Watching others visibly dislike vegetables might make onlookers dislike them, too

I disliked vegetables from my childhood all the way up to my early twenties. One of my ways to rationalize this trait is that it started on a specific event during kindergarten. The kids in my classroom collectively begun throwing a tantrum about veggies being gross. The memory is hazy but I remember that we were given some veggie cut-outs or small toys and I had a radish, and many of the children started crying and shouting things along the lines of "eeeewww noo, I don't want veggies" 😆

Since then, I have mostly grown out of it, but radishes are still a no-go for me.

Of course this is perhaps a weak attempt at rationalization, but the memory is one that used to come back whenever I saw veggies and that's why I still remember it.

This research shows that even adults are influenced by observing how others react to vegetables. If adults respond this strongly, it makes sense that children can be even more susceptible. So I think this lends a tiny bit of support to my theory of me 😜