Collard greens and other yucky foods

[Green Gaia]

Collard greens, kale, cooked spinach, mustard greens, turnip greens.. just about all the leafy dark green vegetables....

Pinto beans, navy beans, black beans, kidney beans, lima beans.... just about every bean except green beans...

Oatmeal, mom's vegetable soup... I could go on and on.

All these foods my mom prepared a lot of when I was a kid. Partially due to them being pretty healthy foods, but in some cases because they were inexpensive to cook and feed to a family with 6 kids. I don't know if grew to dislike them as a child because we ate them so much or because I'd heard somewhere that kids aren't supposed to like greens and beans and anything healthy.

But it's funny... something happened when I got older and was out on my own... I craved all of these same foods I'd spent my childhood hating. And it turns out mom was right, these foods are healthy, some of the best foods you can eat. Now that I have my own kids, I fix many of the same meals my mom did. My son loves pinto beans, cornbread and cooked spinach night (all you southern's know what I'm talking about!), but my daughter will only touch the cornbread. Ah well, maybe she will overcome her aversion to these healthy foods someday like I did.

So my question: Are there any foods you hated as a child, but love now that you're an adult?

 

[Pussyfoot Mouse]

Peas! I hated them so much that I would only eat the insides. Yes, I said the insides! I would squeeze the little fellas right out of their skins and only eat the insides. But now I love them, especially the sweet baby peas...skins and all, yummy!

 

[Engyo]

Rutabaga, sweet potatoes, broccoli, onions, more.

I still don't really like cucumbers, and olives shouldn't exist for anything besides olive oil.

 

[Melody]

Peas! I hated them so much that I would only eat the insides. Yes, I said the insides! I would squeeze the little fellas right out of their skins and only eat the insides. But now I love them, especially the sweet baby peas...skins and all, yummy!

ROFL....I always wondered why my youngest son's (at age 3) plate had these tiny little green skins setting neatly to the side!

 

[Melody]

Sweet potatoes....other than that I've never met a food I didn't like...that I still don't like.

 

[Aqualung]

I LOVE cornbread, spinach, and black eyed pea night. We don't eat pinto beans with them. I never liked beans, but then I realised that's just because I ate them plain. I like them if I put stuff on them.

And I LOVE sweetpotatoes too.

 

[Green Gaia]

I LOVE cornbread, spinach, and black eyed pea night. We don't eat pinto beans with them. I never liked beans, but then I realised that's just because I ate them plain. I like them if I put stuff on them.

And I LOVE sweetpotatoes too.

I love black-eyed peas too, but for some reason I only eat them on New Years Day. They're supposed to be good luck for the new year, or something like that.

 

[Aqualung]

Weird. I've never heard that before. I like kidney beans the best. (Me and my bro like to call them "renal beans" for a joke. )

 

[Terrywoodenpic]

I like all veg that I have tried except Swede and turnip.

The only other foods I dislike are Tripe (cows stomach lining) and pigs trotters.
Mind you I have never tried sheeps eyeballs or bulls cuts either.

Terry___________________________
Blessed are the gentle, they shall inherit the land

 

[jonny]

]...kale...

So my question: Are there any foods you hated as a child, but love now that you're an adult?[/color]

I never had kale until I went to Germany. I loved it! They put Pinkelwurst in it and served it over potatoes. Suddenly I'm getting a craving to prepare some...

Foods I hated as a child - tomatoes. I remember refusing to eat them, but now I'll eat them like apples.

I also hated blueberries, but that was because we had a bunch of huge blueberry bushes in our backyard and for the summer everything my mom cooked seemed to have blueberries in them. Then she would fill the freezer with blueberries and serve them for the next three seasons until we have fresh ones again. We would seriously call people and ask them to come and get blueberries because we had so many that we didn't know what to do with them. She had to start making me special batches of pancakes and stuff because I wouldn't eat otherwise. Now, I love those also, but have to pay $5 for a handfull.

The other thing I hated was apples. We had big apple trees in our backyard and they would dump apples all over the ground, which we had to go and pick up and throw away (they were usually rotten and they were cooking apples so no one liked to eat them). I still don't like apples unless they are Granny Smiths. My mom planted a bunch of new ones in our backyard (Jonathan and Jonagold apples in honor of me ), but I still haven't seen anything but birds eat them.

 

[jonny]

Peas! I hated them so much that I would only eat the insides. Yes, I said the insides! I would squeeze the little fellas right out of their skins and only eat the insides. But now I love them, especially the sweet baby peas...skins and all, yummy!

I only like peas if they are fresh, but I think that most vegetables are best fresh.

 

[Pah]

When I grew up, I figured, since I'm paying the bills, I don't have to eat anything I don't like. And I don't have to finish my plate! I'll cook with onions (for flavor) and mushrooms (in Chinese food) but, free will be praised, I don't eat them as a veggie (except boiled, baby onions)

I've done a slow expedition into Southern foods and I'll stick to spinach, thank you! As a Bostonian, I've always loved beans, except in salads. Corn bread and even grits are okay now but I have better things to do with my chicken than southern fry it.

I really miss native French, Italian, German and even British food.

 

[jonny]

I really miss native French, Italian, German and even British food.

I can't say that I miss the British food that I had, but I loved the native German food - especially all the sausage. Mmmmmm!

 

[Jaymes]

I HATE spinnach, collard greens, and the like. It just smells and tastes like chewed up grass to me. Possibly pre-digested grass. I also hate most cooked vegetables (potatoes being the exception; I like corn either way)... they're just too limp and soggy and without flavor.

I also hated fat in meat. I'd spend half the meal picking it out... I don't know why people say it gives it flavor. Yea, it gives it flavor... a nasty flavor! :areyoucra

I also never eat my salad with any kind of dressing. Tastes slimey if I do.

EDIT: Whoa, I need to stop rambling before I read the entire OP.

I used to loathe instant mac and cheese, but now I all but live off it... I don't think that's too healthy, though.

 

[Aqualung]

I HATE spinnach, collard greens, and the like. It just smells and tastes like chewed up grass to me. Possibly pre-digested grass. I also hate most cooked vegetables (potatoes being the exception; I like corn either way)... they're just too limp and soggy and without flavor.

I also hated fat in meat. I'd spend half the meal picking it out... I don't know why people say it gives it flavor. Yea, it gives it flavor... a nasty flavor! :areyoucra

I also never eat my salad with any kind of dressing. Tastes slimey if I do.

EDIT: Whoa, I need to stop rambling before I read the entire OP.

I used to loathe instant mac and cheese, but now I all but live off it... I don't think that's too healthy, though.

You're seriously crazy! I used to eat grass when I was little. Every time we went to a park I would pick it and eat it. Mmmm. Yum Yum. And the fat is where you get the flavour. Fat is tasty and soft and yummy.

 

[michel]

I like all veg that I have tried except Swede and turnip.

The only other foods I dislike are Tripe (cows stomach lining) and pigs trotters.
Mind you I have never tried sheeps eyeballs or bulls cuts either.

Terry___________________________
Blessed are the gentle, they shall inherit the land

That is extraordinary Terry, you have just mentioned my exact same list of 'don't likes'..I can be polite and eat swede and turnip, but it's an effort.

Sure, those things that my mother used to make me eat when I was small I now love - broad beans, tomatoes, spinach, sprouts.

 

[Scuba Pete]

Brussel Sprouts. They were created for a reason, but for the life of me I can't devine it.

 

[Green Gaia]

Weird. I've never heard that before.

I think it's just a Southern thing. The recipe is called 'Hoppin' John' which is bascially just black-eyed peas and rice with some spices.

 

[Green Gaia]

Brussel Sprouts. They were created for a reason, but for the life of me I can't devine it.

I love brussel sprouts! My kids and I always fight over the last one.

 

[michel]

Brussel Sprouts. They were created for a reason, but for the life of me I can't devine it.

They are actually bonsai cauliflowers....... I personally think they would be an ideal source of wind power.........:biglaugh: