I have placed a moratorium on sadness, thankyouverymuch. To wit: PEANUT BUTTER.
After a year of making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, I have learned to enjoy an often generous swipe of peanut butter once the sandwich making is done. Odd, since for the last 38 years the only peanut butter I liked came dipped in chocolate. Am I the only one who is, like a four year old, suddenly liking foods they previously disdained?
My husband didn’t like/eat eggs until one of our first dates — I ordered fried eggs over medium at the restaurant below his apartment, and he decided to try them — now eggs are one of his very favorite foods!
I am rewarding myself with a spoonful of strawberry spread (better than jam/jelly) after I make PB&J’s lately and I used to only (recently) like grape. I *might* give brussel sprouts a try, my mom and I were just talking about this topic the other night after I thanked her for NEV ER making me eat BS. That’s funny, the initials for Brussel sprouts are BS. OK, I gotta go get some more coffee Off to work… XOXO -K
I’m the say way with eggs! I use to hate them, and when I was in high school I suddenly realized I love them
No, no you’re not. At least your new found delectable is impressive. I mean, really … peanut butter. Hmm …
Mine: tomatoes. RAW tomatoes with salt and pepper. What use to make me gag, now makes me happy has a clam. Not to mention, back in the day–when I disdained said tomatoes only really OLD people liked such things. Oh, cruel fate, tomat be thy name!
Haha! Hilarious. :)
Here’s another Amy who has gone from loathing to loving tomatoes (and I, too, believed them to be old people food!)! Also, avocadoes. Can’t get enough of ’em!
Still hate watermelon, but at least I can cut it up for the kiddo now. The smell used to make me gag.
On the flip side, I like coffee less than I used to and tea more. I also have an unexplained yen for either a kosher pickle or some green olives in the evenings.
I used to desperately hate onions. Now, I find them a necessary component to a lot of dishes, and I even love to chomp on them by themselves (when caramelized). I still hate green peppers. I sometimes tell people in restaurants that I’m allergic, so I make sure I don’t get any dishes that contain them.
Rum.
Only I figured out that the reason I hated it before was because I always ended up with the cheap, stock shelf Captain Morgan or Sailor Jerry crap.
Goslings is my favorite–with Coke Zero, highly recommended.
Barbancourt is also good, from Haiti.
My dad’s favorite drink is rum and coke. I hate rum, but now that you mention it, maybe I’ve only had the cheap stuff.
I used to hate rum too. Cheap booze of any sort is nasty, but I think it’s even more the case for cheap rum. Tried a rhum agricole from Martinique called Depaz that really knocked my socks off. Mai tais (the old school way with orgeat and everything!) and Cuba Libres w/ Mexicoke in a bottle… yum!
I’m telling you, this is a truism….you can tell how good a restaurant is by the rum they stock in the bar. If they don’t have, at least, Apple Estate Reserve, then don’t trust anything unusual from the dinner menu. If all that is spiked is Bacardi, don’t order any drinks, except beer.
Ok, the Depaz website has an awesome recipe for a Sparkling Cherry cocktail. This will be my weekend adventure!
Hmmmm … I have very few things I dislike (blue cheese and capers are the only ones coming to mind). I do test out blue cheese sometimes, usually on accident when I order something with it. I can taste the mold, even in small quantities. I think my mold sensors are on high alert.
On the other hand, I avoid capers like the plague and never give them a chance. Perhaps I should try again?
P.S. – How can you not love peanut butter?! I actually have to ban it from my house from time to time, because I get into this terrible habit of eating it straight out of the jar after dinner. And we don’t even have the sweetened kind – that would be like crack for me.
Oh, almond extract! I hate it, hate it, hate it. I do try it out sometimes, again, usually on accident because no one ever bothers to specify on a menu when they add it to their baked goods. I will simply leave desserts with it untouched after the first bite.
Salmon. I try to have some every three months or so and wind up gagging even before it gets from the fork to my mouth. The same goes for blue cheese. If I die and go to hell, I’m sure I’ll have to wear a salmon and blue cheese shirt, no doubt about it.
Salmon & blue cheese shirt – how funny! I always say my hell would be reincarnation as a preschool teacher or someone who has to deal with sewage :)
I have discovered beets are not bad. I used to say they tasted like an old basement, but now I enjoy them. Who knew?! BTW I got the Firecracker lip gloss and I am rocking it! :Love it …thanks for the tip!
See, I used to love beets and now to me they taste like old basement! So glad you like the lipgloss! :)
ahhh by the spoonful!
no, i am exactly the same!! am so proud of myself because i’m 37 and yesterday, after literally years of trying, i ate olives willingly for the first time. and it’s definitely not a fluke because i ate them today. willingly. my idea.
yeay us!
Sigh. The toddler lurves fish sticks. Which means that I’ve eaten a few bites. I am such a foodie, and it pains me to admit that they’re not that bad. (hangs head)
This made me laugh out loud. Secretly, I still love McDondald’s Filet O’ Fish from when I was 9.
After ten years of being a vegetarian who only ate eggs and cheese products I had a son. And suddenly craved fish. Now I can order things when I go out to eat. Hurray!
Peanuts. I could of swore I didn’t like them. I didn’t like the texture, is what I said when I was growing up. Then one day, the other month, I had them at my grandmothers, and BAM, they were amazing.
I think I just didn’t like the ones that I had to shell … there comes out my laziness.