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I haven’t met a vegetable I didn’t like. OK, I lie. When I was about 10 my Pop gave us way too many chokos that he’d grown himself and we ate too many. Or moreso, I was forced to eat too many. I haven’t had a choko since. I was choko-ed out. But every other vegetable is fair game. I’ll eat anything if it’s good for me.
I know not everyone is like me {you know, perfect, ha!} and there are a good handful that detest particular vegetables. I asked on my Facebook page, and the answers were super passionate. There were pea-haters. brussel sprout detesters, and determined cauliflower non-eaters. Actually I think every vegetable was mentioned in that thread. I laughed my way through it.
I headed over to the fresh section of Coles and went crazy for the vegetables. I also went crazy for the strawberries, raspberries and mandarins while I was there, because HELLO DELICIOUS MORSELS. I grabbed my cauliflower, brussel sprouts and my peas and went home to make them yum. Yep, I want to show the haters that vegetables can be yum if you just give them a chance. GIVE VEGETABLES A CHANCE PEOPLE.
I think that we’ve just been exposed to badly cooked vegetables as kids and we’re scared. Or scarred. Heck, my dad used to cook peas with bicarb soda and they ended up a mushy mess and I hated them. But they need you to give them a chance. So while we’re on the topic of peas, let me share how I like to mix it up a little.
If you can find fresh peas at Coles, grab them, otherwise grab baby peas from the frozen section. You want to cook them in boiling water until they rise to the top of the water, or until they’re bright green. Remove them from the water, and mix with a little olive oil, some crumbled fetta, some chopped fresh mint, some lemon juice, as well as some salt and pepper. Delish! Not yuk, YUM.
The other most-hated vegetable you guys voted was cauliflower. I get it, if you have it soggy it’s gross. But try it in this soup and start from there. Move to cauliflower gratin and then try it plain. It’s actually one of my favourite. Who doesn’t love white trees?
I used this recipe from Taste.com.au and just added in a sprig of thyme when cooking, removing it before the blending stage.
And lastly, oh these guys get a bad wrap, brussel sprouts. I actually really love them just steamed. You don’t want to overcook them so they get limp and lifeless. You want to cook them until they’re bright green and delicious. The recipe I used to turn them from yuk to yum involves butter, garlic and bacon which always makes everything better. My sister was over when I cooked these and she said, “Why bother? You’ve just added so much naughty stuff to it, it’s no good.”
I justified it, of course, but I can always justify bacon and butter. People need to just try them, whatever way it is, and then give them a chance. Then you can move onto having them just steamed.
As I cooked the brussel sprouts I asked my sister if she liked them. She said she had eaten them in the past, but wouldn’t go out of her way to do it again. I put this plate in front of her, offered her a fork and then we both demolished them. So freaking delicious. You MUST try them. I used this recipe, and ignored the baby brussel sprouts thing and just grabbed whatever I saw at Coles. These will be made again and again here. Please try them at your place.
So now I want you to turn some things into yummy meals, so I’ve got a $250 Coles voucher for you to go crazy with. KERAZY! Simply answer the question below in the comments: What vegetable did you love to hate as a kid? Why?
Open to Australian residents only. One entry per person. Competition closes September 1st at 12 noon.
Congrats! The winner is Kate Slack. 🙂
I really hated peas as a kid but I love them now! I used to take so long to eat them (at what seemed like EVERY meal) that I was often left alone at the dining table to finish up. My mum would pop back in to check on my progress every couple of minutes and see fewer and fewer peas on my plate. “The fairies ate them!” I’d say.
One day when my mum was hoovering she noticed that the bit of carpet in the corner of the dining room (that hadn’t laid flat for quite some time) was sticking up a bit more than usual. She peeled it back to look underneath and found a big pile of mouldy peas! I got in BIG trouble that day and the fairies never ate my peas again!
I don’t think I ever met a vegetable I didn’t like but I married a veggie phobe so I spend most of my adult life trying to smuggle vegetable goodness into winner dinners. Brussel sprouts are actually one of my favourites, so I’m definitely going to try “Sprouts a la Chantelle” – it has rather a nice ring to it, don’t you think?
I love most veggies, but I just could never get my head around zucchini (or anything in its family except for cucumber which I will devour). I don’t know why but my tastebuds have never screamed out for it. Ever. To this day! I would love to try baking with it – sweet and savoury. I see recipes all the time but I’ve never been able to bring myself to commit! I don’t know if it’s the texture or the flavour – I think it’s both. I really need to find a way to like it. I find that as much as I encourage my son to eat good foods, I have to be on the bandwagon and be creative for myself too so I can set an example!
I love making veggies appealing to my 3 year old – it feels like a huge personal victory when I win him over on something he thinks he doesn’t like! Everything from mashing carrot, to serving green beans as “crunchy” beans – put them in the oven with some olive oil, pepper, panko crumbs and parmesan mixed through! 🙂
I hated tomatoes as a kid. I would chew them and not swallow, and then ask to go to the bathroom and spit them out! I’m a bit better now, I can eat tomatoes if they are hidden in other food, but never eat them on their own! Eww!
i hated mushrooms as a kid because the way my dad cooked them looked like they were swimming in mud! he forced fed them to me once and I’ve been scarred ever since!
I hated brussell sprouts when I was younger. It was the smell and texture of them when they were cooked, even though my poor mum even tired mixing them in with bacon and onion I would dissect my plate to get rid of the yucky green stuff. It’s odd as now as an adult I really love roasted brussell sprouts… go figure.
I’m sorry but brussel sprouts would have to be it for me, I did go through a stage where I liked them but it was brief because some bitter over ripe one ruined it for me.Your ones look tasty though and would tempt me to give them another go. I am also not a fan of mushrooms but have gotten to the point where I can eat them cooked in something if it is put in front of me but raw, never. To me they just taste like dirt and yes, I know what dirt tastes like, I did work on a dusty cattle station after all. I do like most of my veges though, especially nice fresh ones or even better ones I grew in the garden.
Leeks! I used to hate leeks because they were not very tasty and just a bit sloppy for my liking. But I used to eat them when the cheese sauce came out!! x
Potato was my hated vegetable because my mum did not cooking them very well and I did not known “French Fries ” in China. After my neighbour told my mum how to cook potatoes with curry recipes . I remembered that potatos became delicious and l love them . Today’ s potatos are one of my favourite vegetables and my cooking skills is better than my mum. My family love my cooking and most importantly I am truly enjoying cooking for my family and friends.
Pumpkin!!! Because pigs eat pumpkin! Still today…ewww!!!!
Has to be corn; it just smells terribly wrong when cooked. Kind of a sweet rotten smell. However, if you want to pop it with a bit of butter I’ll put my hand up for some.
As a child I wasn’t a fan of peas. I would gag and spew and cry lol
I still wouldn’t tuck into a bowl of peas by themselves, but I now love them in stews, pasties and of course fried rice!
I love practically all vegetables but… Brussel Sprouts *Blegh* – never liked them – just so bitter and wrong!!
Peas! I think a part of it was because my Mum didn’t like them evil. They are the devils food!
Cabbage… My mum and dad used to think that for some god known reason boiling this vegetable until it’s flavourless and rubbery then frying in oil would make a great side to our dinner.
Yeah…. ummm… NO IT DOESN’T !!
*shudders*
Peas!!! I had to swallow them like tablets with a sip of water. Couldn’t chew them and I’m now 31 & still can’t eat them!!
Swede!!!! School served it as mixed veg – cubes of carrot, swede and peas. The fearsome dinner ladies would force us to eat it. The smell still makes me want to heave 🙁
Capsicum. For no particular reason just because it started with C. Now as an adult I love it. Can’t get enough of it.
Peas! Love them fresh but can’t stand them cooked. I hate the mushy texture. I use to hide mine in the gap between the bench and the kitchen cupboards when Mum gave them to me. Maybe if I told her I couldn’t stand them instead of hiding them she would have cooked them less often 😛
Wow, as crazy as it sounds, I have just spent a solid ten minutes trying to come up with a vegie I don’t like and I got nothing!! I love my vegies! Fingers crossed my two year old daughter continues to follow in my footsteps 🙂
Peas! Still hate them!
Pumpkin! And I think it must have been a ploy to make my Mum make ALL THE PUMPKIN SCONES because that was the only way it would ever pass my lips. Now as an adult, I pretty much am pumpkin I eat that much of it. Mashed with a bit of butter, chilli & garlic. Baked skin on in the pan juices of a roast. Grilled and tossed through salad. I don’t think there’s a day a week I don’t have pumpkin in some variety now.
PEAS!! Used to hide them under bones or fill my mouth up with them and then go to the loo and spit them out and flush those horrid little balls of grossness away!!!! I will eat (in fact LOVE) just about every other vegetable but still will only tolerate peas if they are in a risotto (ie smothered with parmesan cheese!) 🙂
Asparagus! It was always overcooked resulting in it just turning to mushy slime….love it now though as long as it’s not overcooked lol!
Brussel sprouts!! I still can’t stand them and every Christmas my gran and mum would pile them on my plate ? tiny little
Compressed bags of air sent to give you wind for days haha
Brussels sprouts! We didn’t have them in Singapore, so when we moved to Australia, my mum was all about trying out these new veggies she’d not eaten.
She LOVED brussels sprouts and tried all sorts of ways to get us to eat them (including stir fried, which was KIND OF tolerable), but we protested so much that she gave up in the end.
I still can’t eat them as an adult because I have no idea how to buy ones which don’t taste bitter.
I love my veggies now, but wasn’t a fan as a kid. Mum would boil them and they were horrid, especially the beans! It was like all the life was cooked out of them and they were just there because you were supposed to eat them. But now, bring on the veggies!
Zucchini as it was always over cooked, love it now as I have learned to cook it. Prefer it baked with a little garlic oil rubbed on it 🙂
Brussel sprouts. I still hate them. And even my mum hates them. The only time we would even have them in the house was after a holiday at grandma’s and she’d send us home with a load of groceries like grandmas do. I still depise the taste and texture and have banned them from my house lol
Mushrooms! I have never tried one…I just don’t like the look of them.
Mushrooms. I absolutely hate them. The taste and texture and smell, it’s all horrible.
UGH peas – cooked frozen peas BLEUGHHHH!!! For some strange reason I loved/love them fresh from the pod. But frozen and then boiled…retch! My mum always tried to get me to eat them too – even mixing in fried rice. I’d exclaim “why, mum, why?!?!” then stand at the kitchen bench and pick them all up – mmmm cold dinner…but way better than one with peas!
Peas and Corn, because we had them EVERY SINGLE FREAKING NIGHT. If we went out for dinner, I was the weird kid who ordered things with as many vegies on the plate cause I wanted something other than peas and corn. So glad I’m in control of my own vegie intake now..
We are Maltese, so that means my mum and dad put peas in everything! There was nothing that was savoury that didn’t have peas… So I got pea’d out. My husband is Maltese and guess what? He want peas in everything or broadbeans… So they are the two things I can’t do but do eat to set a good example for my girls lol but I like your pea receipe above, that’s the way I do my beans and I love them, so I’m going to mix the peas with the beans and learn to love it hahaha
But the first thing I go for in the fruit and veg department is strawberries, basil, tomatoes, advocados and sweet corn… I’m a vegie lover…
Chokos lol they are next after peas!
i’m not a fan of cabbage. We always had ultra plain, steamed cabbage…ughh. So i’ve pretty much avoided it until my hubby made his Polish cabbage rolls….that I can do!
I detested capsicum! I now quite enjoy capsicum…I do however really only enjoy it raw…..cooked capsicum is a bit…..soggy
Brocolli!!! Every night we would have it and it was always the think mum made the biggest deal about us eating… I don’t mind it now though 🙂
Onion…. Hated them but didn’t liked food cooked without them, such as rissoles or spag Bol!…. Love the flavour, hated the texture! Now I love them!!!
Broccoli! Mum cooked it EVERY NIGHT! Even if we had spaghetti bolognese she would put it on the side!
Eggplant! When I was a kid we had a huge box of them, so I put them under the tyres of our car. When they were reversed over it was THE most satisfiying sound. Slugs in tyres is the most accurate description of eggplant, although I quite like them now.
Zucchini – I don’t remember now why I took such a dislike to them, however I certainly got creative making them disappear (whole, from the fridge, before there was a chance they might be cooked and served to me at the dinner table!) until the day mum found a hidden stash under my cupboard, half rotten and disintegrating into an oozy stinky mush staining the carpet. She found it because of the rotting smell.
Luckily for me, the rank mess turned mum off zucchini for a long time as well, so in a way, I won the great zucchini battle! 😉
Cauliflower! I thought it was soooo boring. I love it now, especially in your sneaky veg Mac n Cheese ?
Mushrooms, I still dislike them. The look, the smell, the texture — yuck! Mushrooms are only good for one thing – fairy gardens 🙂
Swede, but strangely enough, I love it now!!
I’ve always loved all veggies, but once when we were young my mum served us up boiled okra to try something different! It was horrible (I just remember it being prickly/furry/watery), and is the only vegetable I now refuse to eat!!
Spinach. My mum made soup with it once and we had to clean our bowls,it was awful! Put me off spinach for a good 10 years!
Cooked mushrooms!!! Blerg. Slimy little suckers! Having a vegetarian mother she would ALWAYS put them in our meals. Spag bol, lasagne etc. Can not handle them even being in my view now!
Mashed potato…Your jaws have dropped haven’t they? Its ok, its the standard reaction. Yep, i’m the only weirdo in the world that doesn’t like it. At all. Not with butter. Not with cream. Not with herbs. Not even when Mum tried to disguise it with pumpkin, sweet potato or cheese…
Every vegetable as my mum would boil frozen vegies almost dry IN THE MICROWAVE….. gah@!!!! I still do not like frozen veg to this day but love most fresh vegies steamed (peas and Brussels i just can’t do yet ?). And choko…. YUMMMMMM. I grate vegies or finely dice to put through meals now so kids dont find them . They will eat some but not many.
I hated asparagus – my mum always bought tinned asparagus which was soggy and salty – blergh! It wasn’t until I was an adult that I tried fresh asparagus and LOVED it… I can’t believe I have been missing out for so long!
Most vegetables as my parents used to cook them until there was barely any life (or taste) left in them after what (seemed?) like hrs of boiling, yuck! As an adult its only the zucchini that tastes like wet socks (or what I believe wet socks taste like) and pumpkin (yuck) that continues to haunt me, the rest I have become friends with x
Zucchini I could not stand it as a kid the texture was just wrong but now I love it
Mushrooms Sautéed with sour cream and white pepper were my mums treat for herself and I loved them not that she gave them us that often it was like a mum dish not for the kids, now I can make them for myself whenever I wish yummy
Beans! Mainly because we ate the soggy, tinned version every single night! Luckily with my girls pretty much any vegetable is a win…though I admit, we haven’t tried chokos!
My mum cooked amazing vegies just how I liked them (fresh and crispy), but it was the canned baked beans in 4/5 days a week of school dinners that I despised! I know they’re a healthy options, but I still can’t go there!
We didn’t get an option to not like vegetables. If you didn’t like it, you went hungry. I’d love to put on a vegetable spread for my husband and kids to enjoy. My husbands the pickiest eater you’ll find so hopefully, I can convert him to an all-round-veggie-lover!
I grew up thinking I hated mushrooms because my mother hated them and always said they were gross. I tasted them on a steak as an adult and felt totally robbed that I hadn’t been eating them forever lol. So I always tell my kids I’ll make them anything they want to try, even if I don’t like it ?
You name it I hated fruit and veggies!! I would eat tomato sauce but not tomatoes, orange juice but not oranges, even banana bread but not the banana. Now I LOVE them all and spend more on fruit n veg then I do on all my other food shopping!! Even down to the three most hated foods you mentioned (how can you hate a cheesey Cauli bake??).. As for why? Who knows my mum wasn’t the greatest of cooks so they were probably soggy etc, as for why I love them now.. That’s easy!! Not only are they easy to prepare and avaliable anywhere but the variety is amazing and you can be as creative as you like. Not to mention I hate having to chew meat (so maybe just pure laziness??) Haha!!
I usually ate all of my vegetables…. but there was one vegetable that I truly hated .. It was pumpkin! I couldn’t get past the taste..I would cry and scream so I wouldn’t have to eat it, but I still had to and it made me physically sick I don’t know why. But nowadays I love it. I guess as children we have different taste buds,
Squash! My mum used to boil them til they resembled squeaky mushiness. Blergh! I have since learned they can actually be cooked in ways that are not offensive to every palate 🙂
As a kid it was mushrooms; slimy, stinky, watery, chewy, blergh, mushrooms! Turns out my much loved, dearly missed, Welsh Poppy just didn’t know how to cook them. When I was forced (gently and with most loving intentions) by my hubby to try them I discovered I love them. I still hate broad beans though. There’s nothing you can do with broad beans to make them palatable 😉
Brussel Sprouts!! My mum used to boil them within an inch of their little lives 🙁 water-logged and limp green chunks are not appetising at all. It took me a long time to get over those terrible dinners. I now know how to cook them properly, and love them simply steamed!
Sweet potato!!! No idea why because it’s now my absolute fave veggie. Roasted with some olive oil, herbs, garlic and vegeta sprinkled on top. Yum!!
Celery, the stringy, watery texture…never been a fan & probably never will be
As a kid I absolutely hated mushrooms! My mum would stew up an enormous batch of field mushrooms that we had just “acquired” from a paddock, the smell invaded every room in the house and I was forced to hide out in the backyard until the cooking was done, she would then freeze portions for later reheating and torturing sessions! I do however today love mushrooms, all kinds of mushrooms, I just can’t do stewed mushies!
Chokos are not a vegetable they are an anomaly! Was never fond of asparagus or Brussel sprouts but eat them now with something added. Asparagus should have feta or similar and Brussels sprouts are amazing baked w oil and cayenne and served with yogurt. Everything else I love and luckily my kids will eat most anything. I’ve come to realise it’s more luck than good management ?
Those little yellow squash! Blergh! So gross! However I now love them, I think it was just a phase, or maybe the way my Mum cooked them 🙁 Sorry Mum!
i’m an absolute die heart veggie fan too! but for as long as i can remember, i haven’t been able to get past my disgust of BEETROOT!
i figured i’m not missing out on much, since it’s purple and not healthy green, but lately i’ve been juicing and every now and then, i stroll past that little purple beat, and hesitate….i WANT to try it, i’ve come across many juices with beetroot in it, and i linger for maybe 5mins, having a small battle in my head…and then i give in to the memory and walk away….i’m still yet to even TRY an actual fresh beetroot…the only one i was ever exposed to as a kid, was tinned…and that smell has scarred me!
Don’t know that I ever loved to hate any veggie as a kid but as a teen there was quite the aversion to cauliflower .. because? well .. because they make you fart!! and WHO wants to fart on a date!? oh and then there was the time a blew up our TV with mashed potato .. but that wasn’t really the veggies fault either! lol
Eggplant! Hated it – my Italian family loved it though and would always serve it up. They did the traditional melanzane baked in the oven with a tomato sauce. I always hated it and refused to touch it… luckily I grew up and decided to give it a second chance… I love it now! So good!
Artichokes and egg plant ? I absolutely HATED them as a kid. I do think that had a lot to do with how they were cooked (now I am a grown up I cook them how I like them ☺️) and I spent many a night at the table long after everyone had finished their dinner, just because I refused to eat my veggies Hahahaha! I learnt how to turn them from yuck to yum and now even my 11 month old loves them!
When I was a kid (33 years ago)…. I couldn’t eat beetroot, why? The colour stains everything and once I asked mum ” Why are your hands red?”. She replied and said ” It’s blood from the beets!”. So I had this vision stuck in my head that beetroot was filled with blood! However, I eventually got over it and now its the first thing I put in a burger!
I did not like Brussels Sprouts one little bit. My mum served them all the time. She thought I was eating them until she found a whole one floating in the toilet! I used to smuggle them out of the dining room like a Mexican drug lord and into the bathroom – only this time I must not have flushed thoroughly enough.
I disliked cabbage and onions when growing up, they made me ill ever time I ate them. Had doctors stumped but found out 30+ years later that I had Crohn’s disease and they were trigger vegetables for my gut to play up
Brussel Sprouts! I now have an awesome Jamie Oliver recipe where they are cooked with crispy bacon pieces and a dash of worstershire – it is awesome.
I am going to join the Beetroot group…except I love to eat it but hate it to touch anything else on my plate. It has to be eaten all alone so it doesn’t spread it’s juice onto anything else. I have recently slightly overcome this with beetroot, spinach (from the garden), watercress and feta salad…just eat quickly!!!
Peas!! They are green for a start, and every kid knows green veggies are awful. they always ran away from me when I tried to stab them with my fork and then that juicy explosion in your mouth when you bit into it. Yuck! I use to hide mine in a paper napkin and then ask to go to the toilet during dinner to flush them. As an adult, I still avoid a lot of green veg, but peas and I get on ok now.
I remember hating carrots, for absolutely no reason. Wouldn’t touch them, probably just being stubborn. One day my mum made honey-roasted carrots and I caved and demolished them… and regretted previously hating carrots!
Broccoli. It was the worst. The flavour was just ick. Even covered in cheese. Ick. I learned to swallow whole chunks without chewing, a great skill for taking medication as an adult.
Oh and lasagna. That’s a vegetable right?
Anything my mum cooked. Vegies were boiled to mush and were terrible! My vegies nowadays are so crispy they might as well be raw, but man they are delicious!
I used to tell everyone that I was allergic to Tomatoes as a kid so I didn’t have to eat them… I don’t like the mushy bit inside. Only problem wasvthat I loved tomato sauce, still do 😛 I’m still not a big fan of tomatoes but I’m getting better!
Hahaha I used to tell everyone I was allergic to brussel sprouts
Pumpkin! My grandmother forced me to eat it (boiled beyond recognition) and I couldn’t eat it for many years… I’d marry a pumpkin now if I could ?❤️
Broad beans! my mum used to cook them until they were grey and the shell bits were like leather. *insert gagging here* and it didn’t matter how much you chewed, they just never broke down, ending up with a mouthful of sludgy bean and leathery chunks! ergh!
I’ve been reading all of the comments thinking I actually like all vegetables, but I had forgotten about broadbeans. The grey bits & leathery shells are the worst!!!!
The only way to consume peas..I thought as a child..was up my nose..I would shove as many up there as I could and the rest went in the pot plant beside the dinner table.
Onion! My mum would hide it but I could always find it.. Things haven’t changed and my husband is the one doing the hiding now 😛
Cauliflower. Overcooked, yucky texture in the mouth. The smell would make me gag first so eating it was impossible.
Fennel.. GAG!! I’m sorry but no vegetable has any right tasting like licorice! My parents used to put fennel in pretty much anything and to this day I can’t even have an innocent little shot of sambucca without being taken back to the horror of my childhood!
Had to be Brussels Sprouts – but they were usually the frozen variety and cooked to a ball of slime – no wonder kids hated Brussels – now a days I LOVE fresh Brussels Sprouts almost any way.
When i was a kid I hated brussel sprouts so badly I started telling everyone I was allergic to them, then as an adult I overheard someone saying they were baby cabbages, I love cabbage, so I got all brave and tried one, I FREAKIN LOVE BRUSSEL SPROUTS, go figure!
I absolutely dry reached at the thought of pumpkin, the taste and the texture like soggy paper **ok over exageration** but now I absolutely love pumpkin in any way .. and tell my vege hating dry reaching daughter not to be ridiculous ** cough hypocrite**
Are mushrooms classed as a vegetable? I hated them then and I hate them now! They squeak against my teeth and make me shudder!
Silver beet, it was boiled till soggy & then doused in brown vinegar! Why you ask? I have no idea, I still can’t make myself eat it 50 years later but I love baby spinach ?
i LOVE these veggies-potato, pumpkin and peas individually but when i was a kid my dad would always mash them together-still makes me gag-and he at almost 70 would still eat them that way. We make comments to him now about it and you can see him salivating! *shudder*
PEAS it is for me. When I was younger I was made to eat peas. I would excuse myself and spit them out my bedroom window or feed them to the cat or flush them down the toilet. I hated the. I’m now nearly 50 and nothing has changed I still pick them out should they appear in anything I eat.
Peas. Apparently I would pick one up and squash it then put it back on the plate. Pick up another then squash it then put it back on the plate. Repeat until the whole pile of peas now resembles a finely mowed lawn instead of a rolling mountain.
I love peas now.
Technicaly not a vegetable but the only one I can think of is Mushrooms. Slimy mushy fungi that smelt like it belonged in a compost heap and tasted like it too! So many people rave about them so I must have had them cooked wrong for me but I still can’t eat them as an adult!
Peas!! And unfortunately, I still do. I buy fresh peas for my kids and as they eat them they feed them to me, I’m gagging on the inside but smiling on the outside, not to discourage them
Carrots! My mum use to cover them in honey & I don’t like honey either! I don’t know if the carrots ruined the honey or the honey ruined the carrots.
Spinach. My parents grew it and we had it at most meals. I am still not much of a fan.
In my family mushrooms were the most hated, so slimy! My sister had the most creative solution and would stack them on a hidden ledge under the table. It worked for a while until the dog got into the house, sniffed them out and knocked down a MOUNTAIN of veggies in a feeding frenzy. Busted!
I remember hating peas as a young girl.. it was that mushy texture and flavour that just made me want to gag! I used to try and feed them to my cat, to my dog, anyone that would eat them.. i even used to shove as many in my mouth as possible and then go to the toilet.. and spit them out, yep, I’m ashamed now! Although I’m pretty sure my mum knew the whole time, haha.
Peas because my mum boiled them and boiled and boiled them some more, they had no taste, so I used to eat them first then have a large glass of cordial to wash them down and then eat the rest of dinner. I love peas straight from the garden, freshly podded, they don’t make it into the pot.
Broad beans…..I remember as a child sitting at the table for what seemed like hours because in those days you HAD to eat everything. I just could not get them down but I don’t remember the outcome!! Of course I love them now……there’s not one vegetable I don’t like and HAVE to have peas whenever I have vegies !
Does spinach count as a vegetable? My parents only ever bought the blocks of frozen stuff and microwaved it. The thought of it still makes me gag. Now that I have control of these things though I will find excuses to add fresh spinach to everything. So delicious!
Oooh there were a few! Particularly onion (too strong!), capsicum (again too strong!) and mushroom (too spongy and fungus-y!).
Good ole Brussel sprouts !! Over cooked balls of mush that tasted like sweaty socks, had to smother them in apple sauce to choke them down. Now I love them, steamed, or for something special roughly mashed through potato with ham yum.
Zucchini (& the typical Brussel sprouts!). I use to get zucchini and cucumber mixed up. I loved cucumber! but being a confused little child and accidentally having zucchini was not fun. now i love it! it’s funny how your taste buds change over time. Brussel sprout wise- dad would mash it up and stick it in bubble and squeak and it would somehow magically end up on Mum’s plate 😀
I hated peas. My poor dad used to try and fool me by making it a game by hiding peas in a spoonful of mash potato. At the time I’d feel those nasty round green enemies as soon as they hit my tongue. I have no idea why I considered peas to be the enemy. Nowadays I LOVE them! My favourite is peas in an all green salad of fresh baby peas, sugar snap peas, zucchini ribbons, avocado and lots of feta, olive oil and lemon.
Celery … Bleh!! Still hate the stuff. Why? It’s part of the parsley family and that stuff makes me gag. People, cafe owners and restaurants … Please, please stop sprinkling the stuff on my meals for decoration, colour or whatever. It ruins s potentially delicious meal! 🙂
Mushrooms! the smell, like they still had dirt on them and the weird texture was what I didn’t like. But now, I can’t get enough of them.
Poison Balls aka Brussel sprouts. My Mum loved them always served them up us kids would hold our noses to try and force them down. uggh still traumatised.
Avocado! Although I think they are technically a fruit? Mum was always putting them into salads or on toast with Vegemite. Then, as if by magic, I loved them! And now I eat them with vegemite on toast all the time!
Peas! Not a fan. Plus they were so fiddly to eat, chasing them around the plate with the fork. Don’t mind them so much now
Peas…bleuch! Couldn’t stand the smell or taste when I was a kid still can’t now!
I can’t drink sambucca or ouzo. The smell alone sends shivers up my spine. Perhaps that is why I had (and still have!) a massive aversion to fennel. Crazy, stupid, WICKED vegetable!
I didn’t eat anything baked and orange – carrot, sweet potato, pumpkin ugh gross. Sadly though, I think it was just how Mum cooked them…. now I LOVE me some baked orange. LOVE.
Beans in any form made me gag – they almost still do!
Really detested asparagus, they were so soggy and flavourless out of the can, I know I should eat them fresh now but just can’t do it – it is the only vegetable I don’t eat! Family thinks I am mad I am not a vegetarian but done night ls I pass on the meat just for a full plates of vegies
I hated Brussel Sprouts-horrible overcooked dry little cabbage balls! It wasn’t until we moved and our new neighbour at the back fence was an Mrs George. She was Greek and made the most deliciously tasty unusual food I had ever tasted. She cooked Brussel Sprouts with butter and cracked black pepper. I fell in love with them from that day forward…. and Mrs George’s Cabbage Rolls were heaven!!!!!
My mother could boil or burn any vegetable to death. Both myself and my youngest brother are still traumatised! The worst were probably peas and pumpkin. I hated the texture, how peas burst in your mouth, and that mealy taste of the inside part. Now I cook for my family and make them taste good. Tonight we had curried sausages packed with peas, potato, carrots and onion. One of my family’s all time favourites is pumpkin soup.
I hated peas with a passion. I remember sitting at the dinner table until every pea had disappeared off the plate. Mum eventually disovered the salt and pepper shakers filled with dries up peas. Funnily enough now I love peas!
Cabbage! I would leave the house while it was being cooked. I hated the taste, the smell and even the look of it. I grew up in a strict household where the rule was you ate everything on your plat because there was “starving people in Ethiopia and you should be thankful you have anything to eat.” I was literally forced to eat it no matter my feelings about it unless I didn’t want dessert! Now it is my mainstay veggie… raw ,cooked, shredded, pickled , it doesn’t matter I love it!
As a kid I loved my veggies but the one thing I couldn’t stand was potato fritters. Give me mashed or roast potato any day, but turn it into a potato fritter and I cringe at the thought of having to put that in my mouth. I still don’t eat hash browns as an adult because of this.
Capsucum! Yuk. I can’t stand it, the smell the taste everything about is gross. Even when you cut it open and see the seeds, they are millions of evil things just waiting to kill me somehow. My partner still tries to despise me and cook it in a stirfry. NO DEAL! I can smell it as soon as I walk in the door.
I hated pumpkin with a passion as a kid. I don’t know why I hated it, but I remember my Gran begging me to just try a little bit and it ended with me in tears. Then as a young adult I was at a work dinner and was presented with pumpkin soup for entrée. Being a work do I had no choice and it was DELICIOUS! Now I love it. Steamed, baked, souped – however it comes I want it! If only I could convince my husband and children to love it as much as I do!
Tomato! I hated it! All slimy and gross and it was even worse if the skin had gone soft. I remember someone telling me that I would like lots of foods as I got older that I didn’t then and I did not believe that tomato would be one of those! I still dont like when the skin goes soft but a nice hard, red tomato is very necessary for a salad or a sandwich these days!
Silverbeet – the backyard was full of it, but sadly mum wasn’t at all creative!!
I hated pumpkin as a kid. For no reason, except my older my sister LOVED it so I had to hate it. Totally makes sense right? I eat pumpkin a few times a week now! Mark hates cauliflower, celery and fennel. I love all 3 so this has caused quite a few issues in our house lol. Lucky I’m the cook 😉
Cabbage! The stench of it being boiled was beyond hideous. Oh the humanity! And then being forced to eat it in all its stinky glory.
I was going to say mushrooms, the mere thought of them makes me wanna puke but according to google they are in fact not a fruit or vegetable! So I’ll go with broad beans instead. The smell, the taste, yuck! I still can’t stomach them now.
Spinach or silver beet – all the same really. Couldn’t stand it. Now, I have THE best recipe for chocolate brownie with spinach in it. And no one ever knows!! Especially my kids.
Green beans! I would sit at the table until they were stone cold, and then eventually make myself vomit so that I could go to bed! Thinking back, that was very dramatic and completely uncalled for. Needless to say i love veggies now 🙂
Mushrooms, I don’t understand why I just absolutely hated every thing about them, refused to eat them. Then, when I was 19, I was visiting my father and his wife made dinner and served up peas and mushroom. What a combination! To not be rude I forced it in my mouth and to my amazement…. delish! Mushrooms and peas browned in butter. Can. Not. Beat. It! Not even exaggerating. 🙂
Mycophobic mushroom hater, right here. Even the thought of them makes me uncomfortable. So fungal. Urgh.
This question is so easy, because I still hate it now! Pumpkin. I hate pumpkin. I actually dry retch if it’s in my mouth and i try to swallow it. Yuck!
Mushrooms – ahhhh, they were so slimy and brown and funky! But alas, I now love them and all of their funkiness!
Bussell sprouts blurg little floury balls of disgustingness. I shudder just to think of them.
Broad beans. The frozen kind with the tough rubbery skins and a deathly pale blue shade of green. Blerg. I’m sure the fresh kind of great but I can’t bring myself to try them..
Potatoes (I KNOW!!!!!!!). Mum used to make lumpy, cold mashed potato. After weeks of dating I discovered my (now husband) also hated mash for this very reason, so I married him. Our house is still a mash free zone.
Broccoli. My mum was not the greatest cook and use to steam the broccoli till it was so overcooked it had lost its vibrant green colour and sat on your plate as a lump of pale green mush that simply fell apart when you poked it with a fork. Luckily l have learnt that broccoli needs to be just steamed so it retains its vibrant green colour and yumminess and now l couldn’t image a lot of meals without it.
Beetroot! Even now I won’t touch it.. and the smell makes me feel sick. I blame school dinners where they seemed to serve it everyday! I pretty much love every other vegetable though 🙂
Hmm, just one vegetable that I hated as a child…there were so many! I guess the main one that I just could not stomach and still cannot to this day is green beans. They just taste so nasty…it’s grossing me out just thinking of them right now!
You can like any vegetable with enough butter! (I think). As a kid, I hated brussel sprouts, but my mum loved them, and so I wanted to love them too. I would eat them with a 5;1 ratio of butter to sprout and then they were butter-licious.
Also can we all just agree that kale sucks. I never ate it as a kid, because I’m pretty sure even hard ass parents back then knew it wasn’t food, but rather a plant better left ignored. Everyone is trying to bring kale to the cool food table, but it just sucks.
I so hated Brussel Sprouts when I was younger…now I have worked out that the smaller they are the yummier they are, especially with Cheese Sauce 🙂
I hated cauliflower because I thought it looked like a brain. I’ll happily eat it now unless it’s in one of those yucky cheesy sauces.
I used to have quite a reputation in my family as the vegetable hater. Apparently even as a baby, when Mum would try and feed me mashed veges or even the tinned baby vege food I would spit it out and I remember baulking at anything remotely vegetable like as a teenager. Since moving out of home and living by myself, I am a convert – I will try pretty much anything now. New vegetables in my life are cauliflower fried rice, baked beetroot, asparagus for breakfast and I even tried Brussel sprouts recently – haven’t been game enough to try cooking them yet – but might just try your recipe. Now when I go to my parents to visit, it is me educating them on new vegetables and different recipes to try – what a turn around – I think mum is still in shock!!
Bok Choy. My mother was creative in the 80’s and made an Asian type stir-fry full of Bok Choy. I don’t mind it so much now but when you are 8 that shit is poison!
Peas. Tiny green balls of strange texture and gross flavour. So foul. I still gag on them now.
Brussels sprouts. I didn’t like the taste and objecting to them didn’t work, so I would show my displeasure by eating them one leaf at a time. It can take hours when you have a dozen brussels sprouts on your plate. It took a while, but my mum eventually stopped insisting that I eat them.
Peas! How can so many of them fit onto one dinner plate? Ugh! I’d leave them until last because I hated their skins, but cold peas are even worse than hot ones. Thank goodness for dressing gown pockets 😉
Brussel Sprouts!! Don’t like the smell of them cooking or the taste. Have not bought them or cooked them since I left home to get married 33 years ago!!
Corn because it always made me gag and vomit. Still to this day I can’t handle corn x/
Potato! I hated the consistency of mashed potato. Now I can’t get enough; baked potato, roasted potato, mashed potato, jacket potato, potato salad and the cool potato on a stick you generally find at markets. You name it!
Brussel sprouts. Now I can’t get enough of them and am scrambling when the season ends to fill the gap in my plate. I love them steamed or they’re amazing baked in balsamic vinegar until they caramelise.
Definitely cabbage. Boring, watery, STINKY. Now I don’t mind it!
I loved to hate peas! I hated eating them, but I loved the way I could sneak them off my plate and into my dog’s mouth. Sandy would run to my feet as soon as I mentioned the words peas! He loved them!!
Pumpkin! especially when Mum used to boil it and mashed it with no added anything!… ergh! So I had to splash lots of tomato sauce over it! In those days, Mum forgets to make gravy and the meals were always ‘dry’ with no sauces whatsoever. That I vowed I’ll always make gravies or sauces in which I did! plus have roasted pumpkins instead. Success! 🙂
Beans! The big home grown ones from Nan & Pop’s place, were like trying to devour a tarantula’s leg. Yuk.
Brussel sprouts, as a kid I would fill my mouth with them then go to loo & spit them out.
My hubby loves them so I cook them for him now & then
Mushrooms! I wasn’t a fan of the taste, but mainly the spongey, slimy texture…eww!
Bitter gourd was the vegetable I loved to hate as a kid and still do. Being a vegetarian I have grown to love vegetables but this one never made it to my list . In India it was available everywhere , I haven’t managed to find them here and I’m not sad about it at all 🙂
Broccoli. My mother was not much of a veggie person and we were given some broccoli and she treated it like she treated carrots and peas – put it in warmish water in a pan, plonked it on the stove, turned it to high and let it boil merrily for ten minutes or so. Limp, sad stalks spotted with green bits from the florets when she drained it. She did it once and then never again. Guess what my favourite vegetable is now? *lol* Hey, I learned to cook it properly and my kids love it, too.
Tomato, I hated it and still do! My mum made horrible tomato soup and when she left the room I would go tip some back in the pot until it was all gone. Don’t think she knows to this day.
I have another story that involves tuna patties, I’ll save that one for another day!
Pumpkin, mum would boil it away until it turned to moosh, then scoop it on the plate with our icecream scooper, disgusting
Brocoli! Because mum told me it would make me a better horse rider! The taste and texture was horrific yet I would continue to eat it in order to pursue my horsey dreams.
I don’t think I ever had one. I eat all my veggies.
Freshly picked corn cobs, boiled and smothered in butter and salt! Still love corn on the cob but tend to dry roast it now. As a child we bought no vegetables as we ate what we grew so I think I loved all vegetables because they were so fresh and delicious. Fresh silver beet is another favourite I remember.
Broad beans. The outer skin was so bitter. I like them now, especially since I found out that most people actually remove that skin before consumption!
Tomatos my parents would always say if you dont like tomatos you can have tomato sauce or anything with them in it. To this day i still hate tomatos haha
Broad beans… mum wouldn’t shell them so there was this nasty silvery grey shell and they were hard and chewy and disgusting… now I love a shelled broad bean in a lovely risotto.
Brussels Sprouts, yuck! I would squash them, play hockey on my plate with them and even slowly peel them but I would never eat them haha
I hated broccolli. It was such a boring thing to eat and overcokked was the worst! But as an adult i enjoy it steamed and still crispy 🙂
Oh I have always hated mushrooms, not a flavour problems it’s all texture for me
I couldn’t stand peas. I had to bury them in my mashed potato to get them down… Love them now though!
Growing up I couldn’t stand Brussel Sprouts. My Mum would cook them ALL THE TIME (….at least it felt like it was all the time…I should ask her how often it actually was!) and they made me gag so much! So bitter. To be honest, I haven’t tried one in my adult years – too scarred by the torture of having to eat them as a kid. But you’ve encouraged me to give them another try Chantelle!!! Another vegie I’m not a fan of, never have been, is those tiny baby corn cobs (usually in stir fries) Something about them makes me feel oozy. But I love normal corn! Oh, and I while I’m at it – I used to cringe at fresh tomatoes too – but now will eat a whole tomato (with salt of course!) for lunch – YUMMO! (I wonder where my daughter gets her picky eating from???)
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Zucchini (mum called it courgette though) it was always soggy and I remember vomiting it all over the table one time mum made me eat it. Now it’s one of my favorite veges!
I Love vegies ( and so do my kids) however I could never bring myself to eat brussel sprouts. My Mum’s vegie cooking skills involved boiling them until they turned to mush and fell off the fork. So limp and disgusting.
I must admit they are the only vegie I now avoid as I just can’t get over the memory of it!
Pumpkin! My grandma used to make a killer roast every Sunday, with cream salad. Oh my, it was so good, except that pumpkin. I’d happily demolish that pumpkin now though!
Pumpkin, because my dad tells the story of how he hated pumpkin so much that he once had a nightmare one was chasing him around when he was sick as a child- it was fun to join him in hating it (love roast pumpkin now) ?
Brocoli. The funniest thing is that I can’t even remember why? I think it was probably overcooked and soggy and unappealing. I was forced to stay at the table and eat all my broccoli. I usually achieved this by having a small mouthful of broccoli and a large mouthful of milk to wash it down. I love broccoli now though! Crazy Hey!
Pumpkin! My mum would make mash potato and mix pumpkin all through it atleast 3 times a week. I can only handle roasted pumpkin now at 23 haha.
I hated brussel sprouts. In fact it is the only vegetable I don’t like, I still can’t stand the sight of them. My mum used to boil them too. The thought of it makes me want to be sick. Eww!
None! I actually loved every single veg – even chokoes and brussel sprouts. Still do.
Meat, on the other hand, I was very fussy about.
Brussell sprouts- I think every kids starts out disliking these! I’m of the era when is was expected that we cleared our plates or there was no dessert. It was torture indeed. Surprisingly they’re one of my favourite vegies now though!
squeaky beans!
Pumpkin! Mum admitted to being an over-cooker in our younger years. Both my brother and I couldn’t stomach the watery texture. Now we typically roast pumpkin and usually Kent/Jap pumpkin, much sweeter 🙂
I loved them all…. But, broad beans boiled to within an inch of their lives by my Grandma was pretty hard to take at times!
Broad beans, yuk! My nanna made me eat them every time I visited and that was lots as a kid! They were just big, hard and bitter tasting to me and looked ugly, as she made me pod them!
Green Beans. My mum used to add the bi carb to them (and the peas). Then she would boil the heck out of them. They always seemed stringy, not sure why, but boy I learnt to loathe them and they would be on our plate at least three if not four nights a week. The peas where the other nights lol.
I quite like fresh beans now, cook them in the microwave so they are nice and crunchy still . Not soggy and limp ?
Boiled Brussels sprouts – the smell put me off and the taste was even worse.
My ex-brother-in-law once told me a story about when he was younger, he had gotten a pea stuck up his nose and needed to go to hospital to have it pulled out, so needless to say, every time my mum served me peas, I’d picture them in his nose!! Yuk!!
Brussel sprouts !!!! My mum would cook them in orange juice ??? They were hard , bitter and kind of orange juicey… Now I love them. A little bacon ,garlic ,onion and balsamic glaze !! Best ever even my kids will have a few.
PEAS. And I still gag today at 37. My uncle and his now ex wife babysat my sister and I when I was 10 and she fed me minted peas. I hated them but she forced me to eat them and I vomited at the table. I cannot eat peas without that memory.
i have always loved most veges except okra. Blergh. I will never forget having to eat them as a child. I think being force fed these retched things, is what makes me hate them still!
Mashed Pumpkin! I would let it go cold on my plate and then gag as I spooned the terrible, runny, cold stuff into my mouth.
Definitely mint peas!
Id always pass them off to my little brothers plate,
Sneakily while mum & dad weren’t watching,
The most awful vegetable I loved to hate!
Brussels sprouts. Mum boiled the absolute day lights out of the things. I shudder at the thought of them. Who knows I may convince myself to try your recipe. It will take some time though. Those childhood scars……
Pumpkin AND my mother never knew believing I was the perfect vegetable eater!
As the eldest of five girls – I was always able to slip it onto another sisters plate in exchange for doing one of their chores! I got away with it for years!
Brussel sprouts. I still get nightmares about being made to eat them at my grandparents house! *shudders*
I hated frozen string beans – my mum was not much of a cook and she the only green vegetables she gave us were frozen and they were always cooked until they tasted like soggy watery mush. I pretty much refuse to use frozen vegies now as a result.
Brussel Sprouts, can still see myself sitting at the dinner table long after everyone else was finished!!! Sometimes Dad would take sympathy and sneak them off my plate onto his without Mum seeing!!
Brussel Sprouts! I never liked these as a child. Mum would just boil them in water, no adding of any flavour or anything. Yuck.
Now that I’m older I actually like them and next time I grab some I will try your recipe mentioned above for them. 🙂
Definitely ‘little cabbages’ as we used to call Brussel sprouts. Sorry to say that even though I have cooked them with butter, bacon and garlic, they’re still not my favourite 😛
The dreaded choko strikes again here. My nan and Pop had a prolific vine growing all over their back fence. They could have started their own farmer’s market. Not only were they ugly on the eyes they had these weird tiny, tiny hairs which covered the surface of them. Designed to deter pests, they deterred me before Nan even started cooking them. Combined with the preferred cooking option of the 80s – boil the crap out of everything – the smell of chokos cooking is revolting. Finally these green, slightly slimy, globs would be put on my plate and no amount of butter slathered on top could stop them from tasting like a giant booger. I will never make my kids eat a choko. Thank god kale came back into fashion and not chokos!!
Silverbeet! It always tasted like dirt to me. Even as an adult I can’t stomach the bitter taste.
Zucchini! it always seemed to be mushy and watery. Now I try to add it to mince and hide it from my kids 🙂
Overcooked soggy tasteless carrots – give me raw carrots anytime – you can even eat them like chocolate, eating the outside first, then the magical crunch of the inside!
My dad loved that fake mashed potato stuff (deb potato?) though I’m pretty sure there was actually no real veggies in it I still can feel the claggy glue like consistency and glue like taste in my mouth just thinking about it! Gross!!
I hated peas with a passion, I had to eat one for every year old I was! Or the dreaded peas/carrots/corn mix which my kids love but I can’t stand. But of course now I grow peas and like them raw or briefly cooked, yum! But not corn. Ewk!
Okra! So slimy, I gag and it comes back ewww
Boiled cabbage was definitely my childhood nightmare! Mum would boil it until it was a grey sloppy mess – it was only as an adult I found the joy of lightly sautéed cabbage and it is no longer my one feared vege!
The vegetable I really loved to hate as a kid was…Spinach because…if you’re old enough, you’ll recall Popeye downing a can or 2…and even until today I still can’t eat Spinach for some reason or other…SOS!
Tomatoes – my mum was always slicing huge very acidic tomatoes onto plates and giving them to me, the acid would burn my mouth!!
I’m sure it’s a common trend but brussell sprouts were the worst. I lived in fear of them and am still traumatised from my force feeding of them!
Cooked carrots. I LOVED raw carrots. Ate them all the time. But if mum dared to steam them or roast them, there was hell to pay!
My kids are exactly the same Emily…..they will not eat cooked carrots only raw! Apparently by cooking them it makes the texture too squishy!
Cooked carrot. I like them fresh, so if I’m doing them steamed I’ll eat mine as I prepare them. If they are in a recipe I’ll eat them but some always ends up left on my plate. It’s a bit strange because I’ll eat all other veg. Just don’t like that cooked carrot.
I dreaded beans, but I had good reason!.. One year my dad brought home a humongous box of fresh beans which mum and I were suppose to cut the tips off, and bag them for the freezer.. We ate beans for months, or should I say ‘Hate’ beans for a months… And to top it off I decided one night to dissect my bean and found a little worm in it!!!.. That was the last bean seen on my plate… Gross!
I always loved my veggies as a kid, it was my brother who was trouble. He seriously hated pumpkin. Mum and I would tell him pumpkin was really just orange potato and he would eat it all up.
I hated parsnips but now love them
Broad beans. They taste just yuck!
My mum would cook some every now and again just for my dad ? – he was the only one in the family who ate them!
Carrots!
Peas! Too many stuck up the nose incidents!
Hated Carrots and pumpkin, now I love them…especially slow roasted, they end up so sweet and delicious. My kids share my hatred, hopefully they will grow to appriciate them like I did.
Overcooked brussell sprouts!! They are actually a nice veggie if you cook them right 🙂 And they have to be fresh, not frozen!
Pumpkin, it still makes me gag but now I think its just in my head!
I hated spinach! My sisters & I used to ride our bikes over it in the garden so we wouldnt have to eat it! (dont know why I gave it such a hard time its so delicious espesh with ricotta and pastry in the mix!)
Canned asparagus! Every Christmas my Mum would crack out a can and I thought it was the most putrid looking and tasting thing in the world. In fact I still do! But my mature tastebuds love it FRESH.
Mushrooms!! I hated them with a passion. I blame Mario Bros and their poisonous mushrooms.
Spinach I just couldn’t stomach, making me vomit and still until this day can’t eat it unless it is inside a pie mixed with cheese.
OMG! Brussell Sprouts! I can remember Brussell Sprouts being served at dinner one night and my cousin dictating to his mum ‘I AM NOT eating these! I will vomit’ and after being told to sit up and eat his dinner or he would be going to bed hungry he proceeded to throw up at the dinner table all over his plate (on purpose). Still cannot stomach them now as an adult!
I hated brussel sprouts, my mother boiled them untill they were so soft and tasteless, not much of a cook, today I cover them in cheese sauce
Hard to remember (I’m a fussy eater now, but I think I was better when I was smaller)
Of course there’s the standard Brussel sprout – sorry, we’re just never going to be friends. But that’s a pretty common one.
The only one that I can think of that stands out is Celery!!! Omg, YUCK! Still to this day. Don’t know what it is.
Mum used to make us “carrot” soup. Basically all the Orange vegie, some onion, tatoes and the dreaded celery. She knew I wouldn’t touch it if I could see the celery, so she always blended it completely smooth. I loved it! For years o ate that soup thinking it was pretty much carrots, pumpkin and tatoes. I think I was helping make it one day and saw what went in and completely freaked. For a while I think she stopped using celery, but ever since my vegie soup must be perfectly blended without a single chunk to notify me as to what is in it – even if I make it myself! Haha. Evil celery.
Broadbeans. The colour, the texture, the taste, the fact that because they were horrible you would leave them until last, by then they had gone cold, and then they tasted even worse!
mushrooms i just couldnt stand the texture or the taste,i would sit there and pick t out,now i use it in almost everything
Carrots! Repulsive.
When you peel them they turn your skin orange and the smell seeps into your skin like a radioactive burn. You can’t get clean, no matter how hard you scrub. It goes straight to your soul.
Brussell Sprouts. I used to have to smother it with cheese
My mother will tell you I loved to hate any vegetable, yet my memory tells me it was mushrooms that I refused to eat. I actually don’t know why, but I would even pick them off pizzas well into my twenties. Now they are seriously one of my favourite things. I love a field mushroom on the barbie with a knob of butter and splash of balsamic vinegar, or a mix of all kinds fried off with a little thyme on toast and feta {num num}. My fussy ways as a kid is now coming back to bite me, as I have 2 kids of my own turning their noses up at various veggies on a daily basis. I’m hoping my role modelling and their palettes maturing will mean one day they too will enjoy all these yummy veggies including my BBQ mushrooms.
I loved most vegetables when I was a kid as long as they were cooked, but to be fair, I’m one of seven kids so Mum only cooked the basics. Dad grew a lot of our veggies in the garden so we would eat them straight from the garden. Two things I hated and just would not eat was lettuce and corn. Dad grew the corn but I hated it. Couldn’t be further from the truth today, who couldn’t love corn on the cob – freshly cooked, doesn’t need anything, just beautiful, steaming hot corn. Mm.
Peas! I hated the mushy texture and the flavour, they were gag worthy as a child. Now I can tolerate them but only with mashed potato and gravy!!
Eggplant. Hated the texture and the bitter and sometimes sharp taste. Then add the sometimes rubbery skin and my mum had me picking it all out.
Now? I love it.
I hated peas .. the taste made me gag .. I went so far as to hide them in an indoor plant pot, years later, mum found them all there .. petrified! lol .. Give peas (peace) a chance you say, nope still hate them!
I absolutely HATED beans, My Mum loved them and had them all the time and forced me to eat them, To this day I just can not stand them.
Cabbage! Or maybe it was just the way my boiled it so it was mush! Used to make me dry wretch?
Pumpkin was the one for me that made me dry-retch. Maybe i was one of those kids that had a thing for disliking weird textures. However, I have to say that roast butternut pumpkin and pumpkin soup are now two of my favourite things. Funny how things change as an adult!
I was the stereotype and would not eat Brussel Sprouts! I could not stand the smell and would have to hold my nose if I was forced it eat them. When I got married I discovered they were my husband favourite vegetable so they often make it to our dinner table!
Spinach. It looked, and tasted, like grass….I always thought my dad had scooped some up after mowing the lawn and they were making us eat that. Bleck.
I hated pumpkin so much that, when presented with it on my plate, I would excuse myself from the dinner table to get a tissue to ‘blow my nose’, grab a spare and spread it across my lap, and gradually / secretly spoon the pumpkin into my lap, wrap it up in the tissue, and sneak it into the bin after dinner – – every single time! I’ve since made peace with the pumpkin (only just).
Pumpkin. Bleurgh. But as an adult, I quite like it. I think the trick with veggies is to cook them properly – anything mushy is gross.
I hated peas as a kid and still do know… It’s so childlike and not something I can share! So thank you to this anonymous forum ? I do love veggies more than fruit but peas ?? they just wreck a meal. Haha first world problems, thank goodness for a fridge full of fresh and healthy food .
Good week ahead. C xxx
I hated brussel sprouts because i always thought they were like a seed that would sprout inside me and continue to grow, it took so many forced bites to finish one even though they were small, but now i can’t get enough of these small full flavoured sprouts.
Mum decided to start a vegie garden and I think the only thing that survived the heat were cherry tomatoes. They thrived. So Mum fed us cherry tomatoes at every meal for weeks. I couldn’t stomach any more so one day I snuck mine into my pockets to throw out later. All went well until my younger brother crash tackled me into a wall and the tomatoes in my pocket turned into tomato puree and left a big red skid mark on the wall and the mush dripped down my leg.
Cabbage. Ick Ick Ick. Still don’t eat it, in any way shape or form. BLEUGH. It was just gross, and the texture and the weird crunch but soft.
I love veggies, always have – the only ‘vegetable’ I remember absolutely detesting was tinned baked beans. Still can not stand them, even the smell of them. My dad wasn’t often left to cook the main meal for us kids but holy geez he would add baked beans to pretty much everything the times that he did have to cook. One night he served my brother and I baked beans on toast -“you eat what you’re given”- so I put one in my mouth and swallowed it down with a mouthful of water like it was a tablet. Did it four more times before dad gave up.
I hated peas for some reason – maybe the texture !! I used to hide them under the rim of my plate & then cover them with napkins thinking my parents wouldn’t notice! Weird because I love them now.
We would be served up some limp, boiled to within an inch of it life brown broccoli. I wasnt till i had left home that I discovered Broccoli was actual GREEN !
Stll not a great fan but I have now discovered cheese sauce. makes anything taste edible
I hated mushrooms with a passion because my Mum used to cook them in butter and the smell made me sick. Now it’s one of my all time favourite things to eat.
Eggplant – couldn’t stand it, I would have rather eaten dirt. Its still not my favourite thing in the world, but i can tolerate it
Mine was and still is eggplant – the texture just makes me shudder
Asparagus! I swear my parents were not aware it could be a fresh vegetable – it was always tinned. Now I know, really fresh asparagus, snapped and fried in copious butter. The taste of spring!
Pumpkin, my grandma made amazing Pumpkin soup but I didn’t like the smell of it! I always ‘had ‘ to eat it as a kid, so I didn’t like it just because I could – now I love it, I’m glad I’m missing out anymore!
Brussel Sprouts! Worse than the worst flavoured medicine on the planet, no amount of sauce could drown out that foul taste (trust me, I tried!).
I dislike being clichéd but it’s true to say that I did NOT like brussel sprouts. They would have been the only vegetable that my parents didn’t cook from frozen (or powder in the case of mashed potato), but did I appreciate that fact? Heck no!
I ‘loved to hate’ them in that other kids hated them too! Therefore, talking about our mutual hated of this vile mini cabbage proved a point of connection (which I loved).
Cauliflower because my mum kept trying to tell me it was white broccoli, but I knew it wasn’t! If only she’d added some cheesy garlic goodness to it 😉
Brussels Sprouts. Not only the taste disgusted me, but also the texture and the crunch and the look of them. They’re like alien pods. Abominations!
Broad Beans! They made me want to pack up and move home at the age of 6. Unappealing grey-green, tiny, leathery looking (and tasting) lumps! Didn’t help that Mum would steam them for 10hours far too long (with every other veggie!). Still makes me gag just thinking about them and the fury pods they grow in! Never met a broad bean I wanted to befriend!!
Eggplant. Always eggplant. I think it was because squeaky and gross and either had no flavour at all, or tasted like vomit. Then it was always too crunchy or too slimy. I’m still a little afraid to eat it.
I hated (and still hate) peas. I don’t even know why…it’s like I can’t recall a time when I ever liked them. It still affects me now…if I realise I might have inadvertently eaten a pea, I will be sick.
When our family moved house many years ago – and the sideboard that was near the dinner table was shifted – the space it left gave up my years of disposing of the accursed peas…loads of dried up little peas that I had flung over my shoulder, failing to think ahead to a time when the sideboard might be moved. Oops. Somewhat strangely, I’m totally okay with snow peas. Go figure.
But I will NOT give peas a chance.
I used to hate eggplant…until my palate matured at 21 and I realised how yummy these mushy vegetables are!
Green beans. My mum cooked them to death in a pot of boiling water and their limp, soggy furryness always made me gag. The only way I can enjoy them now is to put them in a hot oven for a few minutes with some garlic and olive oil.
As a kid, mum served up lots of green beans. They were awful, such a horrible taste and texture in my mouth when I was trying to force them down, ewwwe!! I don’t hate them as much as I used to, but I’m still not a fan.
Mushrooms! Couldn’t stand them – too musty and dirt like. Love them now though, funny how the palate changes.
Mine is pretty standard – broccoli. I don’t really know why, as I think it’s pretty yummy now!
Zucchinis, my grandfather grew them and used to bring in at least 30 a day. There’s only so much zucchini slice, zuchinni bake and Zucchini salad a kid can stomach!
Brussel sprouts. My mother always served them with a roast and although I used to pretend they were baby lettuces, perfect for my dolls kitchen, I couldn’t stand the smell. Now I love eating them as they always remind me of my gorgeous mum.
Peas!! I hated them!! I used to roll them onto the floor for the dog to eat, but the little bugger would pick them up, take them to his bed and spit them out so Mum and Dad always found out 🙁
Eww to broccoli then, now and forever more. Letting it go cold as a child made the smell and taste much stronger and would make me gag… oh still does!
I would never eat Brussel sprouts as a kid now my kids and I love them! We have them in stir fry, fried rice and as a warm salad with bacon and olive oil YUM!
HAD to eat tongue once a year!
CAULIFLOWER puree, served with FEAR!
Memories difficult to erase!
NOW Enjoy…yuk to yum veggie without SCRUNCHING my face!
It was and still is Brussels sprouts!! I think they smell like froggies (that’s our word for farts)!! And there is no sauce that could make me eat frogs!! Haha
Initially I loved carrots and drank so much carrot juice, I turned orange, and then I just stopped liking them until an adult and can’t get enough of them now!! I have always LOVED broccoli as a kid, but hated peas and still do!
Ok, so this is not a vegetable – because I was one of those weird kids that loved all my veggies, and still do! I had this irrational fear of eating a banana, as a piece of fruit. I loved the banana flavour and would happily eat it in banana bread, drink it in a smoothie/milkshake, and banana Paddle Pops were my favourite summer time treat. But ask me to hold a banana, peel it, and eat it as is, NOOOOOOOOOO!!! I could get it to about 1cm from my lips before I gagged. Since having 2 kids, who LOVE to eat bananas, my fear has abated somewhat. I can at least hold the banana for them while they ate it. If I closed my eyes, I can eat about 2 bites of banana before that gag reflex got to working. I have NO idea what brought this on!
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Silverbeet, as most mothers in my era, my Mum used to boil the ‘c…’ out of it! Now, I grow it myself love the variety of colour said it comes in and love thinking what I will mix with it for what course, breakfast, lunch of dinner. Great source of vitamins too.
Cauliflower with white sauce. It made me retch and heave, the memories are strong but I have conquered my dislike now as an adult!
I’m with the majority here and saying Brussels sprouts, never liked them and probably never will, every other vegie you can make taste good some way or another, but have not found one that makes me enjoy Brussels sprouts.
I hated eggplant. It was the colour, I think, that turned me off. Black and scary looking.
Spinach :-/ It is like I could taste the iron. I still don’t like eating it on its own but can bare it being in or on things 🙂
I hated silverbeet! My mum used to hide it in and under my food (and she still does and I’m 29!!!). It is such a horrible yuck food and to this day I refuse to eat it in any way, shape or form!!! ?
Any and ALL cooked vegies…but I think that was because my (domestically challenged) Mum boiled everything down to a brussel-sprouty-swedey-flavoured sludge before ladelling it into a puddle on our plates. I didn’t realise broccoli was a solid food until I left home…
Broad beans
Definitely broad beans.
The taste just didn’t agree with me and would try to feed them to the dog but even she wouldn’t eat them.
Peas were and are still the enemy (most times). Not only did my family boil the heck out of the little buggers until they were a slimy squishy mess but they also tasted like what I imagined ear wax would and made me fart every time I was forced to eat them
Spinach! I remember not being able to leave the table until I was finished eating it. One night I clearly remember sitting there for what felt like hours and having to miss out on watching Young Talent Time as I stubbornly refused to eat it. Now I quite enjoy it, as long as it’s disguised with melted cheese or fetta in a spinach pie!!
Pumpkin. Because when something is home grown you tend to eat a lot of it …because it needs to be used. We had pumpkin everything! I used to feed it to our dog under the table until even he got sick of it…so I then pretended to “cough” and cough into my napkin and throw it out. Even now the only way I’ll eat it.. Is if it was mixed with potato for golden mash or this amazingly yummy tart recipe my Mumma makes.. You wouldn’t even know you’re eating pumpkin!
Lettuce leaves. Mum grew her own – which sounds lovely, healthy and organic – until it comes to the bugs. Her lettuce leaves were perfect for snails to play hide-and-seek in … and had a most disgusting, sickening, crunch and slime-explosion when you scored one in a mouthful of salad.
Brussels sprouts. My mum would turn them into a bitter tasting mash, yuk. I’ve enjoyed a small amount in a winterish dish in a restaurant.
And when my daughter asked me two weeks ago what these cute little veggies tasted like. I said very brave, do you want to try one? And then quickly added but maybe not right now because mummy is too busy to make more than one veggie at night… One day 🙂
Carrot had to say I didn’t like it because it was mushy when cooked, just so Mum would give it to me raw.
I hated carrots, my mum put everything in a pressure cooker and all our veg was over cooked when we were kids especially carrots, in fact one day the lid blew off the pressure cooker and the carrots were blasted onto the ceiling!!! I love them now and I steam them so that they are still a bit crunchy, and my mum and me laugh about it now!
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Marrow and Chokoes, Mum used to boil them till they were mushy. I still gag thinking about them.
Water spinach or Chinese spinach. I dislike it because it is quite hard to chew, so I had to eat & swallow a long portion of it and it used to make me gag like I want to vomit. My mum used to stir fry it.
Nearly every vegetable I was forced to eat them as a kid. I love potatoes anyway cooked.
luckily my son eats most vegies
cabbage! almost every childhood meal had overcooked watery cabbage because it was cheap and we had a big family. I NEVER buy cabbage now!
Pumpkin – when I was a kid, I called a roast dinner, ‘burnt dinner’. No matter the meat and vege combo, I’d say ‘oh yuck, I hate burnt dinner’. The same delicious crispy, charred, toasted goodness I adore now, was not so beloved then. The one constant was a big hunk of skin-on pumpkin and I bloody hated it. Can’t get enough of it now! 🙂
carrot.. for some reason it looked scary 🙁
I hated cooked carrots they made me dry reach , but amazingly i would eat them raw
Pea’s the mere thought of them would make me cringe, hence Mum always using them as a threat when I was playing up.
Tomatoes. I hated the feel of them on my tongue.
Mushrooms hated them as a kid, hate them now as an adult. As a kid I hated the smell, they smelled of dogs breath. And now I just don’t like the taste, or the texture.
I hated beans as a kid; at home they were always cooked ’til they were limp and stringy, as beans out of a freezer seem to be! I loved beans at Nana’s though; not sure if it was because we got to pick them from the garden and cut them up or if they were just cooked better!
Fresh beans are best! Love them with honey glaze and toasted sesame seeds or with garlic olive oil and pine nuts!
I hated broccoli, mushrooms, pumpkin, carrots and potato as a child but now I love broccoli, carrots and potato but I still hate mushrooms and pumpkin!
I was brought up to eat everything on my plate that was served to me but the one vegetable I hated the most was raw onion, especially raw white onion. Cooked was ok, had no problem with cooked onion. Raw onion was hot. It burnt my mouth and gave me hiccups. Still to this day I don’t eat raw white or brown onions, will have red onion if sliced thinly and only a few rings.
Ugh, cabbage and zucchini. I cannot seperate the two. I now actually love them. Now that they’re not a beyond-overboiled, lifeless and sloppy mess!
Anything cooked because my mother cooked all veges to a baby food like mess which you needed a spoon to eat. I developed a taste for sautéed veges or salad fairly quickly.
Brussel Sprouts. Luckily we didn’t have to eat them cause my Dad didn’t like them either. He said they tasted of dirty socks. Not sure how he knew this …
Peas and the only time I ever had to eat them was at my Grandparents house because my fav Uncle and my Nannie’s youngest loved peas and he always got what he wanted lol …
Pumpkin! Hated the mushie texture, used to gag everytime I was forced to eat it. I still don’t eat it to this day! #gag
I hated green beans as a kid, and I still don’t love them, but I eat them. I don’t have the heart to make my kids eat them if they don’t want to though!
Pumpkin, I hated it unless it was burnt to a crisp then I loved it. Still the only way I can eat to today!
Carrots!! I dont care if they help me see in the dark, i wouldn’t even let them touch my plate!
Avocados but now can’t get enough of them?
Tomatoes, I know technically it is not a vegetable but I hated them. Mum used to juice fresh tomoates daily for me to drink and I was sick one day which caused me to throw up and from then on I could not and would not eat a tomato or drink tomato juice. Fortunately I now love tomatoes but still cannot stomach tomato juice.
Cauliflower, it was sweet, funny looking and delicious with some soy sauce.
Zucchini , that was mums fault she used to boil them until they were a mushy mess. But now i use them is recipes and char grilled and my family love them. Don’t blame the vegetable , try them a few different ways before rejecting them.
Capsicum. The horrid capsicum burps that followed for hours after eating them put me off for years. We are friends now, as long as their skin has been peeled off!!
I hated cabbage as a child and loved to ‘put on a show about it’. The smell of it cooking was worse than the taste when it reached my plate. Now I love to grow it and use it all the time. 🙂
Brussels sprouts. I tried to love them, I still try, but those vulgar little tiny cabbages taste the same is they did when I was a kid .. vile.
Choko’s as they tasted yucky and mum grew them on the back fence.
Avocados, weird mushy green stuff! And now I can’t get enough of that delicious green mush
spinach… absolutely hated it! now have started using it in a few dishes and slowly growing on me.
Eggplant is honestly the only vegetable I disliked as a child. I put all the passion of other children’s complaints into that one vegetable. Bitter, yuk! I still say that I don’t like it but that’s just because I don’t want to risk eating it badly cooked.
Brussel sprouts were my childhood nemesis – how I loved to hate those green sods!
Brussel sprouts were and still are my most hated vegetable. I have tried them again a few times and just can’t get to like them. Weird, yucky green things they are!
I hated broccoli as a kid, probably because it was always overcooked. Now I steam it in the microwave, and its one of my favourites. I can usually get 2 out of 3 of my kids to eat it, too.
Celery- it cannot be disguised, whether in salads or lathered in peanut butter..nope, just could never crunch in!
cooked peas are foul, texture makes me gag
but frozen are fine lol
Brussels sprouts! I would try to slip a few of mine onto one of my two brothers plates as a kid all the time haha. But now I loooove them. I have been eating so many brussel sprouts this winter – isn’t it funny how our tastes can change. And I totally agree with you, brussel sprouts and bacon are a match made in heaven!
Broccoli. Thought it was tasteless and boring. Now, as a nutritionist, I can’t get enough of it especially in soup. Full of nutrients!!!
I loved peas! Fresh, frozen, I didn’t care. We use to grow them and I would be sent down to pick some to be cooked for dinner. By the time I came inside, I didn’t need dinner because I was full from all the peas I had devoured whilst picking them.. One pod for the pot, one pod for my tummy.. ☺️
Bean Shoots, I thought they were worms in the chinese takeaway lol
Mushrooms! When I learnt that they were fungus and grew in manure, it was all over.
Pumpkin. I couldn’t stand it as a child. It wasn’t until my Nonna made a pumpkin pie one day I discovered how much I love it.
Pumpkin was my worst nightmare as a child I don’t even remember exactly why I just remember it was disgusting and I use to dry reach attempting to eat the tiny little bit my mum would give me with our weekly Sunday roast lol.. Ewwww even thinking about it makes me cringe hahaha..
Now it’s growing on me I don’t go out of my way to eat it but in a pumpkin soup YUMMO how crazy that I don’t wang to really eat pumpkin but in a soup I’ll be the 1st in line! 🙂
i despised boiled cabbage – i was from an old style English family who boiled veggies to smelly mush – i would eat it raw though and this confused my mother – but i love it now cooked gently and served with bacon and onion
m a texture wuss – I loathed zucchini growing up and used to gag and retch while eating. At one of my first meetings with my now hubby’s parents, his dad cooked up a huge Asian feast that included zucchini. I seriously thought I was going to pass out due to anxiety!!!! Still can’t stomach that damn vegetable. Oh and served your minty feta peas in the weekend #winner
Broccoli. Don’t know why, maybe the tree like structure.
Pumpkin … still do … apparently it was my older (annoying) brothers favorite and mum thinks I used to say I hated it just to annoy him haha!
As a bub, pumpkin got my goat.
Try cramming that orange gunk down my throat?
It’d come back up on your lovely new coat!
Squash (which is now one of my favourite). My sister and I used to take it off our plate, put it on our chairs, yell ‘SQUASH!’, and then sit on them (hard – like jump onto the chair) to squash them (mum cottoned on pretty quickly that we weren’t going to eat them after that).
ALL VEGETABLES except potato. And now as an adult I still only eat potatoes. Many people are shocked by this. My parents mainly gave us frozen mixed veges maybe this is why I won’t eat any veges. Glad my hubby and kids eat theirs though.
Hated cabbage! Still do when its served cooked. I use bok choy instead!
I have always disliked Brussels sprouts. The reason was probably the way my mother cooked them. Maybe it is time to try them again with some extra flavour.
Like most kids sprouts and broccoli were the root of all evil. I don’t even know why because I eat them now without issue.
Although I actually like it now, as a kid it was Sauerkraut. I could not for the life of me understand why anyone would want to punish those innocent taste buds. My brother told me kraut was German for crap, and I believed it for years, I mean surely that had to be true after that experience? Anyway, good luck to all!
Brussel Sprouts! absolutely hated them but the plus side was for some reason we only ever had them xmas day, and now its tradition so for some reason i make my kids eat them also, bloody traditions.
Peas!! I dont like the texture and how they roll around and hard to tame. They pop in your mouth and that doesnt seem right… I used to hide them in my mashed potato – cover them in sauce and try to swallow them without chewing!! I particularly dont like them in soup, or stews or savoury mince…. yet I loved shelling them fresh out of my Nana’s garden!
Brussel Sprouts, cauliflower and eggplant. Bloody awful! I actually didn’t like any vegetables, which wasn’t great as I had decided I was vegetarian at three! I am a good girl and devour vegetables now!
It was peas for me.. The smell and sweet taste was horrible to my young palate.. I used to cover them with my serviette to avoid eatting them.. Until they rolled out from under it!
Cauliflower! Although it was always boiled – maybe in cheese if I was lucky! Now having it roasted, or fried, or riced – delicious!
Brussel sprouts. Only because my mum had no idea how to cook them except to boil the living day lights out of them. They were mushy and had no flavour whatsoever.
pumpkin, my parents used to call ear wax – ‘pumpkin’… so when I later heard them refer to eating ‘pumpkin’ I was immediately put off it for most of my childhood… I have since tried it… but I can’t get past the texture which is very much consistent to that of ear wax 🙁
Brussels sprouts because my mother (like most people) never knew what to do with them. Boiled and bland, it was quite sad.
I hated cabbage as I was told it gives you so much gas and I didn’t want to be farting the next day at school. I actually love it now
Peas, I hated them as a kid but as I grew up and moved out of home I realised that my Mum was feeding us peas and all kinds of other veggies out of a can and boiling them till the cows came home! I, on the other hand buy fresh or frozen veggies and steam them, what a difference! I love my peas now!! xx
Broccoli! No idea why but now i love it!
I loved to hate avocadoes, because they were green and mushy, and I preferred smearing them on floors and walls than putting them in my mouth. Now, they’re one of my favourite vegetables!
Cucumber, probably because if we were naughty they are long and hard enough to be smacked with!
broccoli as i couldn’t understand why i would have to eat a tree
Peas!! Green and mean and they made me choke 😛
I hated cabbage as a kid. The smell the next day was just horrific when the whole family ate it!
Peas…..there were many stories about peas in our house my cousin refused to eat them and sat at the dinner table until midnight once because she wouldn’t eat the. She was finally sent to bed and still had peas in her mouth the next morning. I think I thought they were much worse than they were.
I liked broccoli because it tasted nice.
I was never a fan of brussell sprouts, and I know that’s purely the way mum cooked them, as I’ve had them since, and I’ve quite enjoyed them. I am a vegetable lover, I’d happily eat just about any veggie now!
Cabbage! Oh my lord the smell was horrendous and used make me gag.
Now, I’ll eat every single vegetable, even chockos 😉 I love them and even crave them! I’m so weird!
Swede!!! My mum mashed it and put it on our plates nearly every night! I would hide mine under knife and fork… Only to be caught when it was stone cold, made to eat it, constantly gagging and dry reaching with every mouthful!!! Hence my children have never ever had it!!!!! I think it scarred me for life!!!!???
As a youngster my mom insisted I have spinach with liver washed down with an absolutely terrible tasting, brewers yeast drink once a week. This was her take on curing my “so-called” iron deficiency. Thank goodness those days are over. Today I love spinach in any form – cooked or served fresh, as for the liver and the ghastly brewer’s yeast drink, if our paths never cross again in this lifetime it will be too soon!
Turnips! Still hate them but probably now simply because of bad memories of the taste from childhood.
Cabbage. There was no way I was eating what looked like a weed ha ha
CUCUMBER ? YUK! still cant stand the floral,crunchy watery stuff …… truly can’t cope with it, makes me gag along with its evil cousin Watermelon – aaaaarrrghhhhhh ?
Sweet Potato (now a complete favourite). I couldn’t bring myself to eat it, potato was not orange, so it was not edible (simple as that in my little mind back then – was convinced some goblin poisoned them all to take over the world… Ha!!!).
Now – it’s a must have, sweet potato fries with a side of aoli, roast sweet potato, sweet potato chips, sweet potato nachos – all over it now!! (I sure did show those evil goblins right?! Lol.)
I loved to hate squishy green peas- they’re gross. Why did I particularly love to hate these out of all veges? Because they were easy enough to hide, and get away with it! The dog also loved them!
Brussel Sprouts, they were boiled within an inch of their life and tasted like a mouthful of garden!
I always seemed to despise pumpkin when I was younger – I couldn’t stand the taste let alone the mushy texture it was often served up as. Nowadays I can’t say I find any real issues with it (I’ll tolerate it!), and struggle to see what my problem was with it as a child!
Peas….in particular mint peas….my grandma used to make the most amazing food but the mint peas she used to shovel down our throats and I hated them. The texture of the peas and the mint, ewww makes me gag just thinking about it now. I still can’t manage peas and only just enjoying mint from the garden in soda water in the last 12 months.
Corn. I’m still not sure why I don’t like it. It’s fine in chip form!!!
Mine was cooked tomato… Slimy, mushy, gross!!! Mum couldn’t even put big pieces in bolognese!!
My hubby’s was chokos, turnip, pumpkin and sweet potato, tinned peas, kidney beans, broccoli…. The list is extensive because his mother used to boil their brains out, she still does. It falls through your fork. Bleurgh!!!
My mother does an amazing Brussel sprout/honey/sesame thing, so so good!
Cabbage…
Can’t
Appreciate
Belly
Belch
Agitating
Green
Enemy!
*shudders* still not a fan… have to actually smother it in butter, salt and pepper to tolerate it!
On the upside. I LOVE LOVE cauliflower and broccoli – green trees and white trees!! My kids love them too! Just my ex that hates them!
Definitely spinach!!! I actually found a bug in it once too arghhhhhhh
Brussel sprouts, they taste and look ugly 😛
Peas. I use to fling them under the table hee hee! Still cant eat them.
I loved to hate no vege at all!!! They’re all my friends! I love them all especially broccoli!!
I used to hate brussel sprouts.I couldn’t do anything with them like pretending broccoli was trees and peas were people (my brother and I used to pretend to be giants at dinner). That was until the day my grandmother told me brussel sprouts were like dolls cabbages. I gobbled them right up after that!
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Obviously I hated brussel sprouts (everyone did I think). However, I also hated tomatoes unless they were grilled with cheese on top, then to counterbalance that, I hated cooked carrots but raw was fine. I’m sure there was more but the one that I, to this day, can not do is, CHOKOES! My nan grew them (I say grew but they were actually just an untamed visitor to her yard) and like yourself I was force fed them ALL the time. These days, I have to close my eyes to walk past them at the supermarket!
I loathe zucchinis, They taset like mush. I remember mum making them eat them as a child and I threw up all over the table 🙁
Eggplant, gross…it goes slimy when you cook it blah.
Pumpkin. Tries so hard to be potato but it’s just not! The only way my sister and I could get it down was with lashings of butter and salt, and to this day I still can’t eat it. First meal my now mother-in-law served me when dating her son was pumpkin soup, my worst nightmare…
Peas Peas Peas! I used to hide them in my long sleeves and run them to the bin after dinner 🙂
Now my Father always feed us Grandma’s home grown Vege and the worst was her brussel sprouts….they always tasted like they were regurgitated fish heads
Broad beans, they must be the ugliest tasting beans ever, and when you try to eat them the skin comes off!
Carrots, as it just tasted too sweet!
I hated all vegetables and ate very few, however I love them now…Mushrooms, beans, pumpkin, zucchini you name it (apart from brussel sprouts and peas ha ha).
There were/are four kids in our family and, as children, we all HATED peas with a passion. There were tears, threats, missed desserts, mooshed peas under the table, smacks and dinners that lasted for what seemed hours until we all consumed our peas. I still can’t understand why Mum persisted when she knew the response she would get and the dramas that would ensue.
I could not stand the taste of bitter melons, even though it was a popular dish amongst the dialect group into which I was born, and frequently enjoyed by my parents. No “melons” should be bitter, period.
I really disliked Brussels Sproats, and I hate to say it, I still do. My husband loves them and always asks why we don’t have them with our dinner?!?!?! Hahaha
A fruit but classified as a vegetable, I couldn’t stand Cucumber because everything it touched, even slightly, was tainted by its smell and taste and my granddad used to grow them so we had to eat them ALOT!!!
Broccoli because my older brothers told me they were monster snot!
Brussel sprouts, but only because of American TV and the fact that all the kids hated them.
Beans because they were over cooked and soggy.
Peas!! I couldn’t stand (and still cannot stand) the texture of peas in my mouth. Anything with peas … yuck!! Including pea and ham soup, ewww the texture! I hid my dislike of peas for many years as I would put a spoonful of peas in my mouth and then casually take a gulp of water to wash them down with! On the positive side, I learnt to swallow tablets with ease 😉
I had two, bitter melon which as the name suggests tastes bitter and has a bumpy texture; and okra which is very slimy
Endive, although a nutritional winner, was a taste loser! It looked bland and tasted bitter despite the attempts to disguise it with creamy, cheese sauces.
Broad Beans – so hated their flavour and as we also had to eat the “fluffy” pods it was a true nightmare
Butter Beans are still haunting me years after I was forced to eat them as a child. Those horrible yellow (Jack and the Beanstalk) shaped beans. I see them on the supermarket shelf in tins and have never bought them for my children, they would probably like them though!!! 🙂 Second thoughts, probably not, if they have my tastebuds!! 🙂
Brussels Sprouts … I hated them then and I hate it now!!! We couldn’t leave the table until our plates were clean and my Mum dished up, so we had to eat up, including things we didn’t like. And to this day, I still won’t eat Brussels Sprouts!!!
I really detested most vegetables that were given to me cooked when I was little. I think it was a texture thing. But the fiends that still stand out for me were peas and carrots. I would eat them fresh out the garden no problem but once my mother had boiled them into oblivion they then got hidden in my mashed potatoes that were not required to be eaten before leaving the table or if I was feeling particularly venomous about them I’d heave them out the window where my faithful dogs would quickly dispose of the evidence.
Brussel sprouts. Unoriginal but there you go! We hadn’t Learned to roast them with bacon yet!
I have pretty much always been a three Veg Girl, peas, carrot and potatoes and throw in some ? too, ( I have broadened my range as I have gotten older, I would have to say my love/hate relationship with a vegetable would be zucchini, boiled it turns to mush and has absolutely no flavour so what’s the point, frying you have to use to much oil and salt to give it flavour then baking it will turn the inside to mush and the outside to charcoal. But it’s the one vegetable that I ? to hate.
I hated spinach but now I love it!!
I hated spinach , I think I it was the flavour and texture of it.
Brussell Sprouts! Didn’t like the texture as a child and still don’t as an adult!
Peas, the gross frozen minted kind that my grandma used to always cook when we went for dinner.
My parents used to joke that eating carrots would make me turn orange when they wanted me to stop eating carrot cake. I have avoided carrots right up to my adult life because of that fear. Thanks mum.
Asparagus- I hated it being soft and floppy (the only way my Mum knew how to cook it)
PEAS! They are so small, soggy and just taste revolting! I am now 56 and still can’t get a pea down
Spinach, I even threw up at the table because I was being forced to eat it but it’s funny because now I love it.
I hated broccoli, well the broccoli that I was served that was almost as white as cauliflower and limp as a bunch of dead flowers. I love it now that I cook it so it is bright green and still slightly crispy. When were our parents ever taught that they needed to completely kill all vegetables until they were safe to eat??
The bitterness of brussel sprouts
Chokos and I still hate them but I didn’t mind the choko pickles that mum used to make with them, I just couldn’t eat them cooked.
Cauliflower, not quite sure what my mother did with it but the end result was diabolically dreadful and the white sauce that accompanied it horrendous, it was many years before I discovered they weren’t so bad after all especially if you add cheese!
I’ve rarely met a vegetable that I haven’t enjoyed. But as a kid the one thing that was at every barbecue was the dreaded Three Bean Salad! Their awful texture really didn’t agree with me, nothing like the lovely green beans or broad beans that I was used to.
Okra- small hairy slimy vegetables common in Greek and Middle Eastern cuisine. I was forced to eat them as a child and always made me gag if not cooked correctly. The slimy insides reminded me of slugs and the hairy outer skin felt horrible in your mouth.
Brussel sprouts, I thought I would gag every time I had one in my mouth!
Lettuce. It was always boring, flavourless iceberg lettuce and tasted like soggy misery.
PEAS because my brothers would stick them up their noses and blow them at me. I think I was so petrified I have never eaten them again
I hated peas! I even tried to flush them down the toilet one night during dinner… unfortunately I didn’t realise how bouyant they are… needless to say mum noticed and made me eat everyones peas 🙁 Interestingly I love peas now!
Pumpkin, hated the taste, but as mum is always right, ‘it’s good for you, eat it with the other vegies, you’ll be right’, was not aloud to leave the table until the plate was clean. Still don’t think much of pumpkin, except for the butternut varities.
I had a love/hate relationship with potato, it depended on whether or not mum slammed it down on my plate like I was being served in a mess tent or not… She watched a lot of MASH!
Brussel sprouts, why eek just everything eek! Funnily enough I quite like them now
I detested Cauliflower.
It’s bland, dry, almost floury taste made me gag!
A few months ago I saw this recipe for Cauliflower ‘fried rice’ and decided to be adventurous; and actually fell in love with it! Who would have guessed?! :p
Now I try to be adventurous and creative with the foods I cook and eat- life is too short to eat boring food!!!!
Brussel Sprouts! As a kid, I loved meats, so my sister would pass me her meat and she loved the veggies, so I would pass mine over to her. Win, win, would say….until we both seen the brussel sprouts and both disliked them. Easy! we used to pop them in the hole at the bottom of our dining chairs…… until one day they all came out!
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peas made me cringe. Mum would just add them to any and every dish because my brothers loved them
Asparagus….. Still do! They look and taste like some sort of hybrid insect plant. 🙂
Liver!! It seriously made me gag, but my Mum loved it
It’s hard to believe that I had a love hate relationship with pumpkin as a kid. I absolutely love it now. Retrospectively, it all changed once u grew up and eating it at restaurants and cooking it myself. Mum doesn’t season anything. No salt. No butter. No herbs. No spices. She singlehandedly destroyed flavour, one vegetable at a time.
I can’t forget the trauma eggplant caused me. It was nothing but a big bruised black and blue zucchini. I still can’t eat them today.
Choko. I’ve (still, to this day) never eaten one. Because we were at a neighbours house and one fell off the vine onto my head.
Oh wow, it would DEFINITELY be turnip and squash! As an American (now living in Australia!), my mom used to force me to eat these every Thanksgiving! For years, she would make me try some and I never liked it! I miss Thanksgiving and now as a proper adult, I even eat my fair share of squashes now!
Brussels sprouts! They tasted awful then and they still do now. No matter how you cook them or what you cover them in.