Coffee. I started drinking it about 2-3 years ago in my late 50s. Until then I couldn't stand the smell, much less the taste. Now I enjoy the flavors from different coffees and drink it black.

Blue Cheese
Oysters

Billy

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Originally posted by CandyMan.45:
What a luxury... grew up in a household, you ate what was put in front of you or you didn't eat at all ! Today ain't Too much I can't and / or won't eat...

We weren’t forced to eat anything. If you didn’t want it, get up from the table, go hungry. But you kept your mouth shut it about it. Papa wouldn’t tolerate any negative talk about the food he paid for/grew, or Nanny’s preparation of it.

Grew up eating every part of a pig, including the head/brain. Lot of beans and cornbread. Frog legs. Various animals from time to time. Pickled pigs feet were a delicacy. But there were still foods I didn’t eat as a kid.

Some of y’all’s answers mirror my experience also.

I didn’t drink coffee until I joined the Navy.

I loved asparagus as a kid, it’s getting harder and harder to eat now. Not sure why, just don’t want it.

I’ve NEVER been able to stand celery. If it’s in a soup I’ll avoid the whole soup. All I’ll taste is celery.

Bitter.

I used to need cream in my coffee. Now I like it black.
70% cacao used to be my limit. Now 100% cacao (Ghirardelli), and I’d take 110% cacao if there was such.

Brussel sprouts, cauliflower, broccoli, stinky cheese, cilantro, over medium eggs but still need scrambled fully cooked and wine

What time and where?!

Scotch.

Zucchini.

Any number of things, but most notably broccoli, mushrooms, and mustard.

Although I could be wrong, my opinion about why children don’t like many foods is because their tastebuds are more sensitive and therefore they are less likely to like strongly-flavored foods. Perhaps it’s less common today, but when I was a kid almost all adults smoked, and I assume they had to have stronger flavors for things to come close to tasting like things did to children.

I still can’t stand Brussel sprouts and cilantro really does taste like soap to me.

Collards

Crazy as it sounds, calf's liver. I never would come close to touching it when younger but fixed country style with gravy and onions along with some mashed potatoes and fresh veggies and it is pretty good. Never thought I would like it.

Sour cream.

It’s something I’m certainly not proud of, but I was always a picky eater. As I grew up, many things I refused to eat as a kid, I readily eat now. Unfortunately, there are still quite a few things that I still don’t eat.

Practically everything I didn’t like in childhood, I don’t like now. Except for refried beans at Mexican restaurants. I always got double rice and skipped the beans, now I really like them.

Orange Marmalade

There is nothing that will make me eat Lima beans. I never could stomach them.
Same with olives though not as bad as Lima beans.

I never was a fan of Pea soup as a young kid, now I love it.

Tomato's, olives and mushrooms were about the only things I would not eat. Now it's just olives and mushrooms on that list.

Different types of curries. Did not like the smell.

I’m with the Cap’n on Lima beans. When I first had edamame in a salad I thought it was Lima beans.