It's interesting that one day as a child you decide you don't like something for one reason or another and suddenly for the rest of your life you define yourself as not liking that thing. Taste can change of course, but some dislikes are so fundamental to our identity that they last...

I didn't have cilantro as a child but later found that I have a genetic predisposition to it tasting like soap. I wonder if genetics are responsible for my aversion to other foods like cucumbers, green peppers, radishes, and coconut.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Same with cilantro. Soapy metal in my mouth.

by Ok_Agent 1 week ago

Me too. But sometimes I do not. Maybe there are many kinds. It's like mr. Clean smell for me There are compounds in the herb that are…I forget

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I suppose there could be something that amplifies those notes. I have never particularly loved cucumber or green pepper but I eat them because it's a lot of trouble to avoid but I despise coconut. Radishes are just weirdly peppery to me. Indifferent. The weirdest thing is I eat cilantro no problem. I don't love it it's just grassy and kinda bitter to me. But one day I don't know if it was this particular cilantro but it tasted exactly like the old timey bar of soap. Never have tasted it before or since but it was like an immediately wooah wtf just happened moment for me.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I try things I don't like at least once a year to see if anything changed.

by Willing_Engineer 1 week ago

I usually say "I'll try anything twice"

by tremayne72 1 week ago

That works as long as every 5-10 years you re-up your taste assessment.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I do that too but not once a year, like every few years when I come across it somewhere.

by Fledner 1 week ago

Well you can try things again. I didn't like cucumbers as a child. I have them in any salad I make now.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

My parents cook sauerkraut every Thankgiving and the smell was absolutely disgusting to me as a child. I'd hide in my room with the central air vents closed and a towel under the door. One day as a young adult I decided to try a reuben sandwich because I liked everything on it except the sauerkraut, and it tasted amazing. I still prefer it cold, but I can eat it hot and showing up for the holidays doesn't involve freezing on the back porch to get some fresh air anymore

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Yeup just like how they say vegetables and anal are similar. If you're forced to have them as a child you wont like them as an adult.

by Marlenhaag 1 week ago

speak for yourself...

by Anonymous 1 week ago

When I was young I hated olives.. but now that I'm older, i still hate olives

by Anonymous 1 week ago

No martinis?! Thats a bummer

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Black olives are the gods' gift to humanity.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I continue to try things I didn't like in the past. Any dislikes I may have aren't part of my identity… they're just things I didn't/don't like.

by Pweimann 1 week ago

Absolutely! It's like my taste buds took a vow to hold a grudge against certain foods forever.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Idk if this is true or not but I heard that our tastebuds change every seven years

by Anonymous 1 week ago

scientifically speaking google says every 2 weeks. But I don't think this is a physical taste thing I think it's a mental thing. I'm not exactly sure about that though. I mean if we were talking about super bitter compounds and you have that super taster gene then sure it could be your taste buds are just being blasted out but I think for the majority of people and I'd imagine myself included it isn't about how we perceive taste it's just how our brains are wired to prefer the taste, that's to say I'm kind of guessing on that though.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I hated avocados as a kid and still do, yet I put them in my smoothies and like them on toast 😭

by Dahliakassulke 1 week ago

I became very allergic to avocados around 23. It's a long story but the short version is I never tried one till I was 17. Worked in a restaurant and ate them because it was healthy. One year I kept getting food poisoning levels of sickness. Narrowed it down when I only ate a bacon and egg sandwich with avocado one day.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I like to try things I don't like again sometimes for this very reason. Some things I have hated in the past have moved to neutral or slightly like.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Me and apple products

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I had a family member close to my age convince me that ketchup was animal blood as a child. I am in my thirties now and still refuse to touch it

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Brussel Sprouts. I despised the flavour - it was this bitter, foul taste. It would be scrapped off the plate. At around 13 or so - I fell in love with it. It is now the first thing I eat on the plate.

by Halbosco 1 week ago

I feel bad for you if you're hating anything solely because you hated it as a child

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Flip side a huge amount of what I didn't like as a kid as I love now. And a large chunk of things I loved I can't have now (glute and dairy). Not a fan of sauerkraut, anything picked or fermented, olives, spicy food, now if I'm able to eat it I will.

by Top_Association 1 week ago

Mushy peas. I'm willing to try most foods again every few years to see if I like them now but have the vivid memory of vomiting at the texture of mushy peas as a child and will not ever try them again. Genuinely even watching someone else eating them makes me nauseous.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I was just thinking the other day that I used to hate French onion sour cream chip dip…never ate the stuff till I had hated it for years. Like for what??

by wbaumbach 1 week ago

My grandma made apple souce one day. It was horrible, I puked few hours later. That was 25 years ago. I hate apple souce to this day and so much so that just suggesting it to me that apple souce might be on the table my stomach twists. Im not a picky eater I try everything even force my self to eat something that is not good just out of respect. Not apple souce. I did try it last year just to see how strong my mind is set for this. Did not go well.

by Fair_Atmosphere 1 week ago

No idea what you're talking about I've never done this

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Some people try things again as adults

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Uhh not really, I've made a point to occasionally try the foods I dislike to see if I still dislike them. If your food preferences are a core part of your identity... I don't know, it seems pathetic.

by ymccullough 1 week ago

Being pedantic here, but you don't decide what you like or don't like. It's been decided for you.