Shard

So I find myself eating a bowl of Spanish olives, Feta and sun-dried tomatoes. No way would I have even considered any of these items as a kid, let alone the combination! Any other acquired tastes out there?

withabix

I still wouldn't eat olives or feta....

Raw oysters are something I've only recently acquired a taste for. My wife just about spews watching me eat them...

moneypenny20

Not sure those foods even existed outside the Mediterranean area when I was a kid. I think I was fairly open to foods as a kid, although I loathed carrots and being forced to eat them, now I choose to eat them Other foods I would have vomited over, I still would; parsnips, beetroot, tripe to name but three.

Smoked Salmon probably never appeared in the house back then, can't imagine not having it now.

Shard

Actually, there are plenty of olives I dislike, especially the horrible ones in jars. Kalamata olives (brown Greek variety) are really nice if you ever decide to give them a try. Healthy too!

Raw oysters...double yuk. I can't look either.

Oink

I remember watching my mum eating steak tartare and thinking it was gross but I like it now. But really any adult food back then as I mainly survived on nachos, string cheese and smurf berry crunch cereal.

magnumpi

Anything green and leafy, now I eat all greens and many leafs.

Never liked liquorice and never will

beckiwoo

I never liked that stuff.

Cucumbers are something I always hated as a kid but after having them in China with garlic and spices I got to like them.

dave_j

shellfish..

Danny B

Rice pudding

dbd33

Today, in the office, we were looking on mls at a house someone just bought when a Chinese chap walked by with a cucumber. "His lunch" boggled an Indian. "They eat them" explained an Italian, sounding dubious about the enterprise.

This led me to think I'd best not bring cucumber sandwiches for fear of being considered odd.

scrubbedexpat091

I am a picky eater both as child and adult, and generally what I eat now is what I ate then, a few things I have added since though:

Asparagus
Broccoli
Carrots if not cooked
Feta cheese
Lamb

BristolUK

Nothing really. I was encouraged to try everything.

bats

Ooooo goody two shoes

I'll eat stuff like cabbage and spinach now that I refused as a child. There are a few things that I ate then that won't eat now such as prawns and crab which now make me feel quite icky. I won't even try oysters and scallops. The town I was brought up in had many immigrants with various delis and restaurants. I remember my friends and me used to run past the Italian deli holding our noses. Now I'd be in there looking for the lovely stinky cheeses.

My parents went for meat and two veg cooking. I didn't even get to eat spaghetti until I was 19. By then I'd left home and moved to London so food choices were much greater and I was more adventurous.

Piff Poff

I too was encouraged to try everything, if we didn't like it we didn't have to eat it. The same philosophy was given to alcohol too. Very strange parents!

Siouxie

Tapioca (aka frogspawn)
Butterbeans

Still can't eat either.

Other than that, nope, pretty much ate anything I was given and will still eat just about anything!