Foods that are an acquired taste

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I'll go first wasabi

Olives. Love them now but it took me over 20 years.

Avocados - although I haven't acquired it yet. 😖

Avocado. Tastes like what I imagine churned up mud would taste like 😂

I never had to acquire a taste for wasabi but avocado - which I love now - was another one that took me 20-odd years.

Weird, isn’t it?!

Capers?

Blue cheese..

Avocado, olives, pumpkin, raw tomatoes in salad

Loved everything mentioned so far at first taste, but for me it was coffee, and also seafood (not other fish).

Agree with all of those above - like them all now but it's been a journey with all of them!

Oysters

Yoghurt, been trying since the 1960s, Ski then, and still don't like them, more recently hummous but that's a thing with me and chick peas and also smelly cheeses, revolting.

Coffee, beer and sparkling water.

I never succeeded with wine

Avocado and blue cheese that isn't part of a soup or sauce

Took me to adulthood to appreciate aubergines, mushrooms and olives. Can't get enough of them now though

Olives, only liked them for the first time abroad and I’m still very picking with them.

I immediately thought olives, but I see they've been mentioned a few times. I will add:
Salmon- still don't like it but it's becoming tolerable.
Cucumber- took a while but love it now.
Melon- no.
Kiwi- no.
Oysters are probably no, but I confess I haven't actually tried them.

Spinach. When I was a child is was a muddy, gritty puddle. Now I eat it most days because it goes with everything. My DC always loved it from when they were tiny. They taught me to love it!

@ISeeTrees cucumber?? That's the first I've heard of it being acquired. Interesting! Agree about melon especially honey melon and salmon too, although I love it now

85% dark chocolate
Eat it when doing keto and have got used to it now

Watermelon- hate the texture
Parsnips
Anything with truffle in it -that isn't chocolate -- to me tastes like sick

Red wine, I'd been drinking white wine at home for years but I was mid 20s before I'd drink red voluntarily, and early 20s if it was given to me

Brussels sprouts. Hated them until I was pregnant with my first. I then started eating them day and night. I still love them, especially the ones that they sell with Marmite butter.

I don't think I'd ever tried pickled food until I met my Polish ex. Now I love (nearly) all of it - sauerkraut, pickled peppers, gherkins, pickled onions, jalapeños, pickled herring...

Pickled eggs can do one though 😆

Liver. Mum, wo was a good cook otherwise always turned it into burnt cork, school dinners like wise. Thirty years later saw it on a restaurant menu and tried out of curiosity. Bloody lovely.

Avacados me and my daughter love them son refuses to have it past his lips. Even though he loves every other fruit and veg.

Goat's cheese, smoked cheese

I love many cheeses, but not smoked or goat's