I used to dislike <fill in food or drink here> when I was younger, but now I like it.
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| It seems common for people to dislike certain foods when they are growing up, but then later they start to like them. I've listed some foods that I think may be common responses (partially just to stimulate your memory), but I'm sure I've missed many, so please list any others in your comments. |
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| 22 | Other! (please list any others in your comment) | | 16 | coffee | | 13 | beer | | 13 | tomatoes | | 9 | broccoli | | 6 | fish | | 5 | bread crusts | | 3 | cheese |
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| gilly |
avocados | | daver |
I used to dislike mushrooms, but a few years ago I decided that was silly and started eating them. Now I like them. | | milktree | | posted 8-Oct-1998 10:02am |
mustard, salad, bourbon (only good bourbon) | romkey  | | posted 8-Oct-1998 10:11am |
coffee, tomatoes and strawberries are three that come to mind. | | lelle | | posted 8-Oct-1998 11:31am |
I liked most everything when I was a kid, and I still like most of those foods. However, I've encountered many more foods since (most of which I do not like, and some I even hesitate to call foods). The one thing I can really think of that I didn't like when I was little and I do like now is red wine. | | doom | | posted 8-Oct-1998 11:56am |
Still hate fish and peas but I love eggplant now. | | Mimi |
My brother & I used to sit at the table and gag, literally, when we had to eat boiled cabbage & our father would freak out & almost get sick. Now I loved boiled cabbage. Never liked boiled okra though. | jettles  |
LIMA BEANS! | | kirst |
mushrooms | | phi |
Peas, don't forget peas. Certainly in the case of beer and cheese and I think perhaps in some of the other cases the quality of the foods you can get today is simply better than it was when I was growing up. | | hunter |
artichoke hearts! | | Brie |
Granola | | anonymous | | posted 10-Oct-1998 8:51am |
cottage cheese, mushrooms | | emily | | posted 11-Oct-1998 7:50am |
I can't think of anything. The only things I didn't like growing up were lima beans, minestrone soup and eggplant. I still don't like them and there's no reason, at this point in my life, to try to cultivate a taste for them. (The immoral practice of giving a child beer seems to be more prevelant than I had imagined. Very sad that people think children are put here to entertain us) | | plindar | | posted 11-Oct-1998 8:11pm |
Chili, it gave me heartburn when I was younger but it doesn't now. | | eris | | posted 12-Oct-1998 3:47pm |
I don't remember. How about mushrooms (I started liking them when I tasted ones that weren't canned) and brussels sprouts? | | ethane | | posted 12-Oct-1998 5:12pm |
spice foods | | Jody | | posted 13-Oct-1998 10:57am |
cantaloupe. | | jjg | | posted 13-Oct-1998 12:25pm |
Beer, broccoli, strawberries. I'm sure that there are more, but I don't have the time to think about it deeply. anonymous: No you can't attribute their having fewer problems with alcohol to their being allowed to drink it at an earlier age. You can attribute it to the fact that they are taught a healthy respect for alcohol at an early age. Alcohol is not used to get drunk, but used as a drink with a meal. Americans have a very unhealthy attitude toward alcohol. | | dpolicar | | posted 13-Oct-1998 1:08pm |
coffee and broccoli. Also corn. | | drdt | | posted 13-Oct-1998 7:38pm |
None of the above, and in fact none I can think of offhand. I would like to have selected olives, except that I try a variety of olives every year and as of March I still hate them. Actually I tried beer for the second time in my life a few weeks ago and found it even less pleasant than I did the first time. Lisashea: giving beer to a child is immoral in the same way feeding him fast food is immoral: it ruins his taste buds, perhaps spoiling his appreciation for good food and drink later in life. More seriously (and this may be another topic), it deprives him of the ability to decide, later in life, whether or not alcohol/drugs are good things or bad; he has it from his parents they are good, end of story. It is very hard to override that sort of training. | | lizzie | | posted 14-Oct-1998 4:08pm |
I disliked peas and beans, but I like them more now. I hated coffee and beer as a child, and I still do. Some things change, others do not... | | pandora | | posted 14-Oct-1998 10:16pm |
Stop obsessing about the alcohol. I don't think that was the point here. Chill. | | anonymous | | posted 15-Oct-1998 7:11pm |
lisashea: The fact that Italian (or any other nationality) kids have less of a problem with alcohol than American kids could be due to many factors. Unless you can isolate that one variable (age of drinking) and control everything else (e.g. make all other circumstances in Italy identical to those in the US), you can't attribute the fact that they have fewer problems with alcohol to their being allowed to drink earlier. jjg: no, you cannot attribute it to the fact that they are taught a healthy respect for alcohol. You haven't controlled all the other unique factors present in their culture. lisashea: The article you directed me to presents a perfectly correct set of facts, but misinterprets correlation as causation. This is all too common in social science research. Suppose that I made the statement: "Cultures in which people wear expensive clothing also tend to have higher rates of people who drive luxury cars." That would be true, but it might mislead you into thinking that wearing expensive clothes led people to eat in expensive restaurants, when really there was another, hidden factor (wealth) which was causing both higher rates of expensive clothes-wearing and higher rates of expensive restaurant-attending. You cannot pluck out one aspect of a culture (for example more permissive attitudes toward drinking) and say that that causes something else (for example, lower rates of alcohol abuse), just because you find those two things together. If B=letting youth drink in moderation, and C=lower levels of alcohol abuse, there may be an A which is causing both B and C. If that were the case, trying to implement B in our society, without A, would not result in the desired C. And this is an oversimplification; in social science research, there are many variables, which are related in many ways, and you cannot take one variable out of the context in which it originally occurred and expect it to provide the same effect. To get back to alcohol again: If Western European countries were shown to have lower rates of drunk driving, it might be tempting to attribute that to the gradual, sensible exposure youth have to alcohol. But consider all the other factors prevalent in Western European countries, including the high minimum driving ages and great percentage of people who use public transportation, bicycle or walk. You referred specifically to college binge drinking. I don't know offhand how prevalent college binge drinking is in Italy, but if it is less prevalent that it is in the USA, it could be due to so many other factors other than the way their youth are exposed to alcohol, here are some ideas: * fewer people attend college; * young people have more responsibilities and less time to waste; * more people are Catholics who would feel too guilty if they binge drank, or worried of what else binge drinking might lead them to do; * the penalties for creating public disturbances are tougher; * they are culturally allowed to be more emotionally expressive, and can do so without alcohol as a social crutch... I hope you see the slippery slope you are on by assuming that correlation is cause, and by assuming we can transplant one aspect of another culture and expect it to work the same in ours. pandora: no, the alcohol is not the point. Trying to stop illogical thinking is. And I'm at quite a comfortable temperature, thank you. lisashea: To answer your last two questions: you're right, basically the answer is, you can't. Even if you were able to control all variables except the one you want to study, you can't necessarily extrapolate to real life. People behave differently in real life than they do in the controlled setting of a lab -- unlike say, a chemical compound. Also, you have to consider the ethics of your study. It wouldn't be ethical to take a group of children and divide them up and decree that one group would receive spankings and one wouldn't (most of the really interesting studies in psych were done before we had a code of ethics). The best you can do is have many different studies done in different ways pointing toward the same thing, and even then you have to take the interpretation of your results with a grain of salt. The media nearly always misreport the conclusions we can draw from social science research.
P.S. I'm quite amused that, despite what people claimed before about writing style giving away who anon was, you can't tell who I am. There are a few of us who have migrated into the ether recently, I've noticed.
| | lisashea | | posted 16-Oct-1998 1:50pm |
Mushrooms too. I have this theory that taste buds become less sensitive over time. I know many things I hated when younger had awful tastes to them. Now they don't taste bad, and other things I absolutely loved now taste "ok", not "overwhelming". It's pretty sad. I also think forcing kids to eat has *nothing* to do with them liking more food when they grow up. Most kids I know that could "eat what they liked" (within reason) now eat everything. Most kids I know that were forced to eat only given foods while growing up, now hate trying other foods. Emily: Why do you feel giving a child beer is immoral? In many cultures there is no "prevent children from drinking alcohol" laws - it's an accepted part of life. Alcohol is no better or worse than chocolate or caffeine or other mood alterers, in moderation. It's only the US with their extremely puritanical laws that "keep children safe from the evils of the world". I feel if we didn't spend all our times keeping kids away from 'evil alcohol', they wouldn't go insane and binge drink once they got to college. I haven't heard of Italian kids having this problem :) There is indeed research on the topic of underage drinking in various nations. This Site (without the name so it works, heh heh) has some very interesting comments on the topic, much more eloquently put than I could summarize here. Ooooooh, I'm extremely intrigued and curious about who Anon is. He/she is quite eloquent and rational. I'm quite impressed. I agree that there is no way to completely compare one culture to another and to figure out what exactly is the cause for Behavior X. We may never know why some cultures handle alcohol well and others do not. I can only say that for me, it seems reasonable that a child raised to think a glass of wine is a good accompanyment to a fine meal, but that drunkenness is not a good thing, learns a reasonable attitude towards drinking. A child that is taught alcohol is dangerous, only for adults, and then sees adults getting smashed, learns something else. I would much rather teach my own child the first lesson, and not the second. It's hard here in the US, though, because the lessons of the media tend to point towards the "party hearty" idea. It's sort of like the long spanking debate: how would you construct a statistical analysis that could really show that spanking is good or bad? How would you construct a statistical analysis that shows that teaching a child alcohol is for moderate drinking pleasure but not for drunkenness is healthy? Maybe neither can ever be done. PS I'm pretty sure in all instances I know who the anon people are. I'm pretty good with style identification. I figure, if someone wishes to be anon, it's not my duty to out him or her. I do try to give hints that it would be neat for the person to "reveal" him or herself though :) | | Jaime | | posted 28-Oct-1998 5:30am |
Wow! A too big list to write here... | | nbarone | | posted 29-Oct-1998 8:33pm |
beans...any type | | Resy |
can't think of any...if i hated it then, i hate it now... Oh, but I did like MILK much better when I was younger. Since I found out how much reality digs milk, I'm sending my ration to him for Christmas (hope I didn't spoil the surprise! tee hee) | | reality | | posted 6-Nov-1998 10:57am |
its actually the other way around.. I used to like pickles, now I do not. anonymous: what exactly are these 'other unique factors' of which you speak? *Jody: I'd forgotten about that one... I don't like it much, but it has an attraction every now and again... *anymouse: there was also commenting to the effect that the opinions would be judged on merit rather than the name attached. since you're not blithering (you are making a good deal of sense) there is no real need to go beyond that. If you want to give us clues, i'll be happy to play 20 questions. we'll probably get it within 1 or 2 tries. *thank you Resy...  |
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