What's new

Pad Patter: 1/22 - Changing Tastes

Angie4b1g

Angie4b1g

A hundred jobs but Bob Villa ain't one
Joined
Feb 25, 2011
Messages
8,026
Do you eat something now that you wouldn't go near as a kid?

Did you eat something as a kid that completely weirds you out now?

I ate almost everything as a kid, including fried liver. Now I can't handle the thought of it. The taste never bothered me, but now I know what a liver is. :giggle

I think the only thing I eat now that I didn't as a kid is sushi. Mmm.
 
I *hated* veggies as a kid. Now I love them!
As for something I didn't eat as a kid, would definitely be sushi. Love this now too! (So do my kids :giggle)
 
It's not that I wouldn't have eaten it as a kid, but as the child of a French chef, sushi wasn't on the menu too often...or ever. My fave now <--

Not too many things wierded me out then or now, but my kids still don't believe I've eaten escargot ;)
 
I'm still a picky eater - but I've been slowly trying new things. My sister and boyfriend are big foodies so they're always cooking stuff that I usually wouldn't eat - like some seafood. I used to eat tuna and other kinds of fish when I was a kid, but I can't really stand the smell of any kind of food that used to swim!

Avocados used to gross me out, but I really love them now. Some of the stuff I won't eat now is stuff we had to eat as kids, like meat loaf. My mom's just not a good cook. She made it the other day and it looked like a rock. LOL!
 
I hated onions, mushrooms, ham and was a total sugar addict as a kid.

These days, onions & mushrooms are ok, but I still don't like ham much. I don't like fish sushi--it's a texture thing.
 
I am definitely less picky now than as a kid. I love asparagus, and am open to brussels sprouts now, and there's a lot more seafood that I'll try now (cooked only though!)
 
As a kid I would eat mayo sandwiches....just a thick layer of mayo on white bread...yuck. Couldn't eat that now.

I love nachos and until I hit my 20's I wouldn't eat it....ever. I hated the texture and the melted cheese. Now I could eat it every day, for every meal LOL. I miss it b/c I eat low carb now so don't indulge very often.
 
I used to be a human garbage disposal. I would eat anything including butter, crisco and raw hamburger. And liver. That's just nasty. I don't know why my mom let me! LOL!

The only thing I didn't really like was mustard and now I do like it. :)
 
Until I started university, I wouldn't go near anything that had cheese in or on it. And then... well, then I tried pizza ;). The start of a perfect love... sigh.
 
I did not eat much meat as a child, and now I can not live without my steak! :) and I ATE a lot of fish growing up and now I can not stand it.. period.. GROSS
 
I am much less picky than I was as a child now that I am the cook and I can see/control how things are made. I'd almost always prefer making something at home vs. buying and eating it at a restaurant.

My family, however, still sees me as that 10 year old gurl who doesn't eat 'new' foods. Sigh.
 
I used to hate salads as a kid but love them now. Also, I love veggies much more than I used to, too. Other than that, not much has changed. For me, the salad thing was that my parents only ever had one kind of dressing and I hated it. Once I found a dressing I liked, I was in love! :)
 
I don't have foods that I hate, but I didn't like eating fruits. After comparing my blood test results from past years up to 2014, I have to rethink about not eating fruits because I need the nutrients, vitamins, natural sugar and fiber that fruits provide. So this year, I have to eat more fruits, starting with the ones that I already like - bananas, strawberries, papaya, watermelon.
 
Um, everything? Seriously, I was the worlds pickiest eater. And now it's the opposite and I eat almost anything- except liver, I have no desire to try that! The only thing I ate as a kid that I won't now is Mac n cheese from a box.
 
My mum had to take the peel off sausages, otherwise I wouldn't eat them. I think I hated tomatoes, my dad always sliced them and put salt on them. I wouldn't touch fish (can't remember about fishfingers but they don't really count). When my mum had shrimps, I tought of them as worms. Don't think I ate may vegetables. I actually have to ask my mum what I DID eat.


I'm still picky about meat, fatty pieces totally gross me out, I still hate raisins in (and inside) ANY Food but like them by themselves. I can't eat olives or lamb/sheep. Love fish, veggies and seafood these days.
 
I never liked tomatoes (although loved tomato soup!) or olives both of which I love now :)
 
I used to hate chili - I cried in first grade because that was what we had to eat for lunch. I absolutely love it now!

I not only hated enchiladas, they made me absolutely nauseous. I could barely look at them when Mom served them because I had a dream that my sisters were chasing a huge enchilada-spider hybrid thing with forks. They caught it and ate it. UGH. It grossed me out so much that I wouldn't eat them for years. My mom's recipe is absolutely delicious and I totally missed out!!
I hated brussels sprouts -How is that even possible? So yummy!

Olives. of course I put the black ones on my fingers because it's fun and ate them because you can't put them back but I hated them. - sooo yummy now. One of my favorite things.

One thing that has never changed is mayonaise, salad spread, miracle whip -- whatever you call it, that white nasty stuff in a jar it is disgusting. I hate it! It has its place in tuna salad and potato salad and as an ingredient in cooking. But I hate it on sandwiches or burgers or anything where I have to taste it. *shiver*

Oh and Cilantro - I didn't even know it existed as a child -- but I am one of those people who thinks it tastes like soap (I guess some people genetically are wired that way or something? whatever, I saw it on the 'net. LOL) It ruins anything it touches. In moderation it's ok as long as I don't bite into it. Then I can't eat whatever it was in. yuck. Sometimes I go into public restrooms and I think their 'air freshener' or cleaner or whatever smells like cilantro - I think that's the soap thing - and it makes me gag. Half my family would but cilantro on ice cream and their cereal but the rest of us hate it.

sushi - love it now - it wasn't even a possibility as a food when I was a kid. sounded like the grossest thing ever.

I am not very adventurous with food though. I like what I like and that's what I want to eat. My brother in law does not get that. We all live together and he's always trying to do something weird with my dad's recipes and Dad, my sister and I fight him and say, "that's not how Mom made it!" It's actually kind of humourous. Dad ends up making Mom's Dutch recepes. It's a constant struggle to get him not to put blue cheese in meatloaf or something. And when we go to our favorite restaurants he's like, "Branch out, Jo, try something new." I'm like, "No. I am ordering my favorite thing because I am paying for it and I don't want something that sucks." LOL
 
Still won't eat mayo unless its an integral part of something like egg salad and then only enough to make it stick together, grossed me out as a kid, still does. Wouldn't eat broccoli then, like it now. Same with brussels sprouts, like them now. Sushi is something I only had the opportunity to try as an adult. My boss suggested it and said I'd love it. He turned out to be right. I even got my no-seafood daughter to eat it! Seafood loving son still won't try it.
 
Back
Top