Brussels sprouts.
No one in the 80s-90s knew how to cook them and always overcooked them. Now they’re made roasted and absolutely delicious.
Oh! It’s not just that we got better at cooking them! Brussel sprouts were actually bred to taste better around the 1990s/2000s.
https://www.mashed.com/300870/brussels-sprouts-used-to-taste-a-lot-different-heres-why/
Oh super interesting! I love that we’ve bred all kinds of vegetables and fruits to be more palatable over the eons.
No wait! I read something about this! Those were totally different brussel sprouts! I guess they came up with a new species that didn’t such so bad and that’s why brussel sprouts suddenly got tolerable.
Now I have to go see how much of this is true.
Edit: What do you know? All of it! https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/10/30/773457637/from-culinary-dud-to-stud-how-dutch-plant-breeders-built-our-brussels-sprouts-bo
Seconded. Oven roasted or air fried, they’re little balls of joy.
I always got boiled ones in the old days, same with spinach 🤮
Soooo goooood… My go-to now for a really good really “bad” meal are Memphis style ribs with roasted brussel sprouts with butter and garlic.
…why can’t you be on sale now ribs lol
I keep hearing this, have to bite the bullet and try sometime.
Pickled everything.
Korean food changed my perspective on pickling and fermentation, and my digestive system!
I always liked sauerkraut but I was weirdly against the idea of kimchi as a kid. I think the first time I heard of it, it was described by someone who didn’t like it because it sounded super gross, and I had zero spice tolerance. These days, I put it on practically everything or eat it by itself as a side.
A few years ago, I was working at a restaurant when it went under, so as sous-chef they let me take a few bits home with me. I took 5kg of kimchi home. I used to, like, come home drunk and eat a handful of it out the fridge, haha.
Oh man, that’s the dream. I buy it from a local guy who started making his mom’s recipe for friends during the pandemic and now sells at farmers markets and stuff, and I go through about a gallon every month or two. I need him to start selling me buckets of it.
I LOVE home-made kimchi. Store bought kimchi is just… meh.
Olives. A greek salad with some big ol’ kalamata olives sounds really good right now.
Mushrooms - I once puked them up on the table when my mom made me eat them…canned mushrooms FTW! I now, of course, can not get enough of them - sautéed, baked, sliced/raw on a salad…gimme some fungus already!!
I get so jealous when people post pictures of their locally owned supermarket selling chanterelles and morels… I’m just sitting here like a chump eating button mushrooms which are apparently the only mushrooms that exist according to all the store owners in my city. ;-;
Cheese.
Sadly, most cheese does not enjoy me.
Same same… but I suffer. very worf
Same. Turns out I do like cheese, just not the cheap rubbery crap they sell in the supermarket.
Cilantro. I’m still not convinced that I’m not one of the people to whom it tastes like soap, but over the years I started to tolerate, then enjoy it.
I’ve slowly become obsessed with olives.
Spinach. Maybe it’s availability but growing up we only got it canned and my mom cooked the hell out of it. I hated the black slimy bitter salty …. Just not even a food . But now that I’m an adult and fresh spinach is available year round, I love a nice spinach salad and even slightly wilted spinach in a pasta
Kale, because my parents had no idea how to cook it. When I make it myself it’s awesome.
How do you cook it? I’ve only tried it raw in a salad.
First make sure you rip all the stems out and are eating only the leaves. Then I saute it in a light coat of olive oil and with garlic and onions, or steam it. I think the real trick is to not overcook it. Don’t let it cook for more than 5 minutes. You don’t want it to get squishy and boiled down like you do with spinach, it’s not the same thing as spinach. It should still hold its shape somewhat after cooking.
If you have an air fryer put a little olive oil and salt on it and fry it at high heat. Like 5 minutes and it’s light and crispy and almost nothing. It’s amazing
Onions, like slices of onion on burgers or in a dish.
At some point it just didn’t matter anymore and they are kinda nice.
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I was the same. The cellular looks of onions, especially when cooked made me want to retch. Now I put onions in nearly everything I cook.
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Sweets in general.
As an alcoholic, when I was drinking I never cared for sweets. Now that I’ve been sober for some time, I crave candy and ice cream and sweet cereals.
Probably has something to do with the way I process alcohol / sugar.
Welcome to the club!
Lots of energy in alcohol, still better to eat candy and desserts!
We just crave that dopamine in any available form
I didn’t like cottage cheese until I was 38. I kept trying it, not sure what changed.
Avocado, young me thought it was a Kiwi so it might just have been the surprise of how different it was.
Two standout ingredients: avocados and horseradish.
Tomatoes. I disliked them for a long time but a few years ago I tried them again. I don’t remember how I made that decision - it may have been from forgetting to ask for no tomatoes on a burger but I ended up trying them more and came to like them. I don’t like all tomatoes and not in everything, but I do enjoy them in sandwiches, burgers, and a few other things.
It makes sandwiches a little too ‘wet’ for me, but I’ll drag 'em onto the side and eat them separately so they don’t ruin it.
I like roma tomatoes for that reason. They’re a lot more flesh than blood
