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Brains find familiar things comforting and "good". Brains can also find brand new things, especially experiences that have nothing in common with anything we've encountered in the past, as "bad". This applies to almost everything. Music is a good example, someone who has only grown up listening to folk music will likely find death metal incredibly hard to listen to, but they may find folk metal a little bit relatable…
As it pertains to food and drink I don’t agree with or understand repeatedly trying something I don’t like. It’s good that you find that it works for you but it doesn’t for me. Cabbage makes me vomit. I don’t like it and will never again knowingly try it. Once was enough.
Let me give an example.
My wife used to hate lamb. An American style lamb roast[1] was atrocious to her.
Then one day at a friends house we had super thin cut highly seasoned grilled cumin lamb. It is a completely different taste than a lamb roast. She liked it.
So after a few times of having that dish, that she was open to trying some other lamb dishes, but always highly seasoned and cut into small chunks. These other dishes she did not like before, but now she found that she did.
Her brain had adopted the idea that "small pieces of highly seasoned lamb taste good".
> I don’t like it and will never again knowingly try it.
There is plenty of horrible cabbage out there. Like, awful stuff that I would not want to eat.
But a Korean kimchi cabbage is a lot different than a Vietnamese pickled cabbage which is a lot different than sauerkraut which is a lot different that cabbage fried in bacon fat.
Seriously if you are a person who likes bacon, try some thin sliced cabbage fried in bacon fat. I know people who hate sauerkraut, but who love crispy fried cabbage.
It also depends on the type of cabbage, and there are lots of types. Different types of cabbage are as different as grapefruits are to oranges, if someone hates grapefruit they should still give oranges a try. And if someone hates lemon juice they should still try orange popsicles! (and maybe that person hates all citrus fruits equally, but they won't know until they try more than 1!)
But I also have food that I just cannot eat w/o puking it right back out. Mushrooms are my weakness, but only certain types of mushrooms. Pretty much every type of mushroom used in western cuisine makes me sick, but I am fine eating enoki mushrooms or wood ear mushrooms, and I'm glad I gave both a try despite my vomiting reaction to button/portobello mushrooms!
[1] TBF American style lamb roasts are a waste of a perfectly good lamb.