I used to only eat mild moldy cheese if at all then at 16 my girlfriend of the time got ugly ass blue cheese and said “just put jam on it” I tried it and it’s was so good. I’ve liked moldy cheese ever since, extra moldy/strong cheese are all good. There’s always a ratio of jam to cheese that tastes good, that ratio also keeps going down towards zero.

Menudo. Genuinely, that shit is delicious, I love menudo.

There was a neighborhood cookout, just to get to know each other. One lady and her son brought menudo to the event. Unfortunately, white people have a weird reaction to the execution of the concept ‘Eat the entire animal’.

She was upset because she thought it was her fault no one wanted to try any of her hard work. I decided, “Hey, I wasn’t sold on raw sushi until I quit being a pussy. Why not?”

Literally? Life changing. Holy shit, it opened up a whole door into how awesome and how creative Mexican cuisine is.

Really really really good Sashimi converted me, and then really not great overpriced shashimi unconverted me.

Actual good beef steak, with fat rendered well, good moisture, good aromatics, good salt, and really good layer char. Basically, reverse sear done really well. That shit is godly.

In that same vein, mushrooms and wine, reduced with garlic and cream as a sauce, on top of said steak. I did not eat mushrooms before that.

Hated bananas as a child, the smell alone would make me gag.

Puberty hit hard though, and periods do weird things to a person. I woke up in the middle of the night one night NEEDING to eat a banana. I ate all the ones we had at home (about 4-5). When my mom woke up I asked to go grocery shopping to buy more.

I’ve had a completely regular relationship with bananas ever since.

Always hated lentils and lentil soup. Boring and gross.

Had a trip to hospital, massive blood loss, almost died. Ended up ticking all the interesting menu items in a complete haze.

I still swear that random lentil dal saved my life! Honestly the best thing I have ever eaten, I had truly felt like I was slipping away, I cried a lot

Oysters did this for me. Hated them growing up, even into my early adult years I still hated Oysters. The texture and taste just did not agree with me.

Then one Friday I had to go away for work for the weekend, I went to the local pub where I was staying for dinner, and the chef came out with like 6 Oysters for free, I tried one, then demolished the other 5, ended up ordering a dozen and demolished those. Been hooked on Oysters ever since

In 2016 I was traveling around New Zealand and had an amazing mushroom and cheese toastie. It was so good that I remember thinking, as I drove away, that I’d be happy to eat that toastie over a lot of foods I normally enjoy.

Around a year later I decided to stop eating meat. I begun by allowing myself to eat fish and over a month or so gave up that as well. While not directly related, that mushroom toastie planted a seed in my brain that being a vegetarian didn’t mean eating salad every day.

I don’t know if or when I would have become a vegetarian anyway, but that toasted sandwich certainly helped me decide when I was ready.

Avocado. For some reason, for years, I thought they’d taste nasty. Turns out, they’re just like meat if it was a fruit and I dig that.

Going to sound weird but mayo.

I grew up with mustard on my sandwich. I hated foods with mayo in it.

Then, I had that Asian mayo, the Kewpie brand.

I refused to eat lettuce until I was 16, cause it’s leaves and I knew how leaves taste.
At some point my mom made me try it and I realized it tastes absolutely awesome due to my mom’s salad dressing.

Not me, but my wife hated natto until she had natto pasta (sorry Italians).

Kenya AA…

I always drank coffee just for the caffeine, but I wanted to cut down on the cream and sugar. So when I’d order the brew of the day, whatever it was, I started taking a sip before drowning it in other flavors.

Buuuut, then I’d go ahead and dump some stuff in it, because I still didn’t like the taste. Until one day, I got a cup and took a sip… and another sip… and decided that THIS cup didn’t need a bunch of stuff in it.

Now I pretty much never add stuff to my coffee( I’ve learned what origins and roasts I like, so I can stay away from coffee I don’t like - and if it’s nasty, it still gets the cream and sugar treatment…

Because life’s too short to drink nasty coffee.

My mum made the grossest fish. Idk what she did to it or what type of fish it was but it stank up the whole house, tasted worse, and was dry as fuck. I avoided all fish for years, still don’t really like fish and chips as an Aussie.

Went fine dining once and one of the courses was a piece of fish with toasted quinoa and Geraldton wax. It was one of my favourite dishes of the fourteen courses. Absolutely delicious. Then I went to Scotland and tried Cullen skink and ended up having that multiple times throughout my trip.

I’ve realised I just hate bad fish, and that mum wasn’t as good a cook everyone said she was -and everyone saying that is even worse.

Other way round. I had the “fish” in the student cafeteria, fell totally sick for a few days (in hindsight, I should have gone to the hospital!), and since then, the smell of fish or sea food makes me sick.

one time a popsicle turned me bi