Butter and Sour Stuff. For example in cakes and cocktails
Bacon. My first taste was of boiled bacon. It was like chewing on a fucking pencil eraser. I hated it, but my mom would insist on putting some small cubes on the beans to “give a taste” (it didn’t). Took me some time to finally experiment one that was fried to a crispy dryness. Infinitely better.
My first taste was of boiled bacon. It was like chewing on a fucking pencil eraser.
🤮🤢 That sounds terrible. I would have been thrown off by that too. I like the crispy kind myself. I found a soggy piece of bacon when I was eating some green beans as a kid. I stopped eating it for a few years after that.
Tamales.
First time I had one, I was like 6 or 7 and nobody told me you’re supposed to remove the corn husk.
Turns out they’re pretty good if you’re not eating the corn husk wrapper. 🤦♂️
Same with Babel cheese and the wax.
Farming. I worked on the neighboring farm as a teenager. Then, after a long series of jobs and education, became a software engineer. Being a software engineer taught me something: I miss working on a farm.
Yeah, there’s the joke that jr engineers want to be sr engineers and sr engineers want to be farmers (or woodworkers or whatnot). I like both, but I definitely need the balance of doing something physical and working with my hands.
Asparagus. It turns out that canned asparagus is gross but steamed is great.
No Rain by Blind Melon
Fermented foods. They definitely changed my taste buds the more I eat/drank them.
I’m not going to say I “love” them now, but I appreciate onions’ use in cooking and flavour profiles now. Whereas when I was younger, anything I ate had to have no onion in it whatsoever.
Sex, as a kid it sounded like a disgusting idea filled with disgusting bodily fluids. As an adult my logical part still finds it disgusting every now and again while my monkey part is horny non-stop.
Also bitter foods, they kind of grow on you as you age
Grunge, especially Pearl Jam
Onions, garlic, a few other foods. After I went vegan I had to make a lot more of my own food, and knowing what went into it and how it was made helped me get over a lot of my picky eating.
Still hate peppers though.
For peppers (and, now that I think of it, quite a lot of vegetables), try grilling them.
Maillard reaction is your friend!
Thanks, I’ll give it a shot!
Curry.
Anime lol
Tomatoes! I dunno of Mom started cooking them better or my palate got less restrictive but I’ll eat them a lot these days.
Pickles. Used to hate em, now I will eat dangerous quantities in one sitting.
