As children we hate vegetables. It’s a given. It is because most vegetables have a bitter taste and bitter taste is associated with…well things we shouldn’t eat. As adults however, evolution has assumed that we should have the intelligence to know which are the things we shouldn’t eat and which we can. However the problem arises that as children we have developed a taste for things that are high in fat, salt, etc. and we do not change these tastes as adults and we stay with what we know. Because we know that is safe. I should say at this point the post is not about obesity, evolution, or trying to put the world to rights. It is about discovery and change.
I hate certain foods, I think we all do to a certain degree. Some of us are allergic to certain foods. Some foods disagree with us and so on; and some foods we dislike. In my case, my dislike of certain foods stems from childhood, because the taste of these foods was bitter and unpleasant. I recently made a decision. I would try these foods I hated and see whether I could bear to eat them, or even like them. So far everything I have actively made the decision to try I have liked. Baked beans (yes I’m weird I hated these as a kid!), pulses of various kinds : aduki beans, butter beans, chick peas (in whole form, not as houmous, I already liked that!) kidney beans and so on. My biggest breakthrough was tonight. Sweetcorn. I can’t stand sweet corn. Yet I see corn on the cob on shelves in supermarkets, or on the barbecue and they look delicious. So I decided I would try a corn on the cob. I boiled it for 10 mins, as per instructions, after I sprinkled some wild garlic salt (sometimes tourist shops can come up trumps. Wild garlic salt is delicious!) and lashings of butter… delicious! Another triumph! Another food I don’t mind eating! Just peas, broad beans, runner beans, cabbage and brussel sprouts to go…Yes I know, anything green basically. Well I warned you it was pointless news didn’t I?!
