{"sf1_id":2146232,"sf2_id":"Xek7OaAe","title":"You Grow To Love The Soup","author":"Apolarbear17","words":378,"posted_at":"2024-06-16T23:13:11.000Z","tags":["Changing Tastes","Childhood","Dominican","Food","Hispanic Heritage Month","Maturity","Poetry","experience","soup"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/2146232-you-grow-to-love-the-soup","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/Xek7OaAe","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/db/90/db90b38a-2a8e-4f16-bfe2-34de5657288e","description":"A poem I wrote for Hispanic Heritage Month a while ago. It’s a poem about life experience and the kind of food you learn to appreciate with age and by eating it multiple times. Originally posted in October 2022.","content":"\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; **You Grow To Love The Soup** \u0026nbsp; \n\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;By: A.X. Bueno\u0026nbsp;\n\n \n\n \n\nSome foods you just know you enjoy the minute you taste them\n\n \n\nOthers you acquire a taste or a newfound appreciation over the years\u0026nbsp;\n\n \n\nOr find a different way to enjoy it, like a side dish that the flavor can still be wrung from\n\n \n\nAnd still others you’re expected to enjoy as a part of your upbringing\u0026nbsp;\n\n \n\nWe tend to develop new tastes with the changes maturity is bringing\u0026nbsp;\n\n \n\nI’m no exception and can think of at least a couple of foods this happened with for me\u0026nbsp;\n\n \n\nBut there’s one that sticks out I used to begrudge unless it had enough rice that now brings glee\n\n \n\nI’m talking about Sancocho which I needed a whole plate of rice to eat it with as a boy\n\n \n\nIt’s a very tropical dish and if you’re Dominican then you understand\u0026nbsp;\n\n \n\nBack when I was kid I didn’t like it much especially the broth and how meaty it was\n\n \n\nBut I can appreciate the broth and that rich mix of flavors more now as a man\u0026nbsp;\n\n \n\nWhen you give something enough chances out of necessity and what it represents\u0026nbsp;\n\n \n\nI guess it makes sense that it grows on you but that’s not a guarantee\u0026nbsp;\n\n \n\nIn my case it was a matter of time and every time I had it not being risk free\n\n \n\nBecause being offered and having it enough allowed me to learn to like and eat it more properly\n\n \n\nThe message I’m giving here I guess is that you shouldn’t give up a cultural staple on the first try\u0026nbsp;\n\n \n\nSometimes it takes multiple and some personal\u0026nbsp; grow before it becomes appealing\u0026nbsp;\n\n \n\nThough of course this is broad advice and to everyone and every dish may not always apply\u0026nbsp;\n\n \n\nStill it doesn’t exactly hurt to give an extra chance or two to something that used to have your nerves and body steeling\u0026nbsp;\n\n \n\nUltimately it depends on how you feel and it is up to you\u0026nbsp;\n\n \n\nConsider though the possibility that you could have grown to love the soup too\u0026nbsp;\n\n\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;"}