On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 12:47:33 -0500, Julia Altshuler
> wrote:

>Name something that you didn't used to like but now do. It could be
>coffee, cavier, wine, scotch, olives, calamari, green vegetables, or
>anything else. It should be something that you previously thought was
>blech but that you now appreciate, enjoy and look forward to. Would you
>say that you learned to like it? How did you do it? Did you just keep
>tasting it until something changed? Did you finally get a good bottle
>or get it prepared in a way that you liked? What made you feel
>compelled to eat it the time that you liked it? Peer pressure, or
>doctor's orders, or something else?

I always hated olives as a kid because the flavour was too strong...
then we started using olive oil for cooking because it was supposed to
be good for you. We started with extra-light oil which doesn't have
any olive taste, then we found out that that was chemically processed
and we moved up to the regular stuff, and eventually graduated to
extra-virgin olive oil, and by then I actually LIKED the flavour so I
was able to tackle actual olives. I love canned/preserved olives now,
but the fresh ones are FOUL.

I always thought I hated eggplant because it was bitter, but it turns
out that I'd only had it badly prepared... I've had it in restaurant
food and it tastes fine there because they know how to get the
bitterness out of it.