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[Phil]

I must say, for some reason, most of the children I know (including mine), these days hate mushrooms… Why would you? They are delicious!

@Phil

For about 20 years I refused to eat mushrooms because as a kid I’d absolutely hated the smell of them cooking when my dad would fry them up in a pan (which was regularly), and my brain had just accepted that “mushrooms are The Worst”. I no longer recall whether I’d actually tried tasting them, but I couldn’t even be in the same room as that smell, so it’s possible that I simply refused to try. Some friends finally convinced me to try some when I was visiting them years later, and they were delicious! I’ve loved mushrooms ever since, and think it’s tragic that I went without them for so long. The particular type of button mushroom that my dad always cooked still doesn’t smell great to me while cooking, but I no longer mind that smell, as I know they taste delicious.