Foods you hated as a kid!

[EddMarkStarr]

The first time I ate cottage cheese I was 5 years old.
I actually got sick and ran to the bathroom.

Bullwinkle's got nothing on me!

 

[Charon]

I actually grew up to like the food I hated as a kid.

Except liver, that shit's still nasty to me.

 

[gsdx]

Turnip, onions, and squash in any form. Mom used to try to hide mashed turnip in the mashed potatoes. (I still get shivers down my spine just thinking about it.)

Beef liver was something of a staple at our house when I was growing up. I didn't mind it and I still don't. Unfortunately, it's rare to find it at FreshCo.

 

[Rickrock]

I didn't like spinach and still don't but I'll eat some now. There must have been more, but I don't remember them now.

 

[EddMarkStarr]

I actually grew up to like the food I hated as a kid.

Except liver, that shit's still nasty to me.

Yeah Charon, I made peace with most of my hated foods.

I remember one morning my grandma was eating a bowl of Grape Nuts cereal. I talked her into letting me try some.
It was like trying to eat milk covered rocks. Grandma just laughed at me.

 

[NotHardUp1]

It's funny to think of anyone hiding turnips in potato dishes, as if turnips were more nutritious or less expensive than potatoes. People are so funny.

I had a real problem with picked beets, or just canned beets. Today, I can recall having freshly prepared beets only one time in Alaska that caused me to enjoy them. Otherwise, I just endure it and play the adult and eat them without comment if served.

Mother loved to cook butterbeans, and to this day I despise their papery skins, and find them unappealing unless laced with pork. But, I love fresh butterbeans, especially Fordhooks, and baby Limas. The dried ones can stay dried for all I care though.

Mussels leave me cold. I've had them in fine restaurants, watched them served on great cooking shows, but still resent there being shells in my pasta dish, and don't find the rubbery little contents appealing. They just look like artsy fartsy crap to me. However, I am glad others do enjoy them.

 

[Nealm1]

Cheese - I can eat cheese on pizza now but not uncooked cheese yuk

 

[Alistair]

Brussel sprouts and asparagus. I would puke if I had them as a kid, I love both now.

 

[peeonme]

Oat meal, corn flakes, fig newtons and bologna. I still ate them as the penalty was worse than the food.
Since I started buying my own food, none of these foods are purchased.

 

[gsdx]

It's funny to think of anyone hiding turnips in potato dishes, as if turnips were more nutritious or less expensive than potatoes. People are so funny.

There were 7 kids in our family (5 boys, 2 girls). I ate them only because I had to. One brother and Mom & Dad liked them that way. The other 5 kids didn't really like them, but tolerated them.

I never received a single instant of pleasure in my entire life from eating turnip.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

Anything with a bone in it. Ribs, porkchops, chicken wings. I don't care if that's where the flavor lives its presence makes me cringe, also any meat with lots of rubbery fat on it.

 

[Vannie]

My Dad ate three or four things that grossed me out.

1-Smoked eel that he would buy down the Jersey shore

2-Vita brand pickled herring in sour cream

3-Fresh caught blue fish

4-Liver and onions

Still don't eat any of that today.

And don't come near me with anchovies!

 

[EJMichaels]

Aside from a very brief childhood dislike of tomato-based foods such as ketchup and red pasta sauces, the only food I remember hating was cucumber. That lasted until I was about 45 years old. I vaguely remember disliking some other vegetables, but my parents didn't continue to serve foods the kids didn't like. They ate them, but didn't say we had to. I somehow turned out to like just about all foods as an adult.

 

[gsdx]

And don't come near me with anchovies!

Okay. I won't. I promise.

 

[gsdx]

the only food I remember hating was cucumber.

I've always loved cucumbers. We grew them when I was a kid and I would sneak into the patch and eat them fresh off the vine. I still buy seedless cuckes, slice them up (peels and all) and eat them as a snack. (The peels have all sorts of vitamins and fibre.)

 

[Vannie]

I remember hating was cucumber. That lasted until I was about 45 years old.

I've always loved cucumbers. We grew them when I was a kid and I would sneak into the patch and eat them fresh off the vine. I still buy seedless cuckes, slice them up (peels and all) and eat them as a snack. (The peels have all sorts of vitamins and fibre.)

I still munch on them as a snack dipped in some red wine vinegar or with a pinch of salt.

Okay. I won't. I promise.

 

[tarallucci]

Basically the same food I don't like now: cotechino, ovine meat, wild boar, horse meat, rabbit, birds, lungs/liver/brain/heart and disgusting parts like that, blood pudding, tripe, most chinese food I haven't tried which I don't find appetizing, mustard, cabbage, polenta, eel, overdone pasta, caviar, fresh mushrooms, leerdammer...

 

[EddMarkStarr]

Basically the same food I don't like now: cotechino, ovine meat, wild boar, horse meat, rabbit, birds, lungs/liver/brain/heart and disgusting parts like that, blood pudding, tripe, most chinese food I haven't tried which I don't find appetizing, mustard, cabbage, polenta, eel, overdone pasta, caviar, fresh mushrooms, leerdammer...

After all these years tarallucci I still have a problem with mushrooms - they have no flavor to me!
Food with no flavor really bugs me.

 

[Alistair]

After all these years tarallucci I still have a problem with mushrooms - they have no flavor to me!
Food with no flavor really bugs me.

Water chestnuts. Like chewing ice cubes.

(Though at a classy wedding reception at the country club, I had some delicious bacon wrapped water chestnut appetizers that were amazing!)

 

[TickTockMan]

Canned spinach

Liver


Onions - I like the flavor, but not the texture of some.