/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>11088252
We always had salads or some kind of vegetable side every night when I was a kid, and I always ate a lot of it. I even used to ask to have salads for lunch sometimes in elementary school. If a kid says they don't like any vegetables then their parents either don't know how to prepare them or just let them get away with never eating them so they don't develop a taste for them.

>>11088252
at this pint I think that kids not liking broccoli is a meme spread by cartoons

>>11089769
This. I was a contrarian little shit so i loved broccoli.

>>11089769
Yeah broccoli was the only vegetable I really liked

>>11088252
I've liked vegetables for as long as I can remember. On the other hand, I've always hated stuff like sour cream, mayonnaise, ketchup, etc. Maybe it's some biological peculiarity of mine.

i was that little faggot who hated all veggies and greens.

i had a daycare provider who tried to force me to eat baby carrots. i dumped them into my milk carton. got away with it, too.

>>11088252
I loved vegetables as a kid, especially cauliflower and brokkoli. The only shit I didn't eat were steamed bell peppers and tomatos, fuck those.

>>11089921
>On the other hand, I've always hated stuff like sour cream, mayonnaise, ketchup, etc. Maybe it's some biological peculiarity of mine.

Stop defining yourself by identity condiments

>>11088252
I remember not liking really bitter ones like brussel sprouts. Now I’m fine with pretty much everything.

>>11088252
Most likely your mom could cook decently. Lots of kids only ever had overcooked or overboiled veggies with no seasoning, except for salt maybe.

Growing up, my parents had to yell at me to eat beef, but I always ate my veggies. I like vegetables. I find it high-larious that Brits and Americans struggle to get five servings a day when I eat literally double that many daily, no problem.

>>11092144
Not always the case, I’ve always loved broccoli but we’ve never really seasoned it. I still like it best just steamed

i've always loved food so i'd happily eat veggies as a kid. i'd happily eat most things

>>11089769
When I was a kid I was always confused why cartoons portrayed vegetables as gross because I never had an issue with them.

>>11088252
I'm the same, loved them. I have never eaten a vegetable in my life that I haven't enjoyed. That being said I wouldn't eat most fruits, and still won't. I don't know why, but most fruits taste disgusting to me.

>>11088252
They had mothers that cooked like shit and/or got indoctrinated by cartoons and sugary food commercials to say vegetables are disgusting to feel like they fit in with other kids

>>11092872
>>11092144
My mom didn't own spices and steamed every single vegetable until it was mush and I still enjoyed it. That being said, the fact that her chicken, pork, and beef was all beyond well done and cooked without any spices or fats did turn me off meat for a while.

>>11092919
>I still enjoyed it
I guess when you're getting beaten every night, you have to enjoy life's small pleasures.

>>11088252
I hated all veggies because they were always served to me cooked. When I discovered eating them raw though, that was a game changer. All veggies are better raw. Triply so with a well made oil-based dressing.

>>11092937
When 90% of what eat as a child is overcooked vegetables, meat that tastes and feels like shoe-leather, and terrible bread that your dad bakes because it's "healthier than the storebought crap", mushy vegetables actually tastes pretty good.

i never liked broccoli when i was a children, but that's because my mom would boil it into grey mush, I've like it fine otherwise. I've always liked asparagus and Brussels sprouts though. the only "vegetables" I don't really like are lima beans and pumpkin.

>>11088252
depending how they are cooked

With you all the way OP. My mom was a first generation northern Italian and grew up on a farm; she had a way of making every vegetable taste and look so goddamn good. Cooked simply and seasoned lightly. Steamed artichokes, roasted eggplant, sautéed spinach, grilled green beans, baked sweet potatoes, steamed asparagus...so many things. As a result, I'm one of a select few of my friends who kicks it in produce...wandering around, looking for new stuff to mess with.

And kids, as we all were once...start out limited. EWW GROSS is the default. Super sweet or super salty dominate. Pretzel rods and a PB&J with the crusts cut off. But if someone hips you to new tastes early, you sway off the path of convention. Happens in the meat world too, I guess. But yeah, eating asparagus or parsley root at 6 broadens the tastes....

>>11092872
>>11092144
> letting women cook

I liked it brocolli first second or third time I tried it specially eating yakisoba/chow mein in chinese restaurants. I never understand why murricans cartoons I've watched in my childhood aways put they like the ultimate hell to childreen tastes.