Hey, that's actually pretty good

[Bottlecaps]

That was the night I discovered I actually like Guinness! It was so much better on draft than in the bottle.

I really ought to try it on tap! I've had it from the can, and I can't say I was very impressed. I was more like disgusted. However, you're not the first person I've heard say that it's better on tap/draft, so I really need to find a place that serves it on tap and give it a try. I may end up liking it that way.

[SiotehCat]

Hummus, The musical Miss Saigon and Grapefruit juice.

[SamiHami]

Over the past couple of years I've been making myself try things that I was positive I didn't like, either because I hated them as a child or because I just didn't think I'd like them. As a result, I now like:

Beans (especially black beans or aduki beans)
Rutabagas
Sweet Potatoes
Mushrooms (well, tolerable now but still not a favorite)
Bleu Cheese (had that last week for the first time!)
A variety of veggies that I like now as long as they are fresh and not canned. I discovered that veggies don't have to (a) come from a can and (b) be boiled to absolute death. It's not only okay, but actually desirable, for a veggie to be crispy!

I'm still working my way up to brussels sprouts, but haven't quite talked myself into them yet.

[Eclectic Dugong]

Food wise: Olives, I disliked them as a child but when I was older and started frequenting tapas bars I rapidly gained an adoration for them, it may have something to do with the only other place I ate olives at had terrible ones for some reason. I've been lucky with food as my mother is a fantastic cook, so it was just stuff that is traditional 'ick' stuff for kids (I've always loved Sprouts though).

I also never really had the patience for JRPGs as a child, too word heavy and plot deep for my liking. But when I was 14 I picked up a copy of Shadow Hearts and loved every second of it, and from there it snowballed to Shin Megami Tensei, Tales series, Xenoblade, Valkyria Chronicles and so many more. The wordiness and plots that I disliked as I child I love and appreciate now.

[ladyknight1]

Try Brussels sprouts halved, then roasted in olive oil and salt. Delicious.

I loathe the canned black olives my family always had, but love Kalamata, oil-cured, and Nicoise olives.

[Outdoor Girl]

I'm still working my way up to brussels sprouts, but haven't quite talked myself into them yet.

Grow your own.  Seriously.  I always liked sprouts but then I grew my own.  They were smaller than store bought ones but they were so tender.  They grow up the stalk of the plant.  When you cut off the leaves, leaving the sprouts behind, the stem looks like a spinal column.

[SamiHami]

I'm still working my way up to brussels sprouts, but haven't quite talked myself into them yet.

Grow your own.  Seriously.  I always liked sprouts but then I grew my own.  They were smaller than store bought ones but they were so tender.  They grow up the stalk of the plant.  When you cut off the leaves, leaving the sprouts behind, the stem looks like a spinal column.

I might consider doing that next spring. This year I am only doing serrano peppers. I'm good at those (they are impossible to kill!) and I don't have time to do much gardening this year because of my new job. But maybe...it'd be fun to see those little spinal columns.

Or, better yet, I'll convince my dad to grow them in his garden. Then I can come raid it when he's not home! 

[CrochetFanatic]

Coconut curd on a bagel.  Not as bad as it sounds!

[Gyburc]

I have to agree about Ozzy Osbourne.

I was never a fan of him and never watched his show. I did know who he was and have seen him on tv and do agree that understanding him is almost impossible.

I was watching something on VH1 and they were showing clips of Ozzy's videos. I was suprised to hear his voice!  Shocked to hear how good his voice is (or was).

Ozzy was awesome in his prime, really awesome. If you haven't already heard it, try 'No More Tears', which is a fantastic song.

On topic - DH got me into metal when we first met. Iron Maiden, Queensryche and Judas Priest are generally my favourites, together with Bruce Dickinson's solo albums (the singer from Maiden).

[Marzipan]

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Grow your own.  Seriously.  I always liked sprouts but then I grew my own.  They were smaller than store bought ones but they were so tender.  They grow up the stalk of the plant.  When you cut off the leaves, leaving the sprouts behind, the stem looks like a spinal column.
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Don't do this if you were traumatized by the movie Invasion of the body snatchers as a kid.
The pods in that movie look like the brussel sprout plant.

This confirmed my suspicion that brussel sprouts are evil

Growing up I thought I hated beans. My mother only served canned ones.
I realized when I grew up that fresh ones are very tasty!

[Specky]

I didn't start to enjoy vegetables until I was out on my own.  My Mother would boil everything in tons of water for a LONG time:  canned beans, canned asparagus, corn on the cob, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, collards/kale.  Canned asparagus does not boil well.  Fresh corn on the cob shouldn't be boiled for an hour.  Also, no seasoning, ever. 

Spaghetti sauce was the cheapest ground beef, er gristle, with a can of tomato paste.  Nothing else.  Pasta would boil forever.  White rice, only since "You don't want flavor in your rice".

Broccoli was always flowering, so was bitter as all-get-out.  Sweet potatoes were baked into hardened masses.  Hamburgers were solid hockey pucks (they crunched, IF you could bite them).  Nothing but Wonder Bread, because any bread with any sort of body was "stale", even if it was still warm from the oven.  Biscuits were kneaded into a wondrous toughness.  Fish was fried into rubber.  You could clank your knife against the steak.  She even boiled the fish.

[Outdoor Girl]

Wow, Specky.  I'm glad to see you survived your childhood.  I think I would have starved.  But considering how overweight I am now, maybe that wouldn't have been such a bad thing.   

My Mom would put the water on to boil.  When it was boiling, she'd drop the corn in.  When it came back to the boil, she'd take it out.  My Dad does the cooking at a corn roast for his club and all these people protest that he's not cooking it long enough.  Until they taste it.

[bo]

Tunafish and apples. My husband grew up on it and I thought it sounded disgusting. I ate lunch at my MIL's house one day and she made it for us. I now make my tunafish like that all the time.