Onions, garlic, a few other foods. After I went vegan I had to make a lot more of my own food, and knowing what went into it and how it was made helped me get over a lot of my picky eating.
Still hate peppers though.
Farming. I worked on the neighboring farm as a teenager. Then, after a long series of jobs and education, became a software engineer. Being a software engineer taught me something: I miss working on a farm.
Parmigiano Reggiano
Cheese. Until I lived in Europe and discovered there was more than American and cheddar.
Onions.
As a kid I thought they were alien and gross, and now thinking back I can still see that. But at some point, I had a burger with minced onions on it and was like “oh these things are great” and was a fan ever since. My onion smell is physical dominance 💪
Green vegetables
Turn-based RPGs.
Although only very few of those are in my top favorites, but back then DESPISED the genre, because of a really bad experience playing one as a child.
Mobile gaming. I still kind of hate it but after finding some good games and using emulators, I’ve grown to except it and I do actively play games on mobile now.
Gardening.
Previously my only gardening experience was my mom yelling at me to weed outside in the hot summer sun.
Now that I live alone, I started getting potted plants, and there is something wonderful about sharing my space with green growing things. I have a few that have really taken to the environment and amount of sunlight, watching them grow is wonderful. Marveling when one of my little planty bois randomly flowers, and there’s something so stress-relieving about digging your hands into soil when it’s time to re-pot.
Yeah, I’m getting back into gardening despite the whole being yelled at to help garden as a kid! Also if the plants die, when I cry over them, I won’t be told I’m being melodramatic!
as a kid I really hated mushrooms bc of the texture. now I love them so long as they aren’t on their own (on a burger or smth like that).
I have a mushroom phobia. Can’t even see them without getting goosebumps.
Golf, kind of
Thought I hated pasta, turns out, it was just the cheese, not the actual pasta.
Old people cars… I’m old people now I guess
Ghost, when they first came into the scene I could not get into them. I loved their look, their lore, and anonymity. When they won their first Grammy I called my best friend who was a huge fan of their and told him to get me into them. He sent me a bunch of videos but I still could not get into it.
Then I saw them open for Iron Maiden and was hooked by the second song. The energy that Papa Emeritus (Terzo) brought to the show, the Ghouls while being anonymous also brought so much. I have been a huge fan since.
The description of Ghost I’ve read online: “Ghost is modern day Kiss of rock/metal music” and I think it’s true. It’s more money generator than band.
I have the opposite feeling regarding ghost, 10 years ago they were a cool growing underground bands with a fun make up and lore, and by the end of the 2010’s you would hear them at the radio, and a lot of drama between Papa and the Ghouls (Magna carta cartel is the former Ghouls band, and the legit successor of Ghost)
Let alone that I can’t afford ticket anymore.
Dirty vocals in death and doom metal
I think for me, like 5% of total lyrics is my limit; if it’s all so screamy/growly/distorted that I can’t understand it, I’ve lost interest.
Sean Killian’s vocals from Vio-lence.
