5 Foods I Hated Growing Up (And I Blame My Parents)

I used to hate coffee. All of my friends and family know that I now love coffee. It’s one of my favorite beverages. So what changed? What changed is that I discovered real coffee. I grew up in a day when everything was instant, including coffee. My parents had two kinds in the house. Taster’s Choice instant and Sanka instant decaf coffee. If you’ve never tried instant coffee, consider yourself lucky. It’s horrible.

Another food that I now love. Because growing up I didn’t even know that mushrooms were anything but canned, slimy grossness. I was shocked the first time I tasted a fresh mushroom. It was yummy!

It’s not that I hated them… it’s just that I only knew about mashed potatoes from a box. For real. My mom used potato flakes. Maybe that’s why I love lumpy mashed potatoes. The lumps prove that they came from real potatoes.

That’s because we didn’t actually have maple syrup. We had pancake syrup. I was amazed the first time I tried real maple syrup. It was delicious! Nothing like the the too sweet pancake syrup I remember.

It’s because of Tang. Do you know about Tang? Tang was supposed to be like orange juice. Instant, powdered orange juice. Their big claim to fame is that they sent Tang into space with the astronauts. Space is where it belongs because it is just about the worst thing I ever tasted.