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

[Giggorata]

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

Opps. X-post squishee

Sleeping

Custard

Sleep
Vegetables

All vegetables apart from peas. To be fair they were put on to cook when the meat went in 🤦🏻‍♀️

Sport. I now run a lot. I didn't do any sport as a child unless I had to (except for swimming lessons and riding my bike).

Conversely I was quite musical and was in my school and county choirs but now do nothing musical at all.

Charity shops
Bargain bins in supermarkets (I used to cringe and scoff so much if my mum went near one when I went shopping with her!)
Sprouts / Peas / Beans
Spicy food
Early nights
Coffee
Walking to places

Walking.
Fish.
Curry.
Pasta.
Rice.
Exercise.

Meat
Radio 4

Having a nap
Green beans
'Looking at the scenery' on a car journey.
I also made a firm promise to myself as a child that when I grew up I would eat cake batter raw instead of baking it

Mushrooms. Always found the slimey and errr, fungus ffs! Am 39 this year and discovered bout 2 years ago I quite like them now. Still don't like tea though, don't think I ever will.

Beetroot

stately homes
second hand bookshops
opera
walks
coffee
baths
exercise

Stately homes/Châteaux etc
Museums/Art Galleries
Walking
Chutney
Tomatoes
Beetroot

Running.
Olives.

The news!!...😆...I love watching it and reading it...🤓
Documentaries.. ☺️
Watching darts.. 🎯
Cleaning and tidying ..😄
Walking the dog.. 🐕
World Cup football only!
🙈...I feel so old now ... ☹️

Oh I forgot... I've cream... Oh I absolutely hated it as a kid, the texture..🤢..When it was a lovely hot day and all the kids in my cul-de-sac were playing out together, mums and dads would take turns buying us all am ice cream 🍦... I used to say thank you 😊 tell my friends I'm just going to the toilet ..🙄...and make mum eat it!...😆..and I would walk out with just the cone...😂..Honestly That has made giggle 🤭

Olives

Castle ruins, stately homes and art galleries.

Pretty places. My mum always tried to reassure me I’d like wherever it was we had to visit because ‘it was really pretty’. As an 8 year old with limitless energy if it didn’t have an adventure playground I really wasn’t interested.

Classical music
Curry
Chinese food
Spinach
Coffee
Red wine

Black olives, cauliflower, sprouts

Tea
Coffee
Healthy eating
Running
Male friends

The smell of carpet shops
Blue cheese
Horseradish sauce
Spicy food

Visiting National Trust properties
Shopping

I used to be so scared of dogs as a child now I have 2. A bullmastiff and a border collie. I couldn't be without them now!
Didn't try beetroot till a year ago and absolutely love it.
Mince
Cheese
Onions
Tea
Coffee
Chilli sauce
Baked beans