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What did you hate as a child but love, or even quite like now?

85 replies

Giggorata · 27/02/2019 00:19

Inspired by the other thread: what were you surprised to find has grown on you, or isn’t so bad as you thought?

For me:

Tea shops
Opera
Cream
Charity shops
Documentaries
Snakes

OP posts:
icouldwriteabook · 27/02/2019 00:21

Views and countryside
Staying at home
Going to bed
Sleeping on my front
Vegetables
Not getting everything you want
Chinese food!
Sunbathing
Coffee shops

Lurleene · 27/02/2019 00:26

Mushrooms. I couldn't go near them for years because my sister told me they were cooked slugs. I love them now though.

HeathRobinson · 27/02/2019 02:42

Brussels sprouts!

Blondie1984 · 27/02/2019 03:32

Fish
Opera/classical music
Rice pudding
Antiques Roadshow and Countdown
Nuts

BlameItOnBianca · 27/02/2019 03:40

Sandwiches
Radio 2
Sports on a Sunday
Shopping!

lottielady · 27/02/2019 03:42

Sprouts

Justagirlwholovesaboy · 27/02/2019 03:56

Nope I’m stubborn, everything I hated as a child I still hate. I wish I didn’t

penisbeakers · 27/02/2019 04:05

Mushrooms.
Onions.
Red wine. Oh wait I wasn't supposed to have red wine as a child right?

Oops.
🤭

HarrySnotter · 27/02/2019 06:43

Going for a wander round a garden centre. Absolutely purgatory as a kid, now one of my favourite things to do.

Radio 2

Having time on my own.

SneakyGremlins · 27/02/2019 06:45

Gardening.

Vegetables! Apparently there's more ways to cook them then just boiling them. Who knew?

Foonababoonalagoona · 27/02/2019 06:50

Shopping
Sunday's
Cheddar cheese

Notso · 27/02/2019 06:54

Radio 4
Having nothing to do
Early nights
Having a shower, still hate baths though
Drinking water
Going for a walk in the countryside

Scootingthebreeze · 27/02/2019 07:05

Parsnips
Sunsets

Bluesheep8 · 27/02/2019 07:07

Liver
Radio 4

TroysMammy · 27/02/2019 07:10

Yogurt

TeddyIsaHe · 27/02/2019 07:12

Watching Countryfile on a Sunday. God it was a fate worse than death when little. Now I don’t feel like I’ve had a Sunday if I don’t watch it!

Food shopping
Early nights/naps
Going for walks

BloggersNet · 27/02/2019 07:15

Sitting down!!

Livpool · 27/02/2019 08:10

Napping 😴

Longtalljosie · 27/02/2019 08:13

Salad
Radio 4

AnneProtheroe · 27/02/2019 08:24

Lentils, beans, chickpeas, Pearl barley etc basically all pulses. Used to retch and be unable to eat them now they're a standard may be a major part of my diet.

The only thing that has remained vile to me, is dark green cabbage. My mother used to overcook it and put huge leaves of it on my dinner and then insist I sat there until it was eaten. (the starving children in Ethiopia would go mad for that)

I still can feel I'm going to puke even seeing it in its uncooked state in the supermarket!

BrendaUrie · 27/02/2019 08:26

Mushrooms, fish and red meat.
Daytime naps.
Orange chocolate.
Being alone.
Scary films

Grumpbum123 · 27/02/2019 08:27

Eggs and snakes

Afonavon · 27/02/2019 08:31

Radio 4
Olives
Broccoli
Lie ins
Sparkling water
Tea

BrexitIsComing · 27/02/2019 08:32

Lamb
Parsnips
Exercise (asthma medication actually helps now!)
Being alone
Going to bed early

aliceelizaloves · 27/02/2019 08:43

Coffee
Wine
Christmas cake/pudding/mince pies
Walks
Historical attractions
Radio 4
Classical music
Museums

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