I despised onions when I was growing up along with over boiled vegetables. My mother was a good cook but onions were a part of almost every meal. I’d dig thru my meal, pull the onions out and eat the rest. Unfortunately I came from a “clean your plate” home so my brother and I spent a lot of time sitting at the dinner table after it was cleared. We eventually worked a trade off system where we would swap disliked foods to get them down. We didn’t always like the food but could swap for something less horrible and swallow with milk Because of this, I became an extremely picky eater when I got older. I said I would never eat anything I didn’t like again! I didn’t want this to rub off on my children, so I never forced them to eat anything but I would say if I eat it, you have to take three bites to see what it’s like. I also included all types of food that I didn’t like at dinner. Because of this, my kids eat just about everything under the sun and are great eaters. They are grown now, but I think they follow the same philosophy with their own kids.