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Another one on food

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BillB

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We've had the thread dealing with the food that we wouldn't touch when we were kids, but I thought one about the food that we love now but wouldn't have dreamed of touching when we were younger might be amusing.
Now, in the spirit of fairness, I'll start: octopus, squid, scallops, blue cheese, sushi, spare ribs, pork crackling. That'll do as a starter. I'm sure will come to me.
 
Dark chocolate 70% plus

Can't get enough now ( but all in moderation of course) that's the chocolate ;)

Sprouts...I eat them

Rice .....just a bit

Seeded oat bread
 
It would have to be salads, couldn't understand why my mum would eat and enjoy them as I looked upon them as rabbit food, now I love them and have two a week :)
 
I was never a fussy kid and would eat anything except liver and eggs on a chicken salad, still the same today so nothing's changed for me really, still wither at the thought of chicken and egg on the same plate eughhhh
 
I loathed cauliflower as a kid, yet I enjoy it now (a considerable number of years later). I think the difference is that during my early years it was normal to cook all vegetables until they were soft and mushy. Nowadays it is regarded as normal to cook them lightly so they are still crisp. On the other hand, I can't bring myself to put broccoli in my mouth, the texture being akin to sucking a wet pullover. And yet we were in a Provencale hotel not long ago and they pureed the broccoli, stirred in some cream then added plenty of black pepper. Absolutely delicious.
 
Onions are ok ish... When I was younger though I stayed well away from food that contained them.

Full English breakfast.

Sandwiches.


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Mussels. I tried them on a school holiday to France when I was 11 and wrote a postcard to the 'rents saying they were disgusting! Now I love a big bowl of moule marinere (I just don't have the frites!)

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Peas (but see later!), crispy fat on pork chops, spinach... I can eat omelettes, but still won't eat soft boiled eggs, nor gravy, custard, mushy peas, fish roe, or sardine innards.

Robbity
 
Everything but sausages and complan up to the age of 6..... Then my parents went on holidays with my brothers and left me at home with my nan to look after me, telling me quite specifically I wouldn't ever ho on holiday with them unless I ate all food.

I ate everything by the time they came.. Except fish with their heads still on.


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I can eat fish with heads on as long as I don't have to eat the blooming heads!! :eek: It's the eyes I can't stand, and I have on occasion had to cover them up.

I've never been refused anything as drastic as a holiday because of my refusal to eat certain things, but I remember when I was probably 8 or 9, my father deciding to make me eat rice pudding, which I hated and my mother never forced it on me, and I missed afternoon school because he was determined that I sat at the table until I ate it. I won though! :) And I think he definitely had his priorities wrong.

Robbity
 
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