Brussels Sprouts.
When I was a kid my mother used to boil them. I would gag from the taste. Mushy vomit-balls of awful.
A few years ago I watched a Jamie Oliver video on how to cook them properly and now they’re a staple with roasts and meat + 3 veg at our place. My wife, my oldest son and I fight over who gets the most.
This might not be on account of your mother’s cooking, Jamie Oliver, or your evolving taste buds. Rather, Dutch scientists managed to breed tasty brussels sprouts back in the 90s, and the tasty version has since become the standard.
That’s why everybody hated brussels sprouts in the 80s, and everybody loves them today. They’re just not the same vegetable.
I keep hearing I should try eating them. With this info, I guess I might as well
I’d recommend halving and roasting them, drizzled in a mix of olive oil, good quality vinegar, salt, pepper, and a tiny dash of honey. Just make sure to pre-heat the oven, and use a high temperature (220°C should be good).
Alternatively: dice bacon, render fat, reserve the meaty bits, use the fat to brown the seasoned halved sprouts on high fire. Then put the meaty bacon bits again with them. Then add grated Parmesan.
I’m dutch and grew up in the 2000’s, I still remember boiled brussel sprouts tasting super bitter and awful. Haven’t really tried them since I cook my own meals though.
Having eaten them both back then and now, and had them both properly cooked and poorly cooked, this makes the most sense. I just eventually forgot that they used to taste less pleasant than they do now.
I’ve heard this, but I’d like to know what I’ve been eating over time. I never hated sprouts - I had them boiled (briefly!) as a kid in the 90s, when I guess this variety hadn’t yet proliferated? I like sprouts more now but have always attributed this to cooking them differently - fried or roasted, but occasionally simmered in a curry.
https://invidious.incogniweb.net/watch?v=lBX10drV6A0
was it this one?
Matt Smith as the Doctor
The best doctor is always the last doctor.
Jelly baby … ?
Pertwee was my first doctor. I’ve always grown to like them all.
Weird, because Tennant wasn’t the last doctor …
But he is the most recent one that isn’t current, which seems to track for a lot of the fan base.
Girls
I too come to enjoy girls.
For me it’s pop music. Still love rock & metal but I stopped being a pathetic elitist and began to enjoy music for what it was.
Now I’ll listen to anything from Dua Lipa to Darkthrone.
Only thing that is annoying about pop music, radio stations here play the same 10 songs several times per day. Every day.
“Music” could be on this list for me.
I don’t know where you found anything different from radio stations playing a few songs over and over, between almost constant blather, but this is why I never liked music.
At one phase I started to like music as I could buy what I wanted, but it was turning into an expensive habit to have any choice. Then the industry changed format and obsoleted my library.
It was a revelation when we got good music streaming services (and I could afford them) and I listen to so much more music now, from many genres and eras. I love music.
…… well, we’ll see as services turn more hostile to their customers
Check out digital streams of radio stations! Lots have a website with streaming. My podcast app has a function to subscribe to radio station streams so I can just tap into them at any time (Podcast Addict, but I’m confident lots of podcast apps would have this feature). I’ve got around a dozen radio stations from around the world that play different genres.
Like WFUV out of New York, WBRU out of Providence, and Double J out of Sydney. There are also genre stations.
I have come to like more pop music over time too. What I found though is that I don’t tend to attach much to music unless it has something unique to it, so have found myself going for bands like Pixie Paris which is very poppy but still a bit different.
Olives
Have you tried Castelventrano olives? With the pit 🤌
Those are great, and there’s a green olive imported(?) by Mina which is exceptional.
Country music. I thought it was all Morgan Wallen, Tim McGraw, pop garbage. I’ve recently got into classic style honky tonk shit. I’m seeing Charley Crockett next week. I also like a band called The Reeves Brothers.
Same! I came from an urban Latino environment. Country sounded like vomit to me. Then, I met some country dude with roots in Appalachia. He introduced me to authentic country music. That shit hits hard.
If anyone is looking to give country a try, my favorite artists are as follows:
- The Steeldrivers/Chris Stapleton
- The Dead South
- Alan Jackson (kind of bro-country sound, but great lyrics)
- The Avett Brothers
Not a country fan, but we’ve been listening to a lot of old stuff, Bakersfield Beat on Sirius, Texas country, and alt. I like Hayes Carll. My son digs Charley Crockett. I haven’t listened to it yet. How do you feel about Orville Peck? I initially thought it was goofy but now can’t get Daytona sand out if my head.
Old country music has been replaced by the genre folk, with a lot of crossover with modern day blues and americana.
Teas in general. They went from “eeew” to occasionally wanting some.
This is likely related to fruit juices going down in my list, from “must. have.” to “…okay”.
If you can get your tea local instead of from a grocery store the flavours can be really good.
Yup - I’ve been planting some things (like peppermint), drying others (like orange peels), and the taste is another level than store-bought stuff.
Beer And now that some good varieties are available…NA beers Hop water is super refreshing, we’re living in a renaissance y’all.
Spinach.
From my childhood, I remember vile black slimy stuff from a can, cooked into something that reminded me of LaBrea tar pits.
As an adult, I find fresh spinach tasty. I even like cooked spinach, where you take the pan off the burner and fold it into hot food until it wilts a little. It turns out to all be in how it’s preserved and prepared.
Put them on a tray, spray with olive oil, sprinkle some salt, bake in oven. Spinach chips! Mmmmm
My Chemical Romance. I had barely heard any of their music when I was younger but hated what I heard. Now I own the black parade on vinyl. They’re not my favorite band or anything, but they’re actually pretty fun, as it turns out.
As a former picky eater, lots of foods. Most notably sushi (used to dislike all fish), and bell peppers that moved from disgusting to delicious.
Lots of music. As most kids do (or used to before streaming was a thing) I was locked in a limited set of genres, but I’ve come to appreciate songs I’d have never considered back then.
I think that’s standard with food. When you first encounter it, the body’s normal reaction is “WTF is this?! It’s going to kill me!!”, then the second time it’s more like “Hmmm I don’t know about this, but it didn’t kil me last time”. Then eventually you learn to like the food.
Meanwhile, many allergies are not actually caused by the thing you reacted to, but to something else. Your body just associates the bad effect with something that else alongisde it. For example, a seafood allergy can develop after eating bad seafood - but it doesn’t happen until after. The time you eat bad seafood will be largely uneventful, maybe you have a bit of a dodgy poo, but then the next time you eat seafood you will have a bad allergic reaction. Your body detected the harmful substance that came with the bad seafood, then associates the harm with all seafood, such that all seafood is then rejected.
In the case of bell peppers there’s also the fact that children are more sensitive to bitter flavours, and there’s some bitterness on peppers. Specially commercially grown, since when you grow them home they end sweeter.
I mean going through life many foods. tomato and avocado. never disliked pickle but went from meh to almost a must have.
Joe Biden
Naps.
Don’t cancel me. Cryptocurrencies. Banks suck and now I understand the appeal in getting the hell away from them.
Use a credit union.
Is not a cure-all by any means, they have their own problems
Did you know that a bank is specifically forbidden from taking money from a checking or savings accounts to satisfy a payment owed without your express authorization if you also have a loan/credit card through the same bank?
Did you also know that CUs are exempted from that consumer protection regulation? That’s right and many of them exercise their ability, I learned this the hard way, when MF’in NFCU ripped a 300$ payment out of my account that was 2 or 3 weeks late on an unsecured loan (it wasnt even a couple months) and screwed over my ability to make my rent that month.
They also have the DUMBEST online account security practices. “We can’t have you set your own username for “security” so you’ll have to wait for us to mail you a letter with a user ID on it, oh and to log in for the first time you’ll have to wait another week for us to also mail you a new account pin”
CUs might be a tad better than banks, but they are NO savior.
While I agree with that, I dislike how environmentally unfriendly most are - especially Bitcoin.
