As a further elaboration: growing up, I absolutely hated pasta salad. I could not and would not eat it. But one day, when I was about 22-23, I was working somewhere that includes meals, since shifts were literally all day for a week (save eight hours for sleeping). The cook made a pasta salad that I could only describe as “orgasmic.” I ate that same pasta salad for every meal for the next two days until they finally tossed the leftovers. Ever since then, I have been “converted” to enjoy pasta salad. That one dish completely changed how my body reacts to a food that I already tried several times.
I refused to eat lettuce until I was 16, cause it’s leaves and I knew how leaves taste.
At some point my mom made me try it and I realized it tastes absolutely awesome due to my mom’s salad dressing.
You tried leaves before lettuce… true rural child energy
I seriously tried to run away and live in the woods when I was 10, but came back home after an unsuccessful day of hunting.
I ran away from home to live in the woods when I was five. My mum packed me sandwiches. I didn’t get very far because I wasn’t allowed to cross the road on my own.