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

I was a very picky eater as a kid. I could just find a list of all of the various fruits and vegetables and copy and paste it here to save time. It's a long list. I also didn't eat much in the way of seafood and I'm sure several other things I can't think of at the moment that I now think are delicious.

PS- I still think brussel sprouts are awful, even cooked in bacon grease. Other things I still don't eat that are likely to earn some down votes: collard greens, boiled eggs or anything that smells like a fart.

I didn’t eat salad until I was in my 30’s. And even then I picked at it so as to not seem weird.

Now I’d love a good fresh salad almost every night.

Tomatoes.

Burgers dressed

Now I have to have it that way

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little bit of honey drizzled.

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Game changer for me was when my wife accidentally used my habanero honey to drizzle over the sprouts. Amazing.

Brussel sprouts
Cauliflower
Tomatoes
Beets
Turnip greens
Sausage
Coconut (shredded)

Still don't care for beets and shredded coconut. Love the rest of them.

Vegetables, because it was always boiled green mush. I cannot stand boiled, overcooked, mushy vegetables, and that's the only way I ever saw them prepared until I met people from outside the South in college. Then, I learned that some vegetables could be steamed and some could be stir fried, and I could tolerate a lot more vegetables. I still only tolerate them, I don't think they really add much value to a meal except as a vehicle for other more flavorful components. A few years later I finally developed a taste for salad when I discovered that meant more than iceberg lettuce smothered in mayonnaise. In short, vegetables are a reminder of the years of no choices in eating and disliking a great deal of what was forced on me, always being told I was too picky.

Now, probably my favorite meal combination is some kind of protein with rice and beans. Does that sound picky to you?

Cabbage. I couldn’t even enter a house if it was being cooked. Now I love it

Tomatoes and beef liver. Couldn't stand either as a kid, later in life I started to tolerate tomatoes, but I won't even give beef liver a taste to see if I have changed towards that.

Liver. No matter the source, liver.

Still will not eat liver. It’s catfish bait. (I will eat catfish like there’s no tomorrow)

A lot of veggies I can no longer eat, either chemistry sets off my pancreatitis or the texture/digestive process sets off my Gastroporesis. Salads will hospitalize me. I have to resort to green mush over cooked stuff now.