2 posts tagged “food”

What food did you despise as a child but now really enjoy?

Beer.

I know beer is not a food, but I pretty much liked everything I ate as a child except for beef liver which I still don't like as an adult so that doesn't count. I learned to like beer when I was 19 during a study abroad summer in Italy. The school I lived in that summer prepared homemade meals for us almost daily and the only beverage choices we had were wine, beer or water. There was no ice and the water came out of the tap lukewarm. If it had rained we couldn't drink the tap water for several days so the only options were wine or beer. I'd often choose white wine because it was chilled and summer time in Tuscany is hot! The wine was made locally by the school and had a higher than usual alcohol content. That in combination with my low tolerance made for many miserable evenings so I finally had to opt for beer because it was the only other cool drink option that I could drink more than half a glass of. So gradually I acquired a taste for beer. Later that year, after returning from Italy I learned that Italian beer is not good.