What foods did you have to get used to as an adult?

[nomorecrumbs]

In other words, what foods did you not grow up with, which you’ve had to get used to eating now as an adult? I grew up in a northern household and we weren’t well-off so it was mainly pies and stew!

I’ll start:
Pesto
Smoked salmon
Curry
Risotto
Steak
Sour cream/creme fraiche/mascapone
Asparagus
Olive oil

Why do you have to get used to eating them?

My list of what we didn't eat at home when I was growing up is similar to yours (except we did have steak occasionally) but I still don't eat some of them now. I don't like smoked salmon or asparagus so am not going to eat them or try to get used to them just because I am now an adult!

I’ve found that they’re really nice by my parents wouldn’t have dreamed of giving them to me and my siblings.

Blimey! T’would be a long list (child of the 70s and grew up poor). Just about anything not demonstrably a lamb chop, sausage, potato or vegetable indigenous to the British Isles.

Had to get used to eat has some negative tone in it, like you didn't want to. I don't think I have any of that.

I am Asian, so I started eating lots of western food as an adult. It's either I like them so I keep eating them, or I don't eat them ever again, like marmite.

Most vegetables, peppers, Chinese food and tofu. Became far less fussy once I became vegetarian.

For me, it was more that my parents bought a cheap version or cooked it wrong.
For years I ate dry bread because my parents used Marg and I wasn't a fan. Didn't know until late teens that butter was different and nice.

Also eggs, scramnled eggs were made in the microwave so rubbery or fried, so greasy. As an adult, I don't mind eggs now that I know how to cook it nicely.

I was told growing up that I didn't like spicy food.

My DM STI finds it amazing how 'international' my kids diet is. She will only eat one thing from the Chinese, a handful of Italian things, and 'British' food. Although, she did explain recently that the cooks in her boarding school weren't the best. Especially curry day, using the leftovers. (60s/70s boarding school, practical reasons not posh boarding school)

My diet today is pretty much the same as it was when I was a child in the 50s. I never felt the need to HAVE to get used to eating anything I didn't want to, hence I do not eat pasta, rice, garlic, olive oil, mushrooms, sour cream/creme fraiche/mascarpone, yoghurt, smoked salmon, oysters, pesto, pulses and beans, duck, game, venison, peppers, ALL foreign food.