Do you remember
when you were a kid and your parents tried to get you to eat something you
didn’t like? I know it sounds general because all parents try to get their kids
to eat things they do not like.
Do you remember
what those foods were? I remember what I despised the most. I utterly despised
cantaloupe, coffee, Burger King, yellow mustard or any mustard for that matter.
I hated Thanksgiving stuffing, any type of greens and cabbage.
My dad used to
always tell me that things you hate when you are a kid you will love or grow to
love as an adult.
When I was a kid
I never believed him.
I was definitely
finicky with my food and if my mom cooked those foods I would not eat or I made
sure the offending food was not on my plate.
Just the thought
of those items made me want to vomit. I avoided them like the plague.
When I got older
and became an adult (hopefully), I realized that my taste buds had changed. I
believe it all started when I was pregnant with my first child and I began to
crave those foods that I would never have eaten in a million years.
When I was
pregnant I craved cantaloupe. I just had to have it and after I gave birth…I
sill wanted to eat it. That is when it dawned on me that maybe it wasn’t just
the pregnancy. Maybe, my taste buds were changing.
I hated walking
past a coffee shop and smelling the coffee. Then one day when my husband and I
were at the airport, I gave in and bought some Star Bucks coffee. I ordered a
white chocolate mocha…and I loved it. Eventually it led to me buying a coffee
pot and drinking coffee every morning.
I used to want
to murder my husband if he forgot and put mustard on my food. But guess what? I
love it now.
That doesn’t
mean that I like everything that I hated. I still hate cabbage, greens, refried
beans, and Thanksgiving stuffing.
Yet, I continue
to try new foods and checking once in a while to see if anything has changed.
I have yet to
tell my father he was right though…
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