Yeah, so as usual... Eat kale. Eat beans.

Someone deleted the kale taste bad post, so I'll put this here:

Are you making a joke that kale does not taste good? I cook kale the same way I quick cook collards. Sauté garlic in some olive oil until fragrant, then add kale (torn off the big stems), a cup of water, salt and pepper. Cook down the water while stirring occasionally. It's easy and tasty. Instead of garlic and OO, you can always use a chopped up piece of bacon as the base.

I was long a reluctant kale, chard, collard greens consumer.

Had some free time, so started eating like a cave man, aka Troglodiet [tm], modeled after Four Hour Body.

Then got busy, didn't eat as well.

I was VERY surprised when I started craving kale and other big leafy greens. Now I just eat it raw by the fistful.

I figure my body never knew what it was missing, but then got a taste, and didn't want to go back.

what kale tastes like to you is not necessarily what kale tastes like to everyone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supertaster#Specific_food_sens...

Yes. Old story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_gustibus_non_est_disputandu...

I thought this was a given. Not everyone likes the same thing, but many people have simply never tried something or default to green, leafy vegetables taste bad.

Interesting. For me, the insistence of American cooking to douse all veggies in vinegar concoctions long turned me away from delicious raw leafy greens. Now I love spinach, arugula, mustard greens (which have no relation taste-wise to mustard, but whose name prevented me from trying them), microgreens, sprouts, Tong Ho, bok choy, and a few others :)

I'm also not a fan of the douse leafy greens in vinegar so common in the south. With the right proportions it can be okay, but typically people put too much vinegar.