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'Country' music. There is a specific style of country which is the most prominent, and it is so stupid it's a parody of itself. It's what you would make if you wanted to make fun of Americans, but made and listened to in full sincerity. Then there is the rest of it. Johnny Cash is technically classed as country but there's no way I'd class him as being anything like Garth Brooks. More modernly, Poor Man's Poison uses country sounds, but doesn't bemoan the loss of their truck, dog, and wife with the same chord progression that hasn't changed in decades.

Years ago, I thought Linux was for nerds(which it is) and performed badly and was hard to use. Now I haven't used Windows as a daily driver in 5+ years and every time I have to use someone else's non Linux machine, it feels like an ancient machine with absolutely no character to it.

My mom boiled brussels sprouts and I hated them. As an adult who knows to roast them, they've become one of my favorite vegetables.

Ritalin.

I'd heard all the stories about zombie kids and such. Then at 30 I was diagnosed with ADHD and it explained so much. My first ritalin was a life changer. Not a zombie - I could focus on what I wanted to, get things started, music stuck in my head gone, so many other things. Not perfect, but so much better.

I'm still pissed that for most of my life since I haven't been able to have it or anything else to help.

Older pop music like Lady Gaga. I didn't like the overzealous fans she had

Veganism.

Their entire basis of preaching guilt over the consiousness angle was egotistic, overzealous and unproven.(either all plant matter and all animal matter are consious or they are all not. Therefore everyone, no matter what matter they consume to survive, remains guilty of ending a consiousness or not and therefore neither diet maintains the higher ethical ground to guilt from. I will not be convinced otherwise. And especially not while every white paper starts with defining consiousness is always in their own pure hubris)

It was not until it was called 'Plant based' that i got on board as that research is proven. yes: it is healthier, yes: less emmissions. yes: uses less matter to consume. yes: more sustainable. (Although not sustainable for those who remain unable to digest beans as a form of protien. but that is another story)

Ethical? in the form of 'less matter' one might try to argue but i would not use any guilt angle on ethical stance so long as any matter that may be argued to contain consiousness is consumed. No ethical stance starts with measuring anything in value as 'less than' another so long as it is used just to justify to find their own comfort to judge others from.

Green beans. My mom always made nasty-ass soggy canned green beans when I was a kid, and so I thought I hated beans for like two decades.

Then one day I decided to try sauteing some with garlic one day as an adult, and oh. My. God. Do I love green beans.

My mom's canned beans still taste like shit.

Deliberately misinterpreting "bad representation": Darwinia, the PC game (one of the first ever non-Valve games on Steam).

As a teenager I thought it had "bad graphics" because its art style was all polygons and 2D sprites. So the game's representation on-screen was bad. See what I did there?

I don't even remember why I bought and played it at all, probably just curiosity, but it wasn't long before I fell in love with it. Within a week I switched from "this game sucks" to "I love this game".

Guy Fieri.

Soups!

I think my first experiences as a child were tomato soups that just tasted bad to me.

Now I love minestrone, chicken and corn, beef and vegetable, pea and ham, and more! Often a slice of toast or crackers or croutons with.

Vocaloid. I used to think it was about worship anime-like figures. And the voices in music were just too squeaky for me. But now I realize that the figure worshiping was just practiced by some westerns that I've come across, and that it's actually just a tool to make music vocals. I found out that japanese (and other) individuals make really cool music with it. The squeaky voices just took some time to get used to.