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“What’s A Food You Went Your Whole Life Thinking It Was Nasty Until You Tried It?” (30 Answers)

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We recognize five basic tastes: sweet, bitter, sour, salty, and savory. But we also identify an enormous range of flavors, as every variety of every ingredient has its own distinct characteristics.

We do this with our taste buds that are housed in the small pink bumps on the tip of our tongue. So while we might have an idea of whether or not we will like a certain food, we simply cannot be sure until we put it in our mouth.

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#1

“What’s A Food You Went Your Whole Life Thinking It Was Nasty Until You Tried It?” (30 Answers) Green beans. Turns out fresh ones are a completely different taste from the canned ones.

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Final score:

78points

Marcos Valencia 6 months ago

Now, try fresh peas.

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#2

“What’s A Food You Went Your Whole Life Thinking It Was Nasty Until You Tried It?” (30 Answers) Cheesecake!! Cheese in cake form didn't sound appealing. I was 34 when my eyes were opened!!

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Final score:

76points

cerinamroth 6 months ago

Are you my husband?! He was the same!

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#3

“What’s A Food You Went Your Whole Life Thinking It Was Nasty Until You Tried It?” (30 Answers) Scalloped potatoes. I had been made to eat the instant box kind as a kid, and the texture and taste made me gag.

Turns out that I love homemade scalloped potatoes.

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Final score:

71points

cerinamroth 6 months ago

Also can't go wrong with butter, cream, garlic and potatoes!

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#4

“What’s A Food You Went Your Whole Life Thinking It Was Nasty Until You Tried It?” (30 Answers) I thought roasted potatoes must be horrible until I was in middle school. I ate over a friend's house and knew that, as a guest, it was impolite to decline any of the dishes, so I took a few red potatoes. And so the love affair with potatoes began! .

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Final score:

68points

sbj 6 months ago

Roasties are the best!

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#5

“What’s A Food You Went Your Whole Life Thinking It Was Nasty Until You Tried It?” (30 Answers) Meat loaf. We had it as a kid and it made me gag. My wife then made it and I thought this is fantastic! Years later my mother made it for us again. I gagged. Sorry Mom.

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Final score:

66points

Giovanni 6 months ago

I was around 27 when i found out that a lot of foods that "i didn't like" where actually pretty good when cooked properly.

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#6

“What’s A Food You Went Your Whole Life Thinking It Was Nasty Until You Tried It?” (30 Answers) My grandfather would never eat pizza because he didn’t like how it looked. In his late 80s we took him to dinner with us for my brother’s birthday for..pizza. So he ended up trying it. After that he loved it and said he wished he’d tried it years ago!

jackiebee66 , Pablo Pacheco / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

52points

UncleJohn3000 6 months ago

It took four of us to get the old military hard shoes off of "The Colonel" and into a set of New Balances. Picture skinny colonel bird legs waving in the air. Then the minute his feet touched the ground in the new shoes, he stepped about a bit, said "Hey, these are really nice!" and shuffled off to Buffalo out of the room.

20points

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#7

“What’s A Food You Went Your Whole Life Thinking It Was Nasty Until You Tried It?” (30 Answers) Indian food. A whole cuisine.

Edit to clarify: The smell put me off for years. Not because it was bad just because it was pungent I think. I adore Indian food now, nothing compares. Greek is a strong second.

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Final score:

45points

StumblingThroughLife 6 months ago

I'm a Brit, and can't imagine not having full access to Indian food here. Bliss on a plate, yum.

31points

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#8

“What’s A Food You Went Your Whole Life Thinking It Was Nasty Until You Tried It?” (30 Answers) Pineapple on pizza. I was once one of you but I have seen the light. The trick is you have to have jalapeños on it too. You want that contrasting heat and sweet. I don’t do the traditional Hawaiian thing. Pepperoni, pineapple and japs is where it’s at.

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Final score:

44points

Passerby 6 months ago

I simply don't like pineapples, so I hate everything made from them. I don't mind if you like it. It's none of my business anyway.

20points

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#9

“What’s A Food You Went Your Whole Life Thinking It Was Nasty Until You Tried It?” (30 Answers) Green Eggs & Ham

Luckily, thanks to one almost-unbearably persistent little fellow, I eventually tried it and found that I do, I do like Green Eggs & Ham.

Final score:

43points

DB 5 months ago

Would you like them here or there?

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#10

Salt and vinegar potato chips.

My sister had really bad ingrown toenails when we were kids and she soaked her feet in white vinegar every night. I couldn’t imagine why someone would want to put something that smelled like that on a potato chip. I found it revolting.

Then one day, I tried a vinegar chip accidentally and it changed my whole life. The sour flavor is actually amazing!

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42points

Auntriarch 6 months ago

Now try them in a sandwich, soft white bread, plenty of butter....

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#11

“What’s A Food You Went Your Whole Life Thinking It Was Nasty Until You Tried It?” (30 Answers) Kimchi, turns out it’s delicious!

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Final score:

40points

Val 6 months ago

YESSSSS.

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#12

“What’s A Food You Went Your Whole Life Thinking It Was Nasty Until You Tried It?” (30 Answers) Egg rolls. I didn’t like eggs.

OldERnurse1964 , Kyndall Ramirez / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

40points

Tracey 5 months ago

The egg roll is a variety of deep-fried appetizer served in American Chinese restaurants. It is a cylindrical, savory roll with shredded cabbage, chopped meat, or other fillings inside a thickly-wrapped wheat flour skin, which is fried in hot oil. Egg rolls do not typically contain egg in the filling. In addition to the disputed origin of the dish, it is unclear how the word "egg" appeared in the name, since the predominant flavor in American egg rolls is cabbage, not eggs.

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#13

“What’s A Food You Went Your Whole Life Thinking It Was Nasty Until You Tried It?” (30 Answers) Sushi, until i actually had it 10 years ago. its so legit. not an acquired taste at all. hits like a good steak , or lasagna or something. easy to enjoy.

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Final score:

34points

Justin Tyme 5 months ago

I lived in Japan for several years. I gave sushi a fair chance but didn't like it.

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#14

“What’s A Food You Went Your Whole Life Thinking It Was Nasty Until You Tried It?” (30 Answers) Pho. I didn’t know there was a version without tripe. The first time I had it a friend ordered for me and did ask beforehand if there was anything I don’t eat. I said no, not expecting tripe. I don’t like tripe. Hesitantly went again 10+ years later and got it with sirloin strips. Delicious.

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Final score:

34points

cerinamroth 6 months ago

Adore pho!

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#15

Tzatziki!

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Final score:

34points

columbokateUK 6 months ago

How can anyone not like tzatziki! Im happy you changed your mind. Proper Greek recipe though. So good to dip freshly baked bread into 🤤

27points

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#16

“What’s A Food You Went Your Whole Life Thinking It Was Nasty Until You Tried It?” (30 Answers) I grew up Muslim so bacon and whisky.

JayIsNotReal , Michelle @Shelly Captures It / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

33points

cerinamroth 6 months ago

Glad I'm Jewish for the whisky but I'm more than happy to pass on the bacon, too :)

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#17

“What’s A Food You Went Your Whole Life Thinking It Was Nasty Until You Tried It?” (30 Answers) Saurkraut and cabbage.
Then I ate at a German restaurant and the saurkraut was good and they had something called rokult(pickled cabbage) that is really good.

bloodbrain1911 , Ala z / wikipedia (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

32points

cerinamroth 6 months ago

Rohkost? Krautsalat? I'm not sure what the "rokult" is here. I love Krautsalat though - so cheap and easy to make. It's just thinly shredded white cabbage and white onion, salted and left for 30 mins before adding vinegar, sugar, oil and caraway seeds. I can eat kilos of it!

11points

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#18

Guacamole.

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Final score:

32points

Kira Okah 6 months ago

Any advice on preparing it? Every variation that I have tried - premade and homemade - tastes the way that wet grass smells. What am I doing wrong?

9points

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#19

Grits. I’ve lived in the south for most of my life and only recently cooked them myself- turns out I just dislike how they’ve been served to me.

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Final score:

31points

Upstaged75 6 months ago

The best grits are cheese grits! Especially with shrimp.

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#20

“What’s A Food You Went Your Whole Life Thinking It Was Nasty Until You Tried It?” (30 Answers) Rhubarb Pie.

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Final score:

28points

StumblingThroughLife 6 months ago (edited)

But even better with crumble (and hot custard), yum. As kids (60s/70s), we'd find this growing (looooong stalks) in bomb pecks (Brummie (UK) slang: areas that had buildings demolished/post-Birmingham Blitz), so we had a lot of rhubarb crumble. Then we moved, and we had apple trees and blackberry bushes in our new garden, so mum made a LOT of Blackberry & apple Jam. Can't stand it now, lol. Same with Mint Sauce, as she made that too. But I've never gone off Rhubarb Crumble & Custard. 😊 (sorry for the ramble)

17points

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#21

COTTAGE CHEESE.

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Final score:

28points

Miryaa 6 months ago

Yes!!!! My mom and sister hated it. Still do. My grandma convinced me to try it once. I fell in love.

9points

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#22

Asparagus.

Final score:

28points

geezeronthehill 6 months ago

Fresh harvested is not in the same universe as canned. It's beyond my comprehension why anyone would bother to can it.

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#23

“What’s A Food You Went Your Whole Life Thinking It Was Nasty Until You Tried It?” (30 Answers) Cooked carrots, add some butter and salt, god damn!

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Final score:

27points

cerinamroth 6 months ago

This is one I can't abide personally. Raw, yes. Cooked, bleugh! Whenever anyone gets the tzimmes out, I have to pass.

21points

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#24

Chick peas.

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Final score:

27points

geezeronthehill 6 months ago

Garbanzos, hummus, falafel. There is a whole cuisine based on chickpeas around the eastern Mediterranean.

11points

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#25

“What’s A Food You Went Your Whole Life Thinking It Was Nasty Until You Tried It?” (30 Answers) Eel.

I was with a friend eating from a big platter of sushi and telling him how I would never eat eel, because it just sounded gross and creepy. “Not like this - this is good. What is this?”

”Eel.”.

StarBabyDreamChild , Jojo Yuen (sharemyfoodd) / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

Final score:

25points

Passerby 6 months ago

Grilled eel is so good!

16points

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#26

“What’s A Food You Went Your Whole Life Thinking It Was Nasty Until You Tried It?” (30 Answers) Spam!! I love it. I always thought it looked nasty. Then I grew up.

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Final score:

23points

Jeff Hunt 6 months ago

I’ll have the spam,spam, potatoes, spam, eggs, and spam.

25points

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#27

“What’s A Food You Went Your Whole Life Thinking It Was Nasty Until You Tried It?” (30 Answers) Sushi, guacamole, hummus.

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Final score:

22points

cerinamroth 6 months ago

Love, love, love! In terms of green things I don't like: kale.

9points

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#28

“What’s A Food You Went Your Whole Life Thinking It Was Nasty Until You Tried It?” (30 Answers) Capers. I don’t like green olives and for some reason I assumed they tasted like green olives since someone told me that once.

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Final score:

21points

cerinamroth 6 months ago

ADORE them! Lentils with lemon zest, olive oil, parsley, loads of capers and beetroot is a staple in our house. The kids love it too. In fact, we had it last night!

9points

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#29

“What’s A Food You Went Your Whole Life Thinking It Was Nasty Until You Tried It?” (30 Answers) California rolls .

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Final score:

21points

Nonplussed Puss 6 months ago

The most approachable sushi, other than kapi maki.

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#30

“What’s A Food You Went Your Whole Life Thinking It Was Nasty Until You Tried It?” (30 Answers) Ceviche.

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Final score:

16points

Corvus 6 months ago

That's fish "cooked" in lemon juice, right?

14points

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What was the food you hated until you tried it?

DB 5 months ago

Scallops. Had them once when I was a child and perhaps they weren't cooked right. My wife got me to try them and I love scallops now.

3points

Roberta Surprenant 5 months ago

scallops turn to rubber if not cooked properly!

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Bettye McKee 5 months ago

We used to go to a restaurant that put a spiced apple ring on each plate. For years I got to eat both spiced apple rings until my husband learned it wasn't a beet.

3points

lovergxrl 6 months ago

i was scared to try salmon cuz i just wasn't the biggest fan of fish. but one time my oldest sister had a birthday at this restaurant where they js would keep bringing out meat until you said no more. one of the meats they brought was salmon. now my older brother was a big fan, so I said, why not. i got a little piece just in case I didn't like it. needless to say, I got a ton more later

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DB 5 months ago

Scallops. Had them once when I was a child and perhaps they weren't cooked right. My wife got me to try them and I love scallops now.

3points

Roberta Surprenant 5 months ago

scallops turn to rubber if not cooked properly!

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Bettye McKee 5 months ago

We used to go to a restaurant that put a spiced apple ring on each plate. For years I got to eat both spiced apple rings until my husband learned it wasn't a beet.

3points

lovergxrl 6 months ago

i was scared to try salmon cuz i just wasn't the biggest fan of fish. but one time my oldest sister had a birthday at this restaurant where they js would keep bringing out meat until you said no more. one of the meats they brought was salmon. now my older brother was a big fan, so I said, why not. i got a little piece just in case I didn't like it. needless to say, I got a ton more later

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