What kind of food did you hate as a child and love now? (pancakes, breakfast)
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I feel like a total weirdo. I've gone the other way. Many, many foods I ate as a child I wouldn't touch now. So, my taste & cravings have decreased/changed rather than increased. Of course, some of it was sugar laden stuff I couldn't get enough of as a kid, so my palate has just become more sophisticated & I don't crave Tootsie Rolls/Sugar Smacks/ice cream/Coke every hour on the hour like I used to. Amazing I was always so thin & had clear skin with all the junk & fat I consumed! Actually, I've eaten virtually no sugar/junk food since age 15. I'm overly energetic & fidgity anyway, so no need for extra energy sugar bursts.
Certain veggies I don't like any longer & as odd as it may sound, I believe I don't because they're genetically modified. I can't stand the taste of tomatoes, certain lettuces & cucumbers any longer. Ate them by the barrel-full until a few years ago. Many others like corn & green beans I can live without & don't really enjoy them when I eat even organic. They just don't taste the same & I often find them unpleasant tasting. Upon research, these are the veggies most commonly modified. I also don't like poultry anymore & most red-meat for the same reasons. It's just not the same flavor & I feel ill eating most animal products. I ate a Subway coldcut sandwich recently (haven't had a sub in 15-yrs) & felt so nauseous & ill, I actually had to lie down for an hour.
I don't have any answers as to why, really. Middle age? Alien abduction? It's not a big deal & if I don't want it, I don't eat it, but I just don't seem to like 1/2-3/4 of the foods I grew up eating.
I seem to live mostly on fruit... talk about sugar! At least fruit's naturally sweetened... VV
To this day the only way I eat banannas is if theyre practcally still green. If theres even one small bruise, I toss it.
Yes, foods that were forced on us leave a rather unpleasant memory & it's hard to overcome. Growing up very poor & eating breakfast peanut butter toast & lunchtime peanut butter sandwiches year after year made me shun it for 25-yrs. I can eat it occasionally, but if I get an unexpected whiff of it, even now, I still wretch.
Too funny. I can't eat a banana unless the peel is almost the color of tree bark & I'm fighting off fruit flies for it...
I hated a LOT of veggies as a kid because my grandmother grew a garden with everything under the sun in it and was one of those "you WILL clear your plate or you won't get up" people. God, I hated that. I SWORE that when I grew up and had kids, I would never make them eat anything they didn't like. Try it, yes, but if they didn't like it, they didn't have to eat it. Adults don't! Why should children?!
As you can see, this is an issue I have carried with me my entire life. I still resent my grandmother for that and she knows it. Case in point - she and I were having lunch about a month ago at a little Greek deli and I got a salad. Took the tomatoes and black olives (which I still cannot stand) out. The exchange that followed:
YiaYia: WHAT are you doing?!?
Me: What do you mean? I'm eating.
YiaYia: You took out the best parts! No tomatoes? No olives?! What's wrong with you?
Me: I don't like them, YiaYia. You know this!
YiaYia: I don't care! They're good for you!
Me: No! HA! I'm grown now, YiaYia, and you can't make me eat anything I don't like anymore! WHOO HOO!
LOL!
I do find that I like squash now, though, and I hated it as a kid. Also a little easier to eat onions, though they must be well disguised or cooked. Mushrooms? Still hate 'em. I'm a texture person and they make me think of worms. Ew.
Spinach and green beans. Now, I love them in all forms.
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