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Bourbon/scotch, but a bigger problem is that most is made poorly

Coconut water. I didn’t care for the taste but liked its ability to hydrate. Just kept drinking until now I sorta enjoy the taste. Has to be chilled though. Warm coconut water is nope. 

I’ve never been a fan of mushrooms. I did attempt to tolerate them though.

Turns out, canned mushrooms are the problem. Those are basically large boogers and not fit for human consumption. Fresh mushrooms don’t have much flavor and I’m relatively indifferent to those. They are now just something I chop up with onion and garlic sometimes now.

I found out that a lot of stuff I thought I didn't like was because it wasn't made very well

Wine. I've never been much of a wine person, and I prefer beer with my food, but at some restaurants and events, the food is usually paired well with a wine. Because of this I tried to actually like it, and I am now at the point where I can enjoy white wine that isn't too sweet.

Yes. I tried mangoes every year untill I liked them, avocado too. Raw tomatoes I keep trying, can tolerate, can't like.

Last year I made a deal with my coworker, who is a wine person but such a picky eater he went to Japan and just ate chicken tenders, same in the middle east. I told him if he honestly tried eating new foods I would try wines. He found some foods he likes, and I found I like dry elegant white wines (nothing sweet) and most wines made of Nebbiolo grapes, like instead of just sort of holding my nose and tolerating them, I can affirmatively like them .

I truly believe a wide palate is a positive quality, I gave my kids lots of different tasting foods when they were little and that helped them to enjoy more flavors. I think technically I'm picky (have strong likes and dislikes) but like so, so many foods it's not limiting. And yes, I do try to like some of the foods I don't.

Kombucha, the first couple bottles taste like fizzy vinegar, but then I got hooked on it. I was trying to get my gut microbes in a healthier zone.

Coffee. I really wanted to be able to enjoy black coffee, cuz it smells so deceptively good, is cheap as fuck, and basically zero calorie. Except it tastes like concentrated dirt. Bitter. Acrid. None of the appeal promised by the smell makes its way to the taste.

Unless I acquire the taste!

Typically my coffee has a similar cream and sugar content to a milkshake, so I actually measured it out to get a baseline, then over the course of about two months phased down to just black coffee. ...and over the course of two months, my coffee phased more and more into tasting like shit. But I tolerated it - eyes on the prize. After that, I spent another month drinking it black. At the end of that month, I finally accepted that black coffee tasted just as much like shit as it did on day one.

My coffee is back to resembling a milkshake... fuck.

I tried.

New hypothesis: there's some kind of generic factor at play like there is with cilantro. That shit is delicious to some and absolutely vile to others, and no amount of trying to acquire it will flip that switch. I drew the short straw on that horrid plant, too.

Yes for black coffee and tapioca pearls, as well as hot food because good lord the dopamine is so nice.

And in reverse I’ve conditioned myself to be disgusted by alcohol.

I had almost the reverse with coffee. I always liked the smell of coffee but not really the taste. Then my family bought a Nespresso machine when i was in high school, and i started adding espresso shots to hot chocolate. Then i started occasionally making espresso shots and drinking them straight. Then several years later i found myself in a hotel for work, at 6am before a shift, and they automatically brought me black coffee. I took one sip and was like "oh i guess i like coffee now" and never looked back. Yep, regular old hotel breakfast coffee got me hooked.

I tried and failed with blue cheese.

Every year, I try again and fail a different way.

I've tried so hard with celery and onions. Turns out I like the flavors just fine, it's the textures I can't handle. So I just have to chop them up into the tiniest pieces so they don't squeak when I bite down. Food shouldn't squeak when I bite down.

I worked very hard to like beer when I was in high school. It didn't help that I was "borrowing" warm Old Milwaukee from my dad's case in the basement.