Is there a food you’ve always hated but have suddenly come to like?

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I hate soup. All soup. Every flavour. Always have done.

And yet for the last 2 weeks I’ve eaten nothing but pea and ham soup! I had Covid and the only thing I felt like eating was this, and now it’s all I eat and I can’t stop! It’s most strange.

Is there anything you’ve come to love that you’ve always disliked?

Liver. After being put off by school dinners I love the stuff now. Chopped liver that you get in Jewish Delis is amazing.
I think your tastes change as you get older. Olives for me too.

Curry. I blame school dinners. I couldn't stand the stuff, they put sultanas in it and I still can't abide fruit with meat. They very smell made me gag.

Went to a friends for a girly night and she had madeThai green chicken curry. It was a case of either eat it or go hungry (and also embarras the host) so I ate it and loved it. Eat all sorts of curry now (as long as they are not too hot).

It’s so strange isn’t it? I guess our palates mature or some such nonsense, but to go from actively hating something - not just avoiding it or disliking it but hating it - to eating it all the time! We are weird :)

jalapeños and other chillis
pineapple on pizza
coleslaw

Mayonnaise. I’m in my 50s, went to Amsterdam and had homemade mayo with chips and was sad I couldn’t lick the plate.

Avocados. Only started eating them after my DD was born. Before that I hated the smell and texture

Cucumber. I had hated it since childhood then suddenly realised it wasn't that bad, and now I quite like it. I have it quite often in salads and on kebabs and burgers, although I wouldn't eat it on its own.
Tomatoes (raw) I still hate though.

Ginger. Hated ginger for 33y. Got covid, now love it!

also sushi, properly discovered it at 32y and now just sad at all those missed sushi opportunities!

Liver. Mum (who was otherwise a good cook) could transform it into burnt cork. Horrible. Tried it at a poncy restaurant out of curiosity a while back-delicious!

I have a couple.

Olives. They always tasted like perfume to me, until I had a really good one when eating out. It was like it triggered a switch in my tastebuds and now I find myself craving them from time to time.

Also, coriander. As a child I hated it. As an adult I cannot get enough of it!

And I know it's not a food, but sparkling water. I always thought it was foul and had a weird taste. I then had some when abroad on holiday and again it was like a switch. Very refreshing!

Same hear with cheese. When I was a child, I used to think it smelled like sick!
This just was very plain, mild, rubbery supermarket Cheddar. Couldn’t eat it.

About ten years ago I changed my mind when I was given some Roquefort and I’ve loved cheese ever since. The Cheddar has to be extra mature though.
Have always adored marmite, so never a problem there 😀

Not sure it's our palate maturing or just our taste buds dying!

I’ve always hated nuts, famously amongst all my friends who have experienced the horror of me finding nuts have been added to a pudding or etc - not allergic but just never liked the taste.

Been through menopause now (I sort of think this is relevant) and a while back, I ate an ice cream which later turned out to have nuts added and I hadn’t noticed, whereas before I would have immediately spat it out. So I tried nicking some of DP’s dry roast peanuts and OMG they are now my go-to savoury snack. Very weird.

I've never like peppers or cucumbers. In the last few years though I have started eating them. I used to avoid anything with them in, or pick them out of salads. I can tolerate them enough to eat them now although if they were the main part of a dish I would choose something else.

Blue cheese, my parents seemed to eat Stilton and crackers every evening growing up and I hated the smell of it. I had some at university (trying to impress a boy with my sophistication) and I loved it.

Mostly vegan atm though so haven’t had any for a while…

Red wine. I absolutely hated it as a teen / young adult and suddenly started appreciating it in my 30s.

I never liked fruit cake

Posted too soon somehow! I never liked fruit cake, mince pies, Eccles cakes etc until I got pregnant and then I've e liked them ever since!

Coffee. Hated even the smell of it, and never used to understand why everyone else happily wandered around all morning with rank coffee breath. But I had ridiculous coffee cravings in pregnancy, and it's stuck with me. I absolutely can't handle the caffeine though, so I only drink decaf (which I used to find the most bizarre option of all- gross bean water without even any oomph 🤣🤣)

Ham sandwiches. I am pregnant though. I used to hate any plain, meaty sandwich, but now I crave them!

Probably for another thread, but has the reverse happened and you can no longer eat, or drink, something?

I recently, well past couple of years, went off tea, the sort you usually add milk to. I still like the herbal kind.

Coriander. Gin. Love them both now.

Wine. But I think I know the reason, wasn’t an inexplicable overnight change.

I've never liked eggs but when pregnant I craved scrambled eggs... I eat them now and again these days but generally find eggs, single cell, stinkiness, texture, utterly revolting.

I hated peanut butter with a passion until I was pregnant with my daughter, and then it was all I wanted to eat for ages. Still love it.