Hurlabrick

Onions, Liver, Kidneys, Gooseberry, Baked beans, Shellfish, Marmite.


Only started to eat shellfish 5 years ago (into my 50's!!).


The really great discoveries I made when I moved to the UK as a teenager were custard and apricot jam!

Pica

Tapioca for sure is vile and worse than anything I've been encouraged to eat my whole life - mushy chip shop peas. Can't bring myself to eat cockles, mussels etc, they remind me of ladies intimate parts !

GermanytoCanada

Even 30 years on, the thought of primary school semolina and tapioca still makes me feel nauseous.

Also never wanted to try tea or coffee - probably not many 35 year old Brits who have never tried either.

Shard

G2C, you should try tea and coffee, you might enjoy it. A lot of adults do.

Shard

This thread is supposed to be foods you did not enjoy as a kid, but now do. Not what foods have you never liked. It's implied in the title, but I guess next time I had better spell it out.

GermanytoCanada

Thanks for the invite Shard. I have managed this long without an addiction to caffeine so no point developing one now. Amazes me how people in their younger years can't function properly without coffee to wake them up.

To get you back on to your intended thread...

Mussels and brussel sprouts- hated them as a child but love them both now (although rarely during the same meal).

BristolUK

Why would enjoying coffee or tea result in addiction to caffeine?

Oink

Sushi
Booze
Meat that looked like meat
Onions
Tea
Lox
Eggs
Shellfish
Crab

HGerchikov

I think we have the same parents! I have followed a similar approach with my kids.

Shirtback

My food "yucks" from childhood stem from boarding school meals & being forced to stay at the table until I'd finished my plate*. I was ~30 before I got over spinach/prune (not served together!) aversions.

Tapioca pudding, even today, would be a big fat NO! I can't even look at pictures of the stuff .

*I shall be forever grateful to the lovely dinner lady who whisked *that* plate of spinach mush away behind Sister-in-charge-of-the-refectory's back and who shoved me out the back kitchen door, after I'd sat for 4 hours looking anywhere but at it.

Souvy

Semolina and other variants of frog spawn, I learned to hate as a child.

Ditto beetroot and yoghurt.

I will not be in the same room as custard.

mikelincs

Sprouts
School dinners, but that wasn't helped by bullies who would liberally salt everything, Only stayed for the one week, after that I walked home every lunchtime.

Shirtback

Oh yeah, I forgot custard.

I won't/don't/never have been able to do custard. (Even before boarding school .).

Souvy

Just thinking about it makes me want to vomit.

I seriously narked the belle-mere a couple of Christmases a couple of years ago. She served up a turkey and then questioned why I was only eating the veg.

"Because I hate turkey" went down like a sac of marde. I got the kind of look that would make Hell freeze over. Criticising grandma's (brown) cooking is a crime.

Shirtback

She shouldn't have asked !