What food/drink did you love when you were a child, but can't stomach now?
Copper_Boom
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Strawberry flavored milk. Just the thought of it makes me gag a little.
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Coke. It's like drinking a bottle of acid. More so than any other cola/ soda, other than maybe Pepsi. But I've never liked Pepsi anyway.1
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Brussels Sprouts. I absolutely loved them as a kid. Now, I don't like them cooked in any way.
The reverse is true for broccoli though. Can't get enough of it now.2 -
Blue cheese, coconut macaroons and marshmallows (ate too many of those last two and still have a pretty significant taste aversion to them)1
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Malt O Meal, either flavor.1
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Any super sugary candy (Pixie Sticks, Fun Dip, etc).4
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Soda especially orange and grape, cheese from a can, sugary breakfast cereals1
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Iceberg lettuce and ketchup sandwiches on white bread.
I mean....WHY...HOW?
But I went through a phase when I wanted that for lunch every day.
My mom eventually made me stop because she was afraid the school would think we were poor.6 -
skelterhelter wrote: »Any super sugary candy (Pixie Sticks, Fun Dip, etc).
Yeah, I was just thinking of these. I didn't love them as a kid, but I enjoyed them well enough, and not the idea makes me gag.
Orange pop, that was what I always got if we went to McD's.
Fish sticks.1 -
Packaged snack cakes like Twinkies, Lil' Debbie cakes, etc. I used to get them in my lunches when I was a kid and loved them. Now they don't even taste like food.3
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Packaged snack cakes like Twinkies, Lil' Debbie cakes, etc. I used to get them in my lunches when I was a kid and loved them. Now they don't even taste like food.
I agree with this one, definitely. I lived for Ding Dongs and Little Debbies as a kid and preteen. By high school they grossed me out. I even worked for Wonder Hostess right out of college and did not want the endless free snack cakes that were available. I lost like 15 lb without trying being around all that stuff daily (I needed to lose 115+ lb but still it was cool).
Also agree with the strawberry milk! I liked it even 4-5 years ago but tried a little bottle of Nesquik strawberry recently and it just tasted like pink, sugar flavored milk to me, I couldn't even get a strawberry flavor from that - except if I used my imagination, I guess.
Unfortunately, I still love most of the stuff I did as a kid though...Oreos & Famous Amos cookies with milk for dipping, cheeseburgers from just about any fast food place, pepperoni deep dish from Pizza Hut, and I'd probably still take down one of the XL meatballs-and-cheese Hot Pockets, given the chance.
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Mayo sandwiches. Ugh why?3
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Lemon marinated raw fish or gelatinous seaweed pie.4
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Eggo's waffles, it is nothing but pure sugar.11
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Pickles2
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Oh, I thought of one! As a kid, I used to break a piece of American cheese into quarters, put each on a saltine, and heat them in the microwave. Best after school snack ever, IM (as a child) O. Now, I haven't had a saltine in ages, and don't like American cheese.
Another, Nilla wafers in milk. I'd dunk them longer and longer until the milk was filled with cookie and then drink it.3 -
Velvetta, Cheese Whiz, cereal, canned vegetables
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I've been trying to think of one, but I think I'd pretty much eat anything I would eat as a kid. Not that I would make the same choices now because some aren't the best for diet/nutrition, but from a palette perspective, I would still enjoy it all.
My palette has gone the other way. There are a ton of things now that I enjoy that I wouldn't have been able to stomach as a kid. Avocados, pretty much any spicy food, salads, cake, and a whole bunch else I enjoy now that I wouldn't have touched back then.6 -
WATERMELON. THEY AREN'T THE SAME AS THE ONES THAT HAD SEEDS. NOT AS SWEET AND HAVE TO PICK ALL THOSE LITTLE SEED SHELLS OUT. I DON'T LIKE EATING THEM. AND JELLO. I FOUND OUT WHAT IT WAS. AND LET ME NOT FORGET GRAPE KOOL-AID. THANKS TO JIM JONES.5
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Soft boiled eggs.2
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I did not woo, but if I had to posit a reason, it would be the mischaracterization of Eggos as "nothing but pure sugar." Eggos actually have almost no sugar in them. A serving of 2 Eggo waffles (70 grams) only contains 2 grams of sugar in them.9 -
Yeah, I didn't woo either (and haven't had an Eggo in over 30 years), but almost corrected the claim. Even if one is calling all carbs sugar (which is intentionally obfuscatory), it wouldn't be true, as nearly a third of the calories are from fat and there's a little protein. As noted above, 2 g of sugar, of which only 1 g is added sugar.9
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The abomination that is American "cheese", strawberry milk, kashi (tears up my stomach), oatmeal (unfortunately, can't tolerate GI-wise..nothing against taste/texture), and pretty much any sugar laden garbage "snacks" or candies3
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I used to drink a bunch of Yoo-hoo as a kid, but it tastes like liquid cardboard. Not sure what I was thinking other than being happy to drink some sort of chocolate milk.
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Revels candy, chocolate eclairs candies, Lord Toffingham ice cream bar, walnut whips, fried bread with egg, shepherds pie.2
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Anything super sugary, as someone mentioned (just can't)... Regular ol' milk (srsly, I'd drink that *kitten* so often)... Cheese and mayonnaise sandwiches. I mean, SLATHERED, falling out of the sandwich, mayonnaise as a main ingredient.
Don't judge me. We weren't watched as kids, I had so many bad food habits from taking care of myself. .___.2 -
There is a cheese spread served on bread at one of my favorite restaurants https://clearmansrestaurants.com/northwoods-inn/
I was nuts about it as a kid.
Recently I had it again and thought "Meh, it tastes like there's mayonnaise in it"
Although maybe they changed the recipe?
This is supposedly the recipe - maybe this recipe is better than what they serve now in the restaurant.
https://www.jamhands.net/2008/04/daily-recipe-north-woods-inn-garlic.html
The restaurant also serves red cabbage salad, which I used to love. When I last had it, it seemed more oily and less tangy than I remembered.1 -
Spaghettios. Any variation is just sickly sweet to me now.4
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As a child, my favorite bedtime snack was chocolate milk alongside a good-sized hunk of peeled cucumber. I still love cucumber unreasonably much, but rarely drink chocolate milk (offered, I could take it or leave it). I don't eat them side by side, but the idea doesn't totally gag me.
Another thing I liked was those frozen breaded fish sticks, still frozen (don't panic; they're pre-cooked). I can't imagine enjoying them that way now. (Although I'm vegetarian now, that's not why I wouldn't like them.) Yikes!
I also remember eating Milk Bone dog biscuits, but that was more an experiment than an actual eating preference. Not that tasty, as I recall.1 -
Yeah, I didn't woo either (and haven't had an Eggo in over 30 years), but almost corrected the claim. Even if one is calling all carbs sugar (which is intentionally obfuscatory), it wouldn't be true, as nearly a third of the calories are from fat and there's a little protein. As noted above, 2 g of sugar, of which only 1 g is added sugar.
I didn't "woo" the original Eggo comment either but I thought pretty much the same thing. To me it's more in the glorified toast category than "sugary breakfast".5
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