Foods you discovered liking at an older age?

I can't think of anything for me off the top of my head, but I recently accidentally bought chunky peanut butter and now my DH is enamored with it. We both grew up eating smooth.

I eat pretty much everything now (except offal and oysters) but there was lots I didn't or wouldn't eat as a child. 

The last food I trained myself to like was olives, about 20+ years ago. Dad used to cook dinner for me once a week, and he would do a Greek salad. I started off by forcing down one quarter of a kalamata olive, then next week half, then next week a full one.... now I could eat a whole jar of them! 

I also used to not like chicken thigh, but now it is my preferred cut. 

Vegetables lol. Growing up I ate green beans, corn, peas and (only raw) carrots. Now the list that I eat is much MUCH longer and I especially love roasted/grilled veggies.

When Dh and I started dating, I ate broccoli but only raw. His mom served steamed broccoli at dinners a lot and I always took and ate a small amount to be polite. After a while it started tasting good.

Overall my palate is a lot broader as an adult. I grew up eating a lot of midwest/bland food and my mom didn't enjoy cooking. If cooking websites and Food Network had been a thing in my teens I might have branched out earlier.

Almonds!

I've always hated nuts. In everything. But I'm finding almonds are pretty good!

Nuts, onions and Brussels sprouts-when roasted. I still hate radishes though. ☺️

Amazing difference, isn't it? So many processed vegetables aren't even be recognizable to people who grew up eating them fresh, and correctly prepared. 

Ginger! I say it tastes like peppered lemons to me.

Fresh lime. I always hated the lime flavored Life Savers and Popsicles. Now I know I'm in for good tacos if there is fresh lime involved.

Cilantro is weird for me. I specifically remember it tasting like soap to me, but now I like it. Does that mean I like eating soap?!?!

And hummus and some beans.

I need to get to work on eating fish. I've always known it was good for you and I figured I could start eating it "later." Well. I'm unsure how much of "later" I have available to make enough difference!!!

Brussel sprouts. In small doses. Made by someone else not in my house. For some reason, brussel sprouts made by some of the breweries we go to are delicious vs the side dish at the regular restaurant.

Sweet potatoes. I'd replace 75% of all of our potatoes with sweet potatoes if I could.

Squash. Stuffed acorn squash is in the winter menu rotation.

Funny, I thought about starting a post like this this morning.

There are very few fruits and vegetables I won't eat. But one I could never wrap my taste buds around was pears. Currently in my house I have 2 kinds of apples, tangerines, bananas, and 2 pears that Ds wanted, but hadn't eaten before he left to go back to school.

I got my second shingles vaccine yesterday, and I hurt and feel crummy. Dh went up to help his mom with all the rain we are getting, so I was left to fend for myself. When I went to make breakfast, I saw the pears sitting there and decided to try one. I cut it up and for some reason I also grabbed a spoon and scooped out the flesh. IT WAS DELICIOUS! The second pear was a different type of pear, so I gave it a try as well. DELICIOUS! Turns out it's the skin I can't bear.

I like pears as of today!

Mushrooms and red/orange/yellow bell peppers (still hate green).

Bleu cheese. Dh and I think your tastebuds have to deaden in order for you to like strong flavored things like that.

Avocado. Hated it as a kid but it’s one of my favorites now!

There were so many things I wouldn’t eat as a kid, but my mom made a lot of hot dish/casseroles with hamburger, chicken or tuna and those cream of crap combinations are blech to me. Now though I will eat artichokes, asparagus (especially roasted with Parmesan and olive oil, sooo good!), some kinds of fish (won’t eat sushi but my kid does), never liked Parmesan and now I do. 

I will never like onions you can bite into but I’ll eat stuff that is onion or garlic flavored.

Speaking of corned beef, DH made it a few times and I didn’t really like it. The last time he made it he rinsed it before cooking it the way you’re supposed to and it was so much better and less salty that way.

I’d say over half the items I eat (which is almost everything) I started eating/liking as an adult.

I wasn’t ultra picky as a kid, but I didn’t eat fish, pork, seafood, most vegetables, etc… as a kid. I learned to like almost everything in my 20s. I’m trying to think of what my last revelation was. The only thing I can think of was learning that black puddings (blood sausage) was pretty good, but that was when I was 34 (I’m 50 now).