What everyday food did you not taste until you were an adult?

[Musicmummy63]

So I didn't eat any broccoli until I was around 20. Mum was a good cook, but we always had peas, carrots, cabbage etc, but never had broccoli. I first had it when I had a dinner with my future DH family (around 40 years ago), and it's been my favourite veg since. Just wondering if anyone else had a similar experience.
1st post here, so hopefully I've not created an AIBU vote!

Bell peppers. Mum didn’t like them, so didn’t cook with them. I have them about 3 times a week as an adult.

Child in the 1970s. I hadn't ever eaten pumpkin, never even seen one (except on tv).
Also my family never ate margarine (only proper butter), and I didn't try marmite until my mid 30s, (yuck).

any Indian or Chinese food, lasagne, spag bol, kale, celeriac, butternut squash, pumpkin, sweet potato, fresh salmon, trout or haddock. Probably lots more I can't think of right now.

A burger actually in a roll instead of on a plate with a knife and fork

KFC I only had about 5 years ago when MIL announced she wanted to try it

I’m probably the opposite of some posters here in that my parents are foreign and so I didn’t eat a lot of British foods until I was a lot older. I didn’t have Yorkshire puddings until I was early teens and my aunt married a Brit who cooked, I had shepards pie for the first time at a friends house when I was about 12/13, I had mushy peas for the first time as an adult, I’ve never eaten a findus crispy pancake… but I was brought up eating foods that people I went to school with had never even heard of.

My mum was a very fussy eater, she didnt like vegetables, and we mostly lived on freezer food. So I didn't try most vegetables until my early 20s. I also didn't try mushrooms until I was 30 (because they gave me the heebie jeebies!) but I love them now.

Curry. Lentils, chickpeas, pumpkin.
My first time with crispy duck pancakes in a Chinese restaurant in Gerrard St nearly made me faint with pleasure 😆

Olives. I was completely convinced I'd hate them, now I can demolish a jar on my own in an hour.

Findus Crispy Pancakes and Turkey Twizzlers. They were absolutely Not Allowed in my house as a kid so I first had them in my 20's. They were disappointing.

Figs. I had a lot of food issues as a kid especially around texture and the thought of a fig anywhere near my face made me gag. They still creep me out a bit but I'm working hard to overcome my food weirds so I can actually eat them now.

And yesterday I had my very first Capri Sun at the youthful age of 34.

Coffee. Didn’t start drinking it til I was 19 and had a summer job as a barista.

I know what you mean about butter….

I know I’ve been socially mobile, because I bought a tub of margarine for cake, and my 9yo asked “what’s that”? 😭😂

I think until I was an adult, I’d only ever had Utterly Butterly.

DS doesn’t know he’s bloody born.

Ketchup. I can’t stand tomatoes so avoided it thinking I wouldn’t like it. Tried it as an adult and now love it! Still don’t like tomatoes though, even after retrying!

I'd never had a pizza or yoghurt until I went to University.

I'm old so I never had garlic until I went abroad as a young adult. Can't live without the stuff nowadays

I was born in the early 1950s so there were many, many types of food that weren't available. Yoghourt first appeared in our local shop when I was about 10, for instance.
As an adult - I first had mayonaisse when about 25. It was at Doyle's Seafood Bar in Dingle. I'd only ever had salad cream before.

Lots of things. Most soft fruit because we didn't buy South African.

Any Indian food, my dad hates the smell of spices.

Rice that wasn't in a pudding.

Pasta, even though we had been to Italy on holiday.

I still don't think I've ever had an artichoke! My local supermarket doesn't sell then and I've not noticed them on menus.

My mum cooked pretty much anything and everything. But she has a specific dislike for tuna (tinned or steaks) so I never had that.

I didn't have a Macdonalds until I visited London in my first year of University, I'm not sure when they first opened in the UK but I think it was around that time.

Also my flat mate at Uni introduced me to the delights of a deep fried spring roll - yum!

Mum was a good cook but v heavy on the cream and butter - real 70s stuff.

So we never had curry, lentils, beans (flagelot, chickpeas etc), hummus, fish occasionally, but it would be a bit of cod or haddock fried in butter. Mostly meat and 2 veg (well cooked not overdone). I’ve inherited her love of cooking and food but taken it in a different direction.

Similar to my experience. No foreign food at all and absolutely no garlic. I’d had rice but only in a rice pudding. No olives or avacado but this was the eighties early nineties so not sure how prevalent they were!

Snap! One English parent and one foreign, which was the cause of much consternation at lunch time at school when we took things like cold goat curry and taramasalata in our lunch boxes.

My parents were considered quite adventurous in their food tastes for the time, so growing up in the 70s/80s I tried things like curry, asian foods, seafood, garlic/herbs and even snails when most people I knew hadn't. But until I went to Uni in the early 90s I'd never tried or even been offered olives, hummous, avocado or any type of tomato other than a standard fairly tasteless 'salad tomato'. I was in my mid 20s when I became aware of the existence of halloumi.

Garlic, curry, pasta, chilli, pizza, wholemeal bread, baked beans, any cheese apart from mild cheddar, mayonnaise, black pepper, so many basics!

Home food growing up in the 70s was meat, potatoes, traditional veg. After my mum died when I was 7 I had to move in with father and grandmother.

She did the cooking so it was an even earlier approach to food as she was from a previous generation.

She refused to touch a microwave when they first appeared and was very anti keeping things in the fridge.

I still remember the horrible bowl of dripping and lard she kept. Everything was fried or boiled. The grill was only used for toast.

Vegetables would be put on to boil at the same time as a roast so you can imagine how they turned out!

Pretty much soon as I left home I became vegetarian and branched out.
In those days there was no ready made veggie foods so it was make it yourself or starve.

Would never be able to name them all, the only foods we were fed were things that came out a packet, chicken nuggets, fish fingers, pizza, waffles, chips etc either with beans or peas.
I had never ate a tomato or peppers or onions and so many more until I was an adult!

Fresh figs. My mum always had dried figs at Christmas they were like eating a mouthful of sand. Fresh ones not any better.

Fresh salmon. We had canned salmon which I never liked. I first had Fresh salmon at my works Christmas meal when I was i. My early 20s, I was surprised how nice it was