What kind of food surprised you by tasting so good? What got you to try it?

I am so excited to see your post. You donated money to the heartwalk what I am doing on April 28th. My daughter gave me your name, but I was unsure how to locate you here and then it was right in front of me. You have no idea how wonderful it is that there are people like you in this world. I appreciate it more than I could ever express here. Thanks and please know it did not go unappreciated... As for the food, my daughter is always trying to get me to try new things. I would say that one thing is a variety of chinese dishes that I will now eat. I used to eat only one or two dishes, but have slowly expanded my range..Thanks again ! You are one of a kind !

This may gross you out, so I would like to apologize in advance. The Italians prepare a dish for Easter called capozzelli, or lamb's head. It's a peasant dish from the "old country." It's basically the lamb's skull, cleaved in half, breaded and baked. You eat the brain, the tongue, the eyeball and the meat around the cheek. While this is something that I simply did not want to put into my mouth, I gave it a shot. The eye was almost tasteless, more about texture than anything else, while the tongue and cheek reminded me of ham. The brain, however, was . . . brace yourself, delicious, though I almost gagged putting it into my mouth. Mind you, I will never eat it again, as I don't agree with the whole thing and, truth be told, it is digusting when you think about it, eating an animal's organs right out of its skull.

Calamari was one I wasn't too sure on but I did try it. I'm usually willing to try new things at least once, sometimes twice if I was told the first time it wasn't cooked right. For those who don't know Calmari is fried squid. It was very good. I've had bad of though where it's rubbery so you do have to watch how it's made. I have tried turtle as well when I was down in the Caymens. That was very good. I wasn't sure what to think of it until I tried it. It was in a soup and it was a lot like buffallo or beef just stringy.

My partner loves peanut butter on toast with thinly sliced gherkins over the top. I found this disgusting and would always refuse to try it, until one day . I actually enjoyed it and the sweet and sour tastes go well together. When I tell people about this concoction, they usually look at me as if I am odd!

A former girlfriend always raved on about her jalapeno pancakes. I mean, regular sourdough pancakes, with slices of jalapeno in them, and served up with maple syrup...like... well, regular pancakes. I thought that was just a totally gross idea... I can deal with sliced jalapenos on top of nachos... but in PANCAKES? For BREAKFAST? So anyway, I had them. And I have to admit that they were gobsmackingly brilliant. I didn't really notice the peppers, except as this lingering hot-sweet flavor burst, when combined with the maple syrup. When I was little, it was smoked cod liver. I thought it would be utterly gross, on account of my dodgy relationship with cod liver oil. But done up smoked, it was actually pretty good, on dark rye bread, as a sandwich.

I'm pretty game to try new things. A friend of mine served toubouhli (I know I am not spelling it right!) at a dinner and I tried it. It is a very tangy salad of bulghar wheat, parsley and tomatoes. I think it is a middle Eastern dish. I really like it. I like hummus, also, but then I like chick peas which is what hummus is made of.

Anchovies. I always thought they looked a little yucky and they didn't smell good so it was ages before I tried eating one. My boyfriend at the time loved them and used to eat them straight from the can. He dared me to try one and I did and loved it. I eat them quite a lot now.

I agree with you on hummus. I never would have thought I would enjoy it, but I love it now. I love to go to the Greek restaurant and have a hummus appetizer as my meal. That and some grilled veggies that they do and I am a happy woman indeed. Something else that surprised me was jalapeno peppers. I never thought I would like them and avoided them like the plague. Then I went to a Mexican restaurant for a going away party for a co-worker and had one or two too many margaritas. We finally ordered food and I got chicken nachos, which come with jalapenos, which I had always avoided but that night I started eating them. My husband came to the restaurant to pick me up (really, too many margaritas!) and I told him that I ate them and loved them now!! I will still eat them in limited doses. Finally, fried green tomatoes. I love the book by Fannie Flagge but don't like tomatoes. I was finally encouraged to try them one night and they are great. I get so excited now when I go to a restaurant and they are serving them. I never would have thought I'd like them, but they are sooooooo good!

Well there's this dish in our country called Sisig. Its made of parts of pork such as liver, ears, and everything else that is crunchy and useless but clean in a pork so im scared to try it but when I did, I never stopped eating it!

I was surprised by my love for tofu. I grew up on a farm, eating bacon, eggs, white flour and all sorts of other standard American fare. I moved when I was 18 to a more health-conscious city and became a vegetarian, but I had never tried tofu. I was amazed at the variety of things you can make with it... it's such a delicious, versatile food. I did have to be coaxed a bit, but after that, it was over! Now I eat tofu all the time... fried, baked, breaded, BBQed, you name it!

I have never been a person who would eat fish of any kind or seafood of any kind I've always absolutely hated the taste of fish since I was very young. I thought scallops and lobster would taste fishy too so I never tried either until a few years ago and I was very pleasantly surprised. I now absolutley love both of those things. I still won't eat fish though.

LOL! Lots of different foods when I first moved here to New Mexico, it was a whole nother culture to try. I will willingly try new foods now because so many of the ones I have tried, I ended up liking. I will name a few here Asado Tamales Green Chile Green Chile Stew Chile Relanos Chevichie (i know I am spelling that wrong) Alot of these foods ended up being my favorites after I tried them. Some I tried on my own and a few my friends talked me into. I have been here 3 years and I haven't yet been brave enough to try menudo, I once got a bowl of it but the smell detured me. I don't think I will ever try it, it is made with pigs intestines.

Hi lecanis. I had this integration thing when I was in school. We were required to go stay in the mountains and live like the poor people. Eat like them, be like them. One time, my classmates bought this edible "fern-like vegetable" (I'll have to look up the scientific name for it) and started making some kind of a dish boiling it with coconut milk. It looked so gross and I kept imagining ferns growing in places like abandoned toilets and such moist yucky places. I'm a vegetable person but "ferns"! They assured me that these "ferns" grow beside the river and quite quite clean. So much for imaginations. I loved those "ferny veggies". I ate every last one of them :)

There are 2 foods that surprised me one for the worse and it smelled so wonderful that it was heavenly but it turned out not so good when I tasted it. Well let me put that past me and tell you about the good stuff.In my country (where I was born) we get palm water this is done by making an incision in the palm tree and letting the sap get filled into a earthen pot that has been coated well with calcium carbonate on the inside and once the pot is filled up the person climbs up the tree and brings down the pot to be sold by the roadside. This liquid is poured into a big bowl like thing made of palm leaves (now a days they just pour it into a plastic cup) and is had au naturale without any additives. The juice was so sweet it tasted more like sugar solution and had the smell of a heady sugar solution mixed with the calcium carbonate. The smell is pretty indescribable 'cos it is quite unique and no other liquid or food smells similar, but it is delicious to drink and later I came to know it had great health benefits due to the calcium in it and though it is sweet to taste it does not add much calories either (who knew). well that is me ...thanks for asking :)

LOL your hummus story is similar to mine...My gf and I were out at the mall one day when she came to visit me back in Canada and we took the kids to lunch..well she ordered a mix platter that had pita with various dips and I tried it and fell in love with the stuff.....weird thing is, I cant stand chickpeas....She is actually the same person who got me to try Escargot for the first time too and I fell in love with those as well LOL

I was not a big fan of Japanese food until my husband encouraged me to try some and now I love them. The first japanese food I tried is the pork tonkatsu, it's breaded porkchop in english hahaha! California Maki, Mago Sushi, Ebi Sushi and Gyoza are my favorite japanese foods, and whenever I can, I ask my husband if we can eat a japanese restaurant he often shooks his head in disbelief and would often joke that he shouldn't have made me taste them. haha.

I'd have to say, one time only, my husband talked me into eating beef liver. I had never liked the idea of eating it, it just sounded so gross. But I did end up trying it, one time, and one time only. The taste really surprised me. I ate in with onions and it actually tasted good. I regret to admit though, that I will never eat it again. It just is an organ that sounds too gross to eat.

When I had not tried Kimchi(korean food) before, I thoght the taste may not be good, I thouhgt how could I eat some vegetables marinated in a sour and chilli sauce. I had a korean friend, she took me to a korean resturant and after I tried it ,I loved it much, I always buy some to eat since then. In fact,the reason I eat is because it is very healthy and can lower the cholesterol level in your blood.

goat cheese.it tastes better than it smells. kind of creamy.a friend of mine got me to try it on pasta,it wasn't bad at all.

I think the best thing I have tasted that I thought was going to be awful was Garlic Cheese and Chips. I thought it was going to be greasy and overwhelming and make me feeli quite sick. What it amounts to is a plate of steak house cut fries, mayonaisse with pureed garlic, and shreded sharp chedder cheese. The cheese is sprinkled on first so it melts, and then the garlic mayo is applied generously on top. It sounds like it will kill you. It loks like it will kill you. But it is so good!