This is actually a really big reason I got into culinary. I’m autistic, and growing up I thought I hated vegetables. Turns out I do like vegetables, it’s just that I don’t like raw vegetables and nobody in my childhood knew how to cook vegetables.
I’ve had this conversation with my parents before that I probably wouldn’t have been nearly as reticent about eating vegetables as a kid if “vegetables” didn’t mean “canned green beans slopped into a pot and heated up for 3 minutes”
Yeah I’ve been asked at work if I’m a vegetarian because a coworker saw me eating a vegetable. Americans are afraid of produce.
This is actually a really big reason I got into culinary. I’m autistic, and growing up I thought I hated vegetables. Turns out I do like vegetables, it’s just that I don’t like raw vegetables and nobody in my childhood knew how to cook vegetables.
Americans just don’t know how to cook.
Same. I hated the soggy watery greens my parents made us.
I’ve had this conversation with my parents before that I probably wouldn’t have been nearly as reticent about eating vegetables as a kid if “vegetables” didn’t mean “canned green beans slopped into a pot and heated up for 3 minutes”
Even then, you can make that shit taste good if you add seasoning and let it carmelize a bit.
Seeing Americans comment on prosciutto e melone saying “this would be infinitely better without the cantaloupe”