Foods that are an acquired taste

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I'll go first wasabi

Honey.
I've tried it on and off for 40+ years and I still don't see what all the fuss is about.

Tarragon, avocado, oysters and coffee 🤢

Goats Cheese-like how I would imagine licking a goat would taste.
Avocado- just no.
Camembert - the smell as it cooks and the resulting gloop. 🤢
All seafood especially crustaceans 🦞

Love Wasabi, many people don’t realise it needs to be mixed with Soy sauce. Olives took me a while and I’m still trying with red wine. I hate avocado and blue cheese so maybe it’s just a case of persevering.

mayonaise

as a child I found it very gacky

Marmite and Vegemite. I only eat them for the nutritional value. I put them on toast under a thick layer of crunchy peanut butter and avocado and drink plenty of orange juice with it.

Anything smoked/bbq flavoured. I remember it setting off my morning sickness when pregnant with DD who is now 35!

I love seafood, wasabi, goats cheese, avocado, olives, mussels, coffee etc

I loathe aniseed

Agree with goats cheese. You have to get your head around it not tasting like ‘normal’ English hard cheese first. Then it’s delicious. Same as blue cheese. Accept that mould isn’t always horrible and you can taste how fabulous Stilton is.

Had to get used to black coffee as I don’t do milk and don’t drink substitutes for ethical reasons. Can’t imagine ever drinking it with milk now, way too cold and sweet.

Aniseed celery dandelion and burdock 🤮

That is my idea of heaven on a plate 💛🥗

Blue cheese, olives, red wine! Struggled when I was younger to like all those & now they are my favourites!

Never had an occasion where tripe was available to try. But everything else savoury on this thread, I've liked instantly.

The only things I don't like are honey and that abomination that wastes perfectly good sweet potatoes. Sweet potatoes need sea salt and chilli, not fucking corn syrup polystyrene.

I find some of mine are more texture based that put me off.

I love olives but if you buy the olives in jars it is absolutely nothing like fresh olives so depends how you try them.

I will never acquire a taste for blue cheese, fennel, butternut squash, pumpkin.

But love most of the foods listed above.

Plus, I think people who don’t like okra don’t know how to cook it properly.

I have a tin of hearts of palm that I am dubious about, will try for the first time.

It’s not my favorite but it’s not the worst thing I’ve eaten. The sweet potatoes are already kind of bland, add in the marshmallows and it is more or less a sweetened glaze. It’s ok as an offset to the very heavy and very savory rest of the traditional Thanksgiving meal.

Do you eat/like glazed carrots? It’s very similar in both taste and texture.

Foods I can eat now - pushing 50...

Prawns
Olives
Anchovies

Things that I still cannot abide...

Parsnips
Celery
Coriander
Belly pork
Pork Scratchings
Offal of any kind

@greenerfingers I think I put cucumber I the same category as melon. Very watery but still has a flavour. I got to like the cucumber flavour but still not keen on the melon flavour!
@MrsMitford3 gacky, that's an excellent descriptive word, I can feel what you mean!
Forgot about liver, keep trying it, still don't like it. Will add avocado to that too, but it's less offensive.

Parmesan, tastes like sick.
Olives
Marmite

Avocado! Love it now but couldn't stand it until I was about 23 🤣 and also peppers - fine if they'd been fully cooked out but not if they were crunchy.

I like nearly all these, what I really dislike is peas and raw tomatoes.

Heaven is definitely blue cheese, olives, avocado, smoked salmon and capers

Truffle oil - overpowering.
Oysters - it's a texture thing. But I can eat a deep fried one.
Offal - maybe I've just not had good offal.

Olives, camembert, onion soup 😂Oh, and Scotch alone, not whiskEY mixed with coca cola.

I've always liked olives, but it was only relatively recently that I've discovered that a lot of people really dislike them.

It's not that uncommon with cucumber. Apparently there is a gene which makes it taste revolting to a % of the population. Not sure if it's something you can become acquired to though. And it can't be picked out Apparently, as the taste contaminates almost all of the food.