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

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Musicmummy63 · 10/11/2025 21:09

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!

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InveterateWineDrinker · 11/11/2025 14:17

Triffid1 · 11/11/2025 12:35

Snoek is a South African fish - oily and very boney. Its cheap and plentiful and nutritious but is very much a love/hate type thing (like mackerel or sardines) and I have just googled and discovered it was widely available in tinned version post world war 2. I can't say I'd have loved it either!

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Snoek is indeed an acquired taste. I believe it was widely imported to the UK during and after the war when food production here was stretched.

It is nothing, however, compared to kapenta which is a freshwater sardine from Lake Kariba, salted and dried, and then both rehydrated and cooked in oil.

Speckson · 11/11/2025 16:42

CharlotteCChapel · 11/11/2025 08:35

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

Have you tried figs straight from the tree? I loathe dried figs but the ones from our tree are lovely. (nb. I have never tried a fresh fig from the supermarket, so can't give a verdict on them)

cobrakaieaglefang · 11/11/2025 17:21

ShinyAppleDreamingOfTheSea · 10/11/2025 23:05

Growing up in the 1970s, I would imagine that there were many, many foods I wouldn’t have had as a child that we look upon as being every day foods now. Certainly nothing Asian in origin, most Italian food other than tinned ravioli and a very tasteless spag bol made with minced roast lamb and tinned tomatoes; fish other than cod or tinned salmon or pilchards: cheese other than mild cheddar or the Danish blue my dad had for Christmas; avocado, sweet potato, squash, rocket, courgettes, broccoli, olives. Pulses other than fresh broad beans and baked beans; bread other than standard white or brown.

Same for me, brought up by grandparents, we ate a very basic meat and 2 veg diet.

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 11/11/2025 17:28

I didn't eat a parsnip until I was 21. Neither of my parents like them so they were never on offer. I love them now!

Edwinstarrihavefaithinyou · 11/11/2025 18:24

Curry
Chinese
Growing up it was the usual 70s kid staples such as crispy pancakes (yuk)fish fingers ,economy burgers etc.

LeapyearLoser · 11/11/2025 18:52

Lamb! We always had roast beef cooked until it was grey, occasionally a roast chicken. My mum raised us on stick to your ribs food and we never went hungry.
Pasta and rice was for afters, baked macaroni milk pudding to this day is my favourite afters!

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