Reply #54: I didn't like spicy foods as a kid, either, but now I love them.

[Rob H.]

It seems like people's sense of taste (or at least the things they like the taste of) can change over time. There are things I eat now, like sushi and tofu, that I wouldn't have dreamed of trying as a kid. (My family also didn't have a lot of disposable income when I was growing up so restaurants were strictly "special occasion-only," and that might have something to do with my youthful lack of culinary daring, too.)