what have you forced yourself to eat...?

[Panter]

The celery-haters are doing themselves a disservice. Ignore the raw stuff if you like, but to miss it out of soups, stocks and braised things is to lose an irreplaceable flavour component, and to write off half of the world's great dishes. Google soffrito if you don't believe me - Italians know about this kind of stuff.

It's Ok cooked, just so as long as it's been heated for so long that every last molecule of taste has been destroyed

 

[ianrauk]

I do have a small problem with Tomatoes, my missus eats them like you would an apple. Yeeuuch... can't do that, has to be sliced or chopped up..

Apparently mater had the same problem..

I never liked tomatoes as a child and then overnight (or at least that's how I remember it) I liked them.

 

[User482]

Yeah, I've only come to like raw tomatoes as I've got older. I'm very fussy though - they have to be homegrown. Preferably with some basil and a balsamic dressing.

 

[Sittingduck]

I do have a small problem with Tomatoes, my missus eats them like you would an apple. Yeeuuch... can't do that, has to be sliced or chopped up..

Apparently mater had the same problem..

I have a similar condition with mushrooms I can eat them - as long as I can't really see them

This is quite strange - anyone know why this happens?

Kind Regards,
SD

 

[dav1d]

I use to hate swede as a kid, but now I like it and always put it in stews.Thought I would peserver with John Smiths bitter once, despite not liking it the first time. It was absolutely disgusting and I won't be drinking that again. I don't tend to drink pints anymore anyway.

 

[Flying Dodo]

Frogs legs - tastes almost like chicken.

 

[gbb]

Theres two ways of answering OPs original question...
What have you forced yourself to eat..and now enjoy?

Cheese for me. Couldnt stand the smell as a kid. The sudden popularity of Pizza in the 80s changed that for me...I'll eat most cheese now. Not bad considering it used to make me retch as a kid.

Or...what have you forced yourself to eat...and still cant stand.
Tofu Tried my hardest to understand it and aquire the taste. After 2 attempts, it'll stay on my can't stand it list.

 

[Speicher]

I have a similar condition with mushrooms I can eat them - as long as I can't really see them

This is quite strange - anyone know why this happens?

Kind Regards,
SD

I hesitate to mention this Sittingduck, but I cannot stand the sight of eggs. However, if they are disguised in the form of cake, biscuits etc, that is fine.

Quiche, bacon and egg pie, and eggs in normal breakfast format ugghh.

 

[Sittingduck]

Cheese for me. Couldnt stand the smell as a kid. The sudden popularity of Pizza in the 80s changed that for me...I'll eat most cheese now. Not bad considering it used to make me retch as a kid.

Same 'ere. You can add beetroot to the retch-enducing foodstuffs forced upon me during school dinners, circa 1980 (I was 4).... by my cruel overlords - aka Dinner Ladies

 

[longers]

Lamb.

I used to hate it with a passion, or more accurately the crappy fatty cuts my mum used to prepare and wouldn't touch it with a bargepole. It's only in the last five years that I have got over my aversion and now love it.

The lodger does very good lamb chops - liberally doused in Turmeric and then grilled till crispy. They are very delicious

 

[User169]

And topically: "A suggestion of sweaty saddles".

It's a standard characteristic to look for. Often though it's a result of Brettanomyces fermentation so could be considered a flaw in wine. Some wines do though specifically encourage Brett - Chateau Musar being an example.

Brettanomyces infection is important in some Belgian beers, notably lambic styles.

 

[Plax]

I still hate pretty much all the same stuff I used to hate. I have branched out a bit now though and eat more than just cornflakes and marmite butties. My uncle still has a habit of calling me the cornflake kid though............

 

[Cubist]

I once mistakenly ordered Andouilette in a French cafe. It looked like sausages but once I started to eat it I realised I had cocked up big style. There simply wasn't enough ketchup in the world to help me finish it, and as soon as I got home I looked it up, to discover what it was I had been eating. I quote:

Chitterlings must be soaked and rinsed thoroughly in several different cycles of cool water, and repeatedly picked clean by hand, removing extra fat, undigested food, and specks of fecal matter because the part of the pig the 'chitlins' come from includes intestinal polyps and the last few inches before the pig's anus.

The dirty, dirty bastards.

 

[Noodley]

The dirty, dirty bastards.

 

[Sittingduck]

I once mistakenly ordered Andouilette in a French cafe. It looked like sausages but once I started to eat it I realised I had cocked up big style. There simply wasn't enough ketchup in the world to help me finish it, and as soon as I got home I looked it up, to discover what it was I had been eating. I quote:

Chitterlings must be soaked and rinsed thoroughly in several different cycles of cool water, and repeatedly picked clean by hand, removing extra fat, undigested food, and specks of fecal matter because the part of the pig the 'chitlins' come from includes intestinal polyps and the last few inches before the pig's anus.

The dirty, dirty bastards.

So this is one weird foodstuff that didn't tastse like chicken, huh?