As a further elaboration: growing up, I absolutely hated pasta salad. I could not and would not eat it. But one day, when I was about 22-23, I was working somewhere that includes meals, since shifts were literally all day for a week (save eight hours for sleeping). The cook made a pasta salad that I could only describe as “orgasmic.” I ate that same pasta salad for every meal for the next two days until they finally tossed the leftovers. Ever since then, I have been “converted” to enjoy pasta salad. That one dish completely changed how my body reacts to a food that I already tried several times.
Whenever I dislike food that other people deem great I force myself to taste it every opportunity I can. Mind you that I don’t eat tons of it, only get a bite or two. I do this because I feel there is no way I am not missing out if everyone praises it. I call it palate evolution and for me it works very well.