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Many years ago, Albert Einstein stated that everything in this universe is relative. Of course, the great physicist did not mean such an ordinary thing as food, but still, if we talk about the scale of the Universe, then food also fits these criteria. Especially since Einstein was one hundred percent right about food - and here's why.

Have you ever felt like you hated certain foods as a child? Just imagine that your parents put a plate with something on the table for you, and you literally turn inside out just from the smell or appearance of this dish. It's quite possible that it happened.

And then, after many years or even decades, as adults, we go to a restaurant or visit someone, and we are offered the very same dish. Of course, we flatly refuse - after all, we know what unimaginable muck it is, but we are somehow persuaded... And then a real miracle happens: only after tasting, we suddenly realize how incredibly delicious this dish is!

The whole point, it turns out, is that our parents simply did not know how to cook - either in general, or this particular dish. For example, they did not add spices, oils, or, say, just overcooked it. But in fact, one has only to turn over the stove to a skilled chef, and it turns out that this is a real culinary masterpiece, and we desperately regret those years that we did not touch this masterpiece, sincerely believing it to be inedible and disgusting. Damn it, old Albert, how right you were!

A similar question was asked recently on the AskReddit community: "What food did you hate as a child because of the way it was prepared only to find out as an adult it was amazing when made correctly?" And you know what? It turns out that there are hundreds and thousands of people like us! At least right now, the original thread boasts over 2.1K upvotes and nearly 2.8K various comments, behind almost every one of which is a heartbreaking story of pure kitchen hatred and sudden epiphany.

Bored Panda has compiled for you a list of the most popular, original and interesting tales of the original thread, so now please feel free to scroll to the very end, mark your favorite submissions and be sure to share your own story if this happened to you as well. In the end, as the same Einstein said, "common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen."

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30 Meals People Have Finally Learned To Enjoy As Adults After Discovering Their Parents Were Making It Wrong Throughout Their Childhood My neighbor (he's 80+ now), told me a funny story relating to this.

He grew up in rural WV. When he was in his 20's, he was doing some odd job work in the city for a woman homeowner. At the end of a day of work, she offered to cook him dinner.

She asked "Do you like steak?"

He said "Yea I guess."

She said "How do you take it?"

He didn't understand what that meant.

She says "How would you like it done?"

He still didn't get it.

He says "Cooked?"

This is the day he learned of doneness for steak. The first time he'd heard of food being able to be "done" by request. He had never had any meat that wasn't fried to a crisp. He said his mother made everything the same way: Fry it or boil it down. She would put fat in the pan, and fry the meat.

He said this particular steak, and meal, was the best he'd ever had in his life. First time tasting properly cooked food.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My wife is from Brazil and has never cared for sausage. I bought some nice beer brats shortly after we got married and she asked me to boil hers before cooking it on the grill. This is something her parents taught her in order to kill trichinosis (parasite often found in under-cooked meat and a problem in Brazil). I did so after my attempts to explain the meat was safe and that it would get up to the right temperature on the grill to kill anything bad. Did this for her on her grilled sausages for 2 years. Finally after noticing I didn't get sick after 2 years - she tried some of my beer brats. She asked me "why does yours taste sooo much better than mine?!?". Because I don't boil out the flavor! She no longer requests her sausage be boiled before grilling. I am happy to report still no trichinosis infection!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I relate to this. We didn't have steak at my house growing up, so I only had steak at cookouts, where it was all cooked to death and mostly inedible. I can remember thinking things like, "What is the big deal about steak? Why do people like it so much?" My first steak at a restaurant (and not even a particularly NICE restaurant) absolutely blew my mind. I was in my 20s by this time.

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Jason
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My dad used to tell me that cows tongue we were eating was steak. Hated steak until I got older and understood.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mom cooked everything until it was grey. To this day looking back at old pics, the food looks like it was from a different time than the people.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I feel this one. Didn't think I liked steak until I was in my 20s and found out they don't have to be broiled until they become hockey pucks, like mom used to make them. The really tragic part of that prep was that we lived on a ranch, so it was all homegrown, grass fed, free range beef. Adult me wonders how delicious it could have been if not turned into jerky patties

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Norman Woelk
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Saw many nice steaks ruined in the Navy, the mess Chief said they had to cook to medium well for safety according to regs. Very sad.

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Ruth Harper
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mother likes her meat well-done. I thought I hated beef growing up, turns out I do like it, but only rare or medium rare.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In an odd moment recently, I actually did deep fry a (just lightly seasoned) strip steak and it was quite amazing! The process seems to have sealed it to the point where it was bursting with juice when cut into.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't have time for any vegan nonsense. The steaks are too high.

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Duane Johnston
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My wife wanted to cook for me when we first met so she baked a steak. Needless to say she stays out of the kitchen.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is how my grandmother cooked everything. Any soups or stews also had to be ground up and thickened to a paste. Literally a flour-y paste. It was horrible. All meat had to be overcooked or it "wasn't done" enough.*shudder....

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This reminds me of my great-aunt Joyce. She and my Mimi and their siblings grew up in a time and place where vegetables tended to be cooked to death, and she's sent soups back at restaurants if the vegetables were still a little crunchy.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My grandmother believed all meat should be extra well done. As in, so dry and tough as to be inedible. Fantastic Italian cook, but meat was definitely not something she ever came close to cooking well. Except meatballs

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What a great story! I never liked steak when I was young. When I got married my husband loved to cook out on the grill but I still wouldn't eat steak. One time he coaxed me to "just taste it." Had a bite and it was delicious. Here it turned out my mom always cooked it, or had my dad cook it, very well done. My hubby cooked it medium. What a difference.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We would have grilled (I guess Americans call it broiled?) meat all the time. It was always so well done and chewy that it was hard to swallow. I became anaemic from not eating red meat OR vegetables, as in my house they were boiled into mush and tasted vile.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm sorry, so many of these words offend me. Obviously, your Mother did what was necessary, to feed her family. Depending on her age, she might be a child of the Depression. My Grandmother, creamed, all veggies. Because she had enough food for 2 people, yet had 6 very large, hard working son's. She would have fried her shoe strings to feed her family. We as a society, have become so judgemental of our own family culture. I am from the Appalachian mountains, I'm proud of the fact, if the s**t hits the fan..My kids will eat, because I know I can creem anything, can meat, and fry questionable meat, until it's safe. So, good luck to you all, thinking you are going to get 5 star food, when the Republitards get trump the Dictator of Hell in office, and only the rich, and perfect are allowed food. Remember, trumptard cultists have said, poor people don't need health care, Grandparents should sacrifice themselves for the young to survive.Someday, you will beg for boiled meat.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When my mom cooked steak, it was ALWAYS pan fried, and medium well. It wasnt until I was an adult that I tried "grilled steak tips, medium rare" yummmm! World of difference

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mother cooked beef liver so well done it actually turned green. It was so tough you could re-sole your shoes with it.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This reminds me of my trip to America. I was aged 9 and the server asks me: how would you like your steak?, feeling very smart, I piped up: Cooked please. At home there were only two settings for steak: Cooked and Raw. I later learned I preferred Rare, almost Very Rare to any other version.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

First time I had a steak was when a mate made them for us. Well done, no seasoning. For years I didn't understand what people enjoyed about steak.

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Peter
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Fillet steak blue. It's one of the few cuts that has so little fat that it's best done as rare as possible. I only have the most fatiest cuts done med rare. But everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Unless I'm cooking

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My hubby hated steak until my mom made him a filet mignon steak. His mom made steak briquettes. Now he likes his steak just under medium. Poor hubby.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mother was a WV girl who grew up in the depression, a boarder invited her and her mother to visit his family in NY city. There she had spaghetti for the first time, she had no idea of how to properly eat the noodles.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My father liked his steak shoe leather done. So that's the way it was served. I didn't even think it was edible until I ate a piece accidentally undercooked.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Grandma was a great cook, but.... Steak was pounded to tenderize, cut in pieces, fried until it was hockey puck consistency, milk and flour poured into skillet. Leather -like meat drowning in gravy with enough grease to cause it to separate. So bad, my first steak at Ponderosa was ambrosia.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mother would cook any meat until it was hard enough to make into the soles of shoes. Luckily meat was a rarity in our home. Most of our meals consisted of beans and rice. Still my favorite meal.

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30 Meals People Have Finally Learned To Enjoy As Adults After Discovering Their Parents Were Making It Wrong Throughout Their Childhood Brussels Sprouts!

Apparently boiling the s**t out of something until they're mushy and watery is not great. Lightly grilled/broiled with some oil and seasoning and they're one of my favorite dishes.

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30 Meals People Have Finally Learned To Enjoy As Adults After Discovering Their Parents Were Making It Wrong Throughout Their Childhood Obviously wasn't a huge veggie fan until I started roasting veggies in the oven as an adult. Roasted carrots are so freaking good.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Learning how to roast vegetables was a game changer for me. I hated veggies growing up (mostly home-canned and boiled), but when I learned to roast fresh veggies, my world got a lot bigger.

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30 Meals People Have Finally Learned To Enjoy As Adults After Discovering Their Parents Were Making It Wrong Throughout Their Childhood Basically everything. My mother was a good person who loved her family, but she couldn't cook for s**t. EVERYTHING was boiled until it was grey, and the meat was dried to holy hell and the vegetables had the consistency of pudding. Her ONLY move in the kitchen was to put a (not even cleaned of connective tissue) hunk of whatever animal we were desecrating tonight for dinner in a 350 degree oven, in a roasting pan with too much water. OFTEN FOR THREE OR MORE HOURS. It never one time occurred to her to try lowering the heat or the cooking time, but she always complained that "white meat is dry". Yeah, because you basically scorched the s**t out of it!

I fired her from cooking duties at 14 and it was the best move I ever made. I'm no Michelin star chef, but I'll make you happy at my table.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mother was a vegetarian. She was also a bad cook, even of vegetarian meals, but she cooked meat dishes for us but had a limited repertoire. She used to boil sausages-she would peel the sausage casing off leaving the sausage meat crumbling to pieces, and boil it in water to cook the fat out. We ended up with a sort of grey soup with crumbled pork mince. Roast beef was always roasted/broiled until it was completely grey-no hint of pink to be seen. Then she's complain about the price of a roasting joint and about how it had shrunk down to absolutely nothing. Liver and onions we had once a week (for the iron). She would chop onions into chunks, then balance slabs of liver on top, pour over water and put it in the oven to bake-it was like eating carpet underlay. We started cooking for ourselves aged 10-12. I dread to think of the amount of money she had wasted until then because she refused to look at a cook book despite everything she made being virtually inedible.

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30 Meals People Have Finally Learned To Enjoy As Adults After Discovering Their Parents Were Making It Wrong Throughout Their Childhood Spinach. My dad would only eat canned spinach that was then boiled. Found out later that fresh spinach is a wonderfully flavorful green and is best either crisp, or cooked until slightly wilted.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Blanch spinach, toss with light seasoning and olive oil, and bake/fry/mix with pretty much anything.

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30 Meals People Have Finally Learned To Enjoy As Adults After Discovering Their Parents Were Making It Wrong Throughout Their Childhood Pork chops and steaks were s**t until i realized they should not actually be prepared for use in the NHL. I love my mom dearly and for that, i must keep her out of the kitchen for her safety and that of the world.

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30 Meals People Have Finally Learned To Enjoy As Adults After Discovering Their Parents Were Making It Wrong Throughout Their Childhood Vegetables. All of them basically, my mom would boil them to sludge every time.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There is a separate corner of hell for people over-boiling vegetables

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30 Meals People Have Finally Learned To Enjoy As Adults After Discovering Their Parents Were Making It Wrong Throughout Their Childhood Pot roast, I hated how dry and flavorless it was. I actually wrote an essay about it in my English class. The teacher showed it to my mom and she changed up her recipe lol

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30 Meals People Have Finally Learned To Enjoy As Adults After Discovering Their Parents Were Making It Wrong Throughout Their Childhood "Mayo" Didn't realize there was a difference between Miracle Whip and Mayo and my Mom only bought Miracle Whip.

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30 Meals People Have Finally Learned To Enjoy As Adults After Discovering Their Parents Were Making It Wrong Throughout Their Childhood Daughter of depression era parents here: grew up with a lot of canned/tinned vegetables. Jesus, canned asparagus is tough, sinewy and slimy all at the same time. Freshly steamed with a pat of butter is amazing! Even now when I mention it's one of our favourites, my older relatives gasp and say "you buy it out of season?" like we're billionaires.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My folks would over-steam asparagus so it would be mushy (still liked it, that's just how all veggies were cooked). Home Ec in high school and learning about 'crisp-tender' veggies changed my family's meals drastically.

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30 Meals People Have Finally Learned To Enjoy As Adults After Discovering Their Parents Were Making It Wrong Throughout Their Childhood Meatloaf. My parents were in love with a specific **teriyaki** sauce they bought in 2 gallon jugs from Costco and drowned an otherwise plain lump of ground beef with and called that a teriyaki glazed meatloaf... it oughta be a crime.

Flash forward to my seasoned beef/pork mix with italian herbs, parmesan, and just the right amount of a sweet/spicy tomato glaze and it's just a different world we live in.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I adore leftover cold meatloaf sandwiches with a sharp Cheddar and whole grain mustard.

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30 Meals People Have Finally Learned To Enjoy As Adults After Discovering Their Parents Were Making It Wrong Throughout Their Childhood Turns out Lasagna is much better than nasty burnt Stouffers.

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30 Meals People Have Finally Learned To Enjoy As Adults After Discovering Their Parents Were Making It Wrong Throughout Their Childhood Mashed potatoes. My mom didn't belive in butter.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I was about 14 years old, I volunteered to bring mashed potatoes to Thanksgiving, and my mother thought I was crazy. I had eaten mashed potatoes at a friend's house and they were amazing. I asked her mom to teach me how she made them. Mrs. McCune used butter and cream. AMAZING. I guess because of growing up poor, milk, butter, and cream were tings too dear to be wasted in a dish like potatoes. The mashed potatoes were a hit and I was asked to make them every year after that. I have tweaked my recipe over the years, and I still asked to bring them to every single family gathering.

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30 Meals People Have Finally Learned To Enjoy As Adults After Discovering Their Parents Were Making It Wrong Throughout Their Childhood Spaghetti.

Parents would always cook it untill it was mushy.

Al dente pasta is **amazing**

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30 Meals People Have Finally Learned To Enjoy As Adults After Discovering Their Parents Were Making It Wrong Throughout Their Childhood Scrambled eggs. My mother always insisted they have to be “runny”, meaning an eggy puddle with tiny ‘curds’ of solid egg. It looked and tasted like vomit.
She takes it personally that I now cook them differently. Like, it *infuriates* her that I do it “the wrong way”.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't like them "runny," but they should be dry and congealed like that photo. Soft, still moist curds is the way.

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30 Meals People Have Finally Learned To Enjoy As Adults After Discovering Their Parents Were Making It Wrong Throughout Their Childhood A lot of food. My parents were the typical white parents who didn't believe in spices or seasonings. Just throw a burger on the grill or make noodles, etc.

Grew and learned to cook on my own and my palate didn't know what to do with all the amazing flavors the world had to offer.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Bland food is like a monotone hum in the background, you can live with it, even ignore it, but it still makes life less than. Over spiced food is a loud horrible noise, so overwhelming you can't appreciate anything through it. Poorly spiced food you can hear the music but one or more discordant orover loud/soft notes ruin the experience. Properly spiced food can be anything from the softest mild music, each note supporting and bringing out the shy flavors that otherwise would be bland, to a spicy rock band to any music you can dream of, satisfying and fulfilling.

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30 Meals People Have Finally Learned To Enjoy As Adults After Discovering Their Parents Were Making It Wrong Throughout Their Childhood Lasagna and Cheesecakes.... my mom made both with cottage cheese to save money. Once I lived on my own I discovered ricotta and cream cheese.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Were you in the Midwest? My mother and many others did the same thing. What a difference when I moved to the East Coast.😊

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30 Meals People Have Finally Learned To Enjoy As Adults After Discovering Their Parents Were Making It Wrong Throughout Their Childhood Mac and cheese. My mom only made the boxed stuff. I never knew anything different until I got married and my wife made some homemade for dinner. Game changer.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I only prepared home made macaroni and cheese for my son. He tried Kraft boxed at a friend's and preferred it! Devastated, I prepared mine for a chef friend who stated it was delicious. My son, now a fantastic cook, told me he liked boxed because it was a novelty!🤣

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30 Meals People Have Finally Learned To Enjoy As Adults After Discovering Their Parents Were Making It Wrong Throughout Their Childhood Risotto

My mom just cooked the rice in water, then fried some ground beef without any flavoring and just combined the two with some frozen vegetables. I grew up thinking risotto would be the most tastless food ever..
Until a friend of mine showed me how he first fries the rice with butter and slowly adds consomme-wine mix to the rice and finishes with some pan-fried chicken and parmesan cheese. It blew my mind completely!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

it sounds like what your mom made wasn't risotto, just boring fried rice....

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30 Meals People Have Finally Learned To Enjoy As Adults After Discovering Their Parents Were Making It Wrong Throughout Their Childhood hated raw tomatoes

realized that all they were missing was salt, pepper, some toast and a lil mayo. Now I'm obsessed.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The type of tomato makes a big difference. Tomatoes from a grocery store (at least in my area) taste like if La Croix made tomatoes. Fresh from a garden is best, whatever type you get.

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30 Meals People Have Finally Learned To Enjoy As Adults After Discovering Their Parents Were Making It Wrong Throughout Their Childhood Cauliflower! Turns out, I hated steamed or boiled cauliflower. I love love love it roasted. I liked most veggies growing up - except that one.

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Peas. I only had the canned ones that taste like c**p, while fresh ones are green, tasty and sweet.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't think I've ever had fresh peas, only frozen. The frozen ones are pretty tasty but now I'm wondering what fresh peas are like.

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30 Meals People Have Finally Learned To Enjoy As Adults After Discovering Their Parents Were Making It Wrong Throughout Their Childhood I hated cranberries for most of my life because all I ever had was canned cranberry jelly. Then. A friend of mine had a friendsgiving and someone brought homemade cranberry sauce and it changed everything

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Homemade cranberry sauce is delicious. I make it with pulpy OJ and it's almost like a chutney and so good.

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30 Meals People Have Finally Learned To Enjoy As Adults After Discovering Their Parents Were Making It Wrong Throughout Their Childhood BBQ - didn’t realize how good BBQ could be until I moved to Texas. In Ohio, BBQ it meant smothering A1 sauce on bland meat.

Most mustard based stuff. Mustard on a McDonalds burger, disgusting. Mustard in a stew or on a properly prepared Chicago dog - awesome

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I didn't start to appreciate mustard until I started tasting all the varieties that weren't the yellow mustard you'd put on a hot dog. I've since leaned to like yellow mustard as well in the right context.

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30 Meals People Have Finally Learned To Enjoy As Adults After Discovering Their Parents Were Making It Wrong Throughout Their Childhood Liver and onions. Bear with me please lol. My mom was a great cook, made international recipes, the whole 9. But when she made liver and onions, you were eating a hockey puck. Cooked it to DEATH. Fast forward to pregnant me living with my sister in law who made it one night and OMG it was amazing, tender and flavorful, perfectly spiced. I miss it. I never got her recipe 😞

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can't get past that liver flavor. Ugh. My dad loves it so occasionally my mother would get fresh from the butcher calves liver, but it's still got that liver flavor. No thanks.

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30 Meals People Have Finally Learned To Enjoy As Adults After Discovering Their Parents Were Making It Wrong Throughout Their Childhood Any salad. Turns out, I don't like vinaigrette. I don't know how everyone likes it, I must be the weird one.

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30 Meals People Have Finally Learned To Enjoy As Adults After Discovering Their Parents Were Making It Wrong Throughout Their Childhood Turns out the bun can make or break a hamburger. My mom used to always prepare them with these wheat buns, so I used to never like hamburgers. Took me a few years to realize they’re really really good with a more standard sesame, brioche, or potato bun. One of my favorite foods nowadays

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30 Meals People Have Finally Learned To Enjoy As Adults After Discovering Their Parents Were Making It Wrong Throughout Their Childhood Mushrooms.

My mom forced me to eat cream of mushroom soup one time and I threw up after eating it. For the longest time I associated mushrooms with that and so I avoided them until I got to college and discovered that they are actually really good.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I was in high school, a friend of my mother's introduced us to mushrooms floured and sauteed in generous amounts of butter until brown and crisp. So delicious.

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30 Meals People Have Finally Learned To Enjoy As Adults After Discovering Their Parents Were Making It Wrong Throughout Their Childhood Chili— it was watery, bland and had very few beans and had spaghetti noodles in it (apparently that’s a southern US thing). It was a bowl of boring to me.

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