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Korean here. I have no difficulty enjoying savory dishes from all around the world, but I just can't stand the ridiculous taste of American candy and mass-produced ice cream (Haagen-Dazs being the only exception).

I guess it's much easier to adapt one's palate to foreign variations of meat and vegetables than it is to forget the taste of sweets that one grew up with.

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Often people also have trouble with breakfast foods. There's often no rationale for what makes an "appropriate for breakfast" food except for what you've grown up with.

Breakfasts are extraordinarily diverse: breads and jams in France, cold meats in Germany, hot meat & egg etc. or kippers in the UK, [breakfast] cereals and juice or sweet pancakes/waffles in the USA.

Of course, breakfast cereal made it across the atlantic some time ago, and there's a lot of common ground in Europe. But it's still really quite remarkable in its difference - sweet vs. savoury, meats vs. cereals, hot vs. cold - such a range!

I haven't even touched on the other continents, because I'm afraid I'm rather clueless. Except perhaps kedgeree, which I now understand to have Indian origins (I thought it was French for some reason - probably just childhood association having first eaten it there).

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