You'll like it when you grow up

I was thinking about my previous post and remembered that as a child my food preferences were quite refined.    There were some things I would not eat, but they were not what you might think.  My mother loves to remind me how I used to cry for cucumber.  Yes of course I liked sweets, but I refused shop bought cakes or biscuits because of the artifical flavour, and pastry simply made me sick (this is may have been because my sister once put salt dough in the oven when I was poorly and the smell of pastry subsequently gave me a sickness association).  I liked fish as a young child, but am now almost phobic eating it unless it's cod and battered.  Unusually, for a child I also with a passion absolutely hated ICECREAM!

I liked what was good as a child and boycotted artifical foods.  Strangely, somewhere along the line I re-educated myself to like what was bad - whatever happened when I grew up!