reason, I tried to introduce as many types of foods to Eeyore as I could before she was five. That's why she likes liver; I love liver and we ate it often. I can't stand mushrooms and will spend a great deal of time picking them off or out of an item. It's not so much that I don't like the taste, rather they don't seem to have much taste. It's more the texture, the rubbery part that I don't like. I hate spices and can't stand the smell of curry; they make me physically ill. Actually I seldom use salt and never use pepper when cooking. Only when baking fish do I use lemon pepper. It would be tough for me to make my diet more bland than it already is.
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Sunday, July 23, 2006 - 5:27 am
Hated horseraddish - love it now hated wine - love it, just can't have it too often hated onion cake - love it now
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Sunday, July 23, 2006 - 9:00 am
Me, too Shadoe! I'm eating lots of healthy vegies and whole grain things that I used to avoid and yogurt, too.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Sunday, July 23, 2006 - 9:35 am
As a kid/teenager/young adult, I hated cauliflower, broccoli, brussel sprouts, and a slew of other things (mainly vegetables). I eat them all now, and love them! I used to love tomato soup, and popcorn. You couldn't get me to eat either one now unless you held a gun to my head. I don't even want to be in the room with popcorn, the smell makes me nausious!
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Jasper
Member
09-14-2000
| Sunday, July 23, 2006 - 1:13 pm
I was a picky kid (not for lack of mom trying, both my siblings eat everything, mom always worried I'd get scurvy, lol) and I'm a picky adult. Most veggies are a yuck from me and I have retried them all a couple of different ways etc to no available. I make sure I drink my V-8. I do now love yams and like spinach, I like turnips, squash, parsnip. And I love yogurt. Like Shadoe I have changed my eating habits of late and added in yogurt when I found I liked it, but please no chunks. I find with a lot of foods it is the texture I avoid versus smell or taste. But I gotta say asparagus which I cook all the time because dh loves, smells like dirt to me. I'm going to try eggplant again (bought one) any suggestions on how to cook it would be greatly appreciated.
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Saxywildcat
Member
05-30-2005
| Sunday, July 23, 2006 - 3:31 pm
Jasper reminded me that I used to hate sweet potatoes/yams, but now I love them!
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Sunday, July 23, 2006 - 5:25 pm
Saxy, that is exactly what has recently happened to my 33 year old DD. All of a sudden this summer she thinks they are the best food agoing. I spent every summer for about 20 years tasting cucumbers. Couldn't stand them, but figured they must have something nice about them as most people seemed to like them. The perserverence paid off, now I love them.
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Sunday, July 23, 2006 - 8:31 pm
Peas, green beans, butter beans, beets, broccoli, cabbage, mushrooms, eggplant, sauerkraut, pickled and deviled eggs, scrapple, lamb, game (rabbit, venison), caviar and sour cream.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Monday, July 24, 2006 - 2:36 am
shrimp. and tomatoes, (luv cherry and grape tomatoes)
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Cdbga
Member
10-04-2004
| Tuesday, July 25, 2006 - 9:36 am
Used to HATE broccoli, now it is one of my favorites!
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Tuesday, July 25, 2006 - 9:40 am
Hate Tomatoes. Always have. Unless they are in salsa or tomatoe sauce.
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Tess
Member
04-13-2001
| Tuesday, July 25, 2006 - 1:28 pm
Rice is the only thing I hated as a child that I love now. Everything else that I thought was disgusting back then, I KNOW is disgusting now.
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Abby7
Member
07-17-2002
| Wednesday, July 26, 2006 - 7:00 pm
i'll make this brief and only mention three for now. onions: raw, cooked, sauteed, whatever. i couldn't even eat a sandwich if my mom cut my sandwich with the same knife she had just used to cut onions. i now love sauteed onions on certain foods. still can't handle raw onions though. mayonnaise: tasted like spoiled milk to me. oddly, though, i could handle it w/artichokes. now, unfortunately, i like it. for salad dressing, hated vinegar and oil dressing. however, i not only loved vinegar, i craved it. when i was young i used to pour just vinegar on my salad (yep, i know how disgusting this sounds). however, i couldn't eat the salad w/all that vinegar without adding lots of salt. i rarely add ANY salt to my food (a few exceptions). when i was in my teens, i would get such a craving for vinegar (that cheap red wine vinegar stuff)....that sometimes i would just drink it. sorry, i know how gross that sounds...but, that was one of my biggest cravings when i was young. if someone had added oil to the vinegar, i could not drink it. one thing, though, drinking a tiny glass of vinegar w/tons of salt in it....might be a natural beauty tip. lol well, this was in the 70's and not popular back then. but, after drinking this "potion" i would wake up with swollen lips! honestly. people pay lots of money for those lips now. lol
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Wednesday, July 26, 2006 - 7:44 pm
For me, the question would be more, "what foods did you used to LOVE and now turns your stomach" since I grew up in a very old-school farming family. Some of the stuff I used to eat just makes me cringe today...
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Abby7
Member
07-17-2002
| Wednesday, July 26, 2006 - 7:49 pm
yankee, that would be a great thread! ita.
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Abby7
Member
07-17-2002
| Wednesday, July 26, 2006 - 8:36 pm
oops, didn't mean to insinuate you wanted to start a new thread (and my "ita" meant that i agree w/you about "Some of the stuff I used to eat just makes me cringe today".) just wanted to clarify my post.
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Knightpatti
Member
12-06-2001
| Saturday, July 29, 2006 - 8:04 pm
cottage cheese did not like it as a child = I do like it now. Do not like raw garlic in anything.
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