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Were you a picky eater as a kid /ck/? Did you grow out of it, or did you autistic eating habits stick with you into adulthood?

What causes these dietary habits to develop in your experience?

>> No.13846224

>>13846206
I didn't like olives, coconut, fish, liver, figs, but now I like all of them.

>> No.13846249

>>13846224
>not liking figs as a kid
Wew lad. They're like all sugar.

>> No.13846276

>>13846206
Kids don't greens and vegetables in general as kids because their tastebuds tell them they are bitter so they'll spit them out. It's an evolutionary defense to eating poisonous plants.

Some adults were pandered to as children and never forced to eat these things, so their taste buds never matured and they never learned the positive association between what is safe to eat and what isn't, so they just don't eat veg.

>> No.13846284

>>13846206
The only thing I hated as a kid was any kind of tough/chewy meat. I fucking hated steak, and would cry if it was served to me.

>> No.13846329

>>13846276
>what are peas

>> No.13846334

>>13846249
I've only had the canned ones that came in syrup, and didn't liked them precisely because they were too sweet.

>> No.13846356

It turns out I just didn't like mushy ass vegetables. I still won't eat bananas that aren't cooked. The flavor is fine but the texture is fucked.

>> No.13846357

>>13846329
Something I hated as a child

>> No.13846359

>>13846206
There's very few foods I dislike as an adult, and even those things I can eat if I feel like I need to. I credit the fact that my parents didn't cater to me growing up. If I didn't like what they cooked, too bad.

>> No.13846387

>>13846206
while i've learned to like a lot of foods like olives, cheese, wine and mushrooms, I still can't stand the taste of cilantro as it taste like soap to me no matter how many times I try it.

>> No.13846403

I was very picky as a kid, but as an adult I'll eat most things, one of the few things I still absolutely cannot stand is beets

>> No.13846406

>>13846387
That's a genetic thing, you won't ever like it

>> No.13846417

>>13846206
I've always hated olives and I will always hate them.

>> No.13846429

>>13846403
Pickled beetroot is amazing though, the uncrowned king of a pastrami sandwich.

>> No.13846436

>>13846206
I don't like cooked carrots, didn't like it when I was a kid either. I still don't care for peas, but I'll eat them, but I love sweet potatoes now.

>carrots
Mom always cooked them in brown sugar, but my dad and sisters loved them
>peas
We were poor, so they were always out of a can, but fresh they're tolerable.
>Sweet potatoes
Granny always made sweet potato casserole, but it always had marshmallows on top. I love them baked with some tumeric/garlic/cumin/salt

>> No.13846487

>>13846284
Perhaps your parents cooked steak very shitty?

>> No.13846500

>>13846206
I hated brussel sprouts and cauliflower as a kid.

Now I love the former and kind of like the latter. I'd still rather have broccoli.

>> No.13846505

>>13846429
>beets on a pastrami sandwich
That is perhaps the most atrocious thing I've heard today.

>> No.13846511

>>13846329
Just put some white vinegar and pepper on them.

>> No.13846517

I don't like shrimp. Still wouldn't eat shrimp or most seafood besides fish. Fucking nasty sea cockroaches.
My mom loved all that stuff though, and my sister.

>> No.13846525

>>13846206
Didn't like Brussels sprouts as a kid and now they're one of my favorite side dishes. Same thing happened with mushrooms and a lot of seafood.

>> No.13846529

>>13846525
>Brussels sprouts
fuck yea, all crisped up

>> No.13846532

I wasn't necessarily picky, as I would eat a lot of stuff and genuinely enjoyed things like seafood or whatever, but there were a few things I didn't like for a while, like spinach.

My parents didn't force me to eat anything at all as a kid. When I was really really little, all I'd eat were peas and carrots, though.

The only thing I don't like as an adult are sweets. They give me this incredible ashen aftertaste, like I'm eating dirt. I liked them as a kid, so I don't know what happened.

>> No.13846577

>>13846206
I was very open to foods as a child but became picky as I grew up. Why waste my life eating garbage I don't like? Why spend more than a few seconds thinking about what to eat when I know what I like the most and can just cook it? So now I just bake hardtack and dip it into cans of tomato soup. Sometimes I make grilled cheese sandwiches. Don't need anything else.

>> No.13846591

>>13846276
I didn't like most greens as a kid, or spicy things. Now I like them both. Tomatoes are my favorite veg.

>> No.13846595

>>13846284
I didn't like steak until I was in high school because it had always been served to me well done.

>>13846387
>liking mushrooms
Hipster
>Not liking Cilantro
Twink bottom hipster.

>> No.13846617

was never that picky when it came to greens or food in general. The two things I disliked the most were bell peppers and raw tomatoes.

I enjoy peppers now, but still find the taste overpowering if its used too much. I still can't get over the taste of raw tomatoes though. Has a strange acidity to it that I dislike.

>> No.13846623

>ranch dressing
>blue cheese
>mayo based salads
>peanuts (allergy)
only things I won't eat

>> No.13846624

>>13846577
lel

>> No.13846684

>>13846276
>their tastebuds tell them they are bitter so they'll spit them out. It's an evolutionary defense to eating poisonous plants.
That makes a lot of sense actually.

>> No.13846748

>>13846206
I was really picky as a kid, I wouldn't eat fish, most vegetables, or ranch/blue cheese.
I grew out of most of it, but I still refuse to eat ranch.

>> No.13846806

>>13846406
can you explain?
I also don't like coriander/cilantro and it seems like a big divide in my family

>> No.13846813

i still dont eat onions. stay mad cu/cks/

>> No.13846819

>>13846206
SHUT THE FUCK UP AND STOP MAKING THESE SHITTY THREADS, KID

>> No.13846822

>>13846206
No. I was a good eater.

>> No.13846840

>>13846206
>tfw I was picky eater as a kid
>tfw I eat almost anything as an adult (only thing I can't stand is lamb/mutton)
>tfw my kids aren't picky eaters at all

The trick is to wait until they're already really hungry and then just convince them to eat a couple of bites of [insert food here] until they acquire the taste, don't try to force them to eat a whole plate of liver or something, it'll just make them hate the taste even more. My parents were too autistic to understand how to do this process lol

>> No.13846849

>>13846532
That is some next-level reddit spacing

>> No.13846852

>>13846429
>>13846505
Australians put pickled beets on fucking everything, you can even get a burger at McDonalds in Australia with beet on it

>> No.13846885

Broccoli makes me gag. Always has. I'll straight up throw it back up onto my plate.

>> No.13846905

>>13846206
Only thing I didnt like as a kid was asparagus but I grew out of that. My parents would beat me if I tried to throw a fit about not eating something

>> No.13846906

My boyfriend hates onions, green peppers and mushrooms and I love all three of those things. Sucks.

>> No.13846908
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13846908

Well, there's things I wouldn't eat when I was younger.

Radishes
Plums
Meat with any sort of sweet sauce, I'd always say sweet doesn't go with meat
Food that touched eachother, if there was ketchup drizzled on the fries in advance, I wouldn't eat it
sweet pickles
poutine(pretty much for the food touching reason but it also wasn't good)
mayonnaise
mustard
tomatoes
peppers
Ah, I dunno, there was probably more. Like Jam. I've never had a peanut butter jelly sandwich. But I've grown up now and I don't have people hectoring me about how I eat so I don't really notice it anymore. There's no more screaming matches about how I have to eat my fries. Even when I do get the odd criticism, I can shut it down pretty quickly.

>> No.13846937
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13846937

>>13846908

list continued(I remember more as time goes on):

mushrooms
pineapple pizza(sweet with meat)
beets
lobster(just too much work for too little payoff)
oysters
Kraft dinner with the fake cheese powder stuff
also kraft cheese slices
black licorice
that green stuff that comes with sushi

>> No.13846957

I was a malnourished kid with no appetite and could only take liquid foods from the pediatrician. I got better.

>> No.13846971

>>13846206
Yes, and a bit. Not entirely.

>> No.13846978

>>13846908
Your parents should have beaten you more

>> No.13846981
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13846981

>>13846937
apple pie without a top crust(coconut cream pie is fine without a top crust, but fruit pies need the top crust)
pure chocolate(that worsened over time, now I barely consume any chocolate)
jelly doughnuts
potato salad(one time my dad and I went to a wedding and were the only two people who didn't get sick. Neither of us would touch potato salad)
macaroni
bony fish(too scared of bones in my throat)
tomatoes
red apples(green's better)
cereal
oatmeal

>> No.13846989

>>13846206
i was a bit of a picky eater, or so I thought, turns out my parents just weren't the best at cooking.
i love beans and other veggies now, pork too.

>> No.13847049

>>13846356
cooked banana huh..

>> No.13847060

>>13846206
never liked onions, raw or cooked, until i was older. always thought it was a sin to have more than just pepperoni and cheese on a pizza but a supreme is really tasty to me now.

>> No.13847084

Once I started cooking myself liking all foods became a question of did you cook it properly or not.

>> No.13847121 [DELETED] 

ITT: Americans, south europeans and germans

>> No.13847134

>>13846206
>green beans
>peanuts (still don’t)
>canned spinach
>corn
>tomatoes
>avocado
>oatmeal
>cinnamon
>raisins
>brown rice (still don’t)
>mustard
>mayo
>cream cheese
>coffee
>pickles
>sushi
>cheese

>> No.13847246

>>13846206
I ate everything when I was younger, but as I got older I started to get picky. (My aunt is a gourmet chef) so I really started to get picky after I ate at her house.

>> No.13847468

>>13846206
Yeah, still very much am but I try constantly to branch out and sticking to the same few things

and before you joke yes it is autism

>> No.13847484

>>13847468
>and before you joke yes it is autism
Yea, picky eating is actually a symptom of autism used when diagnosing the condition.

>> No.13847492

>>13846206
I was and still am a picky eater, but thats because I have a recessive trait that allows me to taste a naturally occurring chemical in most green veggies which produces an overwhelming bitter hit.

So if I were say, bite into a piece of green lettuce with nothing on it, I would get ultra dark roast cold coffee instead.

Green veggies for me have to be sufficiently cooked before I can eat them with any ability, so I tend to have lots of soups and stews in order to supplement.

Fuck greenbeans tho, those can eat a dick regardless. Hate em.

>> No.13847591

>>13847492
>it’s not my fault, i’m big boned!
Just kill yourself retard.

>> No.13847603

>>13846206
I used to, and still do to a small degree, absolutely hate sauces. I think that ultimately it was a good thing, since it led to me enjoying all sorts of meat without having to slather them in condiments.

>> No.13847645

>>13847591
>All that projection.
Even say in the post I specifically eats lots of soups and stews in order to increase veggie intake due to the cooking process getting the taste out.

Tell me straight anon, how crazy are you going without your fast food fix?

>> No.13847657

>>13846206
>Were you a picky eater as a kid /ck/?
Yes
>Did you grow out of it
Yes
>What causes these dietary habits to develop in your experience?
Parents that are terrible cooks and are picky eaters themselves. Boiled, unseasoned meat is a lot more tolerable than boiled, plain, frozen mixed veggies.

>> No.13847661

>>13847657
>Boiled, unseasoned meat is a lot more tolerable than boiled, plain, frozen mixed veggies.
No

>> No.13847662

>>13847661
Yes

>> No.13847665

>>13847662
No

>> No.13848743

>>13846206
No and I'm still not, although I'm not the biggest fan of cherry tomatoes and olives. I'll still eat them though, just won't enjoy that part of the meal. I was more adventurous with food than my parents were, and although they weren't for it themselves they did support it.

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13848802

>>13846206
Onions are the only thing I can't handle one bit. I used to dislike pepper but they're passable when done right in a meal.

>> No.13849368

I ate milk weed when I was a kid

>> No.13849423

>>13846206
Only things I was really picky about were butter (especially in potatoes) and cheese. American “cheese” is just garbage and I don’t know why everyone decides to drown everything in butter.
>>13846276
Speak for yourself, I loved bitter things thing and I especially love it now.

>> No.13849425

Nah, I loved broccoli, carrots, artichoke, and even brussel's sprouts. Didn't like onions.

>> No.13849433

>>13846206
Most picky eating comes from parents who are shitty cooks.

>> No.13849437

>>13848802
You need them for starting a lot of nice dishes, too. My gf hates them but eats them in 50% of what I cook.

>> No.13849603

>>13846206
Picky eaters are the biggest faggots on the planet.

>> No.13849689

>>13846206
Used to be a picky eater, but became really self-conscious about it and now force myself to eat vegetables when others are watching.

>> No.13849697

>>13849689
>regulating your diet for social appearances
lmao how low is your self esteem boss?