Was there a veggie you resisted for years only to find you liked it when you tried it?

Brussel sprouts

GirlWithCookies wrote: »

Sweet potato (not sure if this counts)

Why would it not?

Parsnips.

I thought I would like Radicchio but one taste convinced me otherwise.

Most of them...

Almost all vegetables I hated when I was growing up. After getting married, my husband taught me how to cook them, and I fell in love with pretty much all of them. Brussels, cabbage, spinach, onions, zucchini, squash, etc!!

Mushrooms love them now.

I can’t think of any vegetables that I dismissed without trying. Who does that?

What did happen is that I stopped being able to taste whatever chemical it was I didn’t like in some vegetables.

The obvious example is mushrooms. I hated them as a child. My parents kept trying to make me eat them; they used to hide them in strong-tasting food, because they were convinced I just ‘thought’ I hated the taste. After all, mushrooms don’t have a strong enough taste to hate, right?

Wrong. I could taste the tiniest amount of mushroom in any amount of other foods. My parents only stopped trying to sneak them past me when I detected them in a ready meal - my father got the pack out of the bin to show me there were no mushrooms in it and discovered that there actually were!

Sometime in my twenties, all that changed. I love mushrooms now, but I also don’t find them strong-tasting anymore and don’t notice whether they’re in things or not. Similarly I love mustard, onion, Chinese and Indian food - all the strong tastes that I couldn’t tolerate as a child.

I think I just don’t have such sensitive tastebuds anymore.

Never resisted/refused to eat any veg.

Exposed to many exotic veggies in my mother's home, including bitter melon. Ate them all.

Some of my faves were the ones others hated (or thought they did): broccoli, brussel sprouts, asparagus and artichokes.

I mostly ate every veggie my parents did, which were plain by some standards. I only like pumpkin mixed with potato, so orange mash. Cabbage I like raw, or in Asian dishes. Mum used to over cook carrots, so I only liked them raw. We ate a lot of salads, and stews. We didn't eat spinach unless it was in the lettuce mix, and I wasn't a fan of broccoli. I don't remember eating mushrooms. As an adult I love broccoli, baby spinach and mushrooms. I think we ate well growing up, but as I've gotten older I have expanded what I eat.

One of my kids only eats potatoes. She is Autistic and gets very anxious about food. She however loves herbs, especially Italian ones. So when we make pizza or pasta we load up. She will sometimes try a new food, if she isn't pressured. My youngest is will to try almost anything, but don't eat potato unless it's in chip form. She loves spinach, carts and red capsicum (pepper) the most.

aubergine, I love that stuff!

I did not like green peppers as a kid. I did taste them and did not like them. As I got older I couldn't be bothered to pick them off my pizza and started liking them.
I was anti sweet potato until I discovered you could actually eat them without dumping marshmallows and sugar on them. I like them pretty plain with salt and pepper or chili powder.

There are vegetables I have not tried like a rhutabaga or turnip because they were not commonly eaten by people I know. I never had a vegetable that I refused to even taste though.

I see several consider mushrooms a vegetable. It is not even a plant though? I've always loved mushrooms but never counted them as a vegetable.

glamourxscars wrote: »

Brussel Sprouts & Cabbage

Same!

Cauliflower

Yams, sweet potatoes, and various squash.

There are still several I dislike. Brussel sprouts come to mind. An ex of mine told his sister they were baby cabbage patch kids. :laugh:

I only ate cucumbers and carrots until past 15. Then only developed a love for peppers at 22. Now I am 37 and I love all of them except raw onions (texture thing). I can't imagine a meal without a variety of veggies raw or cooked.