Things, to Your Great Astonishment, You Discovered You Liked

[3OctaveFart]

-Olives, after a senseless 30-year prejudice against them
-Exercising
-Buying quality art supplies (http://www.generalpencil.com/index.cfm)
-The CFL
-Kirk Franklin's gospel-singing reality show
-Birdwatching
-Lebanese noodles and potatoes
-Katy perry

 

[Versatile]

Recently, I've developed an appreciation for sushi, though it's overpriced. But the one that stands out to me from my past is Metallica, which then led to heavy metal. Growing up, I mostly listened to rap and classic rock. I have a metal-head cousin, but I had mostly dismissed the genre. Then, in college, I gave Ride the Lightning a real chance and loved it.

 

[spikechiquet]

Sex. I found out that vaginas are awesome.
Alt-country. Grew up a metal-head, I'm confusing my wife the last 2 years.
Soccer. Pretty much obsessed over the last few years after laughing at it prior. Thank you XBox FIFA 07.
Romantic comedies. I can at least let my wife pick now and I don't always hate them. I mean...usually has hot chicks in a bra/panties scene.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Lobster and king crablegs. I didn't like any fish except for tuna and flounder for the first 30 years of my life.

Oldies music. I used to groan whenever my parents would put it on. Now, I listen to some songs.

 

[Dyno]

Gummy bears. For years, I thought they had to be disgusting, but it turns out I like them a lot.

 

[Birdscribe]

Eminem, some other rap and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I've had a visceral dislike for any rap newer than vintage Run-DMC until my son got me listening to Eminem. Now, I work out to some of his stuff.

 

[crimsonace]

Bluegrass music. Where I grew up, the biggest insult one could hurl at you was to call you a hick, so you consciously avoided anything remotely "country." Grew out of that culture, discovered the stuff was awesome.

Small-college sports. I consciously went to Big State U in part because I wanted the experience of covering & following a major college's sports teams. My first job out of college was in a Div. III town, and I covered the women's basketball team pretty closely. I then married a girl who graduated from a different Div. III school and she demanded I skip one of my alma mater's football games to go to her homecoming so she could show me around. I now probably follow said D3 school more closely than I follow my own alma mater's football program. That their winning percentages are often a direct inverse proportion has nothing to do with it, I think .

 

[Tom Petty]

Sex. I found out that vaginas are awesome.
Alt-country. Grew up a metal-head, I'm confusing my wife the last 2 years.
Soccer. Pretty much obsessed over the last few years after laughing at it prior. Thank you XBox FIFA 07.
Romantic comedies. I can at least let my wife pick now and I don't always hate them. I mean...usually has hot chicks in a bra/panties scene.

first you hated her vagina and now you love it ... i can see how that would confuse her.

 

[imjustagirl]

Tom Petty.

 

[Brian]

Jon Benjamin Has a Van, the short-lived Comedy Central show. Everyone told me how awful it was when it ran. Then I watched it on Netflix and laughed my ass off.

 

[jlee]

Banana peppers, as a gateway food to normal foods. I was a picky eater as a kid until I decided to give banana peppers a try; for some reason that sparked a gastronomic curiosity, and I now will eat just about any culturally vetted (and safe) food item.

Sports. Really. Hated them as a kid. Thought they were all boring as hell. Didn't give a crap about them until I was 18.

 

[pressboxer]

guacamole

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Road cycling - I was a mountain biker. I laughed at my spandex-clad buddies who complained about rude drivers and shaved their legs. Then a few years ago, I made the switch. I have the spandex. I complain about rude drivers.

 

[Tom Petty]

Road cycling - I was a mountain biker. I laughed at my spandex-clad buddies who complained about rude drivers and shaved their legs. Then a few years ago, I made the switch. I have the spandex. I complain about rude drivers.

i bet the way spandex frames your ass actually stops crickets in the early morning.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Road cycling - I was a mountain biker. I laughed at my spandex-clad buddies who complained about rude drivers and shaved their legs. Then a few years ago, I made the switch. I have the spandex. I complain about rude drivers.

i bet the way spandex frames your ass actually stops crickets in the early morning.

I do have a rock-hard booty these days.

 

[Tom Petty]

Road cycling - I was a mountain biker. I laughed at my spandex-clad buddies who complained about rude drivers and shaved their legs. Then a few years ago, I made the switch. I have the spandex. I complain about rude drivers.

i bet the way spandex frames your ass actually stops crickets in the early morning.

I do have a rock-hard booty these days.

hmmmm, hmmmmm. meee-yow!

 

[Tom Petty]

you had me at rock hard.

 

[WolvEagle]

Salad - Hated it as a kid. Why the hell would somebody eat rabbit food? Eventually tried it and liked it. On the rare occasion I eat out, it complements the meal nicely.

 

[X-Hack]

Velvet Underground
Brussels Sprouts (especially roasted)
Liver (particularly chopped liver or fried chicken livers)
John Boehner (disagree with him politically but I have grown to find him oddly likeable)

 

[dixiehack]

Rice
Camping
Progressive politics