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A Time When I Learned To Like Something

(This topic is a part of my English 102 assignments with the purpose of introducing Wikipedia to the students)

Since my existence, the bond between myself and vegetables has never been profoundly connected. Even with many introductions and outer forces, my self-psychological being is not easily influenced by others, meaning that I will make my own decisions to change perspective towards my vegetable's description; bitter, unappealing, and unappetizing.

For many years, my appetite towards vegetables started to expand. The only kind of vegetables I cannot accept for a very long time is Tomato. For me, its inner texture is slimy, smells unpleasant, and not a good platter combination. I started to not prefer tomato more profoundly when I accidentally asked for all vegetables for my Subway Tuna Sandwich in 2011 during a lunch with my college friends. With the fear of being ridiculed, I consumed the whole sandwich including the tomatoes and it turned out to be very unpleasant.

Tomato is not a part of my appetite until a day in 2015 when I was forced to try the Rice and Beef Stuffed Tomato prepared by my father during a dinner with his colleagues. The taste of sweet, hot, and melting of rice, meat, and cheese inside a tomato is very rich in flavor, freshness, and it removes the unpleasant taste of tomato. After that, I started to appreciate by eating tomato cooked with different ingredients and styles.

Later, I have found out that my behavior of rejecting other's opinion towards tomato's taste and benefits was explained in a New Yorker article which known as confirmation bias - a tendency to support own's beliefs and rejecting others.