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Cooked mushrooms. As a kid, I viscerally hated the smell of mushrooms, to the point it would make me gag whenever we had them for supper. The aversion gradually lessened over time. Then when I moved out and started cooking on my own, I suddenly found them delicious! To the point that I now like to add them to almost any savory meal.

Sausages, but they have to be good quality ones. Cheap ones can get in the fucking bin.

I used to dislike the taste of licorice. I used to eat the sweet bits from those licorice cubes my dad had when I was a kid and then throw away the licorice parts.

Don't know when that changed, but I was on the way home with my old man (I may have been late teens/early 20's?) and I was quite hungry. All he had in the car at the time was licorice and it was one of the most delicious things I ever had.

He sometimes playfully complains that he remembered a time when us kids never liked licorice or pepper and now we eat him out of a house.

Eggs. I did not like them at all (except as an ingredient in pancakes) for a quarter of a century. Now I do like myself a hard boiled egg with a pinch of salt for breakfast

Spicy food. I think my sense of taste has gotten dull as I got older so now I like that extra kick.

Olives. I still don't like them straight out of the jar, but if you dump a jar of them into a nice olive oil marinade for a week, that's an amazing thing, and you can save the marinade and add more olives as you go. Then they're heaven.

Baseball

Bell peppers. I used to HATE these things, now I do eat them whenever I get the chance.

Metal music. It used to sound like random noise made by kids, but I've learned to appreciate it musically.

But I'm over the age in which I can take comfort in this music to express my anger and depression.

Sitting quietly.

I used to require constant distraction from my thoughts. I would keep my local NPR station on in the background, just to have something to distract me from the running monologue and dialogues in my head.

I had to do a lot of psychological/spiritual work, but at this point I can say that sitting quietly is extremely rewarding and comfortable.

Mushrooms (as food), tea, classical music, colder weather, and it follows- long sleeved shirts, the feeling of flossed teeth, reading books, co-existing with spiders

Drinking water instead of flavored drinks.

Rain, when I was younger I used to dislike it. Rainy days are now my fave type of day!

Don't cancel me. Cryptocurrencies. Banks suck and now I understand the appeal in getting the hell away from them.

Sparkling water.

Naps.

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.