Asklemmy

Mushrooms, raw tomatoes, onions, peppers, spicy stuff, bleu cheese, wine that isn't syrup sweet, probably more stuff I can't think of at the moment.

What made me change? Me. I forced myself to try these things occasionally, over time. Over years.

My feeling is that while it's ok to not like things, it's dumb to not expand your horizons, or at least try to.

One of my biggest pet peeves is when I'm showing somebody something new, and they THINK they'll hate it, so they scrunch their face before they even try it. They've already decided they hate it, whether they realize it or not. Either they struggle to open their mind, or they subconsciously try to defend their initial statements that they don't think it's good, to save face? IDK. Drives me batty.

Again, it's fine to not like it. Whatever, I hate lots of stuff. But every so often, I try it again. And I mean REALLY try it. I force myself to imagine what it would taste like if I liked it. I look for the good qualities in whatever it is. If I still don't like it? Ok, maybe another time.

I admit to still not liking raw onion on my burger. And I only tolerate it on my pizza. But many other dishes wouldn't taste good WITHOUT onion, in my current opinion. So it's still progress.