Reply #24: To my original list, based on responses

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I add Brussels sprouts, cottage cheese, and I'd like to introduce squash. Also mashed potatoes (but I think from instant mix) always grossed me out.

I've had once mashed potatoes that I really liked. It was at a restaurant where everything else was just absolutely excellent, and when I'm in that position, my policy is to even try things I wouldn't normally eat, because maybe they make them well, and in that case, I did.

But from the school cafeteria line, and some friend's houses, mashed potatoes always made me want to lose it, and I think it was the fact that they were instant.

Speaking of losing it, not to introduce a visual, but I remember one morning after one night of partying in college, a friend of mine from Canada eating room-temp creamed corn out of a can left over from the night before (if I remember that part properly). I'm sure he was still drunk or high, but I think I got sick just from thought of it. Even now, 20+ years later, I still want to heave when I imagine eating room-temp creamed corn straight out of the can.

Much of it I equate to the smell of the stuff from the school cafeteria just had a lingering effect on me, and to this date it's hard for me to eat certain warm veggies.