“Bah, Bah”: The Food We Didn't Touch As Kids

“Bah, Bah”: The Food We Didn't Touch As Kids

HomeCooking Tips, Recipes“Bah, Bah”: The Food We Didn't Touch As Kids

Mushrooms chocolate white rice and many more delicious things that we were too picky about as children.

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If there’s one trait that the Serious Eats staff shares above all else it’s that we’re adventurous eaters. We’re all about expanding our palates and most of us will try almost anything at least once. But that doesn’t mean we don’t have our own quirks and preferences as adults and it certainly doesn’t represent how we ate as kids. The parents on our team will tell you that no matter how far you push them kids will always be picky eaters at least sometimes. In a recent attempt to reassure them that there’s always hope we got carried away by listing all the foods we avoided as kids but only a few of which we still avoid to this day! Here’s a sampling.

"When I was younger there was nothing I liked about mushrooms. The texture was strange the taste was almost repulsive and why on earth would I want to eat something that was labeled as fungus? My parents would sneak them into dishes and always claim they "forgot" that I didn't like them. When my mom made her iconic stuffed mushrooms for Thanksgiving every year I would just eat the stuffing and push the mushroom to the edge of my plate.