Like...gag me with a spoon

This morning on a local radio station, the question was asked, "What food did you not like growing up, that you like now?" This simple question brought back all sorts of memories for me. And not memories of myself, but memories of my sons earlier years. Maybe, just maybe the fact that I registered him for his (gag) SENIOR year yesterday has me all sorts of emotional.
So now I ask the same question to you, because it was fun to read the responses. What food did you dislike as a child, but now you enjoy? Dixon answered with "pizza." YES. PIZZA!!! His gag reflex was sooooo strong, that he would just LOOK at someone eating a slice of pizza and he'd gag. He'd never try it. He'd ATTEMPT to try it, but even the crust touching his lips caused major gagging. HAHA! It's funny now, but poor kid probably didn't get his first slice of pizza down til he was easily 8 years old. Hopefully this won't be the reason for therapy later in life. He had some strange food faux pas. For instance. McDonald's. We would have to order him a "plain cheeseburger, no meat." That means, he had a bun with a slice of cheese in the center.McDonald's doesn't discount that by the way. Pancakes were tricky. If he wanted PANCAKES, he wanted cinnamon/sugar on white bread under the broiler. If he wanted CIRCLES, he wanted, what you or I would call, pancakes. EXHAUSTING! Hot dogs were a hit until about 5 years old. Easy Mac too. Not now. For lunch, when he was in preschool-kindergarten, I'd pack him a home lunch, being a "plain sandwich" which was simply 2 slices of bread (and he'd eat them like a sandwich), and a banana. He HATED HATED HATED chocolate. His first "hey this ain't so bad" run in with chocolate was a small tootsie roll, and his teacher sent home a note from school telling me he ate it without vomiting. Then he got brave and tried chocolate milk at school. When he eventually made it through the whole carton without issues, we found that Macey's carried the same brand and same size of school milk for .33, so our Family Home Evening activity was to go to the south end of town to purchase 6 chocolate milks for Dixon. It's just so funny to think back to where he was, to where he is now. Not just with food stuff, but my little boy is basically a man. And I'm a mess!
But really, comment. Tell me what food is on your eat list now, that wasn't before. For myself, it's avocados, and that's just VERY recent. I'd say, the last year or so. I didn't use Salt or pepper until I was easily 25. "That's just too sophisticated," I'd say.

From yucky to yummy:
Salt
Pepper
Avocados
Tomatoes
Onions
Shrimp
Pizza (Yes. Me too.  I didn't like the toppings as a child,  just the sauce and crust, but mostly the crust.)
Squash
Steak (I eat beef MAYBE once a year)

From yummy to yucky:
Olives
Gingerale
Raisins
Hawaiian Punch