For me it was escargots. Yes. Snails. But one night at dinner with friends several of them ordered that as an appetizer and offered me a taste. I'd had some wine and thought "what the heck" so I took a piece of sourdough bread, dunked it in the surrounding sauce and tried one. Now they looked like dark mushroom pieces in a sauce and that sauce was KILLER (VERY GOOD) garlic sauce. The texture was just like mushrooms. I was really shocked. Yes. They were that good. So did you ever have an experience like that with some other food you put off trying?