Tamales.
First time I had one, I was like 6 or 7 and nobody told me you're supposed to remove the corn husk.
Turns out they're pretty good if you're not eating the corn husk wrapper. ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
Same with Babel cheese and the wax.
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Asparagus. It turns out that canned asparagus is gross but steamed is great.
Bacon. My first taste was of boiled bacon. It was like chewing on a fucking pencil eraser. I hated it, but my mom would insist on putting some small cubes on the beans to "give a taste" (it didn't). Took me some time to finally experiment one that was fried to a crispy dryness. Infinitely better.
My first taste was of boiled bacon. It was like chewing on a fucking pencil eraser.
๐คฎ๐คข That sounds terrible. I would have been thrown off by that too. I like the crispy kind myself. I found a soggy piece of bacon when I was eating some green beans as a kid. I stopped eating it for a few years after that.
Fermented foods. They definitely changed my taste buds the more I eat/drank them.
Dirty vocals in death and doom metal
I think for me, like 5% of total lyrics is my limit; if it's all so screamy/growly/distorted that I can't understand it, I've lost interest.
Same for me until I started listening to some bands like Helevorn, Woods of Ypres, and Ghost Brigade. Iโm into the more melodic genres.
Sean Killian's vocals from Vio-lence.
No Rain by Blind Melon
Gardening.
Previously my only gardening experience was my mom yelling at me to weed outside in the hot summer sun.
Now that I live alone, I started getting potted plants, and there is something wonderful about sharing my space with green growing things. I have a few that have really taken to the environment and amount of sunlight, watching them grow is wonderful. Marveling when one of my little planty bois randomly flowers, and there's something so stress-relieving about digging your hands into soil when it's time to re-pot.
Yeah, I'm getting back into gardening despite the whole being yelled at to help garden as a kid! Also if the plants die, when I cry over them, I won't be told I'm being melodramatic!
I'm not going to say I "love" them now, but I appreciate onions' use in cooking and flavour profiles now. Whereas when I was younger, anything I ate had to have no onion in it whatsoever.
Green vegetables
Grunge, especially Pearl Jam
Old people cars... I'm old people now I guess
Farming. I worked on the neighboring farm as a teenager. Then, after a long series of jobs and education, became a software engineer. Being a software engineer taught me something: I miss working on a farm.
Yeah, there's the joke that jr engineers want to be sr engineers and sr engineers want to be farmers (or woodworkers or whatnot). I like both, but I definitely need the balance of doing something physical and working with my hands.
Cheese. Until I lived in Europe and discovered there was more than American and cheddar.
Also the "cheddar" that is normally found in USA is really just another heavily processed American-style cheese with a different color. It's very different than an English cheddar or a vintage cheddar.
Good cheese accessability is better today for sure, although I'm certain lots of folks in the US even back then were getting good cheese. Just not my family. We were lower middle-income, and my folks didn't know any better. And may not have cared; neither has shown a passion for cheese even in the modern market.
as a kid I really hated mushrooms bc of the texture. now I love them so long as they aren't on their own (on a burger or smth like that).
I have a mushroom phobia. Can't even see them without getting goosebumps.
Sex, as a kid it sounded like a disgusting idea filled with disgusting bodily fluids. As an adult my logical part still finds it disgusting every now and again while my monkey part is horny non-stop.
Also bitter foods, they kind of grow on you as you age
Mobile gaming. I still kind of hate it but after finding some good games and using emulators, I've grown to except it and I do actively play games on mobile now.
The song "I Could Never Be Your Woman" by White Town.
I think probably because I wasn't yet comfortable with my own sexuality.
Good song. Creator is active on mastodon as well. Sometimes streams on twitch.
Parmigiano Reggiano
Curry.
Onions.
As a kid I thought they were alien and gross, and now thinking back I can still see that. But at some point, I had a burger with minced onions on it and was like "oh these things are great" and was a fan ever since. My onion smell is physical dominance ๐ช
Grilled onions are the BOMB. Especially if you get a sweet onion like a Walla Walla.
Thought I hated pasta, turns out, it was just the cheese, not the actual pasta.
Onions, garlic, a few other foods. After I went vegan I had to make a lot more of my own food, and knowing what went into it and how it was made helped me get over a lot of my picky eating.
Still hate peppers though.
For peppers (and, now that I think of it, quite a lot of vegetables), try grilling them.
Maillard reaction is your friend!
Thanks, I'll give it a shot!
Anime lol
Turn-based RPGs.
Although only very few of those are in my top favorites, but back then DESPISED the genre, because of a really bad experience playing one as a child.
Tomatoes! I dunno of Mom started cooking them better or my palate got less restrictive but I'll eat them a lot these days.
Pickles. Used to hate em, now I will eat dangerous quantities in one sitting.