re: When I was a kid, you couldn’t get me to eat…

For awhile, white rice.

I think it started in my elementary school cafeteria, but I developed an aversion to rice. When Mom cooked a rice and gravy meal, I substituted bread for the rice. Eventually, I started eating it again, but only at home and cooked by my mother, and EVERY grain of rice had to have gravy on it.

Even cleaning the rice pot made me gag. Wet rice at the bottom of the pot.

Before rice, I detested mashed potatoes, and also only learned to like them covered in gravy.

I loved spinach, broccoli, cauliflower, and Brussels sprouts from the first time I tasted them, but the blandest foods I hated? Weird.