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Hated salads and most vegetables growing up. I don't think I had every heard of Romaine lettuce until I was in my mid-20s. I can trace what I thought was my hat

Hated salads and most vegetables growing up. I don't think I had every heard of Romaine lettuce until I was in my mid-20s. I can trace what I thought was my hatred of vegetables back to just eating bad or canned versions of almost all of em. I'm lookin at you green beans.

stephenr 3y ago
Please tell me canned lettuce isn't a thing...
- NoMoreNicksLeft 3y ago
  I strongly doubt this, if it was they would definitely have served it for lunch in elementary school. I can see myself getting in trouble for not eating it too. Dull gray, wet but with a fluid that can't really be called either water or grease, somehow soggy and yet wilted at the same time. Smelling of year old unwashed gym socks but with a flavor best described as mealworm extract concentrate. Actually now that I think about it, I'm surprised it's not a thing.
- zdragnar 3y ago
  Pickled lettuce is, though I've not tried it myself.
- Paul-Craft 3y ago
  It isn't, but canned spinach is, and it's as disgusting as you might imagine.
  - buildsjets 3y ago
    I'm strong to the finish, cause I eats me spinach, I'm Popeye the Sailor Man!
    - Paul-Craft 3y ago
      Lol, take 1 guess how/why kid me discovered canned spinach is disgusting.
  - legitster 3y ago
    There are some really cool things you can do with canned spinach if you know how to prepare it. Creamed spinach is a basis for a lot of tasty regional dishes.
mcpackieh 3y ago
Fresh and raw green beans are superb, but fairly unusual in stores. When I was a kid my family ate lots of them because one of my neighbors was a green bean farmer and gave away bags of fresh beans to everybody he knew. But the vast majority of beans he farmed went straight to a processing plant to be canned. Some got frozen, those are better than canned but far inferior to fresh.
- HeyLaughingBoy 3y ago
  mmm. Green beans fresh out of the garden, sauteed in butter & garlic would have been on the menu if the rabbits hadn't gotten to them first...
- bluGill 3y ago
  'Fresh and raw' exists in stores, but by the time they get home fresh is relative and they are not very fresh. Frozen is often best because it goes from field to freezer quick and thus locks in freshness. Not always though, you need to try each vegetable to see what works.
HeyLaughingBoy 3y ago
I wonder if this is why my kids really like vegetables. They grew up eating them "supermarket fresh" and now the younger one likes having his own veggie plot in the garden. I absolutely despise canned vegetables. I'll give canned tomatoes & beans a pass, but everything else must go.
- actionfromafar 3y ago
  Giving beans a pass == letting beans go?
  - cuttysnark 3y ago
    all they are saying, is give beans a pass (from canned vegetable jail)
    - actionfromafar 3y ago
      I thought "giving a pass" meant "passing over", "not taking".
      - cuttysnark 3y ago
        IME: "giving a pass [to]" is synonymous with "making an exception [for]". Whereas "passing up" or "passing on" (or as you said "passing over") would be closest to "not taking" or "skipping". OP said they "give a pass to" two veggies and despise all others. So I read it as they were making an exception to their "no canned veggies" rule.
    - smegsicle 3y ago
      out of the jail and into the soup
- denton-scratch 3y ago
  > I'll give canned tomatoes & beans a pass I favour San Marzano tomatoes for cooking. If they're not in a tin, and whole, they're not allowed to be sold as "DOP". You can get San Marzano seeds and grow your own; no doubt they're very good. You can buy fresh San Marzano at a greengrocer; they're probably fine too. But San Marzano DOP are picked and tinned only in the foothills of Vesuvius. You also can't get tinned chopped San Marzano DOP; they have to be whole. To be fair, chopping up a tin of San Marzano results in a soupy pulp, which is fine if you're making a sauce or soup, which is what they're best for. Tinned chopped tomatoes tend to be chopped whole - you get the cores as well as the pulp. I take out the cores when I chop them. I've always been picky with tomatoes. I've never heard of tinned lettuce.
hijinks 3y ago
my grandfather had a farm and one of the crops was green beans. I use to just walk to the field and pick beans for a snack when I was little. They are so good like that.
tshaddox 3y ago
I don't know, I hated veggies until college, but I'm pretty sure it's mostly attributable to the fact that I lacked the patience for so-called "acquired tastes" until I matured a bit. I'm comfortable saying that I just grew up, rather than explaining it as "I didn't change, vegetables just actually used to be bad when I was a kid, and now they're good."

stephenr 3y ago

Please tell me canned lettuce isn't a thing...

NoMoreNicksLeft 3y ago
I strongly doubt this, if it was they would definitely have served it for lunch in elementary school. I can see myself getting in trouble for not eating it too. Dull gray, wet but with a fluid that can't really be called either water or grease, somehow soggy and yet wilted at the same time. Smelling of year old unwashed gym socks but with a flavor best described as mealworm extract concentrate. Actually now that I think about it, I'm surprised it's not a thing.
zdragnar 3y ago
Pickled lettuce is, though I've not tried it myself.
Paul-Craft 3y ago
It isn't, but canned spinach is, and it's as disgusting as you might imagine.
- buildsjets 3y ago
  I'm strong to the finish, cause I eats me spinach, I'm Popeye the Sailor Man!
  - Paul-Craft 3y ago
    Lol, take 1 guess how/why kid me discovered canned spinach is disgusting.
- legitster 3y ago
  There are some really cool things you can do with canned spinach if you know how to prepare it. Creamed spinach is a basis for a lot of tasty regional dishes.

mcpackieh 3y ago

Fresh and raw green beans are superb, but fairly unusual in stores. When I was a kid my family ate lots of them because one of my neighbors was a green bean farmer and gave away bags of fresh beans to everybody he knew. But the vast majority of beans he farmed went straight to a processing plant to be canned. Some got frozen, those are better than canned but far inferior to fresh.

HeyLaughingBoy 3y ago
mmm. Green beans fresh out of the garden, sauteed in butter & garlic would have been on the menu if the rabbits hadn't gotten to them first...
bluGill 3y ago
'Fresh and raw' exists in stores, but by the time they get home fresh is relative and they are not very fresh. Frozen is often best because it goes from field to freezer quick and thus locks in freshness. Not always though, you need to try each vegetable to see what works.

HeyLaughingBoy 3y ago

I wonder if this is why my kids really like vegetables. They grew up eating them "supermarket fresh" and now the younger one likes having his own veggie plot in the garden. I absolutely despise canned vegetables. I'll give canned tomatoes & beans a pass, but everything else must go.

actionfromafar 3y ago
Giving beans a pass == letting beans go?
- cuttysnark 3y ago
  all they are saying, is give beans a pass (from canned vegetable jail)
  - actionfromafar 3y ago
    I thought "giving a pass" meant "passing over", "not taking".
    - cuttysnark 3y ago
      IME: "giving a pass [to]" is synonymous with "making an exception [for]". Whereas "passing up" or "passing on" (or as you said "passing over") would be closest to "not taking" or "skipping". OP said they "give a pass to" two veggies and despise all others. So I read it as they were making an exception to their "no canned veggies" rule.
  - smegsicle 3y ago
    out of the jail and into the soup
denton-scratch 3y ago
> I'll give canned tomatoes & beans a pass I favour San Marzano tomatoes for cooking. If they're not in a tin, and whole, they're not allowed to be sold as "DOP". You can get San Marzano seeds and grow your own; no doubt they're very good. You can buy fresh San Marzano at a greengrocer; they're probably fine too. But San Marzano DOP are picked and tinned only in the foothills of Vesuvius. You also can't get tinned chopped San Marzano DOP; they have to be whole. To be fair, chopping up a tin of San Marzano results in a soupy pulp, which is fine if you're making a sauce or soup, which is what they're best for. Tinned chopped tomatoes tend to be chopped whole - you get the cores as well as the pulp. I take out the cores when I chop them. I've always been picky with tomatoes. I've never heard of tinned lettuce.

hijinks 3y ago

my grandfather had a farm and one of the crops was green beans. I use to just walk to the field and pick beans for a snack when I was little. They are so good like that.

tshaddox 3y ago

I don't know, I hated veggies until college, but I'm pretty sure it's mostly attributable to the fact that I lacked the patience for so-called "acquired tastes" until I matured a bit. I'm comfortable saying that I just grew up, rather than explaining it as "I didn't change, vegetables just actually used to be bad when I was a kid, and now they're good."