To him, naturally, the first taste of breadfruit was pleasing.

But Cook was more critical.

"The natives seldom make a meal without it," he said, "though to us the taste was as disagreeable as that of a pickled olive generally is the first time it is eaten." That opinion, perhaps, accords with the common experience of neophytes in tropical gastronomy.

But new sensations in the matter of food are not always to be depended on.

Sir Joseph Banks disliked bananas when he first tasted them.
The immense popularity of Cook's voyages spread afar the fame of breadfruit as an article of food.