Media and society tell you it's bad. Just feed your kids everything in an unbiased way to see what they like. Grandparents, friends and other people will say things and it will bias them.

I remember the Kids Next Door episode about the Spinach Inquisition, and thinking the spinach quiche looked good. It helped that everyone who ate it in the episode was like, "You should try this, it's good."

This is another lingering effect of how white Americans didn't figure out how to cook until like 20 years ago. For a long time the only preperation of broccoli here was just boiling it down into an indistinguishable bitter paste. If you were lucky you got salt. The kids hated it because it sucked but their parents decided that actually their cooking was fine and the kids were wrong, and it got into the culture that children inherently hate vegetables.

Is the brocoli we eat today the same as they were eating when this cliché came about?

Cool, so where do you know Stacy from?

Your parents probably roasted vegetables (which is delicious) rather than steaming everything (which is pretty gross). If you had baby boomer parents then everything was steamed, and no salt, pepper, or other flavorings were ever used. There's also a pretty good chance that it came out of a frozen bag, or a can. It's amazing that an entire generation of parents didn't know anything about cooking flavorful food. I mean, I'm sure some of them knew how, but not a single one that I knew.

I've heard of someone here on Lemmy for whom broccoli genuinely tastes vile. So, they don't just dislike the taste that I presume the majority experience, but it actually smells like fecal matter to them.

I grew up kinda poor and so we ate more vegetables than anything else because my grandpa grew them. Still love broccoli (and potatoes and carrots) because grandma was a good cook. Thanks to my grandparents for making sure I always had something to eat!

My mother worried (still worries?) about how she wasn't a good cook but she was fine. She knew how to steam veggies instead of boiling, she knew what a spice was. I have no memory of hating her food. Also broccoli and asparagus and (the new) brussel sprouts are delicious.