the black jelly bean

Today I ate a handful of jelly beans, without looking too closely at them or weeding out the black one. Like most people, I can't stand licorice jelly beans. Well, I started in on this handful, and, sure enough, there was a black one in there. And, strangely enough, I didn't hate it. I thought, "Hey. This isn't as awful as I've always thought it was before." Thus do tastes begin to change.