What veg do you eat now that you wouldn't eat as a child/young adult?

[gardening_gal]

Just sat here with time on my hands mulling over life in general really.

It occurred to me that I loathed tomatoes for most of my life yet I now eat them happily. In fact I am about to have sliced toms on toast for lunch.

I have no clue why the turnaround, it's not like I was trying to dislike them, i just didn't like them. Then one day they seemed ok.

Of course as a kid there were loads of other things I wouldn't eat but tomatoes were the only thing I wouldn't eat as an adult, that I do now. *cough* As an older adult.

[Thelma Sanders]

Kale and cabbage - Although I'm still not keen on Brussels, and don't choose to eat them at home - if someone serves them to me I will eat them.

[gardening_gal]

I actually LIKE sprouts.

[veggiechicken]

Half the things I eat now were unknown in my family. My Mum still can't understand courgettes (marrows picked too small), mangetout, French beans (only Runner beans existed).
Salad was lettuce, cucumber, tomato, gibbons (spring onions) and radish, altogether in a bowl sprinkled with sugar.
Cabbage was overcooked with a pinch of summat to keep it green ?bicarb.
As for pasta, rice that wasn't in a pudding.................she still won't eat it.

[Miss Mousetrousers]

I could never eat cold lamb because I was made to if I didn't eat it all and mushy peas and still can't. I used to hate cauliflower, Brussel sprouts and beetroot but love them now. The latter I unknowingly eat in a number of years ago in a lovely cold salmon salad and thought they were some kind of tomato until my friend said they were baby beetroots. I can't get enough of them now!

[Lumpy]

OK me and my OH have been together since the dinosaurs roamed the planet (I would have got less for murder) but when we first got together he only ate tinned peas and carrots. Thanks to my forward but disfunctional parents I love everything.
Now he eats everything except fresh mango and that’s because of the texture.
So, whatever we grow (ha ha) is eaten with thanks.

[Lardman]

Dislike food ? Not following you. Dislike veggies or fruit - heck they can't even run away

[gardening_gal]

@Lardman

[greenishfing]

When I was a child we got very little choice and mostly I ate anything that was put in front of me with the notable exception of carrots, butterbeans and cherries. I love carrots and cherries now but butterbeans are still revolting for me. I had never had Basil as a child but for much of my adult life I was convinced I didn't like it. Now every spare corner of the greenhouse is planted with it.

[Small pumpkin]

Short answer is pretty much all of them
As a kid I would only eat carrots, marrow fat processed peas, Spring greens, roast potatoes or chips. That was it!

As an alleged adult I eat most things but there's still somethings off the menu.
Broad beans, ochre ( is that anything like spelt right ). Getting better with sweet corn and cauliflower. Still never tried artichokes of any sort ( really must do something about that )

I did like mushrooms but now allergic to them.

[happyhumph]

I hated any form of cooked fruit up until my twenties, love it now (used to eat rhubarb raw with sugar to dip it in). Didn't have lots of things like romanesco, PSB, and kale so never tried until I was older.

Fortunately my parents moved to Thailand when I was a teenager so got to try all sorts of things.

Now I eat pretty much all fruit and veg except Brussels, Swedes, and okra.

[rary]

Still to find what I don't like and like someone else said there wasn't the same choice when I was younger, and everything on your plate was eaten, or it was back out the next time you sat down at the table, never required for me but my brother had that once or twice

[SarrissUK]

I didn't like brussels when I was little, and that was about it. Now I like brussels enough to grow it, but it does make me ever so windy LOL
Now I have tried okra and I really dont care for it. I'm not terribly fond of calabrese either, nor broadbeans.

[Small pumpkin]

I forgot about fruit!
I like apples, plums, grapes, nectarines, citrus fruits, pineapple and bananas.
I don't eat any other fruit. That list hasn't changed since childhood.

[gardening_gal]

Well I'm glad to see I wasn't the only one with an about turn in adulthood.

The ironic thing is my daughter would be a happy vegetarian if it fitted in better with her life as a poor Uni student. She eats any kind of veg, it's just my juices she's not in love with.