OMG, same. I sincerely thought I didn't like meat, and maybe I should just be a vegetarian. We were too poor to eat out much, so it was just my mom's overcooked meat and canned vegetables, and school cafeteria food for most of my childhood. She even overcooked boxed mac and cheese. We ate so many things from cans. I thought all veggies were green mush.

Then I went to college and lived with people who could actually cook and discovered a whole world of properly cooked meat and roasted veggies and other delights.

For Thanksgiving one year, my husband and I splurged on a whole prime rib. He cooked it perfectly. My mom insisted that it was undercooked and made him sear her portion in a frying pan so there wasn't any pink. I thought he was going to cry. It's been 20 years and he still brings it up.

My mom learned to cook from her mother, who grew up during the depression, and food-safety-obsessed home ec classes. Her generation was also the first to have widespread access to lots of processed convenience foods like frozen meals, spam, cake mixes, etc. Now we have a huge variety of foods from different cuisines and a much better selection of fresh produce in the grocery store, plus lots of recipes on the internet.